Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-02-19


outlaw, murderer, and express robber,
has been located near Milton, Fla,
where he has been working as farm
hand. Burrowsrecently became alarmed
and fed to the woods, whore he was be-
ing pursued.
THE announcement was made in Pitts
burgh on the t1th that the price of coke
had boon advanced from S1.75 to 50. 10
per ton. This advance will meet the in
crease of IL to 10 per cent. made in the
wages of the employees recently.
THE Treasury Department has sus-
tanned the collector of customs at New
York in assessing duty at the rate of 100
per cent. ad valorem on carved casks
containing wine.
THE Philadelphia Presbytery at an
adjourned meeting, held on tho 10th, re-
fused to agree to revision of tho con-
fession of faith by vote of 23 yeas to
AZ nays.
In o wreck on the New River branch
of the Norfolk e Western railroad on
the 10th, Engineer Brown was fatally
injured and the fireman and one brake
man seriously hurt Fourteen cars were
demolished.
TIE explosion of boiler in the Stand
ard Lumber Company's mill at Dubuque,
Ia, on the 10th killed the engineer,
Joseph Reed and fatally injured Rich
ard Rigler, the fireman.
THE proclamation opening the Siou=;
reservation in South Dakota to settle.
ment was signed by the President on
the 10th. Two land offices are estab-
lished, one at Pierre and one at Cham
berlain.
Two distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt in st. Louis on the 10th.
SCHEDULES in the general assignment
of Robert w. Davies & Co., New York
City, show liabilities of S795, ,750; NOM
inal assets, S557, 115; actual assets, S2O2,-
0TS.
THE Journeymen Bricklayers' Protec
tive Association, one of the strongest
labor unions in Philadelphia, met on
the 10th and after a long and spirited
discussion defeated by vote of 1872 to
81 proposition making eight hours
days work.
TIE munificent offer of Andrew Car
negie to expend not less than 81, ,0O0,0
in public libraries for Pittsburgh was
presented to the councils on the 10th
and accepted. Sites will at once be
selected and the erection of buildings
begun. The city will give $4,000 per
year to maintain the libraries. Charles
j. Clarke, the millionaire, has offered
site valued at 100000 in the East End
for the central building.
Hon. EDWARD CALLAGHAN was ar
rested at Scottdale, Pa, on the 10th on
Master Workman Powderly's warrant
charging him with criminal libel. Mr..
Powderly wants $4,000 damages. Cal
laghan was released on his own recog-
nizance to appear for trial March ,.
THE bank of Berrien Springs, Mich,
Reeves, Patterson & Co., proprietors,
has closed it's doors. The liabilities are
about $20,OO0.
WOODRUFF & FARYuAM, New York
City, dealers in fish and salt, failed on
the 11th. Liabilities about $3.50, 600, due
mostly to New York banks.
The twenty-fourth annual State en-
campment of the Department of Penn
sylvania G. A. r., met at Shamokin, Pa,
on the 11th. Major Weaver made an
address of welcome, which was re-
sponded to by Colonel Hazard, of Pitts
burgh, after which the encampment
went into executive session. Reports
showed that the numerical strength of
the Department of Pennsylvania is 49,
900.
THE grand jury of Penobscot County,
Me-, after a weeks session, has refused
to bring in any Indictment against sa-
loon-keepers.
A DISPATCH from Fort Totten, N. D.,
says that between 800 and 1000 Indians
credited to the Devils Lake Agency are
wholly destitute of clothing and in the
last stages of starvation.
The Philadelphia e Reading Com
pany's North Ashland (Pa.) colliery shut
down indefinitely on the 11th, throwing
500 men and. boys out of employment.
THE commission appointed to test the
electrical execution apparatus in New
York State prisons, after experiments
in the institutions at Sing Sing, Auburn
and Dannemora, find that each one of
the apparatus can be used successfully,
and that death by electricity can be
accomplished within four seconds.
AT New York City on the 11th Judge
O'Brien handed down his decision in
the celebrated sugar trust case: He de-
cided that the company shoSld be al
lowed to continue its business, but con-
tinues the injunction restraining the
trust from transferring it's property or
assets, or doing any other acts that
might interfere with the rights of the
plaintiff.
ELLIS f. BARD, the defaulting cashier
of the Lincoln National Bank, and +. w.
Hull, his accomplice, were arrested on
the 11th and taken 20 Lancaster, Pa.
Executions have been issued against
Hull, who has been a large dealer in
coal and lumber, for $83,235. His liza
bilities will aggregate nearly 100000.
LoRBNzo SrEMpLAR was killed and
William Hayden serious injured by be-
ing struck by train at railroad cross
ing in Charlotte, Mich, on the 11tb