Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-11-15

in the case OF tho recent ROCK Cut dis
aster on the D., L. 6 w. railroad rsn-
dered verdict that it was occasioned
by Flagman and Operator Michael A.
Clark, who recklessly raised the lever
OF the switch, thereby causing the col
lision.
FIVE dwellings in the central part Of
fremont, Pa, were destroyed by fire on
the sth, entailing loss of $685.
ONE OF the largest pension allowances
made to disabled soldiers of the war of
tho rebellion was recently secured by
John Jones, of Richfeld, N. Y. He be-
longed to New York regiment of vol
unteers, and injuries received at tho
battle of Charlottesville resulted in
total blindness. Jones is allowed S72 n
month during life with SIS, sos back pay.
AT st. Louis on the Sth William
Charlton, eight years old, and his sister
Calida, aged six, were playing at their
home, the boy having a small shot gun.
Accidentally the gun was discharged,
the contents entering the mouth of the
little girl, causing instant death.
ALL the prisoners in the Mercer
County wv. Va.) Jail, ten in number, in
cluding three murderers, escaped on the
night of the 7th, and at last accounts
had not been recaptured.
AT Chicago on the Sth Judge McCon-
nell issued an order of custer against
the Chicago Gas Trust, forbidding it to
hold the stock of any other gas or cleo
trio light company, and assessing
against it the costs of the prosecution.
The Supreme Court will decide as to the
legality of Judge McConnells judgment
of custer.
THE whaler Charles w. Morgan, just
arrived at San Francisco from the
Okhotsk Sea, reports the loss of six of
her crew, while chasing q whale during
dense fog.
In the United States Supreme Court
an the 10th Justice Field, IN the case of
Crowley, chief of police of San Fran
cisco, VS.. Henry Christensen, delivered
on opinion declaring that the San Fran
cisco police commissioners had arbitrary
discretion to grant or refuse liquor Ii
censes.
o. G. DEAvER bookkeeper in the
Franklin National Bank of Baltimore,
Md, has been arrested, charged with the
embezzlement of over S4, 600 of the banks
funds.
AN epidemic of hog cholera in the
vicinity of Oskaloosa, Ia, is taking the
animals off by the score. Within two
weeks M. X. Price e. Son have lost
$4,000 worth of prize hogs from the
disease.
The sheriff of New York has been OBJ
1inad to raturp npcaticfiod tho axopu-
tions on three judgments aggregating
over 5000, 600 entered against the Duchess
of Marlborough for money borrowed in
England, as the office has been unable
to find any property to levy on.
THE Union Railroad Company at
Providence, r. l., was served with Il
writ on the 10th in suit to recover S20,-
600 for injuries sustained by R. Fl. Vaile
while passenger on an Ocean street
car which collided with fat car laden
with flagstone in September last.
REPORTS of new and rich discoveries
of gold in the Arbuckle Mountains,
Chickasaw Nation, continue to come in
and miners are fiocking thither. Fiji
teen hundred leads have been struck
within an area of twenty-five miles
square.
THE November returns to the Depart
ment of Agriculture of rates of yield
per acre make the average for corn 1919
bushels; potatoes, 57.5; buckwheat, 14.5;
hay, 1.20 tons; tobacco, T1S pounds. The
corn crop makes the smallest yield re-
ported.
CHARLES CHAPTERS and Robert Fer
lnf
Mo-, on the 10th, on suspicion of having
wrecked Missouri Pacific westbound
passenger train at Otterville recently.
THE cotton returns for November to
the Department of Agriculture mako
the average yield 1877 pounds of lint per
acre. This is about the same as the
yield last year.
THE stables of Higgins & Smalley, at
Geneva, N. Y, burned on the 10th, to-
mules. In attempting to liberate the
horses, John Hall, a stableman, was
burned to death.
The superintendent of the Silver val
ley mines in Davidson County, N. c.,
reports the finding of tho richest de-
posits of silver ore ever found in the
South, large vein of carbonate of lead
carrying 10 to 100 ounces of silver and
80 per cent of lead in a ton of ore.
SAMUEL L. CLAYTON, son of Judge
Clayton of Chester, Pa, who is on the
eve of marriage with Miss Eveline
Partridge, daughter of the millionaire
pork packer of Chicago, has been sued
by Miss Annie Goodly, of South Chester,
for $40, 600 for breach of promise.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
IsADoRE Cook, just elected sheriff of
H. IL. l.