Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-07-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


| lied the other morning of acute pneu-
monia, aged flfty.eight years He was
probably the best know person in the
| county.
JUDGE SENEY and Hon. Boston q.
Young will contest for the Democratic
Congressional nomination in the Eighth
District.
WALTER j. MULLINS was commlsslon-
ed Captain of Company d, Eighth Regi-
ment, Wooster and Chas A. Lehrer has
resigned as First Lieutenant OF Com
pany B, Sixteenth Regiment, Sandusky-
BURGLARS entered Mrs. Michael
| Burtscheys store at Findlay, took S25o
in cash, and set the goods on fire. The
whole stock was destroyed. Loss SG,ooo;.
insured for $4,000.
The Republican Convention for the
Tenth Congressional District will be
held at Washington c. H., July 80
THE Democratic Convention for the
| Eighth District will be held at Carey
Septemh' 10.
THE Lopublican Convention OF the
Twelfth District after 200 ballots, adj
iourned from Ironton to meet at CALI
polls, August 2s.
|
while bathing at Pomeroy.
THERE were five cases of sunstroke in
Cincinnati on the 27th, which resulted
fatally.
THE completed census returns show
| that Hamilton has population of l6,-
| S44
AT the Seventeenth District Repub-
lican convention, at Steubenville, Jo-
seph d. Taylor was renominat l, re-
| ceiving 1874 votes to Sc for John M.
| Cook.
OSCAR ADRAIN, of Dennison, went out
| to flag train on the Panhandle the
other morning, and while waiting went
to sleep on the track. He was struck
by passenger train and killed.
THE President has sent to the Senate
the name of Mrs. Minnie B. Taylor as
postmaster at Hicksville.
Miss MARY SIEss, a young lady of
twenty-eight years, living in Lima, had
not taken mouthful of solid food for
twenty-eight days up to the 27th. The
doctors say her case has no parallel in
medical science. For eight years she
has not been able to sit or stand erect.
She is bent almost double, her face now
being on level with her ankles. The
primary cause of her trouble is thought
to have been large tumor, which APP
peared upon her bowels in October, 1879.
This and spinal trouble have brought
about her present condition.
THE Republicans of Ross County have
nominated Milton S. Clark as their cam
didate for circuit Judge in the Fourth
Judicial District. Nomination was made
by acclamation.
| THE Democratic Congressional con-
vcntion of the Ninth District renomina-
ted Congressman Cultivate for his
fourth term by acclamation,
A DISPATCH from Census Superintend-
ent Porter gives Akron's census figures
as 81, 500 approximately. This is an in
crease of a little over 81 per cent. over
the figures of 1850.
AT Youngstown, John Williams, an
n. Y, p. and o. brakeman, attempted
to board an engine and fell under the
wheels and was crushed to death.
TIMELY discovery of their intentions
prevented the escape of four prisoners
from the Jail at Hillsboro, the other
night.
McGARvEY, of Lima, has filed suit
against the Solar Refining Company for
$4,000 damages He was operating a
machine for shearing iron sheeting, when
his clothes caught in the cog-wheels,
drawing him in, dislocating his shoul-
ders, and injuring him otherwise perma-
nently.
JOHN SUIBIE, coal miner at Saline
vile, Columbiana County, was blinded
and horribly disfgured about the face
by the premature discharge of a blast.
JAMES PATTON was crushed by gum
rack falling on him in the armory at
New Lexington. He will recover.
WIILAMETrA KING, young lady,
aged twenty years, was sentenced to.
the pcnitentiary for two years. for man
slaughter, at New Lexington.
THE census just finished makes the
population of Columbus 1l3, T9T-a gain
of l,s1S in ten years.
ONE of Springfcld's big men polit-
ically weighs sixty pounds and is forty
six inches high. 1t is Councilman Joe
Leffel.
HoN. GEORGE w. HALE, of Lima,
has been appointed Game Warden for
Ohio
AN Ohio boy takes high honors at
Yale, and an Ohio girl one of the
honors at Georgetown ID. c. acad-
emy.
DURING storm, the other night, ono
of unusual severity, Howard Miller a
small boy, was struck by lightning and
killed while emerging from n Sunday
school near his home, just north of Can
| tor.
AT an election at Cuyahoga Falls, it.
was decided, by n vote of 202 to 271, to
have open saloons. They have been
closed for two years
AT Piquaa young man named Toughey
Jones, jumped from the top of build
ing into the canal. about fifty feet be-
meath, striking on his back, but without.
injury.
A SUDDEN rise in the Muskingum