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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
PERIsAEp AMID FLAMES.
Frightful Results of q Fire In silk Fa O.
tory-Six Men Fatally Injured and o
Number Badly Hurt.


Trightful Results of Fire in Silk Fa O.
tory-sik Men Fatally Injured and O
Number Badly Hurt.
CATAsAuouA, Pa, April 25. - The
large new building Of the Unicorn Sill,
Manufacturing Company, at this place,
was discovered to be on fire at six o'clock
Thursday morning. The alarm was
quickly sounded, but, owing to the hour,
the fire companies, which are composed
of volunteer worltmen from the differ
ent furnaces, factories and mills, were
under tho impression that the whistles
were merely calling them to their daily
labors and did not respond until the fire
had headway of about twenty minutes.
Upon the arrival of the fire engines at
the scene there was another delay in
procuring a sufficient supply of water.
BY the time the firemen had succeeded
in obtaining sufficient power to throw
streams on the burning structure it was
one mass of flames.
The heat was intense, but notwith-
standing this the iremen worked like
beavers in the hope Oh saving the store
rooms and engine house. While busily
flames an explosion of some vitriol and
other acids stored on the premises took
place. The concussion shook the ground
and shattered the building. Before the
firemen could retreat several of their
number were caught by the falling walls
and many others were injured by the
flying debris. The firemen directed
several streams upon that part of the
burning ruins under which their COM
panions lay buried and the work of res
cue was at once begun. The following
persons were taken out:
John Good, aged twenty-seven,
crushed to death; Joseph Lodigina, an
Italian, crushed to death; Ulysses G.
Everett, aged eighteen, fatally injured;
George Pfaff, fatally injured; Michael
Moran, internally injured, can not live;
Charles Frick, skull fractured and ter.
ribly burned, will die; William Price,
broken and badly burned; Thomas
James, severely burned and hit with fly
ing debris-iniured about the head and
body; George Fehnel, slightly injured
about the head; Peter Dorhammer, cut
about the head and body by flying glass
and other debris.
Many persons, spectators and others,
were injured slightly by flying debris.
The fire is supposed to have been caused
by spontaneous combustion in one OF
the packing rooms. At eleven o'clock
the fire was under control. Tire total
loss is placed at S11O,0 900, divided as fol.
lows: Buildings. 5000 machinery,
SS5, 600; stock, S25, 900; partly insured.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
ICY CANNON BALLS.

Remarkable Hail Storm Strikes Balti-
mors-Stones as Hard and Large ms
DRocks Rain Down on the City.
BALTIMORE, April 2s.-This city was
visited Sunday afternoon about four
o'clock by hail of a size and destructive
power never before seen in this city.
Tho hail was not like the snow-coated
hail of commerce., but was plain, hard
ice frozen through and through, clear as
crystal and solid as rock. 1t went
through thick panes of glass as if they
were tissue paper, and the amount of
damage done by it can only be figured
up when all the broken panes are
counted and the glass-setters bills are
paid. The losses will run up into the
thousands. The hail stones were like
rocks, some of them ragged and sharp
on the edges as steel blades. Hens eggs
were nothing to them in size. Many of
them were as large as a mans fist, and
us they came down they sounded like so
many cannon balls falling on the help
less earth.
The storm came from the west, was
local in it's character, and swept to the
east with n rattle like heavy musSetry,
frightening people out of their wits,
making some of the superstitious think
that the day of Judgment had come, and
hitting those who were on the streets
many hard knocks and driving them into
places of shelter. All over the city the
damage was heavy, particularly in the
way of broken glass. Noglass that met
the full force of the hail was strong
enough to stand the force of the cobble-
stone-like blocks that came out of the
sky. Charles street windows looked as
if they had been on the battlefield, and
in the houses on Mount Vernon Place
the damage was very considerable and
the alarm unusual. In the suburbs the
rain, wind and hail did even more Sc
we're damage than in the city. Walls
were swept down, houses unroofed and
the amount of glass smashed and other
damage done was almost incalculable.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
THOUSANDS HOMELESS.
Terrible Scenes in the Flooded Districts
of Louisiana-Loss to Property Beyond
COmDutation.

