Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-11-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.

the cattlemen to vacate the strip before
tho expiration of the lease with the
Indians.
LYMAN BISHOP, station agent for the
Boston & Maine railroad at West Lynn,
Mass, has disappeared. 1t is charged
that he is short in his accounts to the
amount of $4,000.
FRANCIS IIIGG1Ns, n retired merchant,
has been appointed receiver of the sus.
pended North River Bank at New York.
The receiver is required to give bond
of 5000, 900, and the Union and State
Trust Companies are made the deposit
taries of the banks funds
JOHN 7. DAVIS, the crank who shot
Miss Gladys Price in New York few
days ago, was arraigned in the Tombs
police court on the 10th and held to
await the result of his victims injuries.
Davis rambled in his talk and reaflirmed
his statement that it was his intention
to have shot ex-President Cleveland.
Miss Price will probably recover
A MORTGAGE to the amount of S75,-
300, 900 was recorded at Peru, Ind, on
tho 10th. !. was given by the Pitts
burgh, Cincinnati & Chicago railway in
favor of the New York Trust Company,
and covers all operated and leased Penn
sylvania lines west Of Pittsburgh.
AT the meeting on the Goth of the Ma
tional Commission of the Worlds Co.
iumbian Exposition the vexatious site
question was finally settled by the
adoption of the report Of the Committee
On Grounds and Buildings, with but one
dissenting voice. Tho report provides
for the main portion of the fair to be To-
Gated in Jackson Park, the art gallery,
music hall and electrical display to be
placed on the lake front, and Midway
Plaisance and Washington Park to be
used for the overflow.
On tho Goth Frank Vokey, cabinet
maker at Pullman, ILL.,, shot himself
and wife. Both are dead.
A BABY, believed to be the smallest
in the country, is daily attracting hun
areds of visitors to the house of Mr.. and
Mrs. Theobald Nj. Donaldson in Fred
eriok, Md. At its birth the baby weighed
scarcely pound, and now, at the age of
four months its weight is only four
pounds. 1t is perfectly formed and the
physicians say it will live if given
proper care.
THE Director of the Mint received in
formation on the Goth that one million
of Australian gold sovereigns had been
deposited at the mint at San Francisco
and were melted down.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, in the case of
Mary E. Johnson, OF Coal Bluffs, against
the Chicago e Indiana Coal Railway
Company for damages in the sum of
$50, 600, the jury on the 2lst returned
verdict allowing the plaintiff the full
amount of her claim.
A GANG Of seven horse thieves were
cornered by a sheriff and posse in the
western part of Pratt County, Kan, on
the 21st. During the fight which en-
sued TWO of the thieves were killed.
The others escaped into the woods.
THE Twenty-sixth Ward Bank, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, was robbed on the 21st
of package containing S5, 900 in small
notes. 1t is supposed to have been the
work of two men, one of whom entered
the bank and engaged the cashier in
conversation while another drove up to
the bank in wagon and sent for the
clerk, pretending to wish to deposit
some money.
A PECULIAR and fatal disease has
broken out among cattle and horses in
Grand and adjoining counties in Mis-
souri,. Over 100 head have died within |
a few days and the disease battles the |
skill of veterinarians.
THE Treasury Department has de- |
cided that grain taken to Canada to be |
ground can not be returned to the |
United States without payment of duty. |
The New Orleans grand jury has found |
true bills against seventeen men under |
arrest charged with the murder of Chief |
of Police David G. Hennessy October Is,
for murder and accessory thereto. 1t is |
expected the trial will be fixed at an |
early date.
Ir is estimated that the deficiency in |
the pension account will reach $40, OOO,-
600, which means $50, 900, 600 this year |
for pensions. 1t also means more than |
$500, 900, 600 next year for pensions.
BISHOP DUBs faction of the German |
Evangelical Church was defeated in the |
county court at Kankakee, ILL.,, on the |
2lst. The jury returned verdict of
not guilty of riot and the thirteen de-
PENDANTS were discharged.
SIX persons in boarding house on |
Wabash avenue, Chicago, were seriously
poisoned at supper on the 2lst. The |
supposHion is that the poison was put
in mutton stew by colored waiter
who was discharged the day previous.
Two of the victims are in serious con-
dition, but the other four are out OF |
danger
S. A. TAYLOR was arrested at Boston,
Mass, on the 21st, charged with engag-
ing in scheme to defraud by uttering
counterfeit postage stamps of various
foreign governments. A large number
of plates and stamps were seized in
Taylor's room. The stamps are excel
lent limitations and are carefully can
celed.
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended November % number 274 as com
pared with 206 the previous week. For
the corresponding week of last year the
figures were 276