Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-11-01

Tho vessel had been thtrty-one days
making the voyage.
THE President has granted pardon
| to Samuel Kridler, of Illinois, sentenced
to imprisonment for one year for imper-
sonating an officer of the United States.
A DISTINCT shock OF earthquake, last
ing perhaps fifteen seconds, was felt at
Anna, Ill, on the 24th. Furniture
shook and windows ratified all over
town.
A FURNITURE van drawn by four
horses was struck by freight train at
a crossing near Queens, l.. l., on the
25th. In tho vehicle were its owner,
Samuel Nathan, William Wickson, the
driver, and man named Hermann.
Tho latter was instantly killed and both
Nathan and Wickson fatally hurt. Three
of the four horses were killed and the
van smashed into splinters.
AT Carson, New, on tho Goth United
States Attorney j. w. Witcher dis
missed, by direction Of Attorney Gen.
eral Alexander Timber, the suits
against the Eureka Consolidated Min
ing Company and the Richard Mining
Company Qimited), London. Tho
amounts involved aggregate $40, 600, 900.
On the Goth the Hudson river showed
the highest tide in forty years. The
brickyards suffered enormously. The
| yards between Roseton and Albany are
submerged, and the green brick await
ing burning were thrown down by the
| flood. 1t is estimated that 4, 600, 900 brick
have been lost in the Kingston district.
The fires were put out in the kilns in
process Of burning. Green kilns were
thrown down, and the brick underneath
sheds were washed away.
JOSEPH P. EAGAN, superintendent Of
firm of railroad contractors at Read
ing, Pa, has been held in SO, 500 bail by
United States Commissioner Bell, of
Philadelphia, for appearance tthe next
term of the United States Court at Mar
quette, Mich. Eagan is charged with
trespassing upon government timber
lands in Ontonagon township, Mich,
and cutting and removing troes to the
value of 81, 500.
AT Yorkville, N, Y, on the Goth Cora
Won Hoosen, aged twenty-five, died
from poisoning. Her mother had mixed
trough on rats" with flour and meal in
basin, and placed it on a shelf in the
pantry to kill mice. While she was alb
sent from home Cora and her three sis
ters made griddle cakes of the mixture.
After eating them all were taken vio-
lently i'll, and Cora died.
AT Chicago on the 27th 400 steamfit-
ters and their helpers went on strike
because of the refusal of employers to
grant an increase of wages and to Of
ficially recognize the Steamftters' AS
sociation.
SECRETARY WINDOW has called
meeting of the lady managers of the
Worlds Fair, to be held in Chicago No
vember IS. They will receive S6 a day
and expenses.
CLARK e PARTRIDGE, proprietors of the
Queen City planning mill of Buffalo, n.
Y, have assigned. The preferred claims
aggregate S139,OOo.
JUDGE JOHN C. SuERwIN, of Mason
City, Ia, who was among the first to
render decision in an original package
case, allowing importers to sell in tho
State now instructs a grand jury to in
dict all persons found selling within
the State. and holds that the Iowa pro-
hibition law is in full force and effect,
the recent decision of the Kansas court
to the contrary notwithstanding.
THE steamship Zealandia, which ar
rived at San Francisco on the 27th,
brought $4,000, 600 in English sover-
eigns, which will be recoined at the
mint. The money is in return for
American products shipped to Australia
SECRETARY NOBLE on the 2Tth made
public his letter to Mayor Grant deny
ing the latter's application for recount
of the population of New York City.
The letter is document of nearly $500
words.
A MASS meeting of citizens recently
held at New Orleans to assist in bring
ing Chief Hennessoy's assassins to JUS
tice, adopted report that $50, 900 will
be needed to carry out their plans.
They pledged their support to the COM
mittee of fifty which was appointed by
the mayor.
ROB REDDING, a notorious negro des-
perado, for whom the authorities have
been searching ten years, was shot and
killed by policeman at Opelika. Ala,
on the 27th.
A PART of the business portion of
West Middlesex, Pa, was burned on the
27th. Loss $50, 900; fully insured.
A MOTION has been made in the Su-
preme Court of the United States to ad-
vance the Kansas original package case.
The question involved in the case is
whether it is necessary for the State of
Kansas to re-enact the prohibition law
because of the passage of the Wilson act
by Congress.
THE gold excitement in the Arbuckle
Mountains in Indian Territory has sub
sided. Samples of the ore show that
nothing profitable can come of the
mines.
The schedule of assets and liabilities
of the r. g. Peters Salt and Lumber
Company of Manistee, Mich, recently
filed by the assignee, have been closely
examined by considerable number of
attorneys who are representing creditors,
and the general impression is that the
unsecured creditors will not receive