Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-06-21
the EAST.


| 18th. The total amount of claims
proven was SO, s24, S74. Ninety per
cent of these agreed to accept five
per cent.
A Philadelphia dispatch says the
Green Hill Presbyterian church, which
has for a long time maintained the larg-
est Chinese Sunday-school in the city,
will give up the work of teaching the
Mongolians. This action is said to be
caused by reports of the prevalence of
leprosy in the Chinese quarters
Morgan Lewis was killed and four
other persons seriously Injured by
lightning near oliphant, Pa, on the
11th.
The Fourth Maine district Republi-
cans have unanimously renominated
Hon. C. A. Boutelle for Congress.
SiXty-one firms, dealers in and manu-
facturers of tin plate in Rhode Island,
have petitioned Congress against any
increase of duty on tin plates. They
urge some reduction of the present duty.
An examination of the 75O-foot level
of the Nelson shaft at Shamokin, Pa,
which had for some time been on fire,
reveals the fact that the damage will be
much less than anticipated. Twelve
mules were found alive, having been
without food and water twenty-six days.
The damage to the mine approXimates
$4,000.
The 25Oth anniversary OF the settle
ment of the town of Southampton, L. l.,
was cele brated by its citizens with great
rejoicings on the 12th. Among the visi-
tors were a few remaining Indians of
the Shinnecock tribe, which originally
owned the land upon which the town
stands.
The straw hat factory of Harvey L.
Eames, occupying an entire block in
New York City, burned on the 18th,
causing total loss of S75, 600.
The suit for $500, 900 damages against
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
brought by Mr.. Tarbell, whose wife and
child lost their lives on the ill-fated ex-
press in the Johnstown disaster, was
concluded at Pittsburgh on the 18th
The jury returned verdict in favor of
the company.
throughout the country during the
seven days ended June Is number for
the United States 1876, for Canada Il;
total 2l2, compared with 295 the pre-
vious week. For the corresponding
week of last year the figures were 226 |
in the United States. and "a in Canada. |
The strike of the coal miners of the |
Clayton mines, Beaver County, Pa, for |
an advance of two cents per car of ten |
bnshels has ended favorably to the men,
the operators conceding the increase. |
The men have been out six weekl
The steamship Columbia. of the Ham
burg American Packet Company, which |
arrived at New York on the 18th, made |
the trip in six days, sixteen hours and |
twenty-three minutes, beating all pre-
vious records from Southampton.
The jury in the case of Charles Silver
man, the Leachburg original package"
dealer, whose trial for violation of State |
and county liquor laws was held at Kit |
tanning, Pa, rendered their verdict on |
the 18th as follows: First-Not guilty of |
selling without license. Second-Not
guilty of selling to minors. Third
Guilty of selling to persons OF known
incorporate habits.
The striking Philadelphia carpenters
held meeting on the 18th and unani-
mously decided to continue the struggle. |
About 500 men are involved.
John II. Sweeny, of Clyde, O., was
convicted at Watertown, n. Y, on the |
14th of swindling John B. Chapman,
farmer, out of 5000 by the gold brick
scheme.
About 6,ooo cutters, cloak and suit |
makers were locked out by the differ
ent cloak firms throughout New York
City on the 18th. The trouble arose
over the refusal of the cutters to turn
their work over to non-union men.
The American Bankers Association
will hold the convention of 1890 at Sara
toga, n. Y, September "a and 25.
Hon. Francis w. Hill, late Democratic
candidate for Governor of Maine, died |
at his home in Exeter, that
State, on the 18th. He was seventy
one years old.
Between sunrise and sunset of the
18th seven bodies of unknown dead were
taken out of the rivers along the city
front of New York.
At Jersey City, n. j., on the 14th
James Dean was sentenced to one years
Imprisonment in Jail for illegal voting.
1t is reported that Lionel Burnett, son /
Of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, and
the hero of the novel Little Lord
which has been success
fully dramatized, is dying in Philadel-
phia from consumption.
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