Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-01-11
DOMESTIC.

A PROPOSITION has been made in the
Virginia House of Delegates to revive
whipping as punishment for petty
&hievery. The law abolishing the whip
ssing post was enacted in 1879.
THE w. +. Shaw Music Company of
philadelphia, of which Joseph Ditman,
ishe missing bank president, is a large
.stDclsholder, made an assignment on the
aGh. E..s.,,,..
TIVE date Of the dinner to be given by
president Harrison to the Judiciary has
teen changed from February to Febru-
aryo.
WITHIN the past eighteen months over
5000, 100000 English capital has been in
vested in industrial enterprises in this
soaH'Gy.
OERehalf the students at Johns Hop
&dns University, Baltimore, are down
with Ia grippe.
AT Louisville, KY, Gerard Gregory,
wife and four children were poisoned
with arsenic in their coffee few days
ago. Suspicion of the crime attaches to
Emma Dunes, servant, who has dis
appeared. ~
SUPERINTENDENT .RoYALL, of the At
aantic Coast line, says that during the
week ended January his road has car
ried over 1000 negroes to Florida. They
=ars mostly able-bodied workmen and
are taken out under contract to work in
newly discovered phosphate mines or in
Ghe turpentine woods.
lTwENTY-FIyE buildings in the mining
town of Wardher, Idaho burned on the
5th, entailing loss of 100000, with
little or no insurance.
Ar the Palace Rink in Minneapolis,
alinn., on the 4th Joseph Donoghue
SLATED five miles in seventeen minutes
and eight seconds. This beats the best
srevious worlds record by nine seconds.
TIE Angus Smith system of elevators,
"A, and G, at Milwaukee, Wis. have
been sold to an English syndicate. Ehe
purchase price is said to be over
si.0OO,0OO. The syndicate is the same
one that bought breweries in Cincinnati
and Syracuse some time ago.
The Reading Company has. closed
down its Lincoln colliery near Pine
Grove, Pa, throwing 700. men and boys
out of employment.
THE following changes are noted in
the weekly statement of the New York
associated banks, issued on the 4th:
Reserve decrease, .$265,675; loans in
crease, "a, 927 500; specie increase, 81 $780,
300; legal tenders increase, $500, 400; de-
.posits increase, $10,9s1, 900; circulation
increase, $1,000. The banks held 81 1885,
900 in excess of the twenty-five per cent.
rule. lLN -.
AK an opinion rendered on, the 9th in
che we'll known Edelhoff customs case,
the Supreme Coirt holds that silk and
cotton ribbons used exclusively aS hat
trimmings are dutiable at twenty per
cent. under the. provisions of thertariff
'act of 1883 for trimmings of hats, bon
nets and hoods" and not at fifty per
cent. under the provision for materials
of which silk is the component of chief
value. The government will by this de-
scision be compelled TO refund about
30, 100000 to importers in Philadelphia,
New York, Boston and other places.
~. EDWARD CHURCH, a seventeen-year-
old boy living with his father near Hunt
ington, w. Va, is charged with poison
Ing the entire family by'putting Rough
on Rats in their bread. One little girl
Is dead and four others of the family are
believed to be dying. The young mur-
deser confessed his crime to friend and
then fed
Tx the United States Court at Hart
Eord, Conn, on the 9th, the Boston Ssfe
3 Deposit and Trust Company obtained a
Judgment against the American Rapid
Telegraph Company for IS, 100000, with
interest amounting to 81, ,156,3s5.