Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-26

Augusta, Ga, for hearing.
j. ]. CoRBETT, OF the Olympian Club
at San Francisco, bested Jake Kilrain
in six-round contest for purse of
So, 500 at the Southern Athletic Club
rooms in New Orleans, La, on the 18th.
Eilrain had agreed to knock Corbett out
in six rounds, but was out-fought at
every point.
THE steamer Cephalonia, which ar
rived at New York from Liverpool on
the 18th, reports that on February 10
she passed an iceberg 1000 feet long
and $50 feet high.
IT is stated that the Louisiana Lottery
Company, in order to secure renewal
of its charter, which will expire in two
years, will make proposition to the
Legislature to pay the entire State debt,
amounting to from $40, 900, 900 to S12, oO0,-
900. The lottery is earning S25o,OoO
month or So, 000,O per year net.
THREE children of j. w. Kerr, a
farmer living near Wichita, Kan, were
burned to death in q fire which de-
stroyed their home on the night of the
18TH Mr.. and Mrs. Kerr barely escaped
in their night-clothes.
THE President has issued proclama-
tion directing the removal of all cattle
from grazing upon what is known as
the Cherokee outlet in the northern
part of the Indian Territory. The re-
moval must be completed by October L.
THE first shipment of Alabama iron to
Pittsburgh by water was celebrated with
great rejoicing at Sheffield, Ala, on the
18th. The shipment was 5000 tons, by
barges, via the Tennessee and Ohio
rivers The rate of freight is $3.50 per
ton, which is so much less than the rate
by rail that it affects the iron trade Of
the entire country.
FROM March l, 1878, to December 81,
1889, the number Of ounces of silver
used in coming silver dollars was 300,-
727, ,969, and the cost S2s7, ,995, 107. The
number of dollars coined was $40, ,93S, ,001,
and the seigniorage S61, ,942, S93.
THE Secretary of War has sent to the
House of Representatives an estimate
for an appropriation of S55,37S for the
erection of monuments or tablets for
the proper marking of the position of
each of the commands of the regular
army engaged at Gettysburg. 1t is pro-
posed to erect forty such monuments or
tablets.
Two or three of the prominent New
York commission houses have telephones
communicating with Chicago. A few
days ago S. V. White & Co. executed
quite large order in May wheat in Chi
cago The time consumed in sending
the order, executing it and getting a
reply was exactly four minutes.
THE pension payments for February
amount to about S1s, 600, 900.
BY direction of Mrs. A. T. Stewards
executors, the big Stewart store build
ing at Broadway and Ninth streets, New
York, will be sold at auction on March 13.
THE performance at the Broadway
Theater, New York, on the 18th, for the
benefit of Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr.,
who is very i'll and likely to be perma-
nently an invalid netted nearly $4,000.
The audience was the largest ever known
at the theater.
GEORGE I'll. BRADFORD, a wealthy resi-
dent of Boston, Mass, was enjoying a
horseback ride on Beacon street, that
city, on the 18th, when horse and rider
were run down by an electric motor and
instantly killed.
MRS.. BURRITT, the Racine (Wis.)
faster, finished her twenty-one days
fast on the 18th. She is in good health,
and has suffered little by her depriva-
tion of food. Her dyspepsia seems to
have been cured.
THE girls seminary at San Marios,
Tex, was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Three of the young ladies were seriously
burned, and thirty others were more or
less injured in effecting their escape
from the building by jumping.
AT meeting of the Manufacturers
Association of Woburn, Mass, on the
18th it was voted to close all the leather
factories in the association and to keep
them closed until the dozen striking
blaclsers at Riggs & Cobbs return to
work This means lockout of about
1900 men.
THE Massachusetts Supreme Court
dered three-year-old Werner Fisher at
Weymouth last December, to be taken
to an insane asylum.
The twenty-second annual convention
of the National Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation began it's sessions at Washington
on the 18th. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton presided and gave an interesting
sketch of the woman's suffrage move
ment, in which she predicted that with
in ten years women would be voting in
every State in the Union.
THE limited express, while passing
through Johnstown, Pa, on the 18th.
struck and killed three men who were
walking on the track.
THE South Dakota Legislature has
passed joint resolution admitting that
destitution exists in many parts of the
State, and that the farmers must be
furnished with seed wheat by public and
private subscri ptions. The resolution
declares that nder the State constitu-
tion, State and counties are powerless