Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-13

| S2, 800, 600, and estimayed assets 80, ,000,-
600. The firm will ask for an extension
and say they will pay dollar for dollar.
WHILE William Long and Nicholas
Franz were removing safe from a
burned building at Pittsburgh on tho
9th, wall fell upon and buried both
mon. When taken out it was found that
both we're fatally injured.
AT Des Moines, Ia, Judge Bishop on
tho 9th rendered an opinion sustaining
the motion of the defense and directing
the jury to find verdict Of acquittal in
the case against the eight ex-aldormen
on trial for wilful misconduct in taking
from the city treasury So, 200 in excess Of
their salaries.
JOE CoBURN, tho pugilist died on the
9TH of consumption at his home in New
in New York City.
Mrs. SMELL tho widow OF Amos j.
SHELL has renewed her offer to pay $780,
600 for the arrest of William B. Tascott
and his detention until identified, the
reward to hold good for one year.
THE British steamer Maryland arrived
at the Delaware Breakwater on the 9th.
Tho second officer in charge reports
that on the morning of December l,
about 600 miles off shore, the ship en-
countered terrific gale and her decks
were swept by tremendous sea which
instantly killed Captain Lockhurst, the
| boatswain and second cook, and seri-
ously injurcdcother of the crew. or
the 520 cattle on board, 300 we're killed
and many others injured so as to be
1 n. 4 I'D 4
aged.
THE French steamer La Champagne
and the British steamer Lisbonese came
| in collision about two miles east of
Sandy Hook on the 7th. No lives were
lost and no one was injured. The Lis
| bonese was the most seriously damaged.
MERvIN KUHN, a notorious desperate
who is wanted in different localities for
crimes ranging from horse stealing to
murder, was fatally shot by Deputy
Sheriff Wilkinson near Cherubusco, Ind,
on tho 9TH, while resisting arrest
THE First Baptist church at Passaic,
n. j., was destroyed by fire on the 7th,
entailing loss of $751; 900.
TIE will of Daniel b. Fayerweather,
the millionaire lumber dealer, which
was filed at New York on the Sth, gives
81, 100, 600 to different colleges and $685.
600 to hospitals.
THE Treasury Department on the Sth
paid out for bonds and silver purchased
an aggregate of Sc, 3O0,0 600. OF this
amount S., 800, 600 was paid for four per
cent. bonds; 81, $50 for four and half
per cent. bonds and about $4,000 for
silver.
| OSCAR MYERS, of Meadville, Pa, and
Miss Maud Grantham, of Albany, n. Y,
students of tho Missouri Wesleyan In
stitute at Cameron, were drowned on
the 7th while skating on a pond near
the institution.
The boiler of Lehigh Valley loco
motive exploded on the sth near Attica,
n. Y, instantly killing the engineer,
Thomas Mahoney, and the fireman, j.
Leary.
SIX business buildings in the center
causing loss of $4,000.
THE Oklahoma country is covered
with snow from five to twelve inches
deep and much suffering is reported
among the poor settlers.
AT New York City Mrs. Cornelia v.
L. Miller, who was charged with re-
ceiving the sum of S132, 900, alleged to
have been embezzled by the firm of j..
II. Field & Co., OF London, and whose
extradition was sought by the British
Consul, has been discharged by United
Statos Commissioner Shields.
AT Chicago on the sth not less than
| 1 10 icir tnl IN, h.A
opening of the Grand Central Station,
the construction of which, at a cost of
nearly Sl,250,OO0, has just been COM
pleted for the traffic OF the Wisconsin,
Central, Northern Pacific and Chicago,
st. Paul IL Kansas City lines.
THE organized band of robbers who
have been operating in West Virginia,
Maryland and portion of Pennsylvania
for years past is about broken up. Five
of the band are in the West Virginia
penitentiary and ten moro are under ar
rest. George Frye, their leader, now in
| prison, has made a full confession.
RoBERT CUsuMAN & Co., importers g
and dealers in hatters' materials, New
York City, assigned on the sth, with
liabilities of nearly $500, 600.
THE Senate Committee on Public
Lands has ordered favorable report on
the bill to permit any settler who has
taken up eighty acres of surveyed land
under the homestead laws TO extend his
claim over eighty adjoining acres of un-
surveyed land.
A NOTABLE wedding was celebrated al
Pennsboro, w. Va, on the Sth The
bride was Mrs. Martha Dickson, aged
eighty, and the groom Norman Calhoun,
aged ninety-one. A largo number oi
people witnessed the wedding.
CAPTAIN AINswoRTH, chief of the
Pensions division of the War Depart.
rnent, states that during the fiscal year
S4l, ,S92 calls for papers were answered,
and instead of pensions being delayed
through delay in his office as heretofore,
cases wero handled promptly.
FREDERICK Cooke, night operator for
the Northern Pacific railroad at North.
ern Pacific Junction, Mimi, has con.