Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-11-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.


as compared with 215 the previous
week. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures we're 265.
THE scheme to raise $4,000 to guar
antee the opening of the Johns Hopkins
medical school for women received a
great impetus in Baltimore on the 14th.
AT meeting of over 200 ladies from all
over the country interesting and salts
factory reports were made, showing that
the different committees have already
raised over 100000
NARR & FRIEND, the Philadelphia
brokers whose suspension was caused
by the recent panic in the stock market,
have resumed business. Their creditors
accepted thirty-three cents on the dol
lar.
THE coroner's jury impannelled to in
quire into the cause OF the death of per-
sons killed in the recent accident on the
Southern Pacific railway at Salem, Ore,
returned verdict on the 14th to the ef-
feet that the accident was the result of
an unsound and unsafe bridge, and that
the railroad company was guilty of
criminal negligence in allowing such
structure to stand and to be used for the
passage of trains
LEWIS j. CAMACHo, a wealthy Cuban,
who had lived in Baltimore for the past
twenty-five years, suicided in that city
on the 18th by taking prussic acid.
Camacho had been despondent for long
time and few months ago made an un-
successful attempt to suicide.
NEAR West Duluth. Mimi, on the
14th a laborer named Norland placed
some dynamite near a stove to thaw it
out An explosion followed, killing him
instantly, frightfuly burning his wife,
and seriously injuring two young chill
dren.
AT meeting of the Master Builders
Association of Allegheny County, Pa,
on the 14th, resolution was adopted
pledging its members to oppose any
reduction in present working hours
without corresponding dimunition in
wages.
THE tug Alert and lighter were
driven ashore during gale near San
Pedro, Cal, recently and both vessels
were completely wrecked. One sailor
was drowned.
Garden, New York, closed on the 18th.
1t has been the most successful exhibit
ever held in this country.
JUDAS z. SMITH, teller of the Mer-
chants National Bank of Amsterdam,
n. Y, has proven defaulter in the sum
of $4,000, and warrant for his arrest
has been issued.
HARRISON II. WENTWORTH, bookkeeper
of the Lime Rock (R. L. National Bank,
was arrested on the 18th on the charge
embezzlement So far a shortage of
$5, 200 has been discovered.
On the 18th the west-bound express
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
jumped the track six miles east of
Clarksburg, W. Va, and collided with
work train. James Floyd and j. d.
Armstrong, of the work train, were IA
tally injured.
MAnER BRAYToN g. Co.'s Riverside
foundry at Cleveland o., was destroyed
by fire on the 10th, Loss, $4,000.
DIR. f. w. OLIVER, of Sioux City, ad-
vertised to begin course of lectures on
phrenology All Creston, Ia, on the 18th.
On the morning of that day not respond
ing to the call for breakfast, his room
was entered and he was found uncon-
scious, having taken morphine, bella
donna, nux vomica and other poisons.
Physicians pronounce his case hopeless.
THE leading fireworks manufacturers
of the country have formed combina-
tion under the name of the Consolidated
Fireworks Company, with capital of
So, 500, 600. The principal Office of the
trust is located at Northfield, N. Y.
THE work of pumping the water from
the Coal Ridge colliery at Mount Car
mel, Pa, has been completed. The
mine was flooded seventeen years ago.
The development of the mine will give
employment to several hundred men.
CHARLES JONES, brother of Rev.
Sam Jones, fatally shot Jim Young, col.
ored, at Chattanooga, Tenn, on the
10Th. Jones was jailed.
THE general missionary committee of
the Methodist Church, in session at Bos-
ton, has appropriated $40, ,9O7 for mis-
sion work in foreign countries.
THE Kansas City Packing and Refrig-
Grating Company of Boston, Mass, has
eNSofS 'Ns w oociBO A<' 4 di hSi.
ties upward of $1,000 900.
AT Philadelphia on the 18th customs
officials seized in the warehouse of
Henry Schmidt 160 bales wool which
had been invoiced and entered as cattle
hair. The wool is worth about $40, O0O
The bales were surrounded by thin
layer of cattle hair, which made the de-
ception possible. The penalty is for
feiture of the goods and fine and i'm
prisonment of the offender.
FEW days ago Mrs. Arthur z. Bate
man, of New York, missed her diamond
bracelets valued at $l2, 900. and had har
maid Louise Lachat arrested on sus-
picion. On the 18th the jewels were
found in the very room in the Bateman
house from which they were thought to
have been stolen.
THE village of Lnthersburg, six
miles from Dubois, Pa, was laid waste
by hre on the 18th, which destroyed
every store but one in the place and a
number of residences Loss S35 600