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

July 1, 1891.
AT Chicago on the Sd Mamie Starr,
the domestic who poisoned her employ
ers, Mr.. and Mrs. Newland, screamed
and tainted away when Judge Riggs
overruled the motion of her attorney
for n new trial. Upon receiving the
sentence of life imprisonment, she was
again overcome and was carried out
into the Jail in an unconscious condition.
THE pottery manufacturers of New
Jersey have submitted schedule of
wages to the sanitary ware pressers
which means reduction of about 33 n
per cent in wages The executive board
of the Potters' National Union has
advised the men to resist the reduction,
and strike is probable.
AT Elmira, N. Y, in the case of
Herbert Warren, on trial for the mur-
der of his father last June, the jury on
the Sd rendered II verdict of not guilty.
The defense was that the killing was
done while Herbert was defending his
mother during quarrel between his
parents.
JOHN Cox, n porter, recently found
$4,000 worth of diamonds in n little bag
in the mud on the streets in New York.
He turned in his find" at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel office, and the owner be-
ing soon found Cox received Sl00 as re-
ward.
BECAUSE the men running the engines
and the tiremen demanded an advance
of twenty-five cents n day, the Millvale
iron works at Millvale, Pa, have been
closed down indefinitely by the com
pany, throwing 500 men out of work.
On the Sd Frank Vaudeville, n Chi
cago travelling man, shot three times at
Mrs. Nellie Shaw, in Los Angeles, Col,
but her corset steels saved her. He COM
mitted suicide when the officers at
tempted to arrest him.
On the Sd heavy fall of slate in Dia-
mond mine, at Coal Bluff, Ind, buried
Henry and Joe Mcmahon, father and
son, and badly injured William Law
horn and b. Morgan. In the same mine
Dan Piper caught his hand under the
bolts of an ascending cage and was
hoisted to the top, distance of ninety
feet. He had to be lowered to the bot
tom before being released.
THE st. Paul Furniture Company
made an assignment on the Sd. Its as
sets are SO, 900, and liabilities $4,000.
AT the meeting of the New York
Central Labor Union on the 4th, it was
reported that the National League of
Pattern-makers has now twenty-five
local unions, whose representatives will
meet in Chicago on the first Monday in
February to complete their arrange
ulentS for the introduction of the eight
hour day on May 1st.
AT Bowmansville, Pa, recently four
young men procured lot of whisky on
prescription and drank it. Harry
Stouffer, aged seventeen, died from the
effects and another of the party, named
Weaver, laid out in the cold and was so
badly frozen that both of his legs must
be amputatcd.
In Illinois, last year, there were 3d.
4S5 railway employees, an increase of
4,46o over the previous year. Their
compensation aggregated $3S, 991, 1856.
In the State SOS persons were killed,
and 1,564 injured during the year.
THREE young men named Edward and
Henry Spies and Harry Slower We're
drowned on the 5th while skating on
JOHN Fields, brother of Mrs. Juliet
Raum, wife of Pension Commission n
Green b. Raum, acting for his sister
and himself, has begun suit against the
town of Golconda, ILL.,, for property
amounting to over S200,00 He claims
title as the heir of Green B. Fields, de-
ceased, founder of the place, to the whole
river front of the town, lined with ware
houses, hotels and residences.
THE President has directed the trans
fer of the military reservation of Fort
ton of Fort Crawfor |, Col, to the Secre-
tary of the Interior for disposition under
the law.
A MORTGAGE for 81, 1000, 900 in favor of
the Central Trust Company, of New
York, was filed on the 9Th in Westmore-
land County, Pa, against the Pitts
burgh, Shcnango e Lake Erie railroad.
TWELVE men were killed in the Utica
mine, Angels camp, near San Andreas,
Cal, on the 9th. A load of men We're
being lowered on skip and when about
$50 feet from the surface the rope broke,
precipitating all distance of $50 feet to
the bottom of the shaft.
THE indictments charging Joseph Pu-
liter, John c. Chambers and James +.
Graham, editors of the World, with
criminal libel in publishing articles de-
famatory to the character of the late
Alexander II. Stewart, We're dismissed
by Recorder Smythe in the Court of
General Sessions at New York on the 5th.
THE Deuber Watch Company, whose
works were formerly at Newport, KY,
but are now at Canton, o., made an as
signment on the 5th for the benefit of
creditors. The nominal assets are
S1,50O,0OO; liabilities, including prefer
ences, 100000.
WILSON & Co., lumber dealers of
Michigan City, Ind, have failed. Lia-
biliGies, $150,00O assets, $4,000. The
home creditors are secured, but out
siders will get very little.
THE reported purchase of Mexican
lands By the Mormon Church has been
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