Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-04-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.

wines contained in the original stamped
package enclosed within an outer cask
upon which the stamp is not visible.
THE county officials OF Comanche
county, Kan, including the clerk, treas
urer, and commissioners, have been ar
rested upon information fled by the
city attorney of Wichita, charging them
with malfeasance in Office. Several of
the heaviest taxpayers in the county
have retained lawyers to institute civil
suits against those officials for the re-
covery of money alleged to have been
illegally withheld from the county.
THE ~ per cent. loan, of which lit
tie more than $50, 600, 900 IS now out
standing, will mature September next.
Treasury officials say there will be no
trouble whatever in meeting 1t, and that
it was regarded as matter of SO little
concern that it was not thought neces-
sary to bring it to the attention of Con-
gress.
THE contract for furnishing two suits
each to the 0,07O letter carriers through
out the country at SIS, without hat or
cap, has been awarded to 0ehm & Co.,
of Baltimore.
THE Olds wheel works at Fort Wayne,
Ind, which belongs to the American
Wheel Trust, received orders from the
general Office at Chicago on the 2sth ult.,
to close down for an indefinite period.
This will throw 800 men out of employ
ment.
ADvIcEs from Gibraltar, received on
the 2Sth ult. state that the body of Mr.. c.
G. Davies, of Boston, Mass, a passen-
ger who lost his life by the sinking of
the steamer Utopia after the vessel had
been impaled on the spur of the ram of
ii. NJ. S. Arson, has been recovered by
the British war ships divers from the
wreck of the steamship The body was
identified by the watch found upon it.
NELSON p. REED, senior proprietor of
the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, and
leading republican politician, who has
been i'll for some time past with the
grip, died at his residence in Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 2Sth ult. Mr.. Reed was fifty
years of age, and leaves widow and
two children.
THE Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago
railroad at Fort Wayne, Ind, discharged
one hundred men employed in their
shops on the 2sth ult Scarcity in freight
traffic is given as the reason for the re-
duction in force.
AT Cleveland, o., on the evening of
the 2sth ult. a pair of unusually bold
burglars entered two private residences
and carried away jewelry valued at
$1,000. One burglar kept a whole
family at bay with n revolver. They
got away with their booty in safety.
THE Simms house, at Piedmont, W. Va,
burned on the 2Sth. ult., Columbus Hell
mick was seriously hurt. Anne NJ. Ent-
Ter, daughter of the proprietor, burst
open the doors of the guests rooms and
thirty in the hotel escaped. But for her
pluck the loss of life would have been
heavy. Loss, $4,000; insurance, 81, roo.
WILLIAM HARRISON, an old war veter-
an, attempted suicide in the Soldiers
and Sailors Home on the 2sth ult., and
gashed his throat terribly. He is pos
sessed of peculiar hallucination. He
believes himself full of copper wires,
and is burning up all the time.
THE post office department has made
an important decision with reference
to the bonds to be accepted from letter
carriers throughout the country
Hitherto it has been the rule to accept
only bonds from private individuals for
the faithful performance of the letter
carriers duties, but hereafter any rep
utable trust company in good financial
standing will be accepted on a surety
bond.
THE cattle market at Kansas City,
No ,annhnI ba hirrbaet
2Sth ult since the winter of 1882 and
1888. A lot of forty-nine short-horned
steers, averaging 1890 pounds, were
sold for $605.
WHILE three men were engaged in
fixing the track in one of the main en-
tries to the Caledonia coal mine at
Gallup, n. NJ, on the 2Sth ult., huge
rock fell upon them, crushing out their
lives.
THE handsome residence of Gen.
Thomas Ewing, at Yonkers, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire on the 2Sth ult., to-
gether with all it's contents. Loss,
$25, 900. ..r.s. .'
STUART ID. CLARKE, son of General
Freight Agent Clarke, of the New York
Central road committed suicide at
Buffalo on the 2Sth ult. by shooting.
He was the victim of alcoholism.
IT is reported on good authority at
Nashville, Tenn, that an English syn.
dicate is negotiating for the purchase
of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail.
road Company, the largest corporation
of that sort in the south, and that the
chances are in favor of the great deal
being soon consummated.
THE depot, ferry slips and houses and
eight passenger cars of the Philadelphia
& Atlantic City railroad at Kaighn's
Point, N. j., burned on the 2sth ult, en-
failing loss of 100000. All the valua
BILE papers, tickets, etc, were consumed
Ticket Collector Fox was badly burned
before he could escape.
AT New York DIR. Maggie, of the boart
of health, reported six deaths on the
Both ult. and eighteen the day previous