Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-04-18
OHIO STATE NEWS.

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gist claims to have discovered gold and |
copper in the soil.
The Mansfield electric street railway
has been bought by local company
from the bondholders in New York
Clarke Rude, of Sanduslxy, is The heav-
lest stockholder
PERRY Il. WEYGRANDT, aged 2s years,
e school-tcacher of Maj shallville, sui.
cided by shooting himself in the fore.
head. He lived an hour after commit
ting the deed. No cause known.
NEAR Spencerville u two-year-old
child of r. Winters was perhaps fatally
hurt by being struck on the head by a
hat-iron, which fell from an ironing
board.
A PARTY of capitalists at Youngstown
will organize n company, with capital
of S400, 900, to build plant for the man.
ufacture of sheet-iron lath, to take the
place of wooden lath in the construc-
ton of buildings
THERE is proposition to consolidate
the Hooking Valley Coal and Iron Co.
and the Ohio and Western Coal Co.,
and capitalize the new company at $9,.
400, 900.
FIRE destroyed the Cincinnati Union
Stock-yards the other night. 1t burned
over ten acres of shielded ground, and
the loss is put at S50 900.
W. II. ATKINSON, brakeman on the
Muskingum Valley railway, had hand
crushed so badly at Trinway as to rem
der amputation necessary.
A SPECIAL election for local option
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county, the other day. The vote cast
was precisely that cast for governor
389-and was as follows: Montra, ''wet,"
IS; dry" 81; Jackson Center, ''wet,"
81; dry" 1853. Dry majority, Ill.
AARON HOLMES, aged about thirty
years, a conductor, in the railroad yards
at Alliance, while engaged in uncoupling
his engine from some cars while in mo-
tion, was caught between the bumpers
and crushed SO badly that death ensued
an hour later He leaves wife and in.
Cant in poor circumstances.
A MAD dog scare of large proportions
prevails at Clifton, nine miles from
Springfield A hound belonging to
Chas. Speaks, went mad and bit num-
ber of dogs and cattle. Another mad
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er day, and bit a lady named Mrs. Nc.
Laren and also Chas. Knott severely on
the hand. Sixteen dogs have been kill.
ed at Clifton within week, and every
canine without an owner has been kill.
ed on sight. An actual reign of terror
exists there, and there is no telling how
many dogs, cattle and horses have been
inoculated with maddening poison.
C. S. HUNTER, a justice of the peace
of the northern part of Richland coun.
ty, stopped at the Grand Central hotel
Mansfield, the other night and was dis
covered next morning nearly asphyxiat
ed by gas. He did not recover con
seriousness until the evening
ELsY STEBERT, aged thirty-seven, un
married, living near Ontario, RichlanG
county, attempted to throw the bell
from saw-mill with his foot and wa:
caught in the belt and hurled with ter
rife force against pile of lumber
nearly every bone in one side of hi.
body being broken. He died in an hour
THE state assembly of daughters o
Rebekah closed two-days' session a
Akron the other day by the election o
the following officers: President, S
Ollie Schuler, New Dover; vice presi
dent, Frances King, East Liverpool
secretary, Jennie Groby, Miamisburg
warden, Ida Thomas, Ironton; insid,
guardian, Rella Wilson, Dublin, ant
chaplain, Helen Bishop, Worthington
The next annual meeting will be hel,
at Lima.
VIM BALES, who murdered Policeman
Harper at Kcnton, several nights ago
was taken from Jail by mob of abou
fifty men at . o'clock the other morn
ing, and hung to a maple tree near by
The mob gained entrance to the Jail b,
breaking down the door, which awak
ened Sheriff Neville, who rushed dow
stairs with his revolver A dozen mel
met him at the foot of the stairs an
thrust Iour revolvers in his face, de
manding the Jail keys, saying the
wanted to get Bales and hang him. TIL
sheriff refused to get the keys, not hay
ing them with him. They found ther
in an adjoining room, opened the ja
doors, got Bales and gave him time
put on his pants and pair of slipper:
took him out and hung him to the mapl
tree on Wayne street. near North street
about fifty yards from the Jail.
AT special meeting of the stat
board of public works the followin
resolution, offered by Mr.. Hahn, wa
unanimously adopted: Whereas, Con
plants have been made to the board {
public works that the waste weir ;
the southwest corner of Mercer count
reservoir is insufficient to carry off til
surplus water, and thereby crops al
being damaged in the vicinity; r,
solved, that the acting commissions
Hon. F. j. McColloch, be hereby il
structed to proceed forthwith to il
crease the wastage by lengthening I'll
waste weir and also by placing in sue
devices as will enable the state to lowe
the surface of the water to point b
low the present elevation of the wast
weir, and also to take such step as al
necessary to ascertain the damai