Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-07-05

The Amalgamated Association con.
vention closed its session for this year
at Pittsburgh on the 25th, after trans.
acting much important business. Presi-
dent William Weihe was reelected.
Stephen Madden was elected to succeed
William Martin as secretary. 1t was
decided to hold the next convention In
Allegheny.
Lucien w. Sperry, formerly one OF
the most prominent citizens of New
| Haven, Conn, suicided on the Goth by
shooting himself. He was seventy years
old and had served the city as mayor
and represented it in the Legislature.
Edmund S. De Luce, chief engineer of
the United States Navy, died on the Goth
at New Brighton, Staten Island, in the
sixty-second year of his age.
While insane from the excessive use
of liquor and opiates, DR.. George Lang
| fit, of Bellevue, Pa, on the Goth jumped
| from the third story window of his resi-
dence and was instantly killed. He was
one of the best known physicians in
Western Pennsylvania.
The strike of the Philadelphia car
penters, which has been in progress
since May 1, virtually ended on June 81,
and the men who have been holding out
for thirty-five cents an hour will take
work on the best terms possible for them
to make with the various employers.
On the Goth executions to the amount
of S9l, 900 were issued against the Phila-
delphia firm of John j. Glazier, Bros.
81 Co., manufacturers of hosiery.
In drunken frenzy on the Goth,
Charles Seymour, of Manchester, VT,
armed with flatiron, savagely struck
his wife, five-year-old son and Charles
Harding with the weapon, infiicting
upon all serious if not fatal injuries.
He then cut his own throat and stabbed
himself in the abdomen fatally.
Over three mile course at New Lon
don, Conn, on the Goth the Cornell
University crew won their race with the
University of Pennsylvania crew by six
lengths, in the fast time of fourteen
minutes and forty-five seconds.
The number of business failures oc-
curing throughout the country during
the seven days ended June % were 202,
as compared with 100 the previous week.
For the corresponding week of 1889, the
figures were 215.
The bodies of three women, victims of
the Johnstown (Pa.) disaster, were
found on the 27th ult in the river, just
above the stone bridge where the great
mass of wreckage lay last summer.
They were under the water in the sand
and were all in fair state OF preserva-
tion. Only one was identifed-Mrs.
Roberts, wife of Howard j. Roberts,
cashier of the First National Bank. Mr..
Roberts, his wife and son were all
drowned but his body has not yet been
recovered.
The new cruiser Philadelphia made
1876 knots an hour in the recent trip
over the eighty-mile official course,
demonstrating that she is the fastest
war ship afloat. Her builders conse-
quently reap reward of Slo5,ooo as
premiums over and above the contract
price.
A company of British capitalists has
been formed to acquire from the repre-
sentatives of the late John Roach the
ship building yards at Chester, Pa, and
the Morgan Iron Works at New York.
The new corporation is to be known as
Roach's Ship Building and Engineering
Company, and has been incorporated in
Great Britain with capital of e60o, 600.
The fifteenth annual four mile straight
away eight-oared she'll race between the
Yale and Harvard university crews was
rowed on the 27th ult. over the Thames
river course from Gales Ferry to Win
throp Point. Yale won by three and
one-half lengths in 21:29. Harvard's
time was 21:40.
At Somerset, Mass, on the 27th ult.
two little girls named Harrington, of
Fall River, were instantly killed by
railroad train. The elder child lost her
life while trying to rescue the younger
one.
The will of the late Thomas Sloane,
of New York, bequeaths $4,000 to the
Sloane laboratory, and $500, 600 to Yale
College, available on the death of his