Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-10-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.

For the corresponding week of last year
the figures we're 223
S. Z. R. VoGELsoNG, town marshal of
Falmouth, KY, was shot and killed on
the night of the 10th by an unknown as
sassin just as he was entering his gate.
He leaves widow and ten children.
A FIRE at Ludlow, KY, on tho nth
destroyed foundry, two Pullman Sleep
ers, one Mann boudoir car and two box
cars entailing loss OF about S65,00
Ar the recent annual meeting of the
Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago
the usual quarterly dividend of So per
share from net earnings was declared.
The net earnings for the year amounted
S2,3s2, 40. .a
MRS. WILLIAM WELLHAUsEN and her
seven-year-old son, were drowned in
we'll at their home, near Marine City,
Mich, on the 10th. The boy fell into
the we'll by accident, and in endeavor-
ing to rescue him Mrs. Wellhausen lost
her life.
JUDGE STBvAN, of the Superior Court
at Cedar Rapids, Ia, rendered decision
on the 18th to the effect that the State
prohibitory law was null and void as
far as the sale of original packages is
concerned.
On the 18th a fire was raging in the
swamp at La Crosse, Ind, in which is
stacked thousands of tons of hay, all of
which will probably be consumed. The
loss to the people of La Crosse will be
incalculable.
A RECEPTION in honor OF the golden
jubilee of Rt Rev. John Loughlin,
Bishop of Brooklyn. N. ", was held at
the rink in that city on the 18th. Eight
thousand people were present including
the Catholic clergy of Brooklyn and
New York. The Bishop was presented
with purse of S2l, 900 contributed by
the laity of his diocese, and a number of
other valuable gifts.
TIE Peters Lumber Company at Alec,
Ala, has assigned, owing to the failure
of r. S. Peters, the lumber millionaire
of Manistee, Mich. The Peters Lumber
Company was the largest lumber manu-
fa,turin concern in Alabama, If not in
the yellow pine district
THE lumber cut of Minnesota for tho
season of 1890 is estimated at nearly
$50, 600, ,0C0 feet.
AT the regular monthly meeting of
the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Sol
diers' and Sailors Home at Sandusky,
held on the 18th, all the officials of the
institution, except the commandant and
natron, were requested to hand in their
designations at the next meeting, the
designations to take effect November 10.
ALBERT f. EDDER, formerly Presby-
terian clergyman, was sentenced to five
years in State prison by Recorder
Smythe in the Court of General Sessions
ut New York City on the 18th, for alb
Quoting fifteen-year-old Mary Mccain.
A HEAVY gale prevailed along the New
England coast on the 18th, causing much
damage to shipping.
SIX prisoners escaped from the Lock-
port IN. Y Jail on the 18th. They were
in the Jail yard, and by pretence that
they wanted water, induced the cook to
open the door, when they overpowered
him and escaped. Four were under in
dictment for burglary, one for rape and
one for forgery.
SAMUEL S. WIcKHAM. proprietor Of the
Middletown IN. W glass works, has
assigned. Liabilities $4,000; assets
about the same.
j. Il. YOUNG, of Craven County, N. c.,
has recovered $4,000 damages of the
Western Union Telegraph Company for
the non-delivery of q message within
reasonable time announcing the seri-
Gus illness of his wife. The message
was not delivered to Young until after
the death and burial of his wife.
AT Chicago on the 18th Felix Young
was instantly killed, James Turner
fatally injured and several others badly
bruised by the falling Of derrick on
new building where they were employed
as bricklayers.
SIX desperate criminals broke jail at
Kalamazoo, Mich, on the 10th, by saw
ing off the bars in the upper story and
lowering themselves by a sheet.
THE public schools of Oxford, Bloom
ing Grove and other villages in Orange
County, N. Y, have been closed ewing
to the prevalence OF malignant type
of diphtheria.
A MONSTER parade of Catholic school
children took place in Brooklyn, N. Y,
on the 10Th in honor of the jubilee of
Bishop Loughlin, Over 22, 900 children
turned out and marched past the epis-
copal residence, where they were re-
viewed by Bishop Loughlin, Cardinal
Gibbons, and other prominent church
dignitaries
THE Navy Department has issued an
advertisement inviting proposals for the
construction of harboF defense ram of
1850 tons; a torpedo boat of 112 tons,
and swift torpedo cruiser of 750 tons.
AT Berlin Falls, N. H., on tho 18th,
charge of dynamite was exploded under
the housa of e. ]. Bennett, badly shat
tering the front of the house. but not
seriously injuring any member of tho
family. Bennett is a liquor prosecutor.
AT tho annual fall handicap meeting
of the Princeton IN. J.) University
Athletic Association, on the 18th, Cary,
of '91. made the 100 yard dash in 91G
seconds, and the 22O yard dash in %
seconds breaking the worlds record
made at Washington by John S. Owens,
of Detroit
Ar ManitoWoc, Wis. Iouisa Alwardt