Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-20

Y Bills of Indictment have been re
turned by the Chicago grand jury agains
Banker Prettyman, whose bank went tC
the wall short time ago, and against
his cashier, c. s. Johnson, on charge:
of embezzlement The basis of tho in
dictment is the receipt of money from
depositors after insolvency of the bank
was apparent
Delamater & Co., the Meadville, PA.
bankers who recently made an assign.
ment, have proposed to their creditors
that they be allowed to compromise by
paying fifty cents on the dollar.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad strike
has apparently ended at Pittsburgh.
Full day and night crews are at work in
the Glenwood yards.
Mrs. Catherine Quaid, aged sixty-nine,
died on the 14th in pew while attend.
ing service in the church of St Thomas
Aquinas, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Quaid
was tho mother-in-law of Thomas f..
| Nevins, chief engineer Of the Brooklyn
fire departments
The Dorrance building, one of the
| finest business blocks in Providence, r.
l., occupied by the j. B. Barnaby Cloth
ing Company, was destroyed by fire on
the 18th, causing loss of nearly $780,
600. The one hundred employees in the
building had barely time to escape with
their lives. Two fire.men were seriously
injured by falling walls
Hon. John A. Hiestand died at Lam
caster, Pa, on the 18th, aged sixty
years. For over thirty years he was
proprietor and editor of the Lancaster
Examiner. He served several terms in
the Pennsylvania Legislature, repre-
sented his district two terms in Con-
gress and was naval officer at the port
of Philadelphia eight years under Presi-
dent Grants administration.
A fire at Pottstown, Pa, on the 18th
burned out half dozen business firms
and their buildings, entailing loss of
Sl5o,O0o The heaviest losers are r. NJ.
Root, l.. ,S w. c. Beecher. John II.
Shaner, II. Leopold, A. Evans, w. II.
Smith and assignees of ID. X. Hatfield.
The working time at all the collieries
of the Reading Company in the region
of Shamokin, Pa, has been increased
three hours per day, affecting 1000
miners.
Emil f. Wolff. boollkeeper of Gross &
Co., Milwaukee, Wis, who was found to
14th by shooting himself. His shortage
is stated to be $1,000.
On the 18th the jury in the case of
John Petilliot, on trial at Columbus,
Ind, for numbering his wife last July,
brought in verdict of guilty and fixed
his punishment at ninety-nine years in
the Jeffersonville penitentiary.
On the 18th Colonel c. B. Stoughton,
we'll known in New York society circles,
was arraigned in court and held in ST.
900 bail on the charge of swindling the
widow of an old soldier out of 81, 200
pension money.
A civil suit has been brought at Bos-
ton by Mrs Annie Everett, for Jonathan
Bourne, of New Bedford, Mass, to re-
alleged to have been lost by Bourne in
gambling at the game of roulette in
rooms occupied by the Carlton associates
at Boston in January last. Stetson is
president of the associates.
Miss Gertrude Neill was on the 18th
given a verdict of $4,000 against the
Boston (Mass.) Gaslight Company in
her suit for damages for personal in
juries received by falling through a
trap-door left open by the company's
employees.
The engine room and machine shop of
the Barber asphalt works in Buffalo, N.
Y, were destroyed by fire on the 18th
caused by an oil explosion. Neil Camp
bell the watchman was so seriously
burned that he died at the hospital soon
after.
Maris &5 Smith, bankers and brokers
of Philadelphia, have assigned, with
liabilities exceeding $500, 600. Nothing
can be learned as to the assets.
Joseph II. Cough, secretary of the
New Jersey Grand Lodge of Masons,
died at Trenton on the 18th, aged
seventy-fve years. He was the Oldest
Masonic officer in the United States,
having been Grand Secretary for forty
eight years.