Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-03
the EAST.

THE EAST.
The first case in which the Illinois
compulsory education law has been
tested was decided in the Circuit Court
at Tuscola on the 23d, and the truant
officer was fined for arresting a boy who
was absent from school without leave.
A gang of terfeiters-Jeremiah
Wilt, Edward Brisban, John Sipe and
John Brisban-were arrested by United
States officers at Stoyestown, Pa, on
the 25th. At the house of John Brisban
was found a mold for half dollars and
q lot of counterfeit money.
Business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended April 25 number 21S, as compared
with a total of PA the previous week.
For the corresponding week of last year
the figures were 2l3.
The Reading Railroad Company's large
furnace at Temple, Pa, has resumed
operations after an idleness of seven
years. The first cast was made on the
25th. This is one of the companys best
| furnaces.
Deputy Sheriff Davis, of Newark, n.
j., who has been missing several DAYS,
| is believed to be defaulter. Davis has
held Office for twenty-one years and for
the last ten years has not been required
to file bonds.
The cases of Aaron Berier, Jacob,
Benjamin and Julius Smith, the four
men arrested for setting the fire in
North street which caused the loss of
ten lives on February ., were brought
up in the municipal court at Boston, on
the 25th. The cases were continued to
May 16, the four being held in $4,000
bail each.
John c. Graham, clerk in the en-
ploy of the company for insurance on
lives and granting annuities, at Phila-
delphia, waived hearing and was COM
mitted on the 25th to answer the charge
of embezzlement of about 1000 belong
ing to his employers.
Daniel Rittman, proprietor of the
Union brewery, at Altoona, Pas while
intoxicated on the 25th, made desper-
ate attempt to kill his wife and then
shot himself, dying instantly. The wife
will probably recover.
Another fire in the ruins of the Uni
corn Silk Mill at Catasauqua, Pa, has
caused further damage of $4,000, a
quantity of silk stored in the vaults
being destroyed.
John O'Brien, the noted Republican
leader in the Eighth New York Assem-
bly, district, died at Coney Island on the
27th, aged forty-eight years.
The Pittsburgh Commission Company,
the largest bucket shopin Pennsylvania,
suspended payment on the Goth. The
liabilities are $4,000; assets nothing.
| Caspar Soer, chief clerk in the money
order department of the Newark IN. j.
| post-office, has surrendered himself as a
defaulter in the sum of about SIS, 600.
The Rochester IN. " Wheel Com
| pany's works were damaged by fire to
! the extent of S25, 900 on the Goth. Three
firemen were injured by falling from q
ladder.
The propeller s. f. Hodge with car
go of 5000 barrels of flour from Duluth,
Mimi, arrived at Buffalo, N. Y, on the
27th, being the first boat from Lake
Superior this season.
Nelson P. Stratton, one of the pio-
| neers of American matchmaking, died
recently at Philadelphia, aged seventy
| one.
The Grant Birthday Association held
banquet at Delmonico's, New York
City, on the Goth to commemorate the
anniversary uof the Generals birth.
About so guests were present, includ-
ing Mrs. Grant. Addresses were made
by General Sherman, C. NJ. Depew and
others.
The weekly statement Of the New
York associated banks, issued on the
Goth, shows the following changes: Re-
serve increase, 81, OOS, 775; loans decrease,
S4, 207, 500; specie decrease, ,$631 900; legal
tenders increase, $l,74S, 400; deposits de-
crease, S3,6O5, 500; circulation increase,
IS, 400. The banks held SS, 1888, 325 in ex-
cess of the twenty per cent. rule.