Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-04-12
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

prove plans for the erection of an asy-
lum for the epileptic insane.
HOWARD CRAWFORD swung s-lb 1o-oz
Indian clubs at New Lisbon for hours
and 81 minutes, and then quit because
his audience, not himself, was tired
THE post-office at Abeshia, Scioto
County, was entered the other night by
burglars, stealing money and stamps.
McCowen, postmaster, offers a reward
for the arrest of the burglars.
THE House authorized the sinking
fund commissioners to settle the $780,
900 claims of the State against Albert
Meter.
TRAIN No. is on tho Big Four struck
John Orr two miles west of Larue a few
nights ago, and killed him instantly.
JAMES RowLEY, employed at the
Portsmouth Wheel Works, met with
terrible accident by the breaking of a
large buzz saw, the other morning, tear
ing both arms off. He will die.
JAMES WooD, poor carpenter of
Springfield, received intelligence two
moths ago that he was heir to an inn
mense fortune in Chester, England. He
went over, Investigated, and found the
report true. He, with four others, is
heir to 5000, 900 in land and money. His
claim has been filed in the Chancery
court and he will get the money in few
! weeks. The fortune was left by his
grandfather a sea captain. Mr. Wood
returned to Springfield the other day.
THE bill now before Congress extend
ing the free-delivery system of the
Post-office Department to places con-
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five thousand within it's corporate limits,
or at any post-ofiice which produced a
gross revenue the preceding fiscal year
of $1,000, will include the following
towns in this State: Alliance, Ashland,
Ashtabula, Bellair, Bellefontaine, Buoy
rus, Circleville, Defiance, Gallon, Gal
lipolis, Greenville, Hillsborough, Iron
ton Kenton, Lancaster, Lebanon, Mar
ion, Mount Vernon, Pomeroy, Paines-
vile Sidney, Troy, Van Vert, WASH
ingto G. III.
COLUMBUS B. P. w. is composed of
Messrs. w. w. Wall, E. L. Hinman,
Jos. Schwartz and James M. Loren. d.
ID. Williams is city auditor.
THE largest rolling-mill at Pomeroy
81 nut in operation recently, after
h.> than three years of idleness.
CoIoEED men of Cincinnati have in
corporated a building and loan company
the first of tho kind in Ohio.
JOHN ToNGAss, the tramp fiend who
murdered his boy companion and burned
the body,is convicted by Celina jury of
murder in the second degree.
SAMUEL A. LANDERs, sentenced to
the penitentiary from Holmes County
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handouts after alighting from the train
at Columbus the other afternoon, while
enroute to the pen with the sheriff, and
made good his escape. Another prisoner
with him attempted to follow, but was
chased by crowd on North High street
and captured.
The following fourth-class postmas-
ters were commissioned on the 4th:
Charm, Holmes County, ]. P. Miller;
Sparta, Morrow County, ]. d. Vail
WHILE uncoupling cars on the c., L.
& w. railway at New Philadelphia, Ed
ward Shammell, of Uhrichsville, fell
under the train and was killed. His
widow lost former husband in rail-
road accident near the same place two
years ago.
WHILE mining for sand at Gaysport,
fourteen miles below GAINESVILLE, on the
Muskingum, workmen found, rs feet
back in the hill, an iron bolt over two
feet long and two skeletons of aborigi-
nes.
BRocKY SMITH makes the fifth mur-
derer in the Ohio penitentiary waiting
to take the rope route; one murdered q
little girl, another an old woman, the
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and the fifth his mother. Two murders
were committed for money, two for re-
venge and one for pure deviltry.
AN unknown person placed large
torpedo on the street railroad track at
Canton. 1t was discovered in time to
prevent damage
MoRITZ GRETHER, saloon-keeper at
Canton, was fatally shot by drunken
man whom he refused to sell glass Of
beer.
BURGLARS took suit of clothes and a
small amount of jewelry from the resi-
dence of w. Il. Schlabach at Canton.
THE nomination of General John G..
Mitchell as pension agent at Columbus
has been sent to the Senate.
CINCINNATI Socialists have nominated
q full city tickot
THE Board of Managers of the peni-
tentiary paroled the following prisoners
the other night: Anna McCord, Hamil-
ton County, grand larceny, two years;
VIM. Rudy, Darke County, burglary and
larceny, one and half years; Thomas
Archer, Morrow County, cutting to
wound, five years; George Gallogly,
Muskingum County, manslaughter, four
teen years; Truman Golden, Summit
County, burglary, three years; Charles
Folk. Hamilton County, horse-stealing,
five years; Albert Edwards, Franklin
County, burglary, three years; Ora Judy,
Franklin County, attempt at larceny, six
years; Lemon Denis, Montgomery Coun-
ty, burglary and larceny, one and half
years.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL has appointed
Nathan Ahlefeld, Ferdinand f. Remple.
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