Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All Quarters.
WASHINGTON.

WARRINGTON. -
DURING the six months ended on June
80, 1880, there were LOO miles Of railway con-
structed in the United States, and so miles
more were in course of competition
The total cost of railroads and their
equipments in the United States as stated by
Mr. Poor, amounts to a. 166, ,331, ,021.
THERE are about Sl,174, 900, 900 of
registered bonds outstanding.
DURING the fiscal year ending June
30, 1850, the net imports of gold TO tho United
States amounted to $T7 1881, larger gain
than ever before in thehstory OF the country.
THE EAST.
On the evening of the 11th an excur-
sion train from Atlantic City, II. j., ran into
another train, telescoplng the rear car and
killing two persons and injuriug about TWEEN
ty-hve Others The wounded were taken to
neighboring houses
THE following ticket was nominated
by the Connecticut Republican State Conven-
tion at Hartford, on the 1lth: For Governor,
Bigelow; Lieutenant Governor, William H.
Bulkely; Secretary of State, Charles f
sear'es; Treasurer, David p Nicholas Comp
trolier, Wheelock Bachelor; Electors at
AT New York City, on the 11th,
Amandce Begot a French timer, cut the
throat of Mrs Mariette Renant, married
woman who had rejected his advances. The
woman died instantly Bcget then cut his
own throat and rushed into the street and
was arrested.
BURGLARS blew open a safe at Clarks-
vile, Bergen County, N. j., on the night Of
the 10th and secured securities valued at $25,-
600 belonging to T. Edgar Hunt.
DIR. TANNER has received an offer of
$l,50O per week to lecture from ocean to
ocean. He will probably accept. The Doctor
weighed l47 pounds on the 11th and was in
the best of spirits
THE American Bankers Association
met at Saratoga on the l1th.
AN accident occurred on the New
Jersey Railroad, near Spring Valley, on the
18th, caused by hind axle of the engine ten
der breaking ard throwing the passenger car
next TO it down an embaukment, which was
followed by the succeeding car One baby
was killed and all the passengers in the cars
were more or less injured.
A FIRE at Sherlock's Mills, n. Y, on
the 18th, burned Sherlock's mill, store and
twenty buildings.
THERE were two thousand people
from Philadelphia on the excursion train
which was wrecked by collision near Atlantic
City on the 1lth. All the wounded were either
scalded or burned. Very few were mashed
or bruised. Eighty persons were injured Of
whom fifteen had died up to the night of the
18th.
AT Rochester, N. Y, on the 18th, the
a1 ~ I,.G
S. resulted In the grandest performances in
the annals of the trotting turf, a complete
wiping out Of all previous records credited to
either trotters or PAGERS, the time of both
horses being 2;l1%.
THE steamship Donan, which arrived
at New York City from Bremen on the 18th
brought Sl,377, $50 in specie.
Two FREIGHT trains collided on the
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company's Rail
road near CooperstoWn junction, N. Y, on
the 18th. Twenty five cars were demolished
and Paul Simpson, engineer was killed: John
REILLY, fireman, fatally wounded, and Mullen
and Leonard, brakemen, were badly injured.
THE New Hampshire Democratic
State Convention will be held in Concord
September 10.
JAMES A. MCDONALD was killed and
Warren Page and John Kitteredge badly
crushed by the fall of an arch at the Clinton
wire cloth factory at Clinton, Mass, on the
18th.
THE Tammany Democratic State
Committee of New York has issued an ad
dress TO the Democracy and called q Conven,
tion Of the party in the State to assemble al
Albany, September s. for the purpose of nom
mating Democratic State ticket.
THE round house of the Lake Cham,
plain Railway at Ogdensburgh, n. Y, con
tanning five locomotives, was destroyed by fir,
on the 18TH Loss, 100000.
AT Bath, N. T., on the 14th. X. E.
Parkhurst, young lawyer, shot and killed
Fannie Howell, daughter of prominent mer
chant, and then killed himself. They were
married about four years ago, but never livcc
together, legal separation taking place imme
diately after the marriage. They were undel
age at the time Of marriage and their parents
interfered and the courts declared the mar
rlage null and void. Since arriving at az,
Parkhurst desired remarriage, but the girl'
parents objected and illfeeling was engen
dered.