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

| IIIE government receipts during Jan
uary past aggregated S84, COL ,15S, abou
half million more than in January
1889. Receipts from all SOURCES for the
seven months of tho current fiscal yeai
ended January 81, aggregated S227, ,55s,
566, or about three millions more thar
4 during the corresponding seven months
of the preceding fiscal year.
The brickmakers OF Philadelphia have
decided to demand an increase of twenty
per cent. in wages next season
The proposal to demand the eight-hour
day was rejected as inadvisable.
AJosEpm SILvEB, an old resident of
Beverly, Mass, died recently in appar.
ent poverty. While overhauling his eff
fects few days afterward, his relatives
found between $4,000 and $1,000 in gold,
silver and greenbacks in various places.
THE Sears building, an elegant five
story marble structure, one of the finest
business blocks in Boston, Mass, was
totally destroyed by fire on the I'd. 1t
was valued at $4,000 and insured for
S175, 900. The building was occupied by
banking and other concerns and yielded
a yearly rental of $4,000.
THE United States Supreme Court on
the Sd rendered an opinion directing
the Court of Claims to enter Judgment
for S11, 1888 in favor of John s. Mosby in
consul fees turned over to the Govern
ment, which he claimed belonged TO him.
CONRAD N. JORDAN, president of the
| Western National Bank, of New York,
| is authority for the statement that the
Equitable bank will resume business at
once. 1t is also expected that the LenoN
Hill bank will resume in a few days.
j. II. Goss, assistant postmaster at
at Blacksburg, S. c., has been arrested
on charge of rifling letters.
AT st. Louis on the night of the I'd
Rev. G. Phillips, Presbyterian min
lister, was assaulted by burglars in his
study ut the church. He was beaten
until unconscious and then robbed The
burglars escaped.
THE bodies of the entombed miners in
the Nottingham (Pa.) shaft were found
on the Sd and were taken out horribly
burned. Joseph Jones, miner, is 50
badly injured that he will die, making
the seventh victim. ... .
THE coroner's jury in the case Of
Banker Ditman, of Philadelphia, who
disappeared December II, and whose
body was found in the Schuylkill jan
uary &c, rendered a verdict on the Sd of
accidental death by drowning.
WILLIAM d. ELLIS and wife returned
to their home at Chicago on the evening
of the I'd, after an hours absence, and
found the house in flames and the
charred corpses of their two-year-old
daughter and the servant in the kitchen.
1t is not known how the fire originated.
A DISPATCH from Dalles, Ore, says
that construction train with a gang of
laborers went through a bridge sixty
eight feet high near that place on the
I'd. Ten men were killed and sixteen
injured. The accident occurred about
mile west of Cascade Locks. The bridge
had been rendered unsafe by heavy
rains.
GEORGE TAFT, alias f. P. Zollman,
alias Thomas Mari, is in limbo at
Rochester, n. Y, for defrauding Ma
sonic lodges.
The stoYe works of A. Cox & Co near
Morristown, Pa, were destroyed by fire
on the 4th. Loss SIS,
JOSEPH P. MURPHY, manufacturer of
cotton and wooden goods at Philadelphia,
made an assignment on the 4th. His
liabilities are estimated at $500, 900;
assets not known.
THE report of Adjutant General Kel-
ton upon the military force of the Uni
ted States, shows the strength of the
militia to consisto of 3,052 officers, 103,2GG
men and 1852, III availables.
A NORTHERN Pacific passenger train
struck a hand-car between st. Cloud and
Clear Lake, Mimi, on the 4th. Three
section men who were on the hand-car
were killed.
AT convention of Western window
glass manufacturers in Pittsburgh on
the 4th, it was decided to advance the
price five and ten per cent on single
and double lots respectively.
THE Baptist Book Concern, which has
aims similar to the Methodist institu-
ton of like name, was organized at
Louisville, KY, on the 4th, with capi-
tai of $10O, 600. ~
THE libel suit of Rev. DIR. Ball against
the New York Evening Post, which
grew out of the Presidential campaign
of 1884, when DR.. Ball took occasion to
rebuke Mr.. Cleveland for alleged i'm
moralities and was attacked therefor by
the Post was begun at Buffalo, N. Y,
on the 4th, before Judge Daniels. Dam
| ages are placed at S25,000
GOVERNOR MELLETTE, of South Da-
kota, has appealed to the Chicago
Board of Trade for subscriptions to the
amount of $4,000 to enable the desti-
tute farmers of his State to purchase
seed, grain and feed for animals.
AT Bellefonte, Pa, on the 4th Alfred
| Andrews was convicted for numbering
Clara Price at Karthaus, Pa, November
| last.
CAPTAIN ARLIUs NJ. BIsBEE, repre-
sentative of the Chinese government at
the recent maritime conference at
Washington, was arrested at Providence,
r. l., on the 4th on suit for breach of
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