Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1889-01-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from An Quarters
DOMESTIC.

Porter & Co., OF Pittsburgh, was roDDcu OF
1900 while ascending an elevator in the
Penn building that city, on the 24th, to pay
an account for his employers. -Four men
entered the elevator with him, jostling him
roughly, and when he put his hand In his
pocket for theAihoney, II was gone
FRANKLIN BESSER, q Minneapolis (Minn)
dealer in gas fixtures, failed on the cath for
100000. Assets about half that amount.
THE jury in tho case of Baureisen, on
trial at AurorIf Ill, charged with conspiracy
10 injure the property Of tho Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy Railroad Company with
dynamite, on the oath returned a verdict OF
guilty and fixed his sentence at two years
in the penitentiary.
WHILE a party OF seven were sailing on
the bay at San Francisco, on tho 25th, the
craft was capsized and six Of the occupants
were drowned. The victims were Andrew
Siegel Kato Siegel, George Stump and wife,
Matt Cox, aud Mary Morales.
Ex JUDGE RUBiSsoS, OF Cincinnati, sui
cided at his home in Avondale on the 25th
by shooting himself. Dependency on nc
count of the death of his wife is said to be
the cause. yltI
Two young ladies' named Smith were
drowned ut Hills Vile, Pa, on the Goth. In
company with another girl and two young
men, they were crossing the Allegheny
river in skin, when 1t sank with them.
The rest Of the party were rescued In an ex-
hausted condition.
ADAM FoRBPAuGH presented the famous
elephant BOLIVAR" as a Christmas gift to
the Philadelphia Zoo. Bolivar is twenty
six years old, aud said 10 be the largest ele-
phant in captivity.
Hon. JAMES t. MArFEr, member of Con-
gress from the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania
district, has been admitted to the asylum at
North Warren as q private patient. The
difficulty seems to be excessive nervousness
which was brought on by the ardu GUS labors
Of the recent campaign.
THE President has pardoned Bishop "A. A.
Kimball, convicted and sentenced u eight
months Imprisonment last Sopternber by
the District Court OF Utah for adultery.
GOVERNOR MARBLE, OF Maine, has ap-
pointed Hon. j. q. Blaine among other com
missioners TO attend the centennial celebra-
tion Of Washington's Inauguration in New
York on April 30.
CHARLES HOPKINS, son of Ben Hopkins OF
the late Fidelity Bank, was arrested at
Cincinnati on the 26th for negotiating one Of
Charles Tinlsler's forged checks. The check
in question is on the Citizens Bank. Young
Hopkins bail is fixed at $4,000 and he is
now in jail in default Of 1t.
GOVERNOR HILL has ordered an extraor-
dinary term Of Oyer and Terminer to bo
held in New York City, Judge Daniels pre-
siding, and to continue until tho criminal
business is cleared up. II is understood
that this court Is ordered for the purpose Of
trying the ,''booa,s" aldermen.
An English postal card has Just completed
its trip around the world, having made the
journey in seventy-hve days. 1t was mailed
d., to1,n - ht,xt "
of the United States and Yokahama,
reached Hong Kong November %, and was
redirected to London by way Of Brindisi
November 25, reaching London within
seventy. five days from the time of starting
The Comptroller Of the Currency has
authorized tho First National Bank, of
johnson City, Tenn, to begiu business with
capital Of $4,000.
EXECUTIONS were issued on the Goth
against Robert c. To tten of the firm of
Totten & Co., iron founders and machinists
at Pittsburgh, for $4,000. The cause Of
the embarrassment is not known. 1t is
claimed that 1t will not affect the firm.
THE tobacco factory of ]. w. Early ut
South Boston, Va, was burned on the Goth.
The factory was occupied by Norman &
Evans and contained stock of old tobacco
valued at SIS, 900.
WHILE Christmas entertainment was In
progress at East Prospect, Pa, the building
collapsed and three hundred people were
hurled with tho broken timbers from the
second to the first floor. A large number
were badlyibruised and cut, but fortunately
there were no fatal casualties and only o
few were seriously injured.
Tue failure OF Douglas Henry was an
nounced at the New York Stock Exchange
on the 26th.
AT Boston, Mass, on the Goth the credi-
tors of William d. Forbes voted to request
him TO settle his affairs in insolvency. He
made no offer to the creditors. The liabili-
ties are 1854 900 and assets S39,0O0
THE total number Of immigrants arrived
nt the ports Of the United States from
foreign countries Except from the Dominion
of Canada.a and Mexico), during the eleven
months ended November 30 1888, was 1885,
593 against 4S7, ,645 in 1887.
The total value of the exports of the Uni
ted States for the twelve months ended
November 80, 1883, were s679, 435 l47, against
sT27, 1877 during the corresponding period
of the preceding year. The total values of
the imports for the same period were S7l6,-
344, 40 against s7l2, ,a65, ,S52 in 1887.
Mrs. EDITH ScHooSMAKER, the young
Brooklyn IN. Y. woman who was shot by
days ago, died at the hospital on tho Goth.
THE Charleston IS. C.) cotton exchange
has appointed a special committee to inves'
tigate charges made in the Legislature
and elsewhere that combinations exist in
Charleston.wbereby underwriters and other.
are systematically defrauded.
AT Denver, Col, on the Goth, one hun
.dred men were engaged in excavating @
ditch six feet deep under the track Of the
cable car line, for the Denver Gas Com
pany when suddenly the track for an entire
block fell, crushing the life ont OF and I'M
prisoning the men underneath. Five dead
and one badly wounded were taken out
The other men escaped with moro or les,
bauses.
THE farmhouse of Ashbury Bryan, neal
Nebraska City, Neb., was destroyed by fir,
ON the 18th, the inmates barely escaping
alive. John Bryan, aged twenty-one, re
turned TO the house for clothing and wal
burned to death. y
JOHN PEABODY, Jr., teller of the Mer
chants and Mechanics Bank of Columbus
Ga, suicided on the Goth by shooting him
self Nocause is known for the deed. Hi
accounts at the bank are absolutely correct
AT Westtield, OAK, on the eth cowboy
employed by farmer named Emery had
dispute with him over wages. The maj
drew revolver and shot Emery dead. H
then mounted pony and fled
MICHAEL KEATISG, a messenger In thl
War Department at Washington, fell owe
the balusters on the fourth floor OF tina
building on the 27th and was instautl
killed. The fall was about eighty feet. IL
was intoxicated at the time.
THE forty-three suits instituted In tn
Superior Court OF Cook County, H., o.
October 25 against the individuals compo.
ing the firm of Howell, Jewett & Co., O
Atchison, Kan. and others by Il. l.. Robert
and other creditors of the defunct Chicag
Lumber Company Of Kansas, were all dis
missed in Chicago on the eth at the plain
tits cost.
AT u meeting OF citizens OF New Orlean
on the eth II was decided TO add to the al
fractions Of the coming carnival by erectin