Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-06-28
the EAST.


On the 10Th forty thousand acres Of
timber land in Luzerne, Wyoming and
Sullivan counties, Pa, were sold tc
British financiers
The Vermont Republican State con.
vention on the 10th nominated State
ticket as follows: Governor, Carroll S.
Paige; Lieutenant Governor, Henry A.
Fletcher; Treasurer, II. Ii. Field.
The Tin Plate Record, of Pittsburgh,
claims editorially that every timed
plate importer has been assessed 1000
and the English syndicate, which con-
trolls the manufactures and mines in
Monmouthshire and Cornwell, has aug
mented this sum to nearly one million
dollars in order to defeat the tin plate
clause in the Mckinley tariff bill.
Business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended June 21 number 100, as compared
with total of 212 the previous week.
For the corresponding week of last year
the figures were 220.
While crossing the track of the Vest
ern New York &c Pennsylvania railroad
at Aurora, n. Y, on the Goth, Burt
Painter and son of George Gerhadt
were struck by a freight train and in
stantly killed.
Catherine Powers. alias May Leonard,
who, over year ago, stole a diamond
bracelet at Dickinson's jewelry store in
Buffalo, n. Y, was on the Goth con-
victed and sentenced to five years in the
Erie penitentiary.
Samuel E. Somberby, aged thirty
seven, son of the late August G. Somer-
by, one of the best known criminal law
yers of Boston, suicided on the goth at
his home by cutting his throat.
Three burglars were surprised by the
police while robbing the post-oftice at
Woodbury., n. j., on the night of the
Goth. The thieves fed but were pur-
sued and one of them captured. About
$500 and all the registered letters are
missing.
A cargo of ice from Norway arrived at
New York on the goth. This is said to
be the first Norwegian ice imported in
ten years.
The Russell homestead at New Ro-
chelle, n. Y, was destroyed by fire on the
Goth. Mr.. and Mrs. Delaney were terribly
burned when rescued by neighbors,
Mrs. Delaney dying a few hours after,
and her husband can not recover. The
fire was caused by an exploding lamp.
A collision between two freight trains
occurred on the Huntington. and Broad
Top division of the Pennsylvania rail-
road on the Goth, in which two men were
killed and number of others badly
injured.
The strike of the through brakemen
on the Monongahela division of the
Pennsylvania railway was settled on
the Goth, the men accepting the prop
osition of the officials for a slight ad-
vance. Freight is moving again as usual.
j. E. Kingsley, proprietor of the Con-
tinental Hotel at Philadelphia since
1868, died on the 2lst. He had been in
iu-health for several years.
A syndicate of torpedo men, to he
known as the High Explosive Company,
has been formed in the Pennsylvania
oil regions, with headquarters in Pitts
burgh. 1t includes all the nitro-glyce-
rine firms in Western Pennsylvania and
will have a capital stock of $780, OO0
The recent sale of real estate,
stocks. etc., belonging to the bankrupt
firm of Jay Cooke e Co., of Philadel-
phia, realized about $780, 600. 1t is esti-
mated that after paying all costs there
will be enough left to pay the creditors
a dividend of ~ per cent, making the
total dividend about Is per cent.
Mrs. Stuart Robson, wife of the we'll
known comedian, died suddenly of
heart disease at their summer residence
in Cohasset, Mass, on the 21st.
Judge Belden of the Roxbury Mass
District Court, on the 21st rendered
decision in the case of T. f. Connors for
keeping public bar, to the effect that
a saloon fitted with a screen about the
bar and where liquors were dispensed
at table is not public bar" and dis
charged the defendant.
An unofficial statement of the census
enumeration places the population of
Philadelphia at 1,0+o, 449.
Major Isaac t. Doughty, the Oldest
marine officer in the United States, died |
at Poughkeepsie, n. Y, on the a1st. He
was appointed Major of Marines by
Andrew Jackson and served forty years.
The jury in the case of George Moss,
who so brutally murdered his wife in
Wilkesbarre, Pa, on October 10 last,
came into court on the 22d and rendered
a verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree.
The census figures show New York
City's population to be 1,627 ,277.