Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-05-23

and when asked II he had any money,
produced a roll of $50 and 800 bills
amounting in all to $40, 900.
The necessary capital, 500, 900, 900,
for the proposed New York and New
Jersey bridge has been subscribed by a
syndicate of capitalists, and it is ex-
pected that the work on the approaches
to the bridge will soon begin. The
bridge will span the Hudson river at
West Seventy-first street and will con-
meet all the suburban towns with New
York
LESTER s. SMITH, formerly collector
for the Boston Post, and who is wanted
in that city for embezzling $1,000, has
been arrested in Montana.
AT New York City on the 18th George
Hardy was committed for trial in 81
500 bail on charge of grand larceny
preferred by his sister-in-law, who al
leges that he stole $50 from her on the
day of his marriage to her sister. 1t
was said Hardy made practice of mar
rying women for money and leaving
them on their wedding day.
NEAR Birmingham, Ala, on the 18th
rear end collision occurred between two
soutk kbound freights on the Louisville &
Nashville road. Brakeman j. NJ. Cos
tello was instantly killed and his body
burned in the wreck. Fireman Lester
Brown was also killed and Engineer
Edmunds hurt mortally.
FRANK AUTCALT, 10 years old, and
Edward Martin, aged II, were drowned
in a mill pond at Freehold, N. j., on the
18th. They were in n racing shell when
the boat overturned. The bodies were
recovered shortly after the accident oc-
Cured.
THE Rockwell house, a summer hotel
at Luzerne, N. Y, was burned on the
18th, together with several cottages
The house contained about 500 rooms.
Loss, SS5, 200; insurance, $4,000.
AT Bradfordsville, KY, on the 18th, A.
D. Clark, a young mulatto, became an
gered at child belonging to his en-
ployer and split its head open with an
AK, killing it instantly. A reward of
81, 900 was offered for Clarl1's apprehen-
sion.
AT Portsmouth, o., on the 18th, Fred
Muller, n butcher, fell from a scaffold
in slaughter house upon an iron hook
which pierced his eye ana brain, sus-
pending him five feet from the ground
for thirty minutes before discovered.
He was not expected to live.
THE engine of passenger train on
the Long Island railroad was derailed
near Greenville on the 18th and plunged
down an embankment Engineer Frank
Coombs and man named Jarvis (who
was riding in the cab were killed.
Fireman Riordan was fatally injured
and the conductor and brakeman
badly hurt. No passengers were in
jured.
The works of the Joliet Qll.) Enter
prise company were entirely destroyed
by fire on the 18th, involving loss of
Sl25, 900, on which there was an insur-
ance of 100000 Three hundred men
are thrown out of employment. The
company manufactured barbed wire,
wire nails, etc.
Two thousand men engaged in sewer
work at Superior, Wis, struck on the
18th for an advance from S1.75 to 81 per
day. Trouble is feared when the con-
tractors bring in outside men.
A DIsPATCH from Salina, Kan, says
a tremendous cloudburst of hail oc-
CURED near that place on the nth. The
district covered by the storm was two
miles wide and eight to ten long. The
hail was as large as hens eggs and al
most completely destroyed the wheat.
One farmer lost $50 acres and another
200. The total damage will reach $50,-
600.
IT is reported that John Cudahy, the
big packer of Chicago and Omaha, has
bought for $6OO,OOO two sections of land
adjoining the tract recently bought by
Armour, Swift and Morris in Indiana at
the head of Lake Michigan, to be used
for stockyard purposes.
THE interstate commission on the
18th, in an opinion by Chairman Cooley,
announced it's decision of the case of
Beaver e Co., manufacturers of soap at
Dayton, o., against the Pittsburgh, Gin
cinnati & st. Louis Railway Company
and sixteen other railroads, in favor of
the complainant.
NELLIE R. GOODWIN, the wife of Nat
G. Goodwin, the actor, has been awarded
S75 week alimony pending her action
for limited divorce from her, husband
on the ground of desertion.
A COMBINE of about two-thirds of the
fruit canneries of California has been
effected under the name of the Cali
fornia Fruit Canneries Company, with
a capital stock of 81, ,OOO,O 900.
A VIOLENT hail storm in Texas on the
18th destroyed many thousand dollars
worth of crops Hail fell to depth of
from six to eighteen inches in a narrow
belt of territory crossing north Texas
in the vicinity of Gainesville, where
wheat averaging thirty bushels per
acre was ready for the reaper. Not
head is left standing. The damage in
the locality of Gainesville is at least
100000, while several other sections
report damage nearly as great.
AT a mass meeting of the Italian
residents of Boston, Mass, on the 18th,
movement was started to erect and
present to the city of Boston a statue of