Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-09-20


railroad caused collision between a
passenger and freight train in Now
York City on tho 18th, seriously injur-
ing three persons.
LoRING X. LOOMS, n young stock
broker of Chicago, is missing, and his
business associates claim that he has
gone with S25, 600 of their money.
SECRETARY WINDOW announced on the
18th that he would purchase $4,000, 900
of four per cent. bonds and pay the in
terest on between fifty and sixty mill
lions of six per cents, in order to relieve
the stringency in the money market.
| MRs. ANNA ADAMS late proprietress
Of the hotel Ridgeway at Atlantic City,
N. j., has failed, owing $4,000 with
assets possibly worth $500.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER announces
that the recount of Minneapolis, Mimi,
shows population of 164, ,7sO-an in
crease since 1850 of III, ,S51, or 25l.3 35 per
cent.
THE board of managers OF tho Phila-
delphia & Reading Railroad Company
have decided to increase the salary of
president and general manager. A. A.
Mcleod, to $4,000. This is said to be
the largest amount paid to railway
official in the United States, with tho
exception of Chauncey M. Depew, of the
New York Central, who gets $50, 900.
THERE has been total failure Of
crops in Sphinx County, North Dakota
Farmers have mortgaged every thing to
their full value, and their credit is ex-
| hausted with local merchants.
THE through Kansas City express on
| the Missouri Pacific railroad was par
of ST. Louis on the 18th. One passenger
was killed, four fatally injured and
eleven others more or less hurt.
AT Rockville, Ind, on the 18th the
jury in the case of Oscar Pearman,
Hosea Douglass and Kinsey Douglass,
aged respectively fourteen, twelve and
ten years, who were on trial for murder
in the second degree for drowning boy
with whom they were swimming,
brought in verdict of acquittal.
AT the convention of the yellow pine
lumber manufacturers in st. Louis on
the 18th it was decided to raise the
prices on all finishing lumber from fifty
cents to one dollar por 1000 feet
AT fire which destroyed the 7. o.
Peckham Candy Companys factory in
St Louis on the 14th, one fireman was
crushed to death by falling wall and
another seriously injured. The total
loss on building, stock and machinery
is $1,000
AT the sharpshooters contest at Creed
more, L.. l., on the 18th the trophy val
ued at $4,000, presented by Henry Hill
ton, was won by the New York State
| team. In the Interstate match, open to
teams of twelve from the militia of any
State or Territory, the prize, bronze
| figure of soldier valued at $3.50, was
also won by the New York State team.
ACCORDING to reinstated Knight of
Labor on the New York Central road,
all the roads employees in tho vicinity
of Albany have been asked to sign a
paper which exacts from them pledge
that they shall not go out on strikes,
nor shall they belong to any labor or
ganization which has tho authority to
order them out in a body. Nearly all
the mon now employed by the road have
signed the circular.
At st. Joseph, NO., on the 18th Mr..
and Mrs. Hendleton were crossing the
railroad track in wagon, when the
vehicle was struck by train and both
were instantly killed.
MESsRs WALTER POTTER and w. d.
Lowell, of the firm uf Potter, Lowell &
Co., were arrested at Boston, Mass, on
the 18th, on warrants charging them
with embezzlement and larceny. Bail
was fixed at $4,000 each, which was
furnished
THE New York Police Commissioners
have estimated that the coming election
would cost the city about $3.50, 900, or
S150,O00 more than last year under the
old law.
A LOCOMOTIVE used as "pusher" for
freight trains on the Concord grade near
Lynchburg Va, while pushing train
up the grade on the 18th, exploded it's
boiler killing the fireman and injuring
the engineer and a brakeman.
A LARGE number of $40 counterfeit
bills on the German National Bank of
New Orleans are in circulation at ST.
Louis, and the police are actively
searching for the gang uttering them.
The Lake George Pulp and Paper
Company of Ticonderoga, N Y, has
purchased tract of land near that place
containing 100000 acres. The land is
heavily timbered with spruce, pine and
cedar.
Mrs. DIR. G. w. COOPER, and Mrs. G.
F. Rose and her nine-year-old son were
drowned on tho 18th in South Potta-
wattomie river near Garnett, Kan. 1t
is supposed their buggy was overturned
while crossing the river
WHILE Miss Jane Hollihan. Miss Win
ME Cannon and Charles Woods were
walking on the track of the Reading
railroad at Locust Gap, Pa, on the 18th
they were struck by the engine of a
freight train. Miss Hollihan was killed
and Miss Cannon and Woods were badly
bruised.
AT New York on the 18th Lineman
Kopp, of the Brush Electric Light Com
pany, took hold of live wire in front of
the PARK Theater and was instantly rem
dered unconscious, the current burning
into the flesh. He was taken down by
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