Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-04-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.

Total OF 242 as compared WIN 24o une
week previous. For the corresponding
week of last year the figures were 2O6.
DURING furious rain and thunder
storm at Princeton, Ill, on the 9th the
wife of August Gustaison, farmer,
was instantly killed by bolt of light
ming.
Two negroes have been arrested and
Jailed at Evergreen, Ala, charged with
being members of the band of train
wrecllers who have been operating on
the Louisville &c Nashville railroad.
AT Montpelier, VT, the jury in the
stoncutters' conspiracy case returned n
verdict finding four of the respondents,
Joseph b. Dyer, secretary of the Ma
tional union; Patrick Morrison, Frank
Morril, and Z. p. Sherbourne, members
of the union, guilty of conspiracy to
prevent Jacob McClue from working as
a stonecutter because he was nom
union man. The respondents will take
the case to the supreme court.
j. NJ. SCHooNMAKER, of Pittsburgh,
has been appointed receiver of the
Columbia Iron and Steel Company, with
directions to file bond in the sum of
100000.
WILLIAM S. SKAees, United States
prisoner en- route to the Columbus, o.,
penitentiary, escaped from the car by
jumping through a window while the
train was moving at a rapid rate, near
Lebanon, Mo-, on the 10th.
AT Richburg N c., on the 10th Clar-
ence Robertson, aged years, and
Emma Straw, aged years, disputed
over game in which they were en-
gagged and the boy, in rage, picked up
stone and killed his playmate. About
a year ago the boy attempted to set fire
TO his home because his father had
whipped him.
FIRE in the Hill, Fontain & Co. IS cot
ton shed at Memphis, Tenn, on the 9th
caused loss of S135,0O0 fully insured
Mrs. CAROLINE WILHELM, owner of
the Wilhelm brewery, Pittsburgh, has
confessed judgment for S46,0 for the
benefit of her creditors.
CHARLES WILSON, a tramp working for
Jacob WendoclI, in Schuylkill county,
Pa, has disappeared, taking with him
$4,000 of his employers money, which
had been hidden in an old coat in the
attic of the house.
CHARLES McILvAINE, the murderer
of Christian Luca, the grocer at Brook
lyn, n. Y, sentenced to be executed
during the week beginning April 20, has
Secured stay pending an appeal to the
United States supreme court.
THE italian immigrants, one hundred
and fifty-three in all, saved from the
wreck of the steamer Utopia, were
landed at New York on the 18th.
AT Milwaukee, Wis, on the 11th,
Joseph Hammer, employed in Schlitz's
brewery, met a horrible death by fall
ing into vat of boiling water.
The large building occupied by the
Ames Packing Company, and the Cal
houn Buggy and Implement Company,
at Springfield, Mo-, was destroyed by
fire on the night of the 11th. Loss about
SO, 200.
PAINToN AND SMITH, charged with
numbering Mrs. Strominger at Lewis
berry, were placed in Jail at York, Pc,
on the 11th. Painton still denies COM
plicity in the crime.
EDWARD STRANGE, living near One
onta, Blount county, La, on the 18th ac-
cidentally shot and instantly killed his
wife while loading his rifle. He had
been married two months.
THE president on the 18th declined to
grant pardon to S. L. Waggoner, of
Missouri, convicted of preventing the ex-
ercise of civil rights by citizen. Wag-
goner was one of the gang known as
BALD Knobbers.
AT Norwalk, Conn.,, on the 18th, the
Norwalk 81 South Norwalls electric
light company's building was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $50, 900; partially insured.
AT Washington, Pa, on the 18th, a
two-quart nitro-glycerine can exploded,
instantly killing Tom Mounts, Jr., aged
10, and probably fatally injured his
younger brother, William, aged 12.
CHARLES III. HARTwIG, letter car
rier at Peoria, ILL.,, was arrested on the
11th. He confessed to opening and de-
stroying about 6,000 letters.
AT Orange, Mass, on the 18th, four
Italians were boat riding on Millers
river, when they came too near the
rapids and were swept over the dam
and drowned.
In response to o request for his auto
graph before he sailed, Baron Fava sent
the following card to a reporter: II am
satisfied to express my sympathy with
the United States" Signed Fava.
IN a fire in the Paxton hotel, Omaha,
Neb., on the 18th one fireman was
killed and three injured. The men
were caught under falling wall. The
financial loss by the fire was $40, 900.
THE famous trotting stallion "Prince
Regent" owned by Charles j. Hamlin,
died at the Village Farm stables near
Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th. SEN
ator Stanford, of California, recently of
fered $4,000 for the stallion, but it was
refused Prince Regent made record
of 2:16N last year and was the largest
winner of purses in the grand circuit.
CHARLES BAGLEY, the negro who
killed officer Wood at Blocton, Mo-, a
few days ago, was shot and killed on
on the 18th by posse at Jones Station.
Before being killed, Bagley shot and IA
tally injured John Sanders, one of the
posse.
SHUMwAY, the suspected accessory to