Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-06-06
THE EAST.

The United States District Attorney at New
York, on the 26th, fled his bill of discovery
in the case OF the United States against
Samuel j. Tilden, to recover for alleged de-
fciencies in income tax. When the case was
on the calendar for trial several months ago
the counsel for Tilden answered ready, but
the Dlstrict-Attorney asked leave to file a bill
of discovery on the ground that much of the
testimony taken before the commission out
West was liable to objection and that the bill
would very much facilitate matters and make
an early trial possible.
Mrs. Maria G. T. Blair, formerly Mrs. Gen
eral Granger, has had her marriage with Capt.
Thomas Blair annulled on account of bigamy.
The Pennsylvania House, on the 27th,
passed the Free Pipe Line bill.
Another Gloucester, Mass, fishing vessel
has been lost with a crew OF fourteen men.
Miss Della Wheeler, sister of Vice President
Wheeler, died at the home of the Vice-Presi-
dent at Malone, n. Y, on the 2Sth ult.
The one hundredth anniversary of the birth
of the poet Tom Moore, was celebrated at
Brooklyn, New York and Baltimore on the
2Sth ult.
An accidentoccurred on the night of the
9th ult., on the Connellsville Railroad, eight
miles east of Pittsburg, caused by the express
train going east striking large rock which
had fallen on the track. The engine was
thrown from the track and turned over. The
engineer, and a tramp who was stealing
a ride between the engine and baggage car,
were instantly killed. The fireman was
severely injured. The passenger coaches did
not leave the track and none Of the passengers
were hurt.
Three seamen of the schooner Mary A.
| Witham, which arrived at New York on the
2Sth ult., from Miragane died of yellow fever
on the passage.
The forty-seventh anniversary of the Bap'
tist American Home Missionary Society was
held at Saratoga on the Goth ult. The Secre
tary reported that the receipts for the pas
year were 1908; expenditures, including
loans of church edifce fund, $207,35
In the Pennsylvania House of Representa-
tives on the Goth ult., the Riot Bribery Com
mittee reported that they had reached tht
conclusion that Representatives Rumberger
OF Armstrong County and Smith and Petroff
of Philadelphia; w. H, Kemble and Ex-Rep
resentative Charles B. Salter, OF Philadelphia
Alex. w. Ransenring of Carbon; Jesse R
Crawford, of Blair, and Chris Long, Cumber
land Counties, were guiltyo of corrupt solicita
tions of members of the Legislature in con
nection with the Pittsburg Riot bill. Rum
berger, Smith and Petroif will probably b
expelled.
William E. Gray, OF New York City, recent
, ly returned by England on the charge O
"raising" bonds, has been sentenced 20 te
years in the State prison. He was formerl
a we'll known speculator in Wall street.
Decoration Day was very generally observe
in the Eastern and Northern States.
/ OF the twenty-seven children who were po
soned by drinking from the brook near islam
Pond, Vt, on the 2Sth ult., nine had died u
I to the Both ult., and several others were nc
expected to recover There we're five deaths
: one family, and the mother has become insan
a from grief. Potato tops poisoned by Par
: green thrown into the brook are regarded {
the cause of the poisoning rather than II
|. carcasses of the dead animals.
r The Catholics of New York are forming
I Colonization Society.
Two persons were seriously and four sligh
ly injured by the falling of platform durln
the Decoration ceremonies at Lancaster, Pa
on the Both ult.
i Henry Glenn, Patrick Slevin and Willia
Kelly were arrested at New York on the 81
s ult. on the charge of being implicated I'm Il
= Manhattan Savings Bank burglary last yea
g Slevin subsequently confessed the whole plo
The robbery was planned more than thr'
n years ago by a burglar known as Little Tracy