Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-11-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.

that of John II. Simons, treasurer of
Darke County, convicted of embezzle-
ment and sentenced for six years.
A FIRE broke out on the 7th in the
store of II. Sour & Co., at Shreveport
La, and before it could be controlled
destroyed that and several adjacent
Fully insured.
DURING the two days stay in Phila-
delphia OF Dillon and O'Brien, the Irish
Nationalist leaders, they collected over
SIC, 900 for the cause.
THE Omaha Pullman sleeper Sarma-
tia, from Minneapolis, was thrown from
q trestle at Duluth. Mimi, on the 7th
and, falling twenty feet, lighted on its
side in three feet of water. The car is
a complete wreck. Twelve persons went
down with the car and all were more or
less bruised.
THE Comptroller Of the Currency has
declared first dividend of twenty per
cent in favor of the creditors of the
Gloucester City IN. J.) National Bank
on claims proved amounting to S27, 456.
The bank failed May /, 1890.
COLONEL PRICE, who was shot a few
days ago by Judge Higgins, died at Sc
dalia, Mo-, on the 7th. Higgins was
released on $4,000 bonds. His plea
will be self-defense.
WHILE Mrs. A. f. Nickerson, of Ban
gor, Me-, was out shooting with her hus-
band few days ago, she was instantly
killed by the accidental discharge of
her rifle.
Mrs. LILLE HILDBURGH, wife OF a
prominent insurance agent, on the 9TH
threw herself from the third story win
dow OF her residence in New York and
was instantly killed. She was insane
from long illness.
JAMES A. LAYTON, aged eighty-one
years, was remanded to Jail at San
Antonio, Tex, on the 7th in default of
bail for counterfeiting. Layton is a
historical character and is perhaps the
Oldest counterfeiter in America. His
first conviction for the otfense was in
1878, for which he served two years.
THE Mutual Fire Insurance Company
of Chicago made a general assignment
in the Cook County Court on the 7th.
The liabilities amount to S57,604 and
the nominal assets are placed at S1S7, 660,
A SLEEPING car on the north-bound
limited express on the Cincinnati South
ern railroad was run into by Louis
Vile & Nashville freight train at juno
tion City on the 7th. The tracks of the
two roads cross each other at this point.
The sleeper was shattered to fragments
and seven persons were more or less in
jured, among them being b. n. Austin,
general passenger agent of the North
ern Pacific road at st. Paul, and w. L.
Hardee, general freight agent of the
Savannah, Florida & Western road.
Two Japanese students of the Michi-
gan university have created quite a SEN
sation by clipping with two American
girls from Ann Arbor. The Japs are
both of noble families, and graduates of
the law department.. The girls are
young, handsome and of good families.
The elopers were traced to Windsor,
Can, where all trace of them was lost.
HENRY J. MoULToN, owner of the
Sunday Critic, of Lowell, Mass, has
been held in SIS, 900 bail on the charge of
forging two notes on prominent citi-
zeps to the amount of $4,000.
A STOCK train crashed into and COM
pletely wrecked the signal tower at
Port Royal, Pa, on the Pennsylvania
railroad, on the 9th. The operator es-
capped death by jumping from the tower,
but the fireman of the train was killed.
THE remains of young Abraham Lin
coin. son of Robert T. Lincoln, Minister
to the Court of ST. James, who died in
England several months ago, were de-
posted in the monument erected to the
memory of the boys illustrious grand
father at Springfield, ILL.,, on the Sth.
The final interment was without cere-
hnony
Four dry-kilns and 60O,O feet of
lumber, the property of the Tunis LINN
ber Compa ny, were burned at Tunis, N.
e., on the Sth. Loss, $50, 900; covered by
insurance.
MRS LUCY PARSONS, the female anar-
chist, and three others arrested..at New
ark, N. j., few days ago for melting
riot, were arraigned in court ON the sth
and held to the grand jury.
SEVERAL leading leather and hide
dealers of the United States met at
Indianapolis, Ind, on the 9th and en-
tered upon an agreement as to the grad
ing OF leather. 1t is understood they
will also attempt to advance prices il
conditions are favorable few weeks
hence.
CARDINAL GIBBONS has received from
Rome a positive contradiction of the
statement recently published that Arch
bishop Ireland, of st. Paul, had been
summoned to Rome on account of the
views expressed by the Archbishop on
public school education in the United
States.
The remains of John Boyle O'Reilly
were inferred at Holyhood cemetery,
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the sth. The burial
was strictly private, only few of the
immediate family being present.
THE Memphis Appeal, through its
president, w. A. Collier, has purchased
the Memphis Avalanche, and the two
well known journals have been consoli-
dated. The paper will hereafter be
known as the Appeal-Avalanche. This
is the largest deal ever made in newa-