Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1889-09-06
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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The President has appointed Benja
min c. Ridgeway postmaster at Wells
ton, vice John O. Vandervort.
FouRru-oLAss postmasters were ap
pointed on the S0th as follows: Benton
Ridge, Hancock County, j. II, Whistler;
Euphemia, Prcble County, j. c. Rider
West Point, Columbiana County, Henry
j. Bough.
CHARLES CoLLIsTER has boon appoint.
ed storekeeper and gauger in the
Eleventh District.
A COMPANY has been organized at
Springfield to manufacture steel by tho
Bookwalter process.
SUPERINTENDENT Z. Il. Sparks, OF
Martins Ferry, and James A. Douglas,
of the Waverly schools, were the in
structors of the Pike County Teachers
Institute, which closed on the 30th.
JOIN SHAFFER, a section laborcr or
the Pittsburgh, TT Wayne and Chicago
road at Nevada, was instantly killed by
being struck by the engine of freight
train.
THE G. A, r. Brigade Encampment
composed of the posts of the Thirteenth
Congressional District, will be held at
Lancaster October and 8.
JOHN MAURER, well-known farmer
living on Crooked Run, near New Phil
adelphia, fell from the top of high
straw-stack and was fatally injured.
THE skeleton of man was found low
down in an old hollow sycamore stump
by worlsmen engaged in blowing up
stumps, near Tiflin.
WHILE bathing in Licking Creek at
Newark, Burt Schraver, aged ten years,
was attacked with cramps and was
drowned. The body was recovered.
JAMES FARAGHER, farmer living
east of .Lorain, was killed by being
thrown from his buggy near Elyria on
to the sidewalk breaking his neck. His
horse became frightened at bicycle
and ran, with the above result. Fara-
CHER was fifty-six years old and mar
ried.
A FREIGHT train on the Lake Shore
ran into tho rear end of another freight,
one mile east of Geneva. One carload
of paint and two cars of grain were
burned. No one was hurt.
A LITTLE son of Stephen Hillworth,
living near Celina, was badly mangled
by dog.
HEIDELBERG COLLEGE, at Tifin, has
been presented with museum valued
at 500, 900.
LONDON will have water-worlSs.
THE Republicans of the Fifth Ohio
District nominated Hon. Jesse n. Oren
for Senator.
A COMMERCIAL traveller named Hem
kle was robbed, at Youngstown, of dia.
mond pin worth 5000.
STANLEY c. JONES shot and killed A.
A. Amidon, prominent attorney OF
Painesville, the other evening. About
a week before Jones' wife applied for a
divorce, alimony and the custody of two
and Amidon was her attorney.
Since the commencement of the pro.
ceedings Jones has been drinking, and
was somewhat under the influence OF
liquor when he committed the deed.
The Fairfield County Teachers Insti-
tute, with $50 in attendance, closed the
most successful session ever held on the
30th, and elected for the ensuing year
c. n. Turner, president, and j. l.. Gra-
ham, Secretary.
Two HUNDRED and fifty teachers at
tended the Sandusky County Institute,
which closed on the 3Oth. The instruc-
tors were Rev. j. K. Swanda and Profs.
Knox and Irish. !. NJ. Green was elect
ed president, and James A. Smith, sec
retary.
The twenty-fifth annual meeting of
the Stark County Teachers Association
closed on the 30th with five days ses-
sion. One hundred and twenty-eight
teachers attended. The instructors were
Prof. Aston Ellis, of Hamilton, o., and
Superintendent j. ]. Burns, of Canton.
BRASS GREEN, an inmate of the poor
house at Youngstown, the other night
cut his throat from ear to ear His
wound is fatal.
The Secretary of the State Board of
Health is engaged in mailing circulars
to the proper authorities of cities, towns
and villages, calling attention to the
law requiring the appointment of
board of health. The law is mandatory,
and there are many places whore no at
tention has been paid to the enactment.
1t has been in such places where several
epidemics have occurred during the
present year.
7. S. WARTNG, cashier of the Farmers
National Bank at Greenville, died few
days ago, after short Illness Cause of
death gangrene limb, the result of
rheumatism.
GAS and oil was struck at Columbus
Grove, at a depth of / 1895 feet.
HENRY p. OWENS was killed by cars
near Columbus.
The late DR.. Bayliss, of Cincinnati, in
his will gave every thing to his widow.
He is said to have left an estate of from
$50, 900 to 100000
Mrs. WM. BEEBE drowned herself in
cistern at Norwalk.
CLEVELAND has a 'fresh air camprout-
side its limits, where the sick children
of the poor are cared for in the summer.
The charitable people of the city sus-
tain the camp with gifts of money, bed
ding and clothing.
THE shortage of Halliday, the Mount
Gilead bank cashier, will reach at least
s35, 900. He is believed to be in Canada.
JAMES COLLINS, the superintendent of
the Celina plate-glass factory, was
struck the other evening by the north
bound Dayton and Toledo train and
badly injured. He can not live.
FIRE at the Ohio State Penitentiary,
the other evening, destroyed the build
ngs occupied by the Columbus Chair
Columbus Bolt Works, and a
arge warehouse occupied as a cooper
hop. Loss about 100000. Thos. F.
(eHie and George Suydam, of the City
fire Depsrt.A21t-and Daniel j. Sheri.
Ian, prisoner, were injured by fall
ng cornice, the latter seriously.
EVERETT CRozIER, son of Robert Gro
,ier, of Bonneville, met with horrible
leath while returning from Moundsville
camp.meeting. lie was struck by the
timbers of bridge and knocked from
train, his body being thrown under the
wheels and shockingly mangled.
THE three-card monte game was
played on Jacob Kick, OF Mansfield, on
the oath, for $40, and on the oGth Goo