Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-09-06

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600.
AT Camden, N. j., on tho 30th ult a
baby carriage pushed by eight-year-old
George Weaver, slipped from his grasp
and rolled into the street. His nine
months-old sister fell from the carriage
and was crushed under the hoofs of a
horse. Tho mother was witness to the
whole horrible scene and was unable to
| move.
| SAMUEL FRANCES, a prominent brick
maker of Altoona, Pa, was assaulted by
footpads while walking in the eastern
part Of the city on the 31st ult and
robbed of n large sum of money. In tho
struggle his tongue was torn from its
roots and he was unable to speak when
found.
DURING the first six months of 1890
| there were over $3.50 foreclosures of
farm mortgages in Kansas. represent
| ing about 81, 600. 900. 1t is stated that q
| large proportion of the foreclosures are
on unoccupied lands bought up and
mortgaged for what they would bring
by speculators.
THE Scotch Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company, backed by ample English
capital, has purchased $50, 200 acres of
the finest timber and mineral land in
West Virginia, lying in Wyoming and
Mcdowell counties, and will proceed at
once to develop it.
NEARLY all the window glass furnaces
Throughout New Jersey went into blast
on the 1st and the outlook for the season
is good.
Ctr
cashier of the failed Nichols Bank of
Kansas City, Mo-, has been arrested on
the charge of receiving money for de-
posit when he know the bank was in a
failing condition.
The sixteen shot tower companies in
tho United States have formed ma
tional trust under the title of the Amer
ican Shot Association, with a capital of
S3, 600, 900 The officers are: President,
John Farrell, Pittsburgh; Secretary, E.
w. Lowe; Treasurer, L. A. Leroy, New
York.
THE race for the Futurity stakes, worth
500, 600, was decided on the race track at
Sheepshead Bay, n, V, on the 3Oth ult
Banker August Belmont won the rich
prize with Potomac, and he also got
second money with his colt Masher.
THE coroner's jury Investigating the
recent disaster on the Old Colony rail-
road have fixed the responsibility for
the wreck on Joseph L. Welsh, tho sec
tion boss who had charge of the track
repairing gang at Quincy, and whose
careless placing of the fatal track
lack" caused the accident Welch has
been arrested.
A WIDESPREAD and destructive prai-
rie fire has ravaged hundreds of thou
sands of acres along the Little Missouri
in North Dakota. The great range of
the Ii. L. Cattle Company was swept
clear. The fire was finally put out by
means of horses, which were killed for
the purpose of using them as drags to
extinguish the fiames
TIE grand jury at Covington, KY,
has indicted the .proprietors of all pool
rooms in that city for maintaining
public nuisance.
THE public debt statement for August
shows net decrease during the month
of 1888, ,073.
GOVERNMENT receipts from all sources
during the past month aggregated S34,-
S12, 200, against $S4, ,470,9 905 in August
1889.
THE Wolford House at Como. Col,
was burned on the 1st caused by an in
valid upsetting lamp. Three persons
perished in the flames.
THE collections for negro and Indian
missions, which have been taken up in
the Catholic Church throughout the
United States, will be distributed in
few days by board appointed by the
last plenary council. The collection
amounts to about $4,000.
FIRE destroyed the dwelling house
and carpenter shop of Nathaniel Hem
ingway at Maiden, Mass, on the 1st.
In trying to save his property Heming-
way was fatally burned. The chemical
engine on its way to the fire was struck
by train and the driver, George Phil
lips, was instantly killed.
THE coinage of the mints during the
month of August, 1890, of all kinds of
money aggregated in value S., $50, 900.
OF this amount So, S52, 600 was in stand
ard silver dollars and 9, 440, 900 in gold
pieces.
TIE consumption of cotton during the
past year in the United States amounted
to 2,346, 1862 bales. OF this 1899, a5s
went to northern spinners, against
1,7s5, ,079 last season. This shows an in
crease of only 1927 bales, against an
increase in the South of nearly 6s, 600
bales.
THE conferees on the River and Har-
bog bill have practically reached an
agreement. The bill as it passed the
House appropriated S19,o73,9 945; as it
passed the Senate $25, ,7s6, S53, and as
agreed to in conference S24, 9S1, ,295.
DURING the progress Of fire in a
dwelling at st. Paul, Mimi, on the 1st
q gasoline stove exploded, seriously
burning four fremen. One will die and
one will be iisfgured for life.
ACCORDING to the official report OF
the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, the
cotton crop of the United States for the
commercial year ending with the close
of August, 1890, amounts to 1911, ,322