Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-20


, In sinking an artesian well near War
rem, Mimi, on the 18th natural gas was
struck ut the depth of twenty feet 1t
came out with such force as TO throw
stones to height of thirty feet. The
gas was accidentally ignited, and a
fame shot up into the air forty feet
JOHN DouaHERTY and George w. Nc
Kee, tax collectors Of Wilmington, Del,
are found to be defaulters. Dougherty's
shortage amounts to over $4,000 and
McKee's SIS, 900.
THE war department on the 18th is
sued the following order: 1.-The field or
union of the national flag in use in the
army will on and after July 4, 1891, con-
sist of forty-four stars in six rows, the
upper and lower rows to have eight
stars, and the second, third, fourth and
fifth rows to have seven stars each in a
blue field"
AT Media, Pa, on the 18th the jury in
the case of Frank Quinn, charged with
the killing of William J. Brown during
the troubles over the strike at the
Standard steel works in South Chester
last March, brought in verdict OF ac-
quittal.
BETWEEN 600 and 700 Hebrew and
Russian tailors at Philadelphia struck
work on the 18th. The strike is the re-
suit of the mems grievances against the
so-calle6 sweaters who employ them.
REPORTS from ninety of the 106 coun-
ties of Kansas within the past few days
shows the wheat crop as the most
promising in the history of the state.
SECRETARY FOSTER has issued orders
to revenue vessels to enforce the Bering
sea agreement at once. The United
States men-of-war Thetis, Alert and
Mohican will sail Immediately for the
sealing waters to prevent the further
catching of seals this season.
The yacht Amelia was run down by a
tug in the Hudson river on the 18TH and
went to the bottom. A party of eleven
were aboard the yacht, two of whom
were drowned.
THE first shipment of block tin, con-
sisting of seven tons, from Lemscal tin
mines in San Bernardino county, have
been received at San Francisco
IN the county courts at Pittsburgh on
the 10Th Judge McClurg issued per-
emptory injunction restraining the strik-
ing bricklayers from interfering with
the workmen employed on the new
Alvin Joslin theater of Charles L. Davis
The Odd Fellows of Chicago, in emu
lation of their masonic brethren, have
decided to erect a temple of their order
in that city. 1t will be located at the
northeast corner of Van Buren street
and Fifth avenue, will be sixteen stories
high, and cost 81, OOO,0 900.
The temperature at Providence, R.
l., on the 18th reached 107 degrees.
DANIEL GRANT and Walter Stevenson
We're drowned while bathing in the
Raccoon river at Perry, Ia, on the 18th.
A. D. COOLEY and c. II. Anderson, of
Cedar Rapids, Ia, and two young ladies
living at Rockford, that state, went out
boating at Rockford on the 18th. The
boat capsized and all were drowned.
WASHINGTON c. WOLFE, a compositor,
aged S5 years, suicided by drowning
himself in the Muskingum river at Co
shocton, o.. on the 18th. Until two
weeks ago Wolfe was setting type in the
office of Coshocton paper, and was
probably the Oldest printer at work in
the United States
THE medical department of Tulane
university at New Orleans has been
made the recipient of donation from
Mrs. Richardson, wife of DIR. L. G..
Richardson, of 100000. The donation
will be used in erecting new college.
NINE men We're injured, two of whom
may die, by the falling of a scaffold at
Pratt & Whitney's works at Hartford,
Conn.,, on the 18th.
AT Ottawa, Mimi, on the 18th August
Vogt took hatchet and struck his wife
twelve times, cutting her severely on
the head and shoulders. The children
went for assistance and while they were
gone Vogt got a rope and hanged him
self to tree. ,.
AT Chicago, Ill, on the 18th Judge
Mcconnell decided that the city could
not compel the street car companies to
heat their cars in winter.
THE modus vivendi between the gov
ernments of the United States and
Great Britain to prohibit the killing of
seals in Bering sea was signed at Wash
ington on the 18th.
AT New York City on the 18th the
jury in the case of Ferdinand Legrano,
charged with the murder of Charles
Mauro, returned verdict of murder in
the second degree.
AT Elgin, H., on the 18th during a
heavy storm number of men took
refuge in barn, which was struck by
Theodore Schultz was in
killed and John Bartels received
fatal injuries
AT Baltimore on the 18th Samuel
Straus, a malster, assigned. Assets,
$50, 600. The liabilities were supposed
to be largely in excess of this amount.
AT Seattle, Wash, on the 14th, by the
capsizing of their boat, j. Donaldson
and Ida Lundberg were drowned in Lake
Union. Both clung to the overturned
boat for some time and sank Just as as
was at hand.
NEAR Cumberland, Md, on the 18th
while at work in the Hoffman mine,
two miners, named Jacob Legeer and
John Murray, were caught by heavy