Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-31
THE EAST.

Mrs. John Huling, Mrs. Della Mannell
and Miss Mamie Huling were rowing in
a boat ona pond, when the craft suddenly
filled. Mrs. Mannel and Miss Huling
were drowned, but Mrs. Huling escaped
by clinging to her dog, which swan
with her to shore.
Business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended May 23 number 222, as compared
with 212 the previous week. For tho
corresponding week last year the figures
were 800.
Sixteen insane veterans who had been
refused care at the Soldiers Home at
Erie, Pa, have been found in tho in
sane department of the Pittsburgh city
poor farm. The discovery has caused
much Indignation.
Broker George II. Pell, of New York
City, was on the Esd convicted of grand
larceny in taking $4,000 in bonds be-
longing to the LenoX Hill bank at the
time of the recent bank wrecking plot.
Sentence was deferred.
Fletcher Harper, member of the
publishing firm of Harper Bros, and
son of the youngest of the original four
brothers who established the publishing
house, died in New York City on the
2Sd aged sixty-two years.
David j. Cotter, keeper of an employ
ment agency, shot his wife dead on the
Esd at their residence in Brooklyn, n.
Y. He claims that the pistol caught in
his clothing as he was taking off his
coat and was accidentally discharged.
There were no witnesses to the tragedy.
Cotter was arrested.
Francis j. Holland, Harvard law
student, has been arrested, charged with
stealing a gold watch and several BIZ
cycles from the Harvard gymnasium.
He confessed to these thefts, and also
that he had taken a large number of law
books from the library.
The strike in the National Tube
Works at McKeesport, Pa, ended on
the 23d, the men resuming work They
demanded an increase of wages, but the
company offered a satisfactory compro-
mise.
Deals have been consummated within
the past few days enabling the school
book publishing trust to control ninety
per cent. of the entire business of the
United States. The last firm to be
brought into the fold was the great New
York house of Harper & Bros, which fora
consideration estimated at between $780,
600 and Sl,OOO,O 900, has consented to go
out of the school book publishing branch
of the business.
Frank Fish, convicted of the murder
of John Callinain, at Canandaigna, n.
V, last January, has been sentenced to
die by electricity at Auburn State prison
during the week beginning July II.
Fish is only twenty-six years old.
The mother of Speaker Reed died at
her home in Deering, a suburb OF Ports
land, Me-, on the 9th.
At Watuppa Lake, near Fall River,
Mass, on the 25th a party of twelve per-
sons were taking boat ride when the
craft was capsized by the movements of
child and eight of the twelve were
drowned. The victims were Samuel
Whites and wife; their children, Henry
and Samuel, aged respectively ten and
twelve years; Levina Buckley and her
two children, aged respectively three
and eight, and Willie Turner, aged nine.
Marion Wagner Tay lor, granddaughter
of ex- Senator Wagner and daughter of
j. d. Taylor of the Wagner Car Com
pany, was run over and killed by a
United States mail wagon in New York
City on the Gath.
At bradford, Pa, on the 25th three
boys named Joseph and Willie Traintor
and Austin Peterson, found torpedo
squib in a brush heap. They began
throwing stones at it when it exploded.
Willie Traintor was fatally hurt. The
other two were badly injured but will
recover.
The Carpenter, the official organ of
the United Brothe rhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of America, says that up to
date the eight-hour day has been secured
for the carpenters in 27cities and towns,
affecting 90, 355 men in he trade. The
nine-hour day has been established in
~ cities and towns, with the addition of
eight hours day on Saturdays in many
instances, affecting 14,lS0 men. Gains
have been made in the shape of increased
wages in Is other cities, affecting 1869
men.
The Farrelly building, at Morristown,
N. j., owned by Patrick Fare ly, presi-
dent Of the American News Company,
burned on the 25th. Loss, 500, 900; in
surance, S70,000.
Among the passengers by the steamer
Augusta Victoria, which arrived at New
York on the 25th, was III. Kempinski,
an American citizen, who had spent
eighteen months in Russian military
prison, his release having been accom-
plished after considera BILE difficulty by
Secretary Blaine.
WEST AND SOUTH.
At Alexander, La, on the 23d, jeff
Hunt and Claude Stewart were shot and
killed by John Bclan and Jim Johnson,