Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-13

PETER GREENwoop, the missing treas
urer of Wood River township, ILL.,, who is
short In his accounts about $1,000, has
been captured at Portland, Ore.
AT an early hour on the morning of
the 9th the Island Sash and Door Com
pany's plant at Milwaukee, Wis, wns
totally destroyed by fire. Loss, 500, 900;
insurance, SS2, 900.
IT is stated on good authority that
the commission of inquiry to- investi-
gate the charges of nncanonical conduct
brought against the Rev. Heber New
ton, rector of All Souls church, has
been appointed by Bishop Potter, and
will consist of the Rev. DIR. Shipman of
Christ church Rev. DR.. Peters, of old st.
MichaePs, Bloomingdale, and Rev. Mr.
Butler, of the Church of the Epiphany.
THE case of the Willimantic Conn. J
Linen Company and the Conant Thread
Company to recover damages from the
Clark Thread Company, of New Jersey,
for alleged infringments of patents has
just been decided by the United States
supreme court, after litigation extend
ing over eighteen years. In every for
mer trial the plaintiffs had won and
had been awarded damages of $500, 900,
but now the Clarks are the victors The
costs, which are very heavy, fall upon
the Willimantic and Conant companies.
AT Media, Pa, the sealed verdict in
the case of DIR. Henderson Hayward,
charged with bribery at the republican
congressional primary election year
ago, was read on the Sth. 1t finds that
DIR. HAYWARD is not cuiltv
THE estate of the late P. 7. Barnum
as shown by inventory filed in the pro-
bate court at Bridgeport, Conn, on the
sth is estimated as follows: Personal
property, S1,2S5, 500; real estate, 81, 994, :
93S; making total of S4,279, 532.
JUDGE NELSON in the United States
circuit court at Boston, Mass, on the
Sth discharged Clarietta E. Johnson on
the habeas corpus obtained by Gen. B.
+. Butler.
AT Chicago on the sth Judge Blodgett
quashed the federal indictment against
George j. Gibson, eX-secretary of the
whisky trust. The judge held that the
federal statutes did not cover the crime,
the state courts.
AT New York City on the sth the
boss trainers union decided to no
longer support the striking union
trainers and the lumber dealers opened
their yards with the boss trainers in
charge and began delivery of lumber.
SEVENTEEN indictments have been
found by the Philadelphia grand jury
against Bardsley, the defaulting city
treasurer. The maximum penalty is
eighty-five years.
THE alleged cruelties practiced upon
the employees of the Norfolk e. Western
Railroad company have been investi-
gated by the grand jury at Parkers-
burg, w, Va. The jury find the allega-
tions to be without foundation.
AT Denver, Col, the indictments
against ex-senator Stevenson, Otto
Mears, president of the Rio Grande
Southern railway, and eX-Secretary of
State Watson, charged with bribery,
were quashed on the Sth by District At
terney Stevens. This is the end of the
great legislative scandal of last winter.
EMORY H. MERRIMAN, well known
lawyer of Asheville, N. c., has been in
dicted for forging the name of the
county treasurer. He is highly con-
nected and has been brought to his
present condition by drink.
FRED Goss, aged 25, collector Of the
Oberman Brewing Company of Chicago,
a few days ago heard that his accounts
were being investigated, and knowing
that there was considerable shortage,
suicided by shooting himself.
ADA VERNON, well known in Boston
and other eastern cities, suicided in
Denver, Col, on the eth. She came into
prominence in the west as the COM
panion of Maxwell, whose murder of
Preller made sensation on both sides
of the Atlantic. A quarrel with her
paramour, well-known politician of
Denver, led to the suicide.
A GANG of twenty suspected thieves
were arrested by the New Castle pa
police at Lawrence Junction on the sth.
The men were in camp in the woods,
and large quantities of silver and jew
elry were found in their possession.
THE list of crimes at Louisville, Ky.,
on the 18th include murder, deliber-
ate suicide. two fatal cutting affrays,
and a dozen other instances in which
knife or pistol was used with more or
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