Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-10
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

the warden and physicians OF the peni-
tentiary that he is in the last stages of
consumption. Rowe was sent up in
January year ago from Darke County
Tor four years for burglary and larceny.
VALENTINE BoHLENDER, eighty-four
years of age, and one of the pioneer
German citizens of Dayton, met his
death by falling down stairs at his resi-
dence. His skull was fractured and
his death resulted within a few minutes.
He was very highly respected.
CORNELIUS LAWRENCE, "a coal miner,
at Turner's Station, three miles west of
New Philadelphia, had his arm shot off
the other morning, while fooling with
a loaded shotgun.
THE post-otiice at Minerva was raised
from the fourth to the third Tor presiden-
tiaD class January 1. t,..I.
p. G. CALLAHAN has filed suit in court
Mt Urbana, against the Erie railroad for
S25, 900 damages The suit is to recover
that amount for the loss of both legs of
his son Willie, Mt Mingo, several weeks
ago.
LOUIS LACLEDE, n performer in a va
riety theater at Columbus, sustained se-
rious internal injuries the other night
by fall from n trapeze.
ED E. IRWIN, a young single man,
was celebrating the birth of the New
Year at Dennison by firing off revolv-
er, one chamber of which refused to eX-
plode, and in attempting to remove the
cartridge it exploded, the ball entering
Twins stomach. He is still living, but
with small hopes of his recovery.
AN old man named Alfred Lyon was
struck by Panhandle passenger No. 4,
near Pataskala, and instantly killed.
He was walking along on the north
track and did not hear the engineers
warning. He was aged about rs years.
His body was horribly mangled by the
wheels.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL has ordered a
| special election in the Seventeenth
Twenty-eighth district, for successor
| to the late Senator Zimmerman to take
place on the 18th inst.
THE Governor has appointed DR.. Will
liam 7. Miller, of Cuyahoga County,
member of the State Board of Health
for the term ending December 1S, 1896.
vice d. II. BecSwith, term expired.
ST. ANTHoNY's Catholic Church, Mi
Ian, Erie County, was burned New
Years day. Cause, defective furnace.
CAPTAIN Jos. ERWIN, 80, the Oldest
man in Clark County, died the other
morning. He came there from Cincin-
natl, and was an Ohio river captain for
80 years.
ELMIRA NEEDLES, an unmarried wom-
an 81 years of age, who made her home
| with widowed sister on n farm seven
miles south of Columbus, in the village
| of Groveport, committed suicide by hang
ing herself with clothes-line, which
she attached to beam in an clubhouse.
She was respondent on account of ILL
health.
ELI FOSTER, convicted at Athens, of
murder in the second degree, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
THE Ohio National Guard association
will hold its annual convention at the
| First Regiment armory, in Cincinnati,
January IS and 30.
ELLEN j. MCCoMB began suit in the
common pleas court, Findlay, the other
day, for S., 600 damages for breach of
marriage promise against John F.
Franks, the son of wealthy farmer in
Allen township. Both the parties are
prominent young people.
JOHN MACKENZIE, aged seventeen, of
Cleveland, committed suicide on ac-
count of disappointment.
MISS LILLIAN ROBERTSON, Amy Coyle
and some children were playing on u
| pile of lumber at the Pan Handle depot
at Newark, the other evening. The
lumber fell, burying the Robertson girl
beneath it, and seriously and probably
fatally injuring her. Her breast was
crushed in. Both of the other children
We're slightly hurt
GEO. SNYDER, of Cincinnati, nine
year-old child, leaning out third-story
window, few days ago. lost his bal
ance and fell in a full length position to
the brick pavement in the rear of the
building. In his fight the boy struck
slantingly against two-story frame
house about six feet from the ground.
The body then alighted full force on the
bricks The child was picked up un-
conscious, and it was thought every
bone in his body must be broken. But
on examination it was found that not Il
bone was fractured, and the body was
but slightly bruised. He recovered con-
| SclouSncSS III lew minutes ana Is All
right. The fall was twenty-seven feet
and two inches.
AT Lima Peter Boose, his wife and
two-year-old child narrowly escaped
suffocation by gas from a stove.
AN explosion of boiler in the sau-
sage factory of Ben Lowenstein &c
Bros, Cincinnati, damaged six small
dwelling-houses; killed Jennie Grey.
aged four years; fatally injured Mrs.
Loewenstein, aged lightweight, and
less seriously injured several other per-
sons. VIM. Longlutz, butcher who
ran the engine, was arrested for run
ming an engine without license; also
his employer, Ben Loewenstein. The
loss to property is about $4,000.
FREIGHT CONDUCTOR GEORGE TAYLOR
was horribly cS-ashed between two cars