Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-01-08

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A BLOCK of six buildings at Macon,
Mo-, was destroyed by fire on the goth
ult., entailing loss of $4,000.
FOLLOWING are the changes noted in
the weekly statement Of the New York
associated banks, issued on the 2sth ult.:
Reserve decrease, S1,372, ,050 loans in
crease, 81, 500; specie decrease, ST.
226, 900; legal tenders decrease, $50, 900;
deposits increase, s344,2oo; circulation
decrease, S115, 200. The banks held 81
O21 ,675 in excess of the twenty-five per
cent. rule.
GERTRUDE RAPP, granddaughter of
George Rapp, founder of the Economic
society, died at Economy, Pa, on the
3oth ult aged eighty-one years. The
death of Miss Rapp reduces the member
ship Of the society to twenty-nine.
BRApsTREET's reports 11,719 failures
in the United States for the year 1889
with liabilities of $40, ,359, 400 and assets
$40, 500, 769. The increase in the num-
ber of failures over 1888 is 1, ,132, increase
in liabilities $50, 17,oss, increase in
assets, $500, s5s.
THE bending and spoke works of Dow
ney Bros, and the umbrella factory of
Samuel Downey at Lancaster, Pa, was
destroyed by fire on the 30th ult. Loss,
$4,000
Four HUNDRED youths, composing the
Chicago Press Feeders Union, struck
for an advance in pay on the S0th ult.
They were receiving from 81 to 50
week and gave two hours notice of a
demand for S10.5O. Except in one in
stance the demand was refused.
THE Dunkard college at Bridgewater,
Va, was burned OIL the 30th ult. There
are now only two colleges in the United
States belonging to the denomination
one at Mt. Morris, ILL.,, and one at Hun
Pa.
GOVERNOR RICHARDSON of South
Carolina has issued proclamation Of
fering a reward of 5000 for the appre-
hension and conviction of each and
every one of the parties concerned in
the recent lynching of eight negroes at
Barnwell, in that State.
THE electric light companies of New
York will bring suit against the city for
their wires. The total amount de-
manded will be about So, 900, 900, part of
which is for damage to property and
part for loss of business.
TwENTYsIX persons, passengers on
the Chesapeake & Ohio train wrecked at
White Sulphur Springs few days ago,
have signed a paper stating that in their
opinion, after examination, the cause of
the wreck was rotten ties, defective
rail and too high rate of speed.
PETER JACKSON, the colored pugilist,
has cabled from London his acceptance
of the terms offered by the California
Athletic Club for meeting with John
l.. Sullivan.
JAMES e. MOORE, said to be the gen.
eral agent in Chicago of the Louisiana
was arrested in that city on
the Both ult., charged with circulating
an almanac containing reading matter
relating to the lottery-its advantages,
honesty, etc. He gave bonds for his ap-
pearance and denied that he is now the
agent of the lottery.
AN advance in wages averaging ~
cents per ton was inaugurated at Car
negie's Homestead (Pa.) steel works on
the 1st
JUDGE LAWRENCE, of the New York
Supreme Court, handed down a short
opinion on the 30th ult. in which he
says in effect that Colonel William w.
who is suing half dozen New
York newspapers for alleged libel in the
of the "Blocks of Five" let
ter, can not expect favors from the court
when he persistently refuses to obey its
orders.
A CIRCULAR offering a reward of SIS, 900
for the apprehension of Silcott, the
cashier of the sergeant-at-
arms Office of the House of Representa-
tives, has been sent to the various po-
lice headquarters throughout the coun-
try. Attached to the circular is a por-
trait of the defaulter.
NEAR Muncie, Ind, on the 30th ulu.,
as Allen Anderson, his wife and two
children were approaching the city in a
wagon, a tree fell across the road on the
vehicle, instantly killing the father and
one of the children. The mother and
other child were unframed.
On the 3Oth ult. Secretary Window
telegraphed instructions to the various
sub-treasurers to pay, upon presenta-
tidAl, the checks for interest on the four
per cent. loan due on January and on
Pacific railroad bonds, amounting to
nearly SS,00O,000.
AT the general term of the Fifth De-
partment Court in Rochester, N. Y, on
the 3Oth ult. Judge Dwight handed down
a decision in the case of Kemmler, the
murderer, condemned to death under
the new law providing for the execution
of criminals by electricity, which the
court holds to be constitutional.
"DENNY" BRADY, leader of a once no
torious gang of Hudson river pirates,
died in New York hospital on the 3Oth
ult. He was for many years the terror
of the river police, his gang going from
town to town along the Hudson in a
sailboat and committing many daring
burglaries.