Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-07-19
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was destroyed by fire on the morning OF
the 10th. Fireman B. Smith was burned
to a crisp while attempting to rescue
the employees. Thirty-six girls working
in the laundry were saved. Loss S25, 600.
Mrs. Thomas Reahan and Mrs. Henry
Manduser, who were injured in the rail-
road accident near Owego, n. Y, on the
| 10th, when three women were instantly
killed, died about four hours after the
| accident
Hon. A. w Acheson, ex-president
| Judge of the Washington dis
trict, and a member OF the Washington
County bar for fifty-seven years, died at
his home in Washing ton, Pa, on the
18th, at the age of eighty.
Fred Armstrong and boy named Roy
Hank were sutfocated by black damp in
the air shaft of an abandoned coal mine
at What Cheer, Ia, on the 11th. The
shaft is sixty feet deep and Arms trong
went down to rescue the boy, who had
climbed down and been overcome by
gas. and both perished.
Mrs. James Williams, living near
Fair Haven, Vt, became insane from
grief owing to the accidental death of
her husband, and on the 11th murdered
her two children-a girl of seventeen
and boy of six years-set fire to the
house and then cut her own throat.
The ten cigarmakers who arrived from
Antwerp recently under contract to
work for NJ. Van Rocht, Of Philadelphia,
for 81 per week and board, will be sent
back. Van Rocht tried to bribe the in
spector with $40 to let the men land.
Christian Eckert and his son Chester
were insta ntly killed by the explosion
of a gas generator in New York City on
the 11th, while engaged in the manu-
facture of soda water. When the widow
and mother heard of the accident she
became insane and can not be found.
The brewery of the Henry Miller
Brewing Company at Philadelphia was
damaged by fire on the 11th to the ex-
tent of 500, 900. Two men were slightly
hurt.
During the seven days ended July II
the number of business failures occur
ing throughout the country were 1877,
as compared with 100 the previous
week. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures were 2O9.
William Vinal Burt son of ex-Post-
master William L. Burt, of Boston,
Mass, has been indicted for forgery.
He has been negotiating notes bearing
his mothers name and had secured over
S13, 900 on them.
A fire in Philadelphia on the 18th de-
stroyed H. T. Atkinson's planning mill
and lumber yard, and Carey Bros wall
paper factory, entailing an aggregate
loss of 100000.
The salt works of Winters & Prophet,
at Mt. Morris, n. Y, were destroyed by
fire on the 18th, causing a loss of 200, 600.
The Blake Manufacturing Company
of Boston, Mass, builders of steam
pumps under the Blake & Knowles pat
ent, has been sold to an English syndi-
cate at price said to be S3, 3,0Oo, 600.
Mrs. Marshall Henry started out from
Foster, Pa, on the 18th to pick raspber-
ries. Her dead body was found the next
day, death having resulted from the bite
of rattlesnake.
The Joanna furnace, at Reading, Pa,
one of the largest in the country, which
has been idle since last fall, resumed
operations on the 14th. Iron men re-
port that trade is improving.
The locked-out employees of the cloak
msking trade in New York City held a
meeting on the 18th and denounced the
grand jury for falling to indict the cloak
manufacturers for conspiracy.
AT Eagleville, Pa, on the 18th Clinton
Schluneck, aged thirty-five years, shot
and instantly killed Miss Brunot, aged
fourteen years, then shot himself and
will die. The parties had been lovers
and apparently had quarrel.
Representatives of the Knights of
Labor and United Mine Workers and
the bereaved Hill farm miners have
employed counsel to enter suit for dam
ages. The families will sue the Dunbar
(Pa.) Furnace Company. and will be
backed by the labor organizations, while
proceedings against superintendent
Lang, of the company, will be left to
the State, as the coroncr's jury found
him criminally negligent in causing the
deaths of the miners.