Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-04-11

sale to the treasury department., 37O,O00
ounces were purchased at from co. SO to
90. SO cents per onuce.
SECRETARY TRACEY has ordered n
court of inquiry to meet at New York
on April o to investigate the wreck of
the U. S. S. Galena and the government
tugs Nina and Triana.
BURGLARS broke open the postoffice
at Davy, Neb., on the Sd and secured
$500 of booty. They stole hand car
and pumped to Lincoln, distance of
twelve miles. There was no clue to the
thieves nor their whereabouts.
ONE of the most colossal cattle deals
ever consummated was completed by
wealthy stockmen of the west and Chi
cago packers on the Sd. w. p. Herring,
a well-known cattle man, purchased 40,-
600 head at cost of $1,000, 900 for him
SELF p. d. Armour and L. M. Hewins
GEORGE GOODWIN. who ranks among
the mosG expert forgers in the world,
escaped from Jail Mt Denver, Col, on
the Sd. He made exit through the win
dow of his cell by cutting the iron bars
and then dropping 10 feet to the ground.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER received
telegram on the Sd from the district
attorney at New Orleans stating that he
would forward his report of the lynch
ing of the Italians rs soon as possible.
He also asked for additional instruc-
tions.
A FIRE was discovered in the drying
room of the Falls City wooden mills at
Louisville, Ky, on the 9th which dam
aged the building to the extent of $780,
000 The mill employs n large number
of female operatives. There was much
excitement among them, but there be-
ing plenty of time they escaped without
injury.
r. w. HULL and Charles j. Hull were
struck by Washington express train
seven miles from Baltimore, Md, on
the 9th. Richmond was instantly killed
and Charles fatally injured. Both men
We're travelling musicians and have
families in New York.
CAPT. LORD, of the schooner Eva
Adell, which arrived at Bangor, Me-, on
the 9th, reports having rescued Capt.
| Moore and four sailors from an open
boat off Boone Island. The men be-
longed to the schooner Nellie A. Walker
bound to Gardiner, Me-. which found
cred in gale last Thursday.
| THE pension office during the week
ended March 2S issued 6,544 pension GER
tificates of all classes, the average first
payment on each being S113.57. Under
the provisions of general pension laws
2,477 were granted, and under the de-
pendent pension law 4,OG7.
THE carriage manufactory of ]. T.
Hildreth was burned at Brattleb boro
VT, on the 9th. Loss, S15, 900.
THE proprietors of the Pencyd iron
works at Philadelphia shut down the
pudding department on the 9th. A
large number of men are affected. The
trouble arose from the refusal of the
men to accept the schedule of prices
adopted by the amalgamated associa-
ton of steel and iron workers.
AT Trenton, n. j., on the 9th. brick
makers to the number of 1,200 went out
on strike, refusing to accept 20 per
cent reduction in wages.
GEORGE CUNNINGHAM completed his
sleeping fast at Detroit, Mich, at noon
on the 9th and won the prize of $500.
He was the only one of the six contest
ants to keep awake the entire les hours.
SECRETARYFosTER made the statement
on the 9th that he did not expect there
would be surplus in the treasury next
year. The surplus to-day is S12. 900, 900.
1t is probable that within short time
the government deposits in national
banks will be withdrawn.
REV. ROBERT T. HANKS, a noted Bap.
tist divine and editor of the Western
Baptist, of Dallas, Tex, has been in
dicted, charged with libelling Revs. E.
B. Hardy, L. P. Scroggs, S. R. Grant
and A. NJ. Johnson, all prominent
preachers of the same faith.
THREE of Arthur Ritchic's children
aged seven, nine and eleven years, were
drowned in a small pool of water neal
his logging camp on Birch Lake, Wis,
on the 9th, by breaking through the ice
A CALL has been issued for a meeting
of one or more representatives of each
of the medical licensing boards in the
United States to be.held in Washington
May 6. The object of the proposed
meeting is to make the rules and exami
nations of the several boards as nearly
uniform as possible. Licensing boards
now control the medical practice il
twenty-one states.
CAPTAIN GEORGE Fl. HYATT, an auc
tioneer of Atlanta, Ga, recently tool
his wife to the State insane asylum
Returning, overcome by sorrow, he tool
morphine and died the next day.
THE New York senate has passed ,
100000 worlds fair bill.
THE St Augustine (Fla.) gas work
were destroyed by fire ON the 9th
causing a loss. of Se5, 900.
} AT Amsterdam, N. Y, on the 9th
, George Mingus, 81 years old whil
handling shotgun he thought wa
empty, shot and killed his little neice
r Mary Snyder, aged II years.
l JOSEPH A. THOMAS, a well-knowl
member of the Baltimore bar, was ar
e, rested on the 9th on the charge of forg
: ing a set of books.
= REPORTS of crop conditions in Kausa
and Nebraska are the best ever made
n The Weld of wheat promiSeS To he th