Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-04-12


A northbound freight train struck the
obstruction and was badly wrecked.
Three people were slightly injured.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the seven days
ended April number 20S, as compared
with 243 the previous week. For the
corresponding week of last year the
figures were 222.
A syndicate is being organized in
Boston, Mass, for the purpose of build
ing twenty iron steamships to engage
in a general coastwise and foreign trade
as soon as the Farquhar tonnage bill is
passed by Congress.
II. NJ. Mckinley of Philadelphia,
has purchased in Denver the Richtoil
| herd, 100 head of st. Lambert Jers eys.
for $4,000 cash. The herd will be
shipped to Pennsylvania.
Governor Hill has signed the Corrupt
Practices bill recently passed by the
New York Legislature. 1t provides
against the use of political pay envel-
opes" for workingmen; requires candi-
dates to file after the election sworn
detailed statements of expenses; pro-
vides for the ousting of successful can
didates where bribery is shown, and
contains other provisions similar to
those in vogue in England in connection
with the Australian ballot system.
Prof. William Hyde Appleton, of
Philadelphia, has declined to accept the
presidency of Swarthmore college, to
which office he was recently elected.
James w. Tufts, the Boston (Mass.)
manufacturer of soda fountains. has no.
titled his 455 employees that beginning
on June l, their work will be reduced
from ten to nine hours without any re-
duction of wages, and that extra time
will be paid for pro rata.
The fire in the Cameron colliery, at
Shamokin, Pa, is now beyond control,
and the entire mine, comprising twenty
five miles of galleries, will have to be
flooded. Three creeks will be turned
into the mine, and it is estimated that
1t will take sixty days to flood it and
nearly year to repair the damage. The
loss is estimated at S1O0,0 900.
On the 4th Mrs Carrie Young, aged
forty years, was found dead in her rooms,
in Paterson, N. j. She was an invalid
and in kindling an oil fire upset the
stove and was fatally burned, dying
without making her condition known.
An explosion occurred in the powder
mill at Baychester, near Barlow, N. Y,
on the 9th, killing two men and dam
aging many houses in the vicinity.
The business portion of Theresa, n.
Y, was swept by a fire on the 5th, which
destroyed forty-two buildings, twenty
of which were residences, entailing
loss of S125,OOO.
AS result of disclosures made before
the special committee of the State SEN
ate investigating the ballot box frauds
III Jersey City, n. j., last November,
sixty warrants have been issued for per-
sons alleged to be implicated in the
frauds. Twelve arrests of election Of
ticers were made, eight of whom are
Democrats and four Republicans.
Three of the largest marble manu-
featuring concerns in Boston, Mass,
have notified their employees that on
and after June 1 they will pay ten
hours wages for nine hours work.
The amount of British capital now in
vested in American breweries is stated
by the Brewers journal TO be over
$50, 900, 00O
The weekly statement of the New
York associated banks, issued on the
5th, show the following changes: Re-
serve decrease, 50, $50, 175; loans increase,
So, $50, 100: specie decrease, S1,144, 800;
legal tenders decrease, S1,S59, 300; de-
posits decrease, S457, 700; circulation in
crease $685. The banks held 81, 442,-
475 in excess of the twenty-five per cent.
rule.
A cloudburst near Ithaca, n. V, on
the 5th caused freshets in the southern
and eastern sections of the county,
carrying away many bridges and a dam
to the u per res rvoir of the city water
works. The lower section of the city
was inundated and much damage done.