Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-07-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

A MASKED burglar confronted G. ID.
Spaulding at his residence in Gallon,
the other night, and got away with
gold watch and 81 behind q drawn re-
volver.
Miss HoRTENsE MAPEs has sued John
F. Harper, banker of Chagrin Falls, for
s15, 900 damages for breach of promise.
She was his typewriter.
HARRY d. LILL1BRIDGE, Sixteenth
District, has been appointed cadet to
tho U. S. Military Academy at West
Point
THE census returns show that in some
of the donsely populated sections of Gin
cinnati the average number of persons
to n house is as much as 17.4
CHARLES PETRE, a young farmer liv-
ing near Springfield, while unloading
hay was struck on the head by heavy
fork, which broke from rope. His con-
dition is serious.
THE approximate population of Hills
boro, according to the census, is four
thousand, an increase of nearly one
thousand since the last census.
Mrs. JOHN ALBRIGuT, of Republic,
was kicked by horse and seriously in
jured.
AT Tinin, Joe Thomas, colored
crook, was fined $50 and sent to the To-
ledo workhouse for thirty days for peep
ing into the windows of residences.
A STATEMENT from the Post-ofiice De-
partment shows that Cincinnati is sixth
place as to gross receipts, and at the
bottom of II list of twenty-nine cities as
10 per cent. of increase.
Hon. j. G. WARWICK, who was Lieu
tenant Governor while Hoadly was Gov
ernor, was nominated by the Democrats
of the Sixteenth Ohio District for Con-
| gress. This is McKinley's district.
Mrs. ii. X. House, wife of Norwall's
eX-mayor, left her home at Kent to go
to church on Sunday. No trace of her
can be found since.
EDNER Brown, aged twenty-seven, a
brakeman on the Ft. Wayne railroad,
| jumped off q passenger train west of
Canton, the other afternoon, and fell
under the wheels, having both legs
| taken off at the knees. He can not re-
cover.
Mrs. j. w. You've, who resides several
miles north,of Newark, was badly bitten
by copperhead snake which was lying
coiled up on shelf in the cellar. Be-
fore physician could arrive, her head
and face were terribly swollen and it was
some time before the swelling could be
reduced. The snake, which was fully
three feet in length, was killed.
THE original "Globe Tobacco Ware
house." Cincinnati, the old portion of
the Brooks-Waterfeld Company, was
destroyed by fire the other night, togeth-
er with about one thousand hogsheads
of leaf tobacco. The total loss is put at
$3.50, 900.
SOMETHING remarkable happened near
Sidney to COW. There were two large
trees close together on the edge of a
clover field. A fence touched either
tree, but the gap had no fence. The
cow squeezed into the gap, and without
passing through began to browse. She
soon began to swell with gas generated
by the green clover, and to get her out
one of the trees had to be cut.
NlRs. NICHOLAS HUFFMAN, of Tiffin,
while leading COW to water, was drag
ged into the river and nearly drowned.
BY decision of Judge Campbell,
recently, GAINESVILLE policemen will re-
ceive sixty dollars back pay.
RECRUIT Michael Kopesalte, tried be-
fore the General Court-martial at the
Barracks, Columbus, on the charge of
deserting, has been sentenced to two
years in Fort Leavenworth Military
prison, to dishonorable discharge and
forfeiture of pay.
WAD. UNDERWOOD and wife, of Wash
ington, c. H., are parents of one of the
smallest midgets on record. The little
thing is seven months old and weighs
but four pounds. Its hands are not much
larger than a postage stamp and its fin
gers about as large in circumference as a
slate pencil. The strangest thing about
1T is thatthe diminutive creature seems
to enjoy good health.
AT Lima AL Ray attempted to kill
himself by grasping an electric light
wire, but was prevented by his wife.
WM. ORsINGER was seriously injured
by runaway team at Upper Sanduslsy
JACOB PENCE is under arrest at West
Union for violating the local option
law.
,, BUcYRUs is excited over the depreda
tions of burglars, a dozen or more houses
4
, EDDIE SNYDER, son OF Edward Snyder
of Vermillion, fell into an old well anG
was instantly killed
THE Post-office Department has estab
1 lished money order and postal note of
b fees as follows: Money Order-Helena
Sandusky County; Jewett, Harrison
County; Catawba Island, Ottawa County
Hagerman, Darllo County, Bonneville
I Ross County; Charlottesville, Muskin
r gum County; Conover, Miami County
: Fitchville, Huron County; Iboria, Nor
!. row County; jackson Center, Shelb,
r County; Martinsburg, Knox County
o North Georgetown, Columbiana County
n Ontario, Richland County; Richmond
dale, Ross County; Tarlton, Pickawa,
g County; Tedrow, Fulton County; Thomp
: son, Geauga County; WillSesville, Vim
o ton County. Postal notes-Blue Creek
o Adams County.