of Louisiana-Loss to Property Beyond
Computation.
New ORLEANS, April 25.-The Point
Pleasant levee, Tensas parish, twenty
three mies below Vicksburg, broke
Thursday. 1t was a very important
levee. Most of Tensas parish will
doubtless be flooded. Superintendent
Grant, of the Texas e Pacific road, says
that twenty million dollars worth of
property will be irretrievably damaged
by the break in the Morgansea levee.
The people ought to have spent 500. 900
in saving the levee, rather than let it
break and then make great fuss about
sending relief.
Every plantation in Pointe Coupee
parish has been flooded from the Bayou
Sara break. Hundreds of families are
homeless. All the levees are broken.
Thousands of cattle have been drowned.
1t is probable that many persons in the
interior have p rished.
The relief steamer Dacotah Wednes-
day night found groups of scores of peo-
pie, whites and blacks, some with babies
in their arms. They were huddled on
knolls between the broken levees. The
steamer gathered them in. Many starv-
ing cattle were passed.
A family named Luke, consisting of
fifteen persons, was rescued by the Da-
cotah. They owned a large plantation,
we'll filled store and 100 head of stock.
A crevasse sixty feet wide occurred
right in front of their house Monday
and the flood destroyed all their prop
erty. The family narrowly escaped, but
managed to reach the levee above the
break. Many similar tales are heard.
When the Dacotah reached Bayou Sara
yesterday she had 1000 head of cattle
and 500 people aboard. After landing
them she started on another relief trip.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
FIRE, GAS AND DEATH.
Three Men Perish in the Noxious Flames
of Burning Mine.

Three Men Perish in the NoNious Flames
of IA Burning Mine.
HANCOCK, Mich, April 2S.-At three
o'clock Sunday morning flames were dis
covered bursting from shaft No. 8 of the
Hancock mine. They were partially
eXtinguishcd and Joseph Herbert, John
Thomas, John Rowe and Thomas Bell
volunteered to go through the smoke
that filled the cutting in search of John
Williams, pump boy. Bell was the
last man to go down. AS he reached the
ladder he yelled to the others: Come
back, the gas down there is too thick. !"
There was no answer and it as evident
that the three miners had been suffo-
Gated. Tying scarf about his head,
John Pentecost went down alone
through the gas that extinguished his
lamp. He found Thomas with his cloth
ing burned off and his legs frightfully
roasted. Rowe was dead and Herbert
nearly so, but will probably recover.
Thomas will die.
The fire in the lower levels of the
mine did not entirely die out until in
the afternoon, when Williams body was
found $50 feet from the surface, ap-
parently drowned by the floods of water
that were poured in. The fire is sup
posed to have been caused by the boys
entering gas pocket with lighted
candle, although there are suspicious of
incenliariSrn
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
LATER.

THE Ohio Legislature adjourned on the
2Sth ult. until January g. 1891.
AFTER sensational contest at Butte,
Mont, between the heirs of the late A.
j. Davis over an estate involving a
fortune of S7,OOO,ooO, Judge Mediation
on the 2Sth ult. appointed John A. Davis,
brother of the deceased, as administra-
tor, with bond of S5, 600, 600. The case
will be appealed to the Supreme Court.
AN order has been issued by the Bos-
ton (Mass.) police board that after May
l the sale of Intoxicating liquors over
bars must be stopped.
TIE United States Supreme Court has
rendered an opinion adverse to the con-
stitutionality of State laws in prohi-
bition States, providing for the seizure
of liquor brought from other States.
Such law, it is held, are interferences
| with Interstate commerce.
WV. ALLEN, superintendent of mails
in the Buffalo IN. ~ post-office, was
arrested on the 2Sth ult., charged with
robbing the mails. He has been in the
mail service twenty-five years.
| PETER j. CLAAsEN, ex-president OF
| the Sixth National Bank, charged with
wrecking the institution, appeared be-
fore Judge Benedict in the United States
District Court at New York on the 2Sth
ult. and pleaded not guilty on all four
counts of the indictment.
THE high school building at Austin,
Mimi, caught fire on the 2sth ult
while the school was in session, and
burned to the ground. The fifty pupils
owe their escape to the fine drill in
which the school has been trained. They
marched through the smoke-flled halls
with military precision and reached the
ground in safety. Loss, $50, ,000
IN connection with the presentation OF a
memorial in relation to the Mississippi river,
a discussion arose in the Senate on
| the 2Sth ult. and wars participated in
| by many Senator's the point turning on
| the question whether the jetty system or the
| outlet system was the correct one or whether
| there should be q combination OF the two.
| After long discussion, the Land Forfeiture
| bill was taken up, the pending question being
| Mr. Calls amendment relative TO railroad lands
in Florida. The bill finally went over
! without action. Senate bill to incorporate
the Society of the Sons of the American
| Revolution was considered and was still
| pending when the Senate adjourned 80.
The Speaker laid before the House a
| message OF the President, returning without his
approval the bill TO allow Ogden U. T., TO in
crease its Indebtedness; referred to the Com
mittee on Territories. Tho Legislative Ex-
| ecutive and Judicial Appropriation bill was
passed without division. The House then went
| ineo Committee OF the Whole TO consider Dis
| trict of Columbia business. The pending bill
| was that for the establishment OF Rock Greek
PARK. After discussing the bill 1t was laid
| aside with u favorable recommendation. The
| committee having risen the Rock Creek Park
bill was defeated-yeas ~, nays 9s, and the
' House adjourned
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
TO WOOL GROWERS.
The National Association Asks That tn
Mckinley Tariff Bill be Given Support.

The National Association Asks That the
Mckinley Tariff Bill be Given Support.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-The Nation
al Association of Wool Growers has
issued the following statement to the
wool growers of the United States:
"After consultation and careful study
OF the proposed tariff bill-known as the
Mckinley bill-we have joined in rec
ommending to the Committee on Ways
and Means the following rates of duty
for third class wool: On such woods
the valne of which shall be thirteen
cents, including charges, the duty shall
be thirty-two per cent. ad valorem, and
on such woods the value whereof shall
be over thirteen cents. including
charges, the duty shall be fifty per cent.
ad valorem.
"These rates are slightly lower than
those in the proposed hill upon the very
inferior grades, but are higher upon the
better grades, which come directly in
competition with our quarter blood and
common wool, and we therefore request
your earnest efforts to secure the enact.
ment of the bill into law, with conf.
dence and faith that its effect will be to
place wool growing again among the
prosperous industries of the country"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
Social Meeting of Engineers.

oswEGo, N. Y, April 2s.-oswego was
invaded Sunday by 500 members of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
who came by special train from all
points between Boston and Chicago for
the purpose of holding social meeting.
Several notables of the order were
among them, including Grand Chief
Arthur. The visitors were ente rtainec
by Division No. 152 of this city. A secret
meeting was held in the forenoon and
1000 people attended public Afternoon
meeting. Patrick Fennell, known as
"Shandy Mcguire" the poet of the or.
der, presided. Speeches we're made by
Chief Arthur. Colonel White and others.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
Run Down at Last.

CHICAGO, April 25.-An important ar
rest of counterfeiters was made here
yesterday For months the country has
been flooded with $40 silver certificates
said to have been issued by the German
National Bank of New Orleans, but
which were plainly bogus. The showers
of these bills have baffled the secret
service men in every city.
A couple of policemen saw two men
going from saloon to saloon on the
South Side and arrested them on sus.
picion. They gave their names as Rob.
ert Thompson and William Furber,
Over $500 In the above mentioned coun.
terfeit bills were found on their persona.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
A High Roller Comes to Grief.

ArTIcA, N. Y, April 9s.-The arrest
of Horace II. Eldred for the misappro-
priation of funds of the Attica mills of
this place. is the subject of general con-
versation among Attica people at pres
ent. Ed ed came here from New York
about eighteen months ago and assumed
the general management of the mills
At first he lived in Batavia. From there
he went to Buffalo and finally rented an
expensive house in this village. His
salary as manager was 500 month,
and as his tastes were extremely ex-
pensive it did not take long for him to
get into trouble.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
NERVE AND PLUCK.
Narrow Escape of an Embezzler Who
Heard the Message Asking for His Ar

Narrow Escape of an Embezzler Who
Heard the Message Asking for His Ar
rest.
DENVER, Col, April 2s.-W. H. Bald
win, agent of the Santa Fe railroad at
Lovelle, Kan, absconded Friday with
$1,000 belonging to the road. Through
some means it became known to the Off
cials of the road in Topeka and they i'm
mediately telegraphed their agent here
to have him arrested. Just before the
message was received Baldwin, entered
the general offices of the Santa Fe and
asked for employment as telegraph ope-
rator. While he was in the Office the
message asking that the absconder be
arrested began to come over the wire
Baldwin quickly detected the purport
of the message and, clearing the railing
about the telegraph desk, made his es-
cape. Four detectives are on his track
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
FLOOD HORRORS.

Seven Persons Drowned While Trying to
Escape from Burning Building-Re-
ports of Another Disaster Confirmed.
New ORLEANS, April 29.-The steam
gin and sawmill of Charles Lawrence,
situated three miles from Rolling Fork,
Miss, was burned Saturday night. The
loss is estimated at S6,000 partly COW
cred by insurance. Fifty or sixty of Mr..
Lawrence's tenants were quartercd in
the gin and in their efforts to escape
from the flames seven were drowned.
The building was surrounded by water
seven feet deep. They had taken refuge
there from the overflow, and it is stated
that their carelessness caused the fire.
The rumor ich prevailed some days
ago about the loss of life from the flood
in the interior ottWest Baton Rogue par
ish has been authenticated. Six lives
were lost, as far as known, all negroes.
The bodies have been taken from the
Lobdell break.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
WASHINGTON.

The Treasury Department has decided
that 81 per gallon is the highest rate of
duty that can be imposed on alcohol.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
Granting the Demands of Their Empioye.

Granting the Demands OF TheIr Employer"
PITTSBURGH, April 29.-The Balti-
more & Ohio railroad officials posted no
tices Monday afternoon granting the de-
mands of their employees. They grant
conductors S2.75 per day; night conduc'
tors So 30; day brakemen $3.50 and night
brakemen So. 10. Ten hours is to con
stitute days work, and men are to be
paid for overtime.
Boston, April 30. The union carpen
ters' arbitration committee yesterday
visited the boss carpenters who are not
mombers of the building association
They were assured that the eight-houi
demand would be granted by nearly all
those interviewed,
Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-11
THE WHITE METAL,
A Corner Manipulated in New York-Tl
Government Buying Abroad.

A Corner Manipulated in New York-The
Government Buying Abroad.
New YORK, May 10.-A special from
Washington says: The statement is
made that during the last two or three
days corner in silver has been consum-
mated in New York. Uncertainty in
regard to silver legislation helped the
manipulators greatly. The government
is now compelled to buy silver from Eng
land. The amount of silver held by the
New Workers is estimated by some at
SAC, 600, 900 in bullion and certificates, but
conservative accounts place the total
bullion at $4,000,000. While these fig
ures would cover the bullion, it may be
increased several millions by silver GER
tificates.
1t is fact that the government has
been compelled to buy silver in London,
and to complete the deal the New York
people have been keeping even with the
government in purchases abroad. They
have almost cornered the market in
London. 1t is also fact that the silver
offered by the government at the assay
Office in New York has been at prem
ium of 2.03 cents.
Director of the Mint Leach this morn
ing did not deny the rumors of the cor
ner, but said no silver had ever been
offered the governmet at New York /;
that it had bought bullion in London,
and was storing it in the assay office at
New York. 1t is also storing what sill
yer it has in the west and issuing certi-
fcates.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-11
FREMONT TAINTED.
THE OLD PATHFINDER OVERCOME
BY GOOD NEWS.
He Thought He Owed the Government
$4,000, but It Turns Out That Uncle
Sam Is His Debtor for $4,000.

When John G. Fremont was lieu
tenant in 1S4S, in California, his ac-
counts with the government were left in
such state that he has always been re-
garded as an official debtor to the gov
ernment to the amount of $4,000, and
it has been one of the chief sorrows of
Fremont's later years that he was un-
able to square this balance against him.
The other day Fremont called
at the Office of the second
comptroller of the treasury, and
said his financial circumstances are
such that if his salary as retired major
general were retained to meet this
alleged shortage, he would be for some
time in actual want. AT his request the
comptroller investigated the accounts,
and discovered that instead of Fremont
being the debtor, the government had
actually owed him for over forty years
$21, 900. The records are perfectly
clear, and it was proven beyond dispute
that through mistake in bookkeeping
Lieutenant Fremont had been charged
with a sum for which voucher was on
file. When Fremont called again to ask
whether some arrangements might be
made to pay his supposed Indebtedness
by installments, he was so unprepared
for the glad news awaiting him, that he
tainted. Yesterday a warrant for the
amount due him was made out and duly
approved and signed.
The Amount Only 81 900.
WASHINGTON, May 10.-The statement
made in special dispatch to New
York paper that the government is in
debted to General Fremont in the sum
of $2l 900, is incorrect The amount in
volved is $1,000, and congress will be
asked to pay it.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-11
THE COLORADO SPAN
Trains Cross the New Can't
lever Bridge.
Largest Span of Its Kind in
America.
1t Was Finished Just as It Was Most
Urgently Needed.
Ten Acres Is Governor Waterman's
Modest Demand for Space at the
Worlds Fair.
Associated Press Dispatches. !

SAN Francisco, May 10.-A Chronicle
special from the Needles, CAL, says the
first train to Gloss the Atlantic and Pa
cific great cantilever bridge, passed over
at 2 O'Clock this afternoon, allowing
travel to be resumed after thirty hours
interruption caused by washout.
The bridge is 900 feet long. The
spain is $50 between the main piers, the
longest span of that type in America.
Five passenger trains held each side of
the river by the washout, proceeded at 8
O'Clock. The formal opening will prob
ably occur on the Goth.
Its completion just as a big washout
occurred was extremely fortunate. The
new bridge is thirteen miles below the
old one at Mojave cafion, at the foot of
the Needles mountain. Thirteen miles
of new track was built, making the route
81 miles longer. Ten miles OF old track
on the east bank of the river and the old
wooden bridge will be taken up at once.
The building of temporary track
around the big washout has been aban-
doned since the new bridge is in use.
The river is still rising rapidly, and
cutting away the east bank and old road
bed
Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-11
CROP CONDITIONS.
A Falling OFF of One Point in Winter
Grain During April.

Grain During April.
WASHINGTON, May 10.-The official re-
port of the condition of winter grain,
May 1st, makes reduction of one point
in wheat, the average being 80. The
rye average is maintained, being 93.5
barley, S4.6. The areas in which the
roots were not too severely frozen, have
improved during the past month; in
others the injury is shown to
be greater than appearances indicated.
The heaviest decline in the condition
appears in Indiana and Illinois. Part of
the Ohio breadth improved, while the
larger part declined, causing fall of
five points for the state.
There is a partial recovery from the
very low condition of April on the
Pacific coast, and improvement in
Kansas, Michigan, Kentucky and Ten
nessee and in New York. The aver
age conditions for the principal
producing states are as follows
New York, 81; Pennsylvania, SO I;
Ohio, 80; Michigan, 73; Indiana, 63
Illinois, "a; Missouri, S2; Kansas, 90;
California, 82 Oregon, SO.
The reported progress of spring plow-
ing and planting indicates an average
state of forwardness of farm work. 1t is
evident that the depression in prices OF
corn and oats and other products has
not affected the wages Of agricultural
labor.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-11
Cured by Cuticura

having no use of his hands l Immediately
commenced with the CUTICURA REMEDIES,
using all freely. One sore after another healed,
bony matter forming in each one of these five
deep ones just before healing, which would
finally grow loose and were taken out; then
they would heal rapidly. One of these ugly
bone formations 1 preserved. After taking
dozen and half bottles he was completely
cured, and is now, at the age of six years,
strong and healthy child
MRS z. s. briggs,
612 e. Clay street, Bloomington, Ill.
May 0, 1885.
The child was really in worse condition than
he appeared to his grandmother, who, being
with him every day, became accustomed to the
ulsease. MAGGIE HOPPING.
September 13, 1sSs-No return of disease to
date. ESD
Your letter of inquiry in regard to the perma-
nency of the cure (by the CUTIcURA REMEDIEs),
OF my little grandson, was duly received, and
am happy to say he remains perfectly well, and
has no sores and no signs of scrofula. If he gets
cut or a bruise it heals readily and the child
Is well. MRS E. s. briggs.
612 E. Clay street, Bloomington, Ill.
February 7, 1890.