Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-06
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
INTERNAL revenue receipts for tho
first four months of the present fiscal
year aggregated S51 ,O2s, $50, or an in
crease over the corresponding months of
the last fiscal year of 4,245, 800.
AT Jersey City, N. j., on the 2sth ult
John Whalen, Joseph G. Mulrain, David
Gordon and Martin ]. White, recently
convicted of ballot-box stufllng, were
sentenced by Judge Lippincott to one
year and six months hard labor in
State prison.
BENJAMIN WRIGHT, aged eighty-two,
died at Trenton, N. j., on the 2sth ult.
He had eaten nothing for five months
on account of stomach trouble, and was
reduced to skin and bone.
THE accounts of the pos tmaster at
New Orleans for the first twenty-five
days of November have been received
st the Post-otfice Department They
show that the receipts for tho period
were 81, 1874, against S33, 552 for the first
Twenty-Five days of last year, when the
lottery law was not in force.
AT Lincoln, Neb., on the 2Sth ult.
John Barlow accidentally shot II. II.
Bliss, prominent business man of
Steele City, killing him instantly.
THE failure of B. X. Jameson & Co.,
bankers and brokers, was announced on
the Philadelphia stock exchange on the
assets was made.
MARTIN ID. LoPPY, who was convicted
of murder in the first degree for killing
his wife on July 4tb last, was on the
2sth ult sentenced to death by electro
eution within the week beginning jan
uary 8, 1891, at Sing Sing N. Y.
LYMAN MowRY, an attorney of San
Francisco whose principal clientage is
among the Chinese, has just returned
from China where he went in the inter-
est of the Tehauntepec railroad. At
Canton he contracted for 5000 men to
work on the railroad. They will be
shipped direct to the field of labor.
1HE extensive barrel and stave works
were destroyed by fire on the Goth ult
entailing loss of $4,000: insured for
$685. 600
THE officers of the Brazilian squadron
visited the Executive Mansion on the
2Sth ult. and were received by the Pres
aent and Cabinet The Brazilian Ad-
miral presented to the President gold
medal, weighing nearly pound. as
token of friendship. The medal is
handsomely designed, bearing on one
side the Brazilian coat of arms and on
the other the insignia of the United
States
In freight wreck which occurred on
the 29th ult on the Spokane branch of
the Union Pacific railroad, near Pendle-
ton, Ore, the engineer, fireman and
one brakeman were killed, and another
brakeman fatally injured.
WILLIAM BLYTHE and Harlow Ben
nett, of Wolcott with James Ferguson
and Calvin +. Campbell, of Oswego
went hunting in boat on Sodus Bay,
sixteen miles from Oswego, N. Y, on
the 27th ult Two days later their boat
was found on tho beach and the men
are missing.
b. r. BEocKINaToN, the leading mer-
chant of Hillsboro, Tex, has made an
assignment, with liabilities amounting
to over 500, 900; assets not known.
The threshing machine men of the
United States are busily engaged in
forming q gigantic trust, which it is
thought will rival in maqnitude the re-
Gently formed American Harvester Com
pany. temporary organization was ef- |
fected at Chicago on the Goth ult. and |
articles of incorporation will soon be |
fled.
tHE pension appropriation bill for the |
next fiscal year, as agreed upon by the |
su subcommittee having it in charge, ap-
propriates $lSS, l730s for the payment |
OF pensions and S1,5Oo,OOO for examin-
ing surgeons.
GOVERNMENT receipts from all sources |
during November past aggregated $685.
9S6, l24, against $3o,746, 967 in Novem-
ber, 1889.
AT the hearing before the Congress
Htonal Committee on Immigration in |
Seattle, Wa, on the Goth ult., Collector |
Bradshaw, of the Puget Sound district, |
stated that at least fifty or sixty Chinese |
are smuggled across the Canadian border
each month. He recommended that the |
Government purchase two swift steam |
launches to patrol the Sound.
JOHNSTON, BUCK & Co., bankers at |
Ebensburg, Cambria County, Pa, closed |
their doors on the Goth ult owing to the |
failure of B. X. Jameson & Co., of |
Philadelphia They promise to pay dol
hr for dollar within year.
FHE Bossemer plant OF the Bethlehem |
Iron Company. at Bethlehem, Pa, has
shut down for an indefinite period,
throwing 1,200 men out Of work. Scarcity |
Of orders is the. alleged cause of tho |
A RECEIVER Of the Knights of Aurora
will shortly be appointed by Judge !
Hicks, OF Minneapolis, owing to fraud,
and unlawful prac tices In |
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