Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-01-25

fraudulent operations extended over
many of the Eastern and Middle States.
He was formerly located at Lockport,
N. v, whore he began business as n
herder of Shetland ponies and fancy
fowls. He defrauded many customers
whose orders he failed to fill but appro-
priatod their money.
OVER $4,000 resulted on the goth
from the sale of pews in Talmage's new
Brooklyn church.
TIE heavy purchases of bonds during
the past ten days have reduced the
available surplus in the Treasury below
$40, 900, 900 Tho Secretary of the Treas
ury has therefore decided to suspend the
purchase of four per cent. bonds until
further notice. ...
JOHN KuNzE, one of the Cronin sus-
poets whom tho jury awarded three
years in the penitentiary, was released
from Jail at Chicago on the 18th under
$1,000 bail pending q new trial. His
release was due to the efforts of dime
museum manager, who signed his bonds,
and the little German will appear on
exhibition at the museum of his bene-
factor.
THOMAS CREHAN, seventy years old,
father of Oliver Doud Byron, the actor,
fell dead in n Justices court in New
York City on the 18th. He had been
taken to court to answer a charge OF
habitual drunkenness preferred by his
son.
THIRTEEN prisoners escaped from the
Jail at Quincy, ILL.,, on the goth by saw
ii. IL. 1No,.d n
was done by Daniels and Walpole, two
safe crackers. One of the men who es-
capped was being held for an attempted
murder. The others were pickpockets,
burglars, and confidence men.
THREE THOUSAND shoemakers at Hav-
erhill, Mass, who had been locked out
for a week, returned to work on the goth
and the labor difficulties have been
settled to the entire satisfaction of both
employers and employees. The manu-
facturers have plenty of work and find
it difficult to secure enough help to fill
orders.
The new Brazilian flag came into New
York harbor on the Goth for the first
time, at tho masthead of bark.
AN official list of the losses of the
Thanksgiving day fire at Boston, Mass,
has just been made public. From this
it appears that the total loss was So, s41,-
3SS. The insurance involved was S., $685.
933, while the loss to insurance COM
panies was IS, 17S, 43S, or little over 5S
per cent. of the total insurance and S2.6
per cent. of tho total loss. The loss not
insured was S667,951.
&c Il al nnt
at Unionville, Mo-, was burned on the
Goth and his aged mother and two
young girls were consumed in the flames
before they could be rescued.
GEORGE w. WRIGHT. charged with the
embezzlement of S3S, ,666.20, while SUI
preme treasurer of the order of Tonti,
plead guilty at Philadelphia on the goth
and was then sentenced to pay fine of
81, 900 and to undergo an imprisonment
of four years and nine months.
INDIAN AGENT LEAHY, who has just
returned to Ashland, Wis, from trip
to the Lac Court d'Oralles agency, says
that if something is not done immedi-
ately many of the Indians in that reser-
vation will starve. He urges that Con-
gress take immediate action.
DAVID MEYER, jeweler of Hartford,
Conn.,, has failed for S130,00O. His assets
are estimated at about half that amount.
AT a meeting in New York City on the
21st of the National Association of
American watch manufacturers, the
Springfield Watch Company resigned
from the trust. The withdrawal of the
company is said to threaten the dissolu-
tion of the trust, though the trust men
scout the idea.
ARTICLES of incorporation were on the
21st filed in the New Jersey Secretary
States office by the American Tobacco
Company, which it is supposed is to con-
solidate number of companies. The
capital stock is fixed at S25, 900, 900. The
number of shares is 100000.
DURING the calendar year of 1889 there
were 100, 14O,917 pieces of coin executed
at the mints of the United States, hav-
ing total value of S5S, 1914, ,022.
THE Philadelphia Presbytery, at a
meeting on the 21st, voted against a
revision of the Confession of Faith.
THE statement that 100000 illegal
| United States silver dollars made in
Mexico and sent to the United States
are now in circulation, is denied by
Director of the Mint Leech.
Two men were killed and three
wounded in wreck on the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad near Shamokin, Pa,
on the 21st, caused by freight train
running into large rock that had
rolled onto the track. The killed were
Clark Hoffman, engineer, and William
B. Peddle.
In the United States Court at Chicago
on the 21st the jury returned verdict
in the case of Orlando j. Read VS.. DR.
Frederick Hageman, giving the plaintiff
So, 900 damages. Read asked for $40, ,OOC
because of the alienation of his wife's
affections by the doctor.
A DISPATCH from Tacoma, Wash, says
that at least ten human beings anf
thousands of cattle and sheep persisted
in the blizzard which began with the