Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-10-11

THE Secretary OF the Navy has
awarded to William E. Cramp &c Sons,
of Philadelphia, the contract for the
construction of two coast line battle
ships, increased in length twelve feet
over the Department plan, for So, 02o, 900
each, and the contract for the construc-
tion of the triple screw protected cruiser
under the Department plans at their bid
of 81, 725, 200.
AS a result Of the conferences between
President Mackoy, of the Evansville e.
Terre Haute Railway, and his men, there
will be general increase of from $40 to
SIS per month to telegraph operators,
while assistant operators will be placed
at several stations, which will tighten
the work, The office clerks were also
given an increase of pay, and no opera
tors will receive less than $40 per
month.
IN the District Court at Fort Worth,
Tex, on the 4th, Judge Breckham
granted Mrs. Pendleton No. 1 divorce
from ex-Mayor Pendleton, and also gave
her the custody of the children. Addie
Cullen, the telephone beauty, will join
ex-Mayor Pendleton in Chicago and a
second marriage ceremony will be per-
formed.
A. WANNAMAKER, cousin of the
Postmaster General, committed suicide
at hotel in st. Louis on the 5th by TAX
ing morphine. Intemperance the cause.
AUTHENTIC reports have been received
at Ardmore, /. T., of the finding of
immense veins of gold and silver in the
Arbuckle Mountains in the Chickasaw
Nation, forty-five miles north Of Ard
more. Army officers and others who
have gone through the region have long
said that gold was in the Arbuckle
| Mountains.
The case Of the will Of A. j. Davis,
for whose millions numerous claimants
have appeared, is again before the Su-
preme Court of Montana on argument
on the appeal from the District Court.
Over dozen counsel represent the var
ious claimants.
BIDS were opened at the Navy Depart
ment on the 9th for three tugs for the
navy. Harrison Loring, et South Bos-
ton, was the lowest bidder at $50, ais
each and he will probably be awarded
the contract.
THE Census Office announces the pop
nlation of Michigan to be ., ,OS9, 522-an
increase since 1880 of $50, S77; Indiana,
2,1S9, ,030-increase, 21O, 729; California,
1904, 600 increase, $780, 3OS.
THE Davis steam MILL near Johnson
vile, Ark, was destroyed on the 9th by
the explosion of a boiler. James Davis
was instantly killed and the engineer
and another man. names not known,
were badly injured.
| ASSISTANT SECRETARY SPAULDING has
telegraphed the collector of customs at
Port Townsend, Ore, to receive from the
United States Marshal for that district
all the Chinese in his custody who have
been convicted of illegal entry into the
United States and to cause their return
to China at government expense.
Mrs. ADA RICHARDSON obtained q
verdict before New York jury on the
9th for $4,000 for alternating her hus-
bands affections. The defendant was
Mrs. Ella 7. Burt, wife of G. A. Burt.
Both women have cattle ranches in
Texas.
IN tho Supreme Court at Buffalo, n.
V, on the 9th Judge Lewis rendered
decision refusing to give the custody of
Is Christian scientist and let another
daughter die from spasms with the
treatment of a scientist, who sat for
eight hours at tho bedside of the child,
her only treatment being possible
prayer.
BILL" HOWARD, who is under death
sentence FOR the murder of confederate
in the moonshine whisky business, os-
capped from prison at Greenville, S. g.,
on the 9th. Howard's wife had been
allowed to spend the night in the cell
with her husband. The next morning
Howard, dressed in his wife's clothing,
came down the stairs of the Jail with an
infant in his arms and leaving the baby
at a relatives house he fled before the
jailer had discovered the trick that had
been played on him.
JAMES NJ. GAMBLE, Of Cincinnati, has
assumed the Indebtedness of the Wes-
leyan female college amounting to $685.
600, thus preventing the sale by fore
closure of this old institution. 1t is the
leading Methodist college for women in
Ohio. Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes was one
of its early graduates. 1t has been for
some years bearing a burden OF debt
which threatened to end its existence.
THE breaking of an axle caused the
Pullman car in passenger train No. "a
on tho Newport News &c Mississippi
Valley road to plunge down an embank-
ment near Olympia, KY, on the 9Th
The passengers, about twenty in num-
Der, were thrown violently against the
sides of the car, and none escaped with
out an injury of some kind.
THE annual report of the Commits
sioner of Pensions shows that there are
now borne upon the rolls the names of
537, ,944 pensioners. The average annual
value of each pension at tho close of tho
year was $13S.94.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Hon. GORDON L. COLE, of Faribault,
Mimi, died at London, England, few