Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-09-27

IHE oOVcTNlEu OTuUu lfOuEO OI Ouu
Fellows closed its sessions at Topeka,
Kan, on the Goth. All the proposed
amendments to tho constitution we're
voted down. The petition OF tho Re-
bekahs for continuance OF national
conventions OF their order was rejected.
st. Louis was selected as the next place
OF meeting. A purse OF 500 for tho
best exemplification of Encampment de-
gree work was awarded to the Lcaven-
worth (kan.) team.
THE double team trotting record for a
milo was broken at tho Philadelphia
Driving Park on the 10th. Belle Ham
lin and Justina driven by Mr.. Hamlin,
made the mile in 2:l5J5, beating all
previous records by quarter of a
second.
JOHN II. HANDY, an ex-member of
the Maryland Senate and well-known
lawyer, who was accused of squandering
trust funds, has beon disbarred by the
Supreme Bench. Handy is $4,000
short in his accounts and has left town.
A FREIGHT wreck at Benning Station,
Pa, on the Baltimore e Ohio road on the
21st, caused the death of Engineer
James Shields, and fatally injured Fire
man Harry Cyphers. Three other train
men were injured.
MRs. FANNIE MCMILLAN, the divorced
vito of Fred Mcmillan, of New York,
suicided at Bloomington, H., on tho
2lst by taking morphine. She was
thirty years old and tho daughter OF w.
III. Mcmillan, a millionaire of Hamilton,
o., cousin of Governor Campbell of
Ohio, and the sister of Congressman
Morey, of Hamilton.
A GAS explosion in the Murray shaft
of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Com
pany at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on tho goth,
killed Lawrence Casey, James Sullivan,
James Boswell and Anthony Jennings
and seriously burned Edward Butson.
The origin of the explosion is unknown.
RATES by lake and rail will ba ad-
vanced October / by the Northwest
roads on grain, flour and mill stutls to
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Albany and Utica.
AT Venice, ILL.,. on the goth Conductor
Lowrey and Brakeman Brockmiller, of
the Chicago e. Alton road, were endeav-
oring to rid their caboose of vermin by
from cigar in the mouth of one of
the men, and an explosion followed.
Lowrey was fatally injured and Brock
miller badly burned.
TIE boiler of an engine attached to
freight train on the Tennessee, Virginia
&c Georgia railroad exploded on the 22d,
near Chattanooga, Tenn. The engineer
and fireman were blown to atoms and
the brakeman was severely injured.
DURING August last 81, 3s7 immigrants
came to the United States against 81
AS in August, 1889. Of these Germany
furnished 1879, England and Wales
5,3Ss Russia $3.50, Ireland 8, SIS, Sweden
and Norway 3,O4S, Italy 2,S97 and Poland
1,S32
THE exports of merchandise from the
United States during the past twelve
months aggregated in value 1851, SCI, $50,
against S7G2, 457, S24 during the corre-
spending previous twelve months.
THE funeral of Dion Boucicault, the
dramatist and actor, took place in New
York City on tho 2ad, from the Little
Church Around the Corner" The edi-
flee was packed to overAowing.
The balance in tho United States
Treasury to the credit of the Patent
Office is $3,7O0,0O
TIE Oakland Bank, of Chicago, sus-
pended payment on the 22d. The liza
bilities are stated to be $50, 900, and the
nominal assets S75, 600 The failure also
closes the Hyde Park Bank, owned by
the same parties.
Isaac Sorensen, of Mendon, Utah, were
arrested few days ago. charged with
having committed murder in the Cache
valley twenty-four years ago.
THE coroner's jury in the case of tho
victims of the recent Shoemakersville
disaster on the 22d rendered verdict
censuring the flagman of the coal train,
W neglected to properly signal the
freight train following.
The vexed question of site for the
worlds fair has at last been definitely
settled. AT the session of the National
Commission on the 22d the amended
site proposition submitted by the COM
mittee was unanimously accepted. The
site includes Washington and Jackson
Parks, the Midway Plaisance connecting
them, and the lake front; in all about
one thousand acres.
A FREIGHT engine and caboose collided
near Derry, Pa, on the 22d, wrecking
the caboose and it is thought fatally in
juring Conductor j. N. Caldwell and
Flagman Newton Aikes Three other
trainmen were seriously hurt, but will
recover.
IMPORTS of merchandise into the
United States during the past twelve
were SOL. .220, COS, against S764,-
210,1s4 during the preceding twelve
THE safe of the Sixth ward Hotel at
Pa, was robbed on the 22d
of LIS and gold watches valued at 5000
by some one who knew the com bination.
AT Laceyville, Pa, on the 21st Patrick
Connerton and his daughter Mary, eigh-
teen years old, were riding in carriage
on roadway which wound around the
edge of a precipice, when the horse be-
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