Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-07-26


cinnati and New York parties, organized
ETC., filed articles of incorporation in
the State Department at Trenton, n. j.,
on tho 18th.
Judgment for $3.50, 506 was entered at
the County Clerks Office at New York
City on the nth in favor of the Oxford
Copper Company against the Societe
Industrielle ct Commerciale des Met
taux, better known as the French Cop
per Syndicate, which failed some time
ago.
Eight-year-old Charlie Jackson recent
ly picked up pocketbook containing
nearly SIS, 900 in gold, gold certificates
and checks near Nahant Mass. The
property was returned to the owner,
Captain Robinson, of Stoneham, who
lost it from his pocket
Girard, Pa, was struck by a hurricane
on the 18th which unroofed scores Of
houses ana barns and destroyed the
Presbyterian church. The damage to
trees and farm property was heavy.
Hon. Josiah d. Richards, postmaster
of Brattleboro, Mass, prominent Demo-
crat and member of the Democratic
State Committee, was killed on the 18th
by the accidental discharge of his gun
while hunting.
Business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended July IS number 2O7 as compared
with total of 1877 the previous week.
For the corresponding week of last year
the figures were 20S.
The Firemen's Insurance Company Of
New York has discontinued business,
having been in existence since 1925.
The stockholders will receive dividend
of about $50 per cent when the assets
are divided
Sneak thieves entered the Bliss cottage
at Saratoga, n. Y, a few days ago and
got away with $40, 900 worth of diamonds
and jewelry. The cottage is occupied by
Mr. Morton, Vice President of the
United States, and his law partner, Mr..
Bliss, with their wives. A reward of
1000 is offered for the recovery of the
Jewels.
Mccormick, Connolly & Co., leather
manufacturers of New York. are finan-
cially embarrassed, and receiver has
been applied for. Liabilities estim ated
at $780, 600, and assets 100000.
On the 18th Henry Clay and James
Scott, seated in a one-horse vehicle,
were nearing the Main street crossing
of the Erie railway at Goshen, n. Y,
when the horse took fright and ran up
the track directly in front of an APP
preaching freight train. Before they
could leap from the wagon the engine
was upon them. Clay was thrown with
his neck on the rail and was at once de-
capitated. Scott was probably fatally
hurt.
Only one State officer (Judge of the
Court of Appeals) is to be elected in
New York next fall, and the Democratic
State Executive Committee has decided
to hold no State convention. and the
candidate will be named by the commit
tee. 1t is understood that the Republi-
cans will also dispense with theirs.
John Whitaker Watson, the real
author of Beautiful Snow" and other
poems which have given him world
wide literary reputation, died in poverty
and obscurity at New York City on the
10Th, aged sixty-eight.
MIS- Il. II. farBo, WIDOW OF tne late
William G. Fargo, the well known ex-
press manager, died at her home in
Buffalo, n. Y, on the 10Th.
The explosion of a kerosene stove at
Three Rivers, Mass, on the 10th fatally
injured Mrs William Prairie and burned
Mrs. Henry Rivers so badly about the
head that she became insane.
DIR. Christian II. +. Peters, the astron-
omer, was found dead in his bed at Clin-
ton, n. Y, on the 10Th.
The machine and boiler factory of j.
G.. Todd, at Paterson, n. j., burned on
the Goth, entailing loss of $3.50, 600;
half insured.
Andrew j. Kirschner, we'll known
attorney, suicided by shooting himself
at his residence in Allegheny, Pa, on
the Goth. He was just recovering from
an attack of typhoid fever and was tenn
porarily insane from grief over a younger
brothers death from the same disease.
At New Bedford. Mass, on the 10th
Frank Hunt, an affable young man from
Denver Col. induced bookkeeper Nor
gan, employed at Meridian S Co. s dry
goods store, to cash a forged certified
check for 500 on ii. L. Morris, of Dem
YER. 1t was learned that Hunt raised
money in a similar Way to Denver