Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-29
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

with tramp.
A DWELLING house at Wyant was
wrecked by lightning.
HEIDELBERG COLLEGE, at Tiffln, will
hereafter be university.
A YOUNGSTOWN minister has been
convicted of embezzlement.
FRED HEIDELBAcH was found dead in
the street at Fostoria.
URBANA is now lighted with electric
ity.
Cincinnati, with paid up capital of
$500, 000
THE indications are that the Ohio
Working Home for the Blind will be
discontinued.
JOHN ATHERToN, Panhandle brake
man, was seriously injured by cars
while making coupling near Newark.
A HORSE was instantly killed and
man violently shocked by an electric
wire at Piqua.
GEORGE OGG, of McCutchenville,
while drunk, was found badly frozen
by the roadside. His limbs were ampu-
tated.
THE Adjutant General has received
anu dICtDItu lllt EtSlS vi EuNdT
Schlessinger, as First Lieutenant of
Company A, First Regiment, Ohio Ma
tional Guards.
BOHEMIAN oats swindlers are working
n new racket in selling cinnamon
beans" to susceptible farmers,
THE physicians of Hon. Job E. Steven
son, who accidentally swallowed dose
of carbolic acid at Circleville, con-
sidered him out of danger, on the 21st,
but at night symptoms of Inflammation
of the stomach developed. He insisted
in taking part in the trial of a case,
and, it is thought, overtasked himself.
A LARGE sheep barn belonging to
Watt Watkins, at Prospect, Marion
County, was struck by lightning the
other night and soon destroyed by fire.
Loss $500.
DEPUTY SHERIFFs MARTIN WEIGH and
o. l.. Wood, were returning from Ottawa
County with L. w. Henderson, alias
Burt Warner, alias Charles Lockard, an
escaped convict from the penitentiary,
whom they had but recently captured.
just as the train was entering the depot
at Shelby the prisoner asked for a drink
of water. The officer arose from his
seat, but had no sooner turned his back
than the prisoner slipped the handouts
from his wrists, jumped from the NOV
ing train and disappeared in the dark
ness, but not before the plucky officer
had fired shot at him. Next morning,
shortly after midnight, ,nan badly
wounded in the face asked for admit
tance at the farm house of James Ham
t,rp !, -
He was admitted and DR.. Hyde sent for,
who found that he had been shot in the
mouth, the ball entering the upper lip,
crashing through the lower jaw and
lodging in his neck. The doctor probed
the wound to the depth of five inches,
but could not locate the ball. By this
time the officers from whom the prisoner
escaped turned up, identified him as
their man, and took him to Columbus on
the b. and o. passenger train. Lockard
was sent up from Leipsic Junction in
1887, to serve term of twelve years, on
charge of rape and larceny, and had
served but two years of his sentence
when he effected his escape from the
Ohio penitentiary. This was his third
escape while in the custody of the off,
NNtS' iiO ID - u
THE Ohio Gas Light Association con-
cluded a two days session the other
evening at Toledo, with the election of
the following officers: President, c. R.
Fabin, jr., Toledo; vice-president, II.
Wilkiemeyer, Portsmouth; treasurer,
George w. McCook, Steubenville; secre-
tary, Irwin Butterworth, Columbus; COM
mittee on legislation, c. r. Fabin, To-
ledo; A. j. STALL Sandusky; II. Wilkie-
meyer, Portsmouth. The president will
announce the executive committee
later Next meeting will be held in
GAINESVILLE the third Wednesday in
March. The delegates were banqueted
at the Boody.
The Wilson Transportation Company,
of Cleveland, with a capital stock of
81, 900, 900, has been incorporated.
AN advance of $50 per cent. in the
price of soda ash caused the Canton
Glass Company to close down.
A MAN named Stein is trying to work
post-offices in Clark County by repre-
senting himself to be Post-office In
spector.
JOHN J. MASON, alias ''Three- Finger
| ed Jack" was arrested at Cleveland for
murder.
GALE SHATToo, aged fifteen years, is
under arrest at Urbana for grand lar
ceny, and an effort will be made to send
| him to the Reform Farm.
Mrs. CAROLINE SCHwAB,a a well-known
character about Fostoria, was taken to
the Hancock County infirmary the other
day. Her actions recently caused the
officials to become satisfied that she was
not of sound mind. After she was taken
away Officer Hess examined the hovel
in which she has been living In an old
husL mattress he discovered silver and
greenbaclSs and good notes amounting
to over $1,000. 1t was supposed she had
money concealed somewhere, and few
weeks ago gang of toughs broke into
the house and nearly murdered the
woman, but failed to find the cash.
| JouN EISuER a farmer was frozen tn