Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-23

| thrown over an cmbankmont at Mans
field, Pa, by a rear end collision on the
Panhandle road. Two drovers and the
engineer and fireman of the rear train
we're badly hurt A large number of
cattle were killed.
| SUPERINTENDENT PORTER estimates
that when the entire count is finished
the population of the country will be
about $4,000, ,0O0-an increase of about
thirty per cent. during the decade.
A DISASTROUS wreck occurred on the
10th on the st. Louis, Alton 81 SPRING
fold railroad, near Clifton Terrace, Ill.
A construction train and passenger train
collidcd on curve, while both were
running twenty miles an hour. The pas
sengers escaped with slight bruises.
Three persons were killed and fourteen
injured on the construction train. Both
| engines and several cars were badly
wrecked.
AT Ashland, Wis, on the 10th Phelps
Perrin was found guilty of robbery of
the Iron Exchange Bank and sentenced
to five years imprisonment. Forty thou
sand dollars was stolen from the bank
on the night of September 10, 1889.
Edward Baker, who was charged jointly
with Perrin with the commission of the
crime, was convicted month ago and is
now serving Ave years sentence in
State prison.
Ar Hamlin, w. Va, the trial of John
Allen, Charles Morgan, Frank Blum
field, Howard Fry and Burwell Fanler,
charged with the murder of Green Nc
Coy and Milton Haley, over a year ago,
has ended in a verdict of not guilty. In
July, 1889, Allen Blumenfield, Sr., and
his wife were ambushed on Hart's creek
and fatally shot. Mccoy and Haley
were arrested, charged with the crime,
but were taken from the officers on
their way to Jail and killed. The parties
just discharged were accused of killing
the two men.
AT Webster Station, N. Y, on the 18th
Mr.. Boynton, aged seventy-five years,
Mrs. Frank Taylor and her infant son
were instantly killed by passenger
train. Boynton was driving across the
track in buggy and did not heed the
approaching train.
THE Crystal flour mills at Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, were burned on the 10th, en-
failing a loss of $40, 600.
JOSEPH A. JAMESON, millionaire anG
well known member of the New y ork
firm of Jameson, Smith e. Co., bankers
and brokers, suicided by hanging him
self at the residence of his sister on
Fifth avenue, on the 18th. Temporary
insanity caused by illness is given as the
cause.
ADDISON GRIGG, formerly prominent
merchant at st. Joseph, Mo-, was ar
rested at San Francisco few days ago
on the charge of embezzling 1000
while acting as agent at ST. Joseph
of w. f. johnson & Co., board of trade
firm of Chicago.
THE Louisville, New Orleans & Texas
Railroad Company has filed in the chan
Gerry clerks office of Adams County,
Miss, three mortgages aggregating
SAG, ,344, 900. The mortgages include the
whole line of road from Memphis to
New Orleans, and are given to the
Metropolitan and Union Trust COM
panies of New York, to secure first and
second mortgage bonds.
A VERY poor counterfeit of the $50
silver certificate has made it's appear
ance in the South. 1t is of the act of
1878, series 1880, check letter C, with
Decaturs portrait. 1t is of Photographic
production, and the entire impression
is very indistinct.
On the 18th Albert Lawrence, son of
the late superintendent of the San Fran
cisco waterworks, Michael Quinn, Mary
Carl, and Miss Mcnamara were drowned
in Crystal Springs Lake, California, by
the capsizing of yacht in squall. The
bodies were shortly afterwards re-
covered.
THE stables of the Lion Brewery at
Harlem, n. Y, burned on the 18th,
causing a loss of Sl75.o Forty-ive
horses out of 13S in the stables perished.
THE strike on the Mackey system,
which has tied up freight traffic over
the Peoria, Decatur e Evansville rail-.
road for several days, ended on the 10th.
The men struck for the Chicago scale,
which was granted.
THE machine paper mill of the Patton
Paper Company at Appleton, Wis,
burned on the 10th. Loss, $3.50, 900; half
insured.
STEERAGE passengers from Europe to
the number of $3.50 passed through the
barge office at New York last week.
THE bursting of boiler in the gas
works at Lincoln, Neb., on the 18th
caused the death of William Duenen
and Lum Maggard.
NEAR Hazelton, Pa, house occupied
by Nicholas Brandon was burned on the
18th and Brandon perished in the flames.
1t is believed the unfortunate victim
was intoxicated and upset lamp, caus-
ing the fire.
THE central breaker of the Delaware,
Lackawara & Western at Scranton, Pa,
was burned on the 18th, causing loss
of 100000. Fully five hundred men
and boys are thrown out of employment.
The steamship Normandie, which
reached New York on the 18th, brought
the statue of Lafayette which France
has presented to the United States.
THE Denver Lottery Company, which
recently opened headquarters at Kansas
City, Kan, has vacated its Office and its
officers have fed the town after having
received $4,000 by the sale of ticIcets,
leaving all prizes unpaid.