Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.

two children, aged ana IL years re-
spectively, roasted alive Nine other
occupants barely escaped in their night
clothes.
BUSINESS failures during the week
ended the 9TH numbered for the United
States 2l1 and for Canada 13, total of
224, as compared with 254 the previous
week. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures were 205.
AT Buffalo, n. Y, on the 5th the
clothing firm of Riegel g. Robinson
made general assignment to William
NJ. Citerly. Total amount of prefer
ences $50, 1928.
GEORGE D. HAcKETT, treasurer of the
Boston CMass.) Speculation Company,
was convicted on the 5th in the United
States court for violating the lottery
laws
THE mayor of Philadelphia has an
nounced a reward of SIS, 900 for the ar
rest and conviction of Gideon w. Marsh
for alleged violation of law while acting
as president of the keystone National
bank.
REPRESENTATIVE of Kentucky jean
manufacturers which operate 5000
looms in Nashville, Evansville and other
southern cities, met at Louisville, Ky,,
on the 5th and determined to run only
two-thirds time for the next fifteen
weeks. This will reduce the output 50,-
900 pieces, value $50, 900.
THE collector of the port of Louis
vile, KY, on the 5th seized 1874 barrels
of whisky stored in the public ware
house. The government claims that
the liquor which paid only 80 cents per
gallon duty when re-imported from
Bermuda, should have paid ST. so per
gallon, as it had been blended with
other whisky.
THE Huntington Qnd.) bank closed
its doors on the 5th in consequence of
losses sustained by Cashier Alloway's
overdrafts to the amount of from $50, 900
to $40, 900.
AT Erie, Pa, the strike of planning
mill employees for shorter hours, which
has been in progress since May l, was
declared off on the 9th. All the mills
were expected to return to ten hours.
The carpenters demand for nine hours
was conceded.
THE general synod of the Reformed
church in America in session at Asbury
Park, N. j., on Nthe 5th unanimously
adopted the report of the joint commits
sion on the proposed union with the
Reformed church in the United States.
The form of constitution, providing for
a federal synod of the Reformed
churches, was approved and referred to
the classes of the denomination for ap-
proval or disapproval.
THIRTY prominent students of Har-
ward college, members of Alpha Delta
Phi club, whose rooms were recently
raided by police and large seizures of
liquor made, were fined S65 each in the
ambridge Mass court on the 5th.
AN explosion occurred in Walkers
soap factory at Allegheny City, Pa, on
the 5th, resulting in the injury of Mr..
Liebech chemist, and two employees.
None of the injuries will prove fatal.
JAMES H. HOLDEN, skilled counter
feiter, who is wanted in Wilhesbarre,
Pa, for passing spurious silver dollars
and half dollars, was arrested at New
York on the 9th. Holden has served
several terms of imprisonment and
made counterfeit coins while in prison
at Moyamensing, Pa. He made his
molds in the foundry of the establish
ment, stole some metal and melted it in
an old iron spoon.
AFTER six weeks strike the 600
miners of the Gable Coal Company at
Washington Ind, resumed work on the
9th, the difficulty having been adjusted
by arbitration.
AT Saltwater, Mimi, Edward De-
vine, found guilty of libeling Frank P.
Lemon, deputy warden of the state pris-
on, in the St Paul Sunday Sun, was
sentenced on the 9th to ninety days in
the county Jail. Albert Keivel, who
wrote the article and is under arrest,
has confessed and will be sentenced
also.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred at
Chