Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-05-30

THE Cotton Belt passenger train met
with serious accident at .Tonesboro,
Ark, on the gath. The engine ran
through switch, rolled down an en-
bankment and dragged the mail car,
baggage and two passenger cars with
it. Joseph Parsons vas killed, and
John Williams, engineer, and VIM. Jag
german were fatally injured.
AT Homecoming, Md, on the esd,
boy of 10 years, named James McMil-
Ian, was handling a revolver whic had
carelessly been placed on a window,
when the weapon went off, killing him
instantly.
THE Halton brothers and the gang
that robbed the Santa Fe passenger
train at Wharton, after being chased for
two weeks were captured on the Esd in
the Sac and Fox reservation, sixty miles
east of Oklahoma City, o. T.
THREE young men who were stealing
n ride on freight on the cath in box
car filed with lumber, were crushed
while the train was switching at Wat
seka, Ill. Their names were Hofmeier,
Bisdorf and Eldridgc. Hofmeier was
killed, Bisdorf was dying and it was
doubtful whether Eldridge could sur
vive.
AT Reading, Pa, on the esd, A. E.
Townsley, aged So, deliberately threw
himself in front of train and was cut
in two. Mr.. Townsley was formerly
proprietor of large store at Reading
and had been connected with New York
and Philadelphia business houses.
AT Winchendon, Mass, on the esd
Mrs. A. l.. Scott and her 1-year-old
child were drowned by the overturning
of rowboat The bodies were recov-
cred.
AT Denver, Col, on the 25th Dr. 7.
Thatcher Graves was taken before
Judge Graham, of the criminal court,
and given his liberty on bonds of $780,
600.
JUDGE PATTERSON, of the New York
supreme court, on the 25th handed
down an important decision, in which
he holds that an illegitimate child can
inherit its mothers property regardless
of will executed before its birth and
admitted to probate.
In the Federal court at Evansville,
Ind, on the 25th, Charles II. Ritter en-
tered plea of guilty to the embezzle-
ment of S76,0 from the First national
bank of that city while he was paying
teller Judge Woods deferred sentence
until October.
| Mrs. CHRIsTEN Peterson, a Danish
woman, and her four children, aged
from to 10 years, were found hanging
in the cellar of their house near Harlan,
Ia, on the gath. The husband was
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ago, and this series of murders and sui
eide show that the woman was also in
| sane.
THE limited express on the Pennsyl
vania road dashed into carriage at
Mills crossing, near Latrobe Pa, on
the 25th. Miss Mollie McNally, aged
II, was instantly killed; Miss Bertha
McCreary was badly injured and her
companion, named Richard Fox, torn
to pieces. The ladies We're driving
across the track as the train approached
when the horse became frightened and
ballied.
POTTER, WHITE & BAYLEY, shoe man
ufacturers of Boston, Mass, have as
81, ,0O0 600. The firm has done busi-
ness of $40, 600, 900 year.
AT st. Louis, on the 25th, William
Murphy, telephone lineman, fell from
a forty-foot pole, lighting on the back
of an assistant, on the pavement. Both
men were seriously injured. Murphy's
fall was caused by shock received
from an electric light wire.
The supreme court of the United
States adjourned on the 25th until the
second Monday in October.
JAMES JARRETT, one of the most
prominent farmers of Northeast, Ga,
was poisoned by his 16-ycar-old daugh-
ter on the oath because he whipped her
for stealing away to walk with a suitor,
whom her father opposed. The girl put
rat poison in her fathers soup
AT Carroll, Ia, on the oath two men
entered the American express office,
bound and gagged an employe named
Matthews, robbed the money box of
5000 and then escaped.
JAMES DoNAHUE, a clerk in the United
States pension office, charged with lend
ing money to clerks at high rate of in
terest, and other irregularities, was dis
missed by Secretary Bussey on the 25th.
AT Scottdale, Pa, on the 25th, Secre-
tary Parker issued a circular stating
that there are $50 families in the region
homeless and penniless, living in stables
and coal sheds. He appeals for aid to
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