Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-24

AN additional shortage of $50, 900 has
been discovered in the trust funds held
r, oy Attorney John c. Hall, San Fran
cisco. The loss of this amount falls
upon Mrs. NJ. A. Baldwin, whose estate
was in Halls charge.
AT Appleton, Wis, recently a party
| of ten young people were coasting down
n steep incline and across bridge. The
sled suddenly veered on the bridge and
ran into the railing, which gave way,
and the party was hurled into the river
below. Emma Adsit was instantly killed
and Mary Carey and Jay Briggs wero
drowned
FLEMING & HAMILToN's tin warehouse
Mt Pittsburgh was damaged by fire on
the 18th to the extent of S35, 000
An explosion in the Crescent Brewery
Mt Aurora, Ind, on the 18th killed two
men and seriously wounded four others.
THE loss by the burning of Dobson's
carpet mills, near Philadelphia, re-
Gently, is estimated at between ST. ,250,-
900 and 81, $50, 900. On this there is an
insurance of $1,000, 900, placed in four
hundred different companies in this
country and England.
LEONARD PERRIN, the New London
(Wis.) banker, convicted of receiving
and disposing of money stolen from the
Iron Exchange Bank, of Hurley, Wis,
was on the 18th sentenced to pay
a fine of 800 and costs, in all 81, 13S.
A FIRE Mt West Fairfield, Pa, on the
Fth destroyed Kipple's flour mill, the
Grange-s' hall and other property, en-
failing a loss OF $4,000.
THE main part of the dye house of
the Palmer mill of the Otis Company at
Three Rivers, Mass, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th. Elijah Frame and
Joseph Babcock, employees, were burned
to death.
SUPREME TREAsUsER KRAUss. of the
Patrons of Industry, at Port Huron,
Mich, is 1,400 short in his accounts.
He admits the fact, and says he used
the money in establishing the organ of
the order.
AT New Castle, Pa, Mrs. McGinty,
who was convicted of having solicited
Samuel Messenger, an eX-penitentiary
convict, to murder w. S. Foltz, president
of the First National Bank of that city,
was on the 10Th sentenced to twenty
months in the penitentiary. She re-
fused to divulge the name of the man
who hired her to arrange for the murder
THE President has granted pardon
in the case of John Mckee, convicted in
Ohio of violating section $500, revised
statutes, and sentenced to five years
Imprisonment. The pardon is granted
because of the precarious state of the
convict's health.
GENERAL LEES birthday was cele-
brated throughout Virginia on the 10Th
by general suspension of business, |
professions, speeches and banquets. In
Richmond the Confederate flag was dis
played in addition to other bunting.
THE Treasury Department decides |
that goods from foreign countries-after |
March neXt-should bear the name of |
the country of origin, whether shipped |
on through bills of lading or via other |
countries.
A PASSENGER train on the Rio Grande |
railroad between Brownsville, Tex, |
and Point Isabel was derailed on the 10th |
by fifteen masked men, who held up the |
and got away with about |
$1,000 in Mexican money which was |
en- route to Brazos for shipment to New |
Orleans.
THE House Committee on the I'm
provement of the Mississippi River has
agreed pom hill for 'ts i'm ,ent |
by system e levees The -
extend '-e d. ~ to o. ,np,. -
will re... mend tia. he 8 -~ -,
for the improvement be .lcreas. 4 n
500 0,00O.
IN the criminal court at Washington |
on the 18th the case OF Charles E. Kin
kaid, indicted for the murder of eX-
Representative Taulbee, of Kentucky, I
at the Capitol last fall, was set for trial
on the 10th day of March next.
A BILL has been introduced in the |
Tennessee Senate authorizing an appro-
priation of $3.50, 600 with which Tennes-
see shall display her resources ut the
Exposition at Chicago in
1898.
AUGUSTUS P. DUNLOP, publisher of
"Dunlop's Stage News" was arrested
at New York on the 10th in libel suit
for $4,000 damages brought by Har-
rison FislSe, proprietor of the Dramatic
Mirror. Bail was fixed ut $40, 900. The
libel consisted in statement
that the Mirror was about to suspend
publication.
The United States Supreme Court on
the 18th rendered a decision in the ha-
beas corpus case of William Rebman, of
Norfolk, Va, in what is known as the |
dressed beef case, involving the consti- !
tutionality of the Virginia law which /
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miles or more from the place offered for
sale, to be inspected. The court decided |
that the State law is unconstitutional. !