Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-16

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shares of Fidelity stock.
THE House Committee on Military
| Affairs has decided to report favorably
Representative Bingham's bill appro-
priating S125,000 to mark the lines Of
battle and positions of the troops of the
Army of Northern Virginia on tho Get
| tysburg battlefield,
| THE Postmaster General has made n
call for samples Of pearl gray cardboard,
to be used in tho manufacture of cor
respondence postal cards for ladies.
The cards are to be one-third smaller
than the regular cards. The MANILA
cards, intended only for advertising
purposes, will be one-third longer than
the regular cards.
SEVENTEEN frame dwellings in the
vicinity of Taylor and Jackson streets,
Chicago, were damaged by fire on the
sth to the extent of $4,000.
Mrs. MoLLIE STORM, Mrs. J. r. John
son and Carroll Graham, all residents of
Baltimore, were drowned on tho Sth
while bathing in st. Inigoe's Creek, st.
Mary's County, Md.
| TIE factory of the Laclede Fire Brick
Manufacturing Company at tCheltenham,
Mo-, burned on the Sth, entailing loss
of $50, 900.
AT Pittsburgh on the 9th Mrs. Will
lam Schmidt and daughter and four
boarders, all Polish Hebrews, were
taken severely i'll from drinking coffee
in which poison had been placed by
| some unknown person. They may re-
cover.
LETTERS received at Louisville, KY,
recently are to tho effect that Dick Tate,
the defaulting State Treasurer of Ken
lucky, died in China over year ago.
WHILE making parachute descent at
Portland, Ore, on the 10th Charles Cos
grove, an Rronaut, fell distance of 200
feet and was instantly killed.
The Bakers Union of tho States of
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Massachusetts and Connecticut held a
special convention at New York City on
the 9th for the purpose of considering
the boycott;ng of Fleischmann's yeast.
twenty-five unions were represented
and an agreement reached that none of
the. unions should use the yeast until
the firm settled with the New York
bakers.
TIE demand for nine hours made by
the machinists of Pittsburgh went into
effect on the 1lth. At nearly all the
shops the demands were granted but
about five hundred men are out at shops
whore the demands were refused. 1t is
thought the trouble will be amicably
settled in few days.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER expects that
+lr pF lat of
the country will be completed before
the end of the present month and Con-
gress, if it so desires, can proceed to
pass an apportionment bill.
The Senate Committee on Post-offices
and Post-roads have ordered the Anti
Lottery Mail bill to be reported to the
Senate with recommendation that it
pass. The vote upon this action is said
to have been practically unanimous
THE colonist sleeper on the west
bound Great Northern train burned at
Ada, Mimi, on the 10th. The passen-
gers lost every thing, barely escaping
with their lives. Conductor Stahl was
badly burned while uncoupling the car.
A COLLISION occurred on the 11th near
Fishers Station, n. Y, on the Auburn
| freight trains. Engineer DarceY and
Fireman Lighthart, of the eastIbound
train, were buried under nearly a
hundred tons of debris. Fred Harris,
brakeman, was also killed. The two
engines and fifteen freight cars were
ground into fragments.
A. L. WARD, of Barbour County, w.
Va, son of one of the most prominent
and wealthy citizens in the State, was
arrested on the 11th, charged with forg-
ing the names of his father and brother
in-law to notes amounting to $1,T00.
AT meeting of the Brick Manufac-
turers' Association of New York and
New Jersey, held at New York City on
the 11th, the members of the association
subscribed half a million dollars to sus-
tain the four boycotted brick manufac-
turing firms at Verplanck's Point on tho
Hudson.
A COLLISION between the fast mail
and freight train near Sparta, KY, on
the 11th resulted in the death of Will
lam Johnson and the serious injury of
j. c. Kennedy, both postal clerks.
DELEGATES from a large number of
country met at Quincy, Mass, on the
11th and perfected national organiza-
ton.
A SUMMER cottage among the Thou
sand Islands, near Alexandria Bay, n.
Y, occupied by j. II. oliphant and j.
II. Mcleod and families, of New York
City, burned on the 11th. 1t was valued
at $40, 900 and elegantly furnished. The
occupants escaped in their night-clothes.
THE bursting of waterspout in the
mountains above Boulder, Col, few
days ago caused the water in the river
to rise to fearful height in few min
utes The cabin of w. j. King and wife
was swept away and both were drowned.
Boulders weighing two tons were washed
down the side of the mountain. The
railway track was washed away and no
trains ran for three days.
The most terrific thunder storm ex-
perienced in twenty years swept up
Long Island Sound on the 18th. Hail