Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-17


Dennis O'Hearn, burglars, we're each
sentenced to twenty-five years impris-
onment under the habitual criminal act.
Dolan is the convict who by eating soap
stimulated consumption and was par
doned by Governor Butler from State
prison only to renew his criminal career
as soon as liberated
BY tho falling of q new stack at the
Braddock (Pa.) wire mill on the sth
four Greeks were injured, two of them
fatally.
An explosion of fire-damp in the mines
of the Gilberton (Pa.) colliery on the
Sth caused the death of John d. Davis,
| fire boss, and William Morgan, a miner.
The New York Court of Appeals has
rendered decision in the case of Dill
worth Choatc, the New York reporter,
| affirming the Judgment of the courts be-
low sentencing him to Imprisonment for
| contempt of court in connection with
the Flack case.
At New York, Judge Fitzgerald has
| dismissed the two indictments for brib-
cry against James p. Heating, ex-warden
of Ludlow street Jail, and Deputy Sheriff
| tion of District Attorney Fellows. the
plea being that the indictm ents were
insufficient.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has contributed the sum of $275,000 to
the worlds fair committee of Chicago.
The vouchers for the amount were made
out at the general Office of the company
in Pittsburgh on the 9th, and the
worlds fair committee notified that the
money could be drawn upon at any time.
Business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended May 8 number 200, as compared
with 211 the previous week. For the
corresponding week of last year the
figures were 227.
A fire at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 9th
destroyed Masury S Sons paint works
and the Atlantic starch works, causing
loss of 100000; fully insured.
The annual competition for the Boyls-
ton prizes for Harvard students in de-
clamation was held at Cambridge, Mass,
on the 9th. The first prizes were won
by w. E. B. Dubois, 30, and II. e. Bur-
ton, 80. Mr.. Dubois is negro.
At Grove City, Pa, on the 9th, twenty
five business and dwelling houses on
Main street were destroyed by fire, en-
failing loss of S35, ZOO. Insurance
light.
The Postal Telegraph Cable Company
has increased its capital stock from five
to ten millions.
The Simpson dry-dock at the United
States navy yard in Brooklyn, N. Y,
was opened on the 9th in the presence
of several hundred visitors The dock
has been in course of erection about
two years and a half and cost over half
million dollars.
Henry L. Hoguet, president of the
Immigrant Savings Bank, New York
City, died on the 9th.
The Erie canal tonnage for the first
week of navigation, 1890, is 232, 455,
against t6O,22 in 1889.
The Washington Shoe Company, of
New Jersey, has failed for $4,000.
The New York Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 9th.
The school committee of Providence,
r. l., has adopted revision of the by
laws which banishes the Bible and de-
votional exercises from the city schools
and restricts the application of corporal
punishment to cases in which the par
ents' consent is obtained.
The twelve contract laborers who re-
Gently arrived at New York for the pur-
pose of taking the places of striking
Chicago carpenters, were returned TO
Europe on the 10th in the steamer Am
sterdam.
The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius was
given her final test at Philadelphia on
the 10th and it was pronounced very
successful.
A defalcation in the Albany IN. "
City National Bank amounting to S50,-
600 has been traced to George P. Whit
ney, the individual bookkeeper, who
managed it through an overdraft sys-
tenn in collusion with prominent AL
bany firm. He has been in the bank for
years and occupied high social po-
sition.
Fire on the 18th destroyed the Oxford
boarding stable at Cambridge, Mass,
and twenty-seven valuable horses were
cremated. The loss is estimated at $20,-
600.
Fifteen two-story business houses in
Elicottville, N. Y, burned on the 11th,
causing loss of $40, 900.