Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-24
THE EAST.


Park No. colliery near Ashland, Pa,
killing two workmen and seriously in
juring another.
At Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 18th, while
q number of children were playing in an
excavation for cellar, the embankment
caved in. Arthur Taylor and his brother
John, aged eight and three respectively,
and Percy Weaver, aged eight years,
were smothered to death before they
could be eXtricated.
The Doran & Wright brokerage COM
panies, of New York and Boston, which
were separately capitalized for 100000,
suspended on the 18th.
In the municipal court at Bangor,
Me-, on the 18th James Mcclure, re-
spondent in the Original package" case,
was fined 500 and costs, or ninety days
in Jail, by Judge Brett, it being held he
was amenable to State laws. He ap-
pealed the case to the Supreme Court.
William w. Allen, late superinten-
dent of mails at Buffalo, n. Y, charged
with embezzling letters containing
money while acting in an official ca
pacity, was arraigned in the United
States Court at Buffalo on the 18th and
plea of not guilty was entered. Bail
was fixed at $4,000.
The Republican convention in the
Third Congressional district of Pennsyl-
vania decided that it was inexpedient
to nominate candidate. The election,
therefore, will be a walk-over for Mr..
VauX, the Democratic nominee to sue
ceed Mr.. Randall.
The American Book Company, a con-
solidation of the largest schoolbook
publishing firms in this country, opened
its offices at New York City on the 18th.
The firm has bought the schoolbook in
terests of Ivison, Brakeman SS Co., d.
Appleton e. Co., A. S. Barnes & Co., and
Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. 1t has offices
also in Cincinnati and Chicago.
Brigadier General Nelson II. Davis,
United States Army, retired, died sud
denly at Governors Island, New York,
on the 18th.
Business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended May 16 number 212, as compared
with 200 the previous week. For the
corresponding week of last year the
figures were 242.
The grand jury at Scottdale, Pa, has
returned indictments against General
Master Workman Powderly, John r.
Byrne, and Peter Wise for alleged con-
spiracy in defeating Hon. Edward Cal
laghan for the Senatorial nomination in
1888 and running his business.
The national convention of the An
cient Order of Hibernians adjourned at
Hartford, Conn.,, on the 10th to meet at
New Orleans on the second Tuesday in
May, 1892. Officers for the ensuing year
were elected as follows: National Dele
gate, NJ. +. Wilhere, of Philadelphia;
National Secretary, Nj. ID. Slattery, of
Albany, n. Y; National Treasurer,
Thomas j. Dundon, of Columbus, O.
AT Scranton, Pa, on the 10th a culm
bank caved in upon anumber of Italians
who were loading the culm on fiat cars
for removal. A rescuing party were set
at work and all but three of the buried
men were taken out alive.
The boiler house and breaker of the
Nelson shaft at Shamokin, Pa, burned
on the 10th. A number of men were at
work in the mine at the time, but it is
believed that all escaped. The struct-
the loss will be heavy. There were 75O
men employed in the mine.
A steam launch capable of holding
fifteen people, which has just been COM
pleted in Boston, Mass, for the Amer
lean Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, was given trial on the 10th.
The boat is intended for use by Rev. f.
e. Randall in missionary work among
the Caroline Islands and will be shipped
to him as soon as possible.
An explosion of fire-damp in the En-
pire collery of the Lehigh & Wilkes
barre Coal Company, near Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on the 18th killed William Thomas
and Robert Craig, miners.
Schedules in the assignment of Sistare
Sons & Co. were filed at New York on
the 18th. They show the liabilities
S1,6S5, 724; nominal assets 81, FOG, $50, and
actual assets $24,24O.
Ripley Ross, president of the Brook
lyn IN. " Trust Company, State Char
tiles Commissioner, and one of the larg-
est South American merchants in New
York, died at his home on the 18th,
aged seventy years.
The customs officers at New York on
the 18th seized smuggled goods to the
value of $50 900 in the hold of the ship
Leading Wind, which recently arrived
from Japan.
WEST AND SOUTH.
Hon. Hiram Smith, the best known
dairyman and farmers institute lee