Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-10
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settlement of their claims for five
cents on the dollar.
Fire in West Albany IN. " stock
yards on the I'd destroyed structure,
covering six acres of ground and entailet
a loss of $4,000
The Governor OF Pennsylvania ha'
called special election on May 20 t.
fill the vacancy caused by the death O
Samuel j. Randall.
Business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended May number 211, as compared
with 21S the previous week. For the
corresponding week of last year the
figures were 214.
1t is openly charged by Albany cor
respondents of New York papers that
the bill abolishing capital punishment
was rushed through the New York AS.
sembly at the instance and through the
influence of the Westinghouse Electric
Company. Bribery is fatty alleged by
the World and more than limited at by
the Tribune.
The Fidelity Surety Trust and Safe
Deposit Company of Camden, n. j., sus-
pended payment on the Cd. Charles L..
Work, the president of the Gloucester
National bank, which recently sus-
pended, was also its president
The Baptist and Catholic churches,
also the Catholic parsonage, at West
Boyleston, Mass, were burned on the I'd.
Hon. J.. f. Allen, an uncle of eX-
President Cleveland, died at Buffalo, n.
Y, on the ID, aged ninety years.
At West Chester, Pa, on the 4th Will
lie and Clara Fitzpatrick, aged eight
and six years respectively, were killed
and two other children were seriously
hurt by being thrown from a carriage in
n runaway. Mr.. Fitzpatrick was dragged
a long distance and badly injured in
trying to stop the horse. The tragedy
has rendered Mrs. Fitzpatrick insane.
The entire business portion of Gilboa,
N. Y, comprising twenty-five buildings,
was destroyed by fire on the 4th, en-
failing loss of about S175,OO Insur-
ance about $50, 900.
Employees of the National Tube Works
of McKeesport, Pa, to the number of
1000, held a mass meeting on the 4th
and decided to ask for an advance of
ten per cent, or the present pay for nine
hours work.
f. Slingluff, cashier of the Montgom-
cry (Pa.) National Bank, resigned on
the Sd. and is charged with Irregularities
amounting to S25,000
Mrs Kate Harper, wife of William A.
Harper, of the firm of Harper & Co.,
book publishers, died suddenly at Yon-
kers, n. Y, on the Sd from rupture of
the heart. She had just recovered from
the influence of chloroform admins
tered by the dentist while operating on
an aching tooth, when she was seized
with fit of vomiting and suddenly ex-
pired. Mrs. Harper was the daughter of
Colonel Beecher, son of the late Henry
Ward Beecher.
Lewis e. Pfeiffer, president of the
recently suspended Bank of America, at
Philadelphia, was arrested on the Sd on
the charge of embezzlement. 1t is al
legged that he accepted money from
depositor after he knew the bank was
insolvent.
At Pittsburgh ca the Sd Thomas Carey,
workman on the new government
building, was thrown from the top of
VIC opi W VIC Blouiils ii uiSUdhSO
of $50 feet and instantly killed. In his
descent he struck two other workmen,
James Brisbin and William Lavelle, who
were also thrown to the ground. Brisbin
was fatally and Lavelle seriously hurt.
The manufacturers of rubber thread
goods-suspenders, elastic ribbons, ETC.,
at a recent meeting in New York, de-
cided to raise their prices thirty-five
per cent The advance is made neces-
sary by the rise in the crude rubber
market.
The weekly statement of the New
York associated banks, issued on the Sd,
shows the following changes: Reserve
decrease, S204, 5O0 loans increase, $780,
400; specie decrease; 1924, 500; legal ten
ders increase, S616, 600; deposits increase,
S7s2, 500, circulation decrease, $40, 100.
The banks held So, 12S 725 in excess of
the twenty-five per cent. rule.
The elegant art gallery attached to
the residence of j. Bramhall, at Orange,
N. j., was damaged by fire on the 4th
to the extent of $50, 600. Many valuable
paintings were ruined.
Ninety per cent. of the boss carpenters
in New York City have conceded the de-
mands of the men in regard to the eight
hour movement, and it is not expected
that strike will occur.