Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-10-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.

iceberg 800 feet high and 600 feet long.
Business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended October IL number 2l5, as COM
pared with total Of 1877 the previous
week. For the corresponding week Of
last year tho figures were 214.
TuE Illinois Supreme Court, on mo-
tion OF the Attorney General, has con-
tinued the Cronin case to the next term.
The continuance was granted on account
of the largo abstracts and briefs of the
plaintiff in error and insufficient time
to prepare an answer.
The population of the State OF New
York, as announced by tho Census
Bureau, is 59sl, ,033; increase s99, ,0G3, or
17.69 per cent
THE jury in the case OF Nettie S. Clark,
on trial at Providence, r. l., charged
with forgery, disagreed on the 10th,
standing ten for acquittal and two for
coviction. She was admitted to bail in
the sum OF 1000 and the Indictment
against her continued.
A FIRE at Brainerd, Mimi, on the
10th destroyed the Commercial Hotel,
and number of adjoining buildings,
causing loss of 500, 900; insured for
about one-fourth.
THE Indianapolis Car and Manufac-
turing Company has gone into a re-
ceiver's hand. Liabilities, $3.50, 900; as
sets, 5000, 900. The receiver will carry
on the business.
A PECULIAR suicide was that of
Edward Cation, cigarmaker, near the
White House at Washington on the
10th. He squeezed his head between
the ratings of the fence that surround
the grounds and choked himself to
death.
AT meeting OF the presidents Of all
the trunk lines in New York City on the
10th, it was agreed to advance the rates
on all eastbound freights, the advance
to go into effect as soon as navigation
closes.
In the Circuit Court at Bloomington,
ILL.,, on the 10th Leonard Matthew,
Chicago & Alton brakeman, was given
Judgment against that road for $40, 900.
He was knocked off train by an over
head bridge at Joliet and suffered severe
injuries to his spine.
THE October estimates Of yields per
aero for tho entire breadth of cereal
crops, as consolidated by tho Depart
ment of fAgriculture, are: Winter wheat,
10.S bushels per acre; spring wheat Ills,
oats 1913, barley 81, rye Ills.
AT the annual meeting of the North
western branch of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society in indianapolis,
Ind, reports of the officers showed that
the total receipts from all sources, in
cluding last years balance, were S5S,
SS721; expenditures, $45, $40. IS; leaving
balance of IS, S,OG5.45 on hand. All the
except 81, 900 for home
expenses, went to foreign fields.
WILLIAM II. SCHRIEBER, of Columbus,
Ind, who robbed the First National
Bank and fled with the funds to Canada,
in 1880, and who was recently captured
in Detroit, has been sentenced to pay
fine of $500 and serve twelve years in
the penitentiary.
WHILE six persons on horse back were
passing over an unfinished bridge near
Webster Spring, w. Va, on the 11th,
the structure gave way and all were
precipitated into the Elk river, forty
feet below. Two horses were killed and
five persons were wounded, two probably
fatally.
A FIRE at Manistee. Mich, on the 11th
destroyed Louis Sands RED" mill salt
block, salt shed and 1000, 600 shingles.
Loss about $l50,000, insurance, $50, 600.
A COMMITTEE has been formed in San
Francisco to raise from the women of
California fund of $4,000 for the pur-
pose of purchasing suitable home for
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont and her
daughter. About 81, 600 has already
been subscribed.
AN express train on the Missouri,
Kansas g. Texas railroad was held up by
four masked men near Schell City, Mo-,
on the 11th. AS the train stopped at
water tank the engine was mounted
from each side by the robbers who COM
pelled the engineer to dismount and
knock at the express door for admit
tance. The messenger opened the door
and succeeded in convincing the would
be robbers that the train did not carry
any money, and they allowed it to pro-
coed.
CoRNELIA V. E. MILLER and Priscilla
Field were arrested at New York on the
10th, charged with receiving stolen prop
erty amounting to $3.50, 1000. The women
are the wives of London bankers styled
Field & Co., who failed recently for
$500, 900, and it is alleged that the
women come to this country with funds
which should have properly been ap-
piled to liquidation of portion of the
firms debts. They will be held for ex-
tradition.
AT a meeting OF the Flint and Lime
Glass Manufacturers Association in
Pittsburgh on the 9th, an advance OF not
quite five per cent was made in prices.
JOHN ID. DAWES, Sons & Co., whole
sale druggists of Pittsburgh, were closed
by the sheriff on the 11th. Liabilities,
$50, 600; estimated assets about the same.
AS an Illinois Central train was near
ing Thomasboro, ILL.,, on the 18th. the
engineer discovered that his train was
broken in two. A moment later tho
rear section dashed into the forward
section, demolishing several cars. Two