Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-11-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.

seized by the sheriff.
THE business failures during the sew
en- days ended November l numbered
21s, as compared with 225 last week.
For the corresponding week OF last year
the figures were 261.
Mrs LOGAN and daughter, Mrs. Mead,
were struck and instantly killed by a
Panhandle train near Patoskola, o., on
the 31st ult. while endeavoring to cross
the track. They did not see tie approach
ing train until too late to escape.
s. PELToN &c Co., of Denver, Col,
failed few days ago with liabilities of
1854, 900, and assets less than S75, 900.
The books of the firm are now missing,
and stories of crookedness are in cir
culation.
AT the recent sale OF lots at Natural
Bridge, Va, over $50, 900 worth of sites
for summer cottages were disposed of.
Among the purchasers were Senator
and many others.
On September 10 John w. Yardley,
cashier of the Canadian Express Com
pany at Montreal, absconded, it is
alleged, with upwards of 81, 900 Of the
company's money. He was arrested at
Omaha, Neb., on the 31st ult
THE will of the late Franklin B. Jag
ger has been filed at Burlington, Ia. 1t
buqueaths among other amounts $1,000
to the American Home Mission Society
of New York; So, 900 to the Iowa Con-
gregational Homo Missionary Society;
S. 900 to the Iowa college at Grinnell,
and SO, 600 to the public library of Bur-
lington la.
AT Mount Carmel, Pa, on the 30th
ult. Judge Mcdonald, we'll known
politician, was struck by q Reading train
and fatally injured.
The public debt statement for October
shows q reduction in the debt during
the past month amounting to S3,66s, ,012.
The bonded indebtedness of the Gov
ernment to-day, exclusive Of bonds
issued to Pacific railroads, is S632, $685.
800.
THE United States grand jury at San
Francisco has indicted ext Senator James
McCudden and Vallejo contractor on
the charge of presenting false claims
against the Government for payment of
coal delivered at Mare Island Navy
Yard in April and September, 1889.
Bail was fixed at $4,000, which was
furnished by McCudden.
THE report recently published that
Mexico had passed n bill levying in
creased duties on American live stock
is untrue. The same duties are now in
vogue as have been for the past year.
ROBERT WAsHINGToN, a colored man
of Braddock, Pa, was instantly killed
on the 31st ult from the effect of an
electric shock received by catching hold
of lamp in order to show bravado to
his fellow-workmen. While standing
in the Carnegie blast furnaces, young
laughingly said he was not
afraid of electrocution, and reaching
high over his head he grasped an cleo
trio lamp. Instantly he fell to the floor
dead.
OK the S1st ult. Conductor Lew Lyman
was killed and several other trainmen
seriously injured by collision at Tun-
mel No. 26 in Kentucky, on the Cincin-
natl Southern railroad.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, has
mailed letter to Secretary Noble, ask
ing for a recount of New York City's
population.
GOVERNMENT revenue for the first
four months of the current fiscal year
amounted to Sl54, ,627, 144, or S22, 500. 600
moro than during July, August, Sep
tember and October, 1889.
THE great hay farm of Grand Mead
ows. located at Winamac, Ind, was set |
on fire by hunters on the 1st and 12, 900 |
tons Of hay were consumed The loss |
will reach 800,
THE Muskegon (Mich.) Single and |
Lumber Company's mill and docks, to-
gether with about 1O,OOO,OO shingles
and 500, COO feet of lumber, burned on |
the 1st. Loss, $50, 600; insured.
THE office of the Wells Fargo Ex-
press Company, at Meadyille, Pa, was
by two men on the night of the |
1st, who bound and gagged the agent
and then proceeded to rifle the safe. |
Between $1,000 and $4,000 in cash,
checks and negotiable paper were taken,
with which the robbers quietly took
their leave.
THE foundation stone of the Woman's |
Worlds Temperance Temple at Chi
cago, which is destined to be the tryst-
ing place of the temperance advocates
Of the world, was formally laid on the
LIST with elaborate and appropriate cere-
monies.
The Lake House, at Starbucl, Mimi,
burned on the 1st and two children of
the proprietor, E. P. Byhee, perished in
'he flames. Two others were burned so
badly that they are not expected live.
Miss LIZZIE o. SMITH, widely known
Is 1.-The modern martyr" died at Wilt
nantic, Conn, on the I'd, aged fifty eight
Years. When eleven years of age she
vas prostrated by violent cold which
developed disease thatusettled in her
limbs, making her helpless invalid.
She was confined to her bed for nearly
ifty years.
The fires of the monster blast furnace
II the Robesonia (Pa.) Iron Company
we're lighted on the 1st, after an idle
less of three months This is one of the
argest furnaces in Pennsylvania.
ALL the trans-continental express
ompanies have raised their rates fifty