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

AT the opening OF tho term OF Jne
Supreme Court in Binghamton, N. Y,
on tho oath Judge Parker granted
motion to dismiss the case against ex-
Alderman Cleary, of New York, indicted
for bribery. Letters were read from
District Attorney Fellows, of New York,
saying he deemed it unwise to continue
the case on account of the difficulty in
tho way of producing evidence.
IT is reported that the mills of the
Central Rubber Trust at Trenton, N j.,
have been purchased by an English
syndicate. There are seven Trenton
companies in the trust. The amount
involved is over So, 900, 900.
AT Augusta, Ca, on tho 23d the three
children of Hunt Bead, aged six, four
and two years, were playing in their
home, when the house by some means
unexplainable caught fire and the three
children we're burned to death.
PRINCIPAL WALSH, of the Pittsfeld
(Mass.) high school, recently expelled
six pupils, children of Roman Catholic
parents, because of the refusal of their
parents to allow them to study the sub
iect of the Reformation in Myers his
tory.
On the 21st Herbert Dean, engineer
on the towboat Maggie Reany at Mem
phis, Tenn, shot and killed Frank Cary
and wounded Harry Connolly, both
roustabouts. The shooting was done in
self-defense.
A FREIGHT wreck occurred on the
Pennsylvania road near Bolivar, Pa,
on the Gath. Two engines and twenty
cars were demolished, but no lives were
lost.
THE bodies of John and Thomas
Kelly, aged respectively twenty-five
and twenty-eight years, were found off
the steamboat dock at Sing Sing, N. Y,
on the cath. They are supposed to have
been accidentally drowned.
THE Superior Ice Company's big build
ingat Bayfield,, Wis, collapsed on the
oath. One man was fatally and several
others more or less seriously hurt. The
building contained $50, 900 pounds of ice.
THE tug boat Flora exploded her
boiler twenty-five miles below Mobile,
Ala, On the gath, The boat was blown
into splinters and sank at once. Engi-
neer Grimely and his son were killed;
also the colored cook. Several others
we're badly hurt
The Law and Order League of the
United States has decided to change it's
name to the International Law and Or
der League, and it will now include
leagues of the different provinces in
Canada as we'll as the leagues of the sew
eral States of the Union.
SECRETARY PROCTOR has issued an or
der directing that the field or union of
the national flag in use in the army and
navy consist, after July 4, 1890, of forty
two white stars in six rows of seven
stars each, in blue field.
III. L. HALL, a brakeman who lost his
leg while coupling cars for the Rock
Island Railroad Company, was on the
gath awarded $1,000 damages in the
District Court of Fairfield, la.
THE New York Central Labor Union is
divided upon the question of the eight
hour movement, but will assist in the
preparations. President Gompers is
confident of ultimate success, and thinks
there will be no general strike.
THE first Slavish convention ever held
in the United States began in Allegheny
City, Pa, on the gath. The object of the
convention is to form national organi-
zation for the purpose of looking after
the interests of Hungarians in all parts
OF the country and establish system
by which these people can be properly
educated and their rights protected.
A FIRE at Dubuque, Ia, on the oath
destroyed the Globe building occupied
by Pratt Bros. as clothing house. Loss,
$50, 900; insured.
AT Lancaster, Pa, Cashier Bard of
the Lincoln National Bank, and Hull,
his accessory, charged with robbing the
bank of $42, 900, were examined on the
25th and held in $4,000 bail for trial
THE establishment of Charles c. Car
penter, manufacturer of rubber goods,
ETC., New York City, was seized by the
sheriff on the 25th. Liabilities, 500, 600;
assets about the same.
Two Lake Erie g. Western freight
trains collided at Hilton, ILL.,, on the
25th. A brakeman named Benjamin
was killed and another named Hall had
leg cut off. Both engines and forty
cars were completely wrecked.
On the 25th the county court house
and Jail in Vancouver, Wash, were to-
tally destroyed by ire together with
most of the county records.
The annual encampment of the New
York Department G. A. R. began at
| Syracuse on the 25th. Commander-in-
Chief Alger was present and made a
speech.
The grand jury at New York on the
25th found two indictments against
Cashier Van Zandt of the Lenox Hill
bank, one for forgery and the other for
perjury in connection with the bank
wrecking. Van Zandt was arrested and
placed under SIS, 600 bail by Judge Martin.
A SENSATION has been created at At
lanta, Ga, over the disappearance of
Thomas III. McKinnon, prominent
renting agent, who is short several
thousand dollars in his accounts. 1t is
asserted that McKinnon left with
woman with whom he had been init
mate, leaving his wife and family be-