Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.

A FIRE broke out in the male wing of
the Central insane asylum near Nash
vile, Tenn, on the night of the 18th,
wing was entirely destroyed and six of
the twcnty-three patients were burned
to death.
THE first application for repayment
Of the direct tax under the act of the
last congress was received Mt the treas
airy department on the 18th. 1t was
from Gov. Hill, of New York, and the
amount of money called for was about
81, 2,222, 600.
AT Jeaunette, Pa, on the 18th, wind
storm blew down the east wall of the
Fort Pitt glass works and many persons
were injured by falling timbers and
bricks
E. p. SoHUNEMAN and John Clark
the 18th, charged with stealing letters
containing checks, drafts and money
from mail boxes in the streets of that
city. The populations extend over a
period of several months. The men
were held in $500 bail each.
THE hearing in the case of Thomas
Louden, Coke Operator Rainey's pit boss,
against the different labor leaders,
charging them with assault, was tried
at Uniontown, Pa, on the 18th. The
four labor leaders were held in the sum
of 5000 each for court, on charge of
melting riot and preventing kainey's
men from working.
AT Logansport, Ind, on the 10th the
family of John Geppinger, after par
taking of some moldy cheese at supper,
were TAX en- violently sick. Miss Lizzie
Woods, one of the family, died the next
day in horrible agony. The remaining
four members of the family are not out
of danger.
The lower branch of the Missouri
legislature has passed bill reducing
freight rates 25 per cent. on grain, cat
tie, farm machinery and building mat e.
rial.
The funeral train bearing the remains
of the late United States Senator George
Hearst arrived at San Francisco on the
12th.
THE Baltimore e. Ohio western ex-
press ran into landslide about twelve
miles out from Washington on the 18th.
The engine was wrecked and several
cars left the track. The engineer was
badly hurt and some of the passengers
injured, though not severely.
JOSEPH p. CLossEY, for seventeen
years the trusted clerk of Arthur Ken
ny, wholesale shoe dealer of New
York, was arrested on the 18th, charged
with swindling his employer by means
of forged checks and notes. The sums
embezzled amount to several thousand
dollars.
For the ninth time Isaac Smith, under
sentence of death for the murder of
Stephen Skidmore in Pike county, o.,
in 1883, was respited on the 18th by Gov.
Campbell. The execution is fixed now
for May 2S. This is to enable the legis-
lature to consider the special bill now
pending concerning Smiths case He
would have been executed next Friday
morning.
THE fight between Jake Kilrain, of
Baltimore, and George Godfrey, of Bos-
ton, for 5000, took place at San Fran
cisco, on the 18th, and was won by
Kilrain in the fortY-fourth round.
THE Graft hotel, three-story frame
structure at Duquesne, Pa, and several
adjoining buildings were destroyed by
an incendiary fire on the 18th, causing
a loss of $4,000. Twenty-Five guests in
the hotel barely escaped with their
lives, some jumping from the second
story windows
WEYAND's brewery at Buffalo, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th, the
racl1l4 of av,n1Aci1,,
covered by insurance.
THE Chicago express on the Flint &
Pere Marquette railroad was run into
at Birch Run, Mich, on the 14th by an
extra freight, wrecking the Pullman
sleeper. E. e. Summer, of Kansas City,
was severely injured. A number OF
other passengers were badly bruised.
A DISPATCH from Omaha, Neb., says
that $50 soldiers at Fort Omaha are
down with la grippe. The hospital is
filled.w sick men and the matter is
becoming serious in the barracks.
GEORGE S. KEY, Henry Jones and
Edward Smith, convicted of murder in
the Navassa Islands in September, 1889,
during riot, have been sentenced by
Judge Bond, of the circuit court of Bal.
timore, to be hanged on May 10.
The United Framers of New York
have made demand for shorter hours
and more wages and threaten to strike
on May / unless the bosses accede to it
The residence of Gen. f. b. Fowler, al
Brooklyn, n. Y, burned on the 18th
and the generals son William, aged ~
perished in the flames. The other
members of the family were rescued
with difficulty.
MICHAEL SCHALL, head of the bank
ing firm of Schall e. Danner of York
Pa, has failed. He has confessed judg
ments aggregating $4,000.
OWEN GARRY and his wife, aged 81
and 65 respectively, We're burned t.
death in fire which destroyed theii
home at Rockford, ILL.,, on the 10Th.
AT Lowell, Mass, on the 14th fire
broke out in the basement of the county
Jail where 200 bales of cotton were
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