Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-06-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

JESSE THOMAS, OF Fremont, aEeu
twelve, son of prominent druggist,
while bathing in the river was drowned
by falling into deep hole.
RICHMOND COLLINS, the crazy colored
preacher at Akron, was sent to tho coun-
ty infrmary.
THE committee to select site for tho
proposed Library and Memorial Hall, at
Circleville, have chosen the Ballard
property, corner Main and Piclsaway
streets.
A MA, giving his name as N. B.
Myers rs arrested at Tiffin, suspected
Of completely in robbing the railroad
ticket Office at Marion, and beating the
operator nearly to death.
MISS MARY HAMMELI, the daughter
of Watson Hammell, deputy sheriff OF
Tuscarawas County, is strangely miss
ing. She was last seen at Uhrichsville,
May II, seeking work.
AT DeGraff, MS. George Kress was ar
rested, being accused of poisoning the
tea which Lincoln Kress and Mrs. Mott
Kress drank. The tea contained arsen-
ic, and both were made very sick.
AT . o'clock the other morning when
Charley farmhouse, the night operator
at the Hooking Valley depot, Marion,
was returning from his night lunch,
three men confronted him and ordered
him to surrender, placing revolver
against his face. He gave in, the men
tying his hands and feet and also gag
ging him, and they carried him some
distance from the depot and left him,
taking his watch, and going to the de-
pot, forced an entrance, securing $50
in money and a revolver. Six passen-
gers were in the depot, but the work was
done so quietly that they heard no dis
turbance.
THE new water-works at Marion were
tested the other day, and accepted by
council.
WILLIAM HUFFMAN was convicted
of burglary, and Elijah Cole offorgery, at
Tifiin.
PoNERoY and Middleport boast of the
champion lady pedestrian of the State.
Miss Lizzie Schreiner lives at Middle
port, two and one-quarter miles below
the Telegraph office in Pomeroy, where
she has been employed as a compositor
for the past eight years. Every week
day, winter and summer, for the eight
years she has walked to and from her
work, with but six weeks rest. She
works ten hours per day at her case
Her walks average twenty-seven miles
per week through rain and sunshine,
snow, mud and summer heat, and she
frequently has to Chamber around the
bluffs to get by flooded districts. This
gives her !, ,404 miles per year, or 11,232
miles in the eight years Subtractfng
162 miles for the six weeks she rested
she has ll,070 miles still to her credit
During the eight years she has actually
performed $4,000 hours of labor, and has
set about 19,6sO,o 900 ems of type. When
she began walking and working she was
not enjoying good health, but now she is
rosy-cheeked and vigorous, and thinks
no more of a iaunt of half dozen miles
than most ladies do of walking around
square in the city.
LIGHTNING struck a large tree the
other night in front of Mrs Mary
Brady's house, on w. Main street,
Newark. 1t entered the house. shocked
Mrs. Brady, leaving red streak across
her face and running down her righs
arm. 1t left zigzag streaks across every
picture in the house, and running down
under stove killed some little chick
ems in a pan. 1t tipped over an iron
sink and went out. Mrs. Brady is the
mother of Hon. Peter Brady, ex-State
Treasurer.
THE Circuit Court at Cleveland passed
on the writ of error filed in the case of
Otto Leuth, the boy murderer, now in
the penitentiary awaiting execution
Tho hold hot
and the motion for a new trial was de-
MED.
NEAR Johnstown, Licking County,
'hile Eben Pratt, prominent citizen
'as cutting down trees, he was caught
beneath the branches of falling oak
and injured so that death ensued short
ly after the accident.
JOSEPH BUTKER, of Cincinnati, aged
seventeen years, jumped from the Cow
ington and Newport bridge into the.
Licking river, the other day, and was
drowned.
WHILE Frederick Hoffman, painter,
of Cincinnati, was using "blower" for
the removal of old paint, the gasoline
reservoir exploded. Hoffman was
frightfully burned, and it is not expect
ed that he will recover.
AT Norwalk, Francis Clyde, of Belle
vue, on trial for swindling Henry Downs,
of Bellevue, and Walter Upington, jew
elers, of Norwalk, on forged orders, was.
convicted.
THE Ohio Pharmaceutical Conven-
tion was in session at Toledo, on the
10th.
AT Lima party of young ladies, in
cluding Miss Katie Brice, the youngest
daughter of Senator G. S. Brice, were
out riding, and had narrow escape
from being fatally injured. In turning
around in the Eoad just southwest of the
city the shafts of the buggy broke, let
ting it run into the horse, and he ran
away, throwing the girls down a steep
embankment Miss jamie Porter had an
arm broken, but luckily the others es-
capped with slight bruises.
OVER one hundred Mahoning County
farmers mnt at West lima and orrop