Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-01-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.


the result of an acute attack of that
species of mental hysteria to which
iuries in SEXUAL cases are SO peculiarly
LIABLE"
AT Chicago on the night of the Goth
John Hoos, piano mover living at
Harlem, ILL.,, was assaulted and robbed
of 81, 600 and then thrown into tho river
near the Rush street bridge. Hoos was
rescued by the bridge tender and taken
to the county hospital, suffering from a
compound fracture of the skull.
THE Secretary of the Navy has adopted
a new design for the flag of the navy to
take effect July 1, 1891. 1t will be ap-
piled to both the flag and the union jack
of the navy and consists of rectangular
arrangement of the forty-two stars.
CHARLES A. CoBLER, the Louisville
& Nashville conductor who was shot a
few nights ago near Louisville, KY, is
dead. 1t is not known who did the
shooting. He was shot at once before
near the same place.
j. w. MITCHELL, of Missouri City, Mo-,
whowas recently sandbagged and robbed
at Kansas City, died on the 27th from
the enecCS OF tne DloW.
The New York State Milling Associa-
ton, at recent meeting in Buffalo,
adopted resolutions favoring the entire
repeal of the duty on iute bagging.
BY the falling of a scaffold in Balti-
more on the 27th, William DENLY and
william Devine were fatally and
rho rs Elliot seriously hurt. All are
TfHp, masons.
I grand jury at New York has re-
.-sai an Indictment for manslaughter
against Superintendent Pierce, of the
Brush Electric Company, one of whose
lamps was responsible for the death of
Mr.. Harris on Eighth avenue recently.
Pierce surrendered himself and was ad-
mitted to bail
THE Citizens warehouse, 6,000 bales
OF cotton and seven freight cars were
burned at Yazoo City, Miss, on the Goth
ult entailing an aggregate loss of $780,
600.
AT Gouterneur, N. Y, John Van Val
kenburg received atropine instead of
antipyrene from Druggist Lavack, and
died two hours after taking it.
II is said that States Attorney Long
enecker has secured considerable evil
dence against four or five other men
who are suspected of completely in the
Cronin murder conspiracy, and that he
may before long take steps to have them
indicted and brought to trial.
WILLIAM MAJOR, a farmer living near
Mount Vernon, Mich, on the night of
he 27th 'ult., after his family had re-
,ired, took revolver and fired two bull
cts into the body of his sleeping wife,
1ortally wounding her. He then en-
tered the apartment occupied by his
daughter, Mrs. Depew, and with an axe
killed both her and his little grand
daughter. The murderer then rushed
from the house and hung himself to a
beam in his barn.
GOVERNOR GooDELL, of New Hamp-
shire, has issued a proclamation warn
ing all persons in the State engaged in
the illegal traffic in liquors to desist
therefrom immediately, and demanding
of all State, county, city and township
officials strict enforcement of the
liquor laws.
THREE bodies were recovered from
the Conemaugh river, near Coopersdale,
Pa, on the 2sth ult. All of them were
so badly decomposed as to render iden-
tification impossible.
AT Dallas, Tex, on the 2Sth ult., nine
men were terribly and some fatally
burned by shower of molten metal
from an exploding mold. The cause of
the explosion was the generation of gas
inside the mold, which was prepared to
cast 1,6Oo-pound piece. 1t was purely
occidental.
FIRE at San Francisco on the 27th
destroyed the old st. Ignatius
church building on Market street occu-
pied by the New York Furniture Com
pany, the Carrier Dove Printing Com
pany and number of private offices.
A mum ber of roomers occupied the third
floor. OF these three women perished
in the flames. A fireman was fatally in
jured by falling from a ladder. The
pecuniary loss was $4,000.
In an Oakland (Cal.) boarding house
on the Goth ult. Mrs. Jane Erwin and
her two daughters, Mary and Bessie,
aged sixteen and twelve respectively,
were found dead in bed, having been
asphyxiated by gas.
ALEXANDER BECK & Son, carpet man
ufacturers of Philadelphia, have as
signed. Liabilities, $13O, 600; assets less
than 100000.
Mrs. Robert STEWART, wife of the
superintendent of telegraph of the New
Jersey Central railroad, suicided on the
2Sth ult. by jumping overheard from a
ferry boat between Jersey City and
Brooklyn.
AT Peru, Ind, on the 2sth ult., j. E..
Clark, apartial paralytic, went to George
Wrikle's bathrooms for bath. He was
assisted to the bath by Wri1le, who
turned on the gas to heat the water and
started to do something else while wait
ing. Being forgetful he forgot all about
Clark, and left the house after locking
the door, Clark's body was found the
next morning, cooked and roasted.
Wrikle was arrested.
/. MoNAscH, financial secretary of the
Turner's Loan and Building Association
at Minneapolis, Mimi, has been found
short in his nccnunta IN tho aytant of