Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-04-26
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| England CompnnyS Shlpyaru at Bath,
Me-, who recently struck for an in
crease of fifty cents day, have re-
turned to work. The company granted
an increase of twenty-five cents.
Nine cases of smallpox were found
on board the bark Sarah, from Fayal,
detained at quarantine off Boston on
| the 18th.
General II. G. Sickel, formerly pension
| agent in Philadelphia and commander
of the Pennsylvania Reserves, died at
his home in that city on the nth.
| Louis FRANKIE & Co., dealers in raw
silks and manufacturers of thrown silks,
New York City, have failed. Liabilities
estimated at S1,OOo,OO and nominal
| assets about 81, 800, 900.
Mrs. Carrie Vandergrift, one of the
most prominent women of Burlington,
N. j., has been indicted by the grand
jury for Attempting to poison her son,
Frank c. Norman, aged twenty-three.
Tho bill granting municipal suffrage
to women has been rejected by the lower
house of the Massachusetts, Legislature.
At q meeting in Pittsburgh on the 18th
of the Western Cut Nail Association il
was decided to advance the price of
nails to the 81 base, less ten cents for
carload lots.
Eleven horses were cremated in fire
which destroyed William Connolly's
livery stable on West Thirty-eighth
street, New York City, on the 18th.
Loss, $500
William Thorne, fruit dealer, com
mitted suicide in Albany, N Y, on the
18th by jumping from the Senate stair
way in the capitol to the floor below,
distance of seventy feet.
James S. Caswell, now serving n SEN
tence of imprisonment for life at Mont
pelier, VT, for the murder of George
Gould, was married on the 18th to Mrs
Louisa Gould, widow of his victim. The
marriage took place between the bars
of Caswell's cell.
The number of business failures oc-
curing throughout the country during
the seven days ended April Is was PA,
as compared with 2O9 the previous week.
For the corresponding week of last year
the figures were 246.
All the employees of Castle Garden
have been discharged, the Government
having ceased to use the place as an
emigrant landing station. The first i'm
migrant was landed at the Garden Au-
gust 5, 1855, and the last April 1s, 1890.
The jury in the case of ex-President
Henry w. King, of the Philadelphia
Institute for the Blind, who was charged
with criminal immoral practices with a
number Of the pupils of that institution.
rendered verdict on the 18th of guilty.
Sentence was deferred.
Robert Kurtz, Jr., on trial at Easton,
Pa, for the murder of John Weidman,
by hitting him in the head with beer
bottle, was convicted on the 2Sth of
voluntary manslaughter and sentenced
to six years Imprisonment.
EX-Conductor John Houghtaling, who
had charge of the train that was wrecked
some time ago at East Hamburg n. Y,
was to-day indicted by the Oyer and
Terminer grand jury for manslaughter
in the second degree. Bail was fixed at
$1,000.
The log house of Andrew Young at
Pennsville, Pa, was destroyed by fire
on the 10th, caused by the explosion of
coal oil lamp. Two small children of
Mr. Young were burned to death, and
Mrs. Sielfis, the housekeeper, was hor-
ribly burned while endeavoring to res
cue the children.
Ex-Governor James Pollock died at
Lock Haven, Pa, on the 10Th, aged
eighty years. He was a member of the
Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth and Thir-
tieth Congresses; Governor of Pennsyl-
vania in 1854; director of the Philadel-
phia mint in 1861; superintendent of the
mint in 1873 and Federal chief SUPER
visor of elections in 1856.
The sum of S665.75, raised by New
York firemen for the relief of the fire.
men injured at the recent indianapolis
fire, was forwarded on the 10th.
The weekly statement of the New
York associated banks, issued on the
10th, shows the following changes: Re-
serve increase. SS72, ,O5O; loans decrease,
$2,7SS, 220; specie decrease, S9Os, 500;
legal tenders increase, 81, ,444, 900; de-
posits decrease, $1,S54, 900; circulation
increase, $4,000. The banks held
81, 324. 45O in excess of the twenty-five
per cent rule.
AT Philadelphia on the goth Daniel
Mitchell and Joseph Kani were drowned
in the Delaware river by the upsetting
of their skitf. Three other men who
were in the boat were saved after being
in the water two hours. The party had
started out to spend the day fishing.
w. Clark's livery stables at Brooklyn,
N. Y, burned on the 10th and seventy
horses perished in the flames. Loss,
$4,000.
w. w. Hoppin died at his home in
Providence, r. l., on tho 10Th, aged
eighty-two years. He was Governor of
Rhode Island from 1854 to 1858.
The one hundred and fifteenth ami
versary of the battle of Lexington was
celebrated in that historic Massachu-
ietts town on the 10th. Business was
generally suspended, salutes were fired,
bells rung, and an old-fashioned break
fast served at the Massachusetts House.