Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-02

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| THE roofers strike at Brooklyn, N.
Y, which has been in progress two
months, affecting 1000 men, has been
settled and the men resumed work on
the 2sth. They will work nine hours q
day until September Is, and after that
date eight hours a day at the same
wages for which they formerly worked
ten hours per day.
A FREIGHT train on the Southern
burg, near Portland, Ore, on the Goth,
and woman and two children were
killed.
An extensive cavern occurred on the
9th at colliery No. II of the Pennsyl-
vania Coal Company in Wilkesbarre,
Pa, fifty acres being affected. No one
was in iured. Tho damage to the mine
will be heavy.
TIE Coal and Coke Company's works
at Glenflsher, Elk County, Pa, were de-
stroyed by fire on the Goth. Loss about
$25, 900.
AT Grafton, w. Va, on the 27th WILL
lam Golden, his wife and three cnil-
dren started to cross the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad tracks, when they were
struck by an accommodation train and
all were killed.
THE business portion of Creighton,
Neb., was destroyed by fire on the 27th,
Loss $40, 900. The town had no water to
fight fire.
COLONEL. JOHN +. TYLER, of st.
Louis, Mo-, was recently appointed re-
ceiver for the Sells & Address circus
and menagerie. On the night of the
Goth some one drove off the elephant,
two camels and seven horses. No clue
to their whereabouts can be found. 1t
is thought Address has taken them away.
A COAL BREAKER to be constructed
wholly of iron, with a capacity of 5000
tons per day, will soon be erected at
Drifton, Pa. When completed it will be
one of the largest in the anthracite coal
fields and will cost over S150,000.
On the goth the explosion of a flue in
the Tudor Iron works at East st. Louis,
Ill.,, killed one man and seriously
wounded five others. The immense
smokestack of the establishment fell
with a terrible crash, completely wreck
ing the building. Most of the men were
out of the building at the time.
ACCORDING to the census just COM
pleted, Portland, Ore, has population
of 35,s61. The two suburbs, East Port
land and Albina, together have a popu-
lation of $4,000.
CENSUS SUPERVISOR HUsE, of New
Hampshire. gives the population of the
State as 377, 900, a gain of over $4,000.
THE plant of the Monitor plow works
at Minneapolis, Mimi, was destroyed
by fire on the 2Sth ult., entailing loss
of S125, 900. Fully insured.
ERNEST HESS, prominent Chicago
grain commission man, failed on the
2Sth ult. with liabilities estimated at
$50, 600 or 5000
CROP reports from North Dakota are
much more favorable than week or two
ago, and officials of the Great North srr
railroad say it will require 10000 cprs
to move the crop in it's territory this
year. The crops throughout a large
portion of South Dakota are reported in
poor condition.
THE contracts recently made by the
Post-otfice Department for star route
service show decrease in the annual
rate OF expenditure of S147,474, an in
crease of 1901, ,9S2 in the number of
miles travelled per annum and decrease
of cost per mile of travel of S1.13. This
service amounts to 81, 036, 366 miles trav-
eled per annum at an annual cost of
81, S25, 1893.
THE coroner's jury in the Annie Good
win case at New York City rendered
verdict on the 2Sth ult. They found
that Annie Goodwin had died on July
13 at the residence of Mrs. Shaw as the
result of an abortion performed by DR..
McGonigal. They found Mrs. Shaw an
accessory before the fact as were also
Gus Harrison and coachman Davis an
accessory after the fact.
THE Reading (Pa.) rolling mill having
declined to sign the scale of the Anal
gamated Association, thirtytwo pud-
dlers employed at the works refused to
go to work on the 2Sth ult. The action
the mill to shut down. About
200 men are affected.
COMPLETE census figures for the city
of Buffalo, N. Y, shows total popula-
tion of 255,543
LIE LOUISVILLE NaSnVllle
Company has mortgaged the entire sys-
tenn TO the Central Trust Company, of
New York, for $75, 900, 900.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Treas
ury Department shows the amount of
United States bonds purchased from
August 3, 1887, to July 26, 1890, in
elusive, to be: Four per cents, $144,
900; AZ per cents, S142, 94s, 700.
TIE town of Wallace, Idaho, one hum
dred miles east of Spokane Falls, Wash,
was burned on the 27th ult, and it is
said that only two buildings were saved.
The loss will probably be $500, 900. The
fire started in saloon. Fifteen hun
dred people are homeless.
AT New York on the 2sth ult. the
balance of the locked out cloakmakers
returned to work under thu new plan of
agreement and the troubles between the
employers and the men are ended.
THE secretary of the Johnstown food
relief commission has just issued his re-
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