Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-12-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered nrom All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.

John Cook, on trial for being implicated in
the Minneapolis $4,000 post-ofllce robbery
of July 8. 1885, was concluded in st. Paul,
Mimi, ON the eth, and the jury instructed
TO bring In a verdict for the acquittal OF the
accused.
THE canning house Of McGaw Bros, near
Spesutia, Nd, burned few nights ago
Twelve thousand cases of canned corn 5000
empty cans, and all the machinery and
fixtures were consumed, The fire was in
cendiary.
SURGEON SIMON, of the United States
steamer Boston, died on board the vessel at
quarantine, New York, on the eth of ycl-
low fever, The other patients are improv-
ing and the rest of tho ships company arc
In good health.
HALBERr THOMAS, son of ]. ]. Thomas, n
leading merchant and ox-presidont of the
Raleigh IN. O. cotton exchange, suicidcd
by shooting on the eth. Ho was insane
from drink.
The First Congregational Society's church
nt Northampton, Mass, was burned on the
eth, owing to the carelessness of a plumber.
Loss, $4,000. The parish is the oldest but
one in Western Massachusetts,, and was pre-
sided over twenty-three years by the
famous Jonathan Edwards.
AT Brooklyn. N. V. on the 2Tth John
Woods, aged sixty-fivo was fatally burned,
and his bed.ridden sister, aged sixty-ono
years, srffocated TO death during n fire,
which destroyed the dry goods store of
3. j. McLoughlin and damaged the tenement
above the store, whore tho Woods people
lived.
THERE were no new cases and no deaths
from yellow fever at Jacksonville, Fla, on
the eth, for the first time in liz days.
There were about twenty cases in the city,
most of them convalescing.
THE famous gelding jay Eye See, "owncd
by j. !. Case and valued AT $40 900, was dis
covered in its pasture near Racine, Wis, on
the 21th nearly dead from loss of blood.
The animal had stepped upon n piece of
glass or other hard substance and severed
the artery of the left hind foot. Tho flow
of blood was stopped, but the animal was
very weak and it was feared he could not
recover.
FOLLOWING his usual custom since he has
been at the head of the Navy Department
Secretary Whitney presented each of the
400 employees of the department fine
turkey for their Thanksgiving day dinner,
Az explosion OF gasoline on tho eth de-
stroycd the office building of the cotton mill
at South Glastonbury, Conn. Maggie Cul-
len, n weaver, was killed by falling wall
and four men were severely burned.
SECRETARY Villas has rendered an opinion
denying the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pnny the right to construct n branch line
through the Puyalup Indian reservation in
Washington Territory, and intimuting that
the main line of the Northern Pacific Rail.
road through the Indian reservation in that
Territory was constructed without warrant
of law.
Two gangs of Russian and italian miners
engaged in riot on the streets of Mount
Carmel, Pa, on the 2Sth ult. Several on both
sides were stabbed, a number of them prob
ably fatally. The ringleaders were arrested.
The Philadelphia & Reading Coal and
Iron Company will make no change in the
price of anthracite coal for November. On
the LIST it shut down eighteen collieries and
will run about thirty-sevcn on three
quarters time.
An epidemic OF diphthera has been reign
at AitlSin, MINI, for two or three weeks.
The schools and all places of public meeting
have been closed, and the board of health
has issued an order requiring all persons
who have been exposed TO isolate them
selves.
JoHN W. WATSON, n prominent planter of
Ozark, Ark, gave his sick wife by mistake
dose of carbolic acid ON the Goth ult. and
she died after an hour of most agouizing
suffering
THE Philadelphia steamer Allentown,
with crew Of eighteen men on board,
foundered OF Coha,set, Mass, during the
recent gale, and ii is supposed that all ON
board were lost a large quantity Of
wreckage consisting Of fire buckets, tables
und other furniture marked ALLENTOWN
has come ashore at North Sctuate beach,
leaving doubt of her fate,
GovERNoR JACKSON has pardoncd Hcze.
kiah s. Best, Martin j. Clark and John W.
McAlahou who were serving term in tho
Baltimore (Md.) city Jail for fraud at the
election in 1886. The families of some of
them had been reduced to n suffering CON
dition since the Imprisonment of the hus-
bands and fathers.
AT Philadelphia on the 2sth ult., the Jury
in the case of Mrs jane Whiteling, charged
with causing the death of her ninc.ycar-old
daughter Bertha, by administering poison,
brought in a verdict of murder in the first
degree. The crime was committed for the
purpose of obtaining the insurance en-
the life of her victim.
The Supreme Court of Michigan rendered
q decision on the 2Sth uit. declaring the
libel law of 1885 unconstitutional.
THE round-house of the Omaha railroad at
Spooner, Wis, burned on tho 2Sth ult.
Seven engines were ruined entailing Il loss
of 100000.
THE South Carolina Legislature began its
annual session on the Both ult. For the first
time since reconstruction the Senate has
not single colored member.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Pension
Bureau shows that of the 10 coo estimated
cases under the act of June Z, lSSs, allowing
widows arrears of pension from the date Of
the husbands death, l4,5O2 have already
been allowed and settled without expense to
the Government.
DURISG Thanksgiving celebration by
the Hudson Guards at Manhattan Park,
New York, the explosion of a can of powder
caused severe injuries to Edward Schench,
Henry Holzupfel and George Smith, and
resulted in fire which partially destroyed
the shooting pavilion. Louis Mundhauk
was badly wounded by the accidental dis.
charge Of IA musiet.
The body of Captain Daniel Morrison, of
Shelburne, N. S., was found In tine wreck
of his schooner, the NJ. and A. Morrison, of
Provincetown, Mass, on the Goth ult. The
rest OF the crew were doubtless washed
overheard and drowned
ESCAPING steam aud the rattlinG In the
coils Of the heating apparatus created Il
panic in tho Blair school mt St Louis on the
18th ult. The children became unmanaGea-
BILE and rushed to get out of the building.
Several of the teachers were seriously in
jured by being trampled on and seven pupils
were more or less hurt.
The registrars OF voters at Boston, Mass,
furnish figures showing that 20,2l6 women
out of 25,0O0 who were assessed, have regis
tered and are qualified to vote for members
of the school committee at the coming mu-
nicipal election. Last year but S37 women
registered, OF whom 125 voted
The board of directors of the Keely Motor
Company held meeting at Philadelphia
recently, at which it is said all the differ
ences between Keely and the board were
compromised by the formulation of plans
for an entire reorganization of the com
pany, which will be submitted to the stock
holders at their annual meeting on Decem-
ber II for approval. The capital will be
s5,00O,0OO in ten shares.
AUGUST LISKE and John Albin, miners