Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-15
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The Chase and Faulkner mills at
Lowell, Mass, were burned on the 9th Loss,
100000.
ID. p. DEVICES has withdrawn from
the canvass as the nominee Of the Greenbacll
party for Judge of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania.
HE State Hospital for the Insane at
Warren, Pa, was formally opened by Gov
ernnr Hoyt on the 9Th.
The General Triennial Convention of
the Protestant Episcopal Church opened at
New York on the 9th. With the exception Of
North Carolina, every diocese was represent
ed in the House of Bishops
AT Pottsville, Pa, on the 9th, Charles
Wilther shot his wife and then stabbed him
self, dying from his wounds in few moments.
Mrs. wilther will probably die The couple
had lived unhapplly for several years.
PROFESSOR BENJAMIN PIERCE, mathe-
matican and professor at Harvard College,
died on the 9th, aged seventy-one.
THE steamships Gellert and Canada,
which arrived at New York City on the 9th,
brought Ss47, 900 in gold.
A PLOT to release large number of
prisoners from the State prison at Concord,
Mass, was frustrated on the 9th. Some Of
the convicts had obtained possession OF false
keys 10 nearly every door in one division
IN Bradford, Pa, on the 9TH, a scan'old-
ing on which several painters were working
suddenly gave way and precipitatel the men
to the earth. One was instantly killed and
another probably fatally injured
lT is stated that General Grant will
go into the new board of the Western Union
Telegraph Company at the next election.
The Oneida Community in New York
has dissolved its former organization, and in
its place a joint stock company with 5000 600
capital has been formed.
CHARLES F. FREEMAN, the Pocassett
child-murderer, escaped from the Danvers,
Massachusetts, Insane Hospital on the sth
The steamship Neckar and Celtic,
which arrived at New York City on the sth
brought 1916, 900 in gold.
The epizootic is disappearing from
New York CITY.
ATERRIBLE accident occurred at Pitts
burg on the night of the 9th on the Pennsyl-
Yanta Railway caused by the collision of an
accommodation and special train. Both
''@''i" "N'S i4iSA WIN puoaNLStIHt tSptGllliN
the accommodation, which contained several
marching clubs which had participated in
Democratic demonstration at Pittsburp.
Twenty-one persons were killed, and twenty
dangerously and four slightly injured. The
passengers state that the fagman, whose
name is Penrod, did not flag the incoming
train. The matter will be thoroughly inves
tigated.
THE ceremony of laying the corner
stone Of the obelisk ct Central Park, New
York City, took place on the 9th.
The report that Freeman, the Pocas-
sett child murderer, had escaped from the
Insane Hospital at Danyers, Mass, is incor-
rect.
THE Massachusetts Prohibitory State
Committee has decided that the party should
present 10 the people complete Congressional
and Electoral tickets.
FRENCH & WARDS wooden mills in
West Stoughton, Mass, were burned on the
9th. Over three hundred employees are thrown
out of work. Several Of them were injured
The Mcclure House at Red Rock,
Pa, caught fire from lamp explosion and
burned on the night of the 9th, together with
railroad depot and two small buildings.
Minnie Slattery, servant, tainted i'm the third
story and was thrown out by Mary Hassler,
another servant, receiving probably fatal in
1uries The latter escaDed by iumpinp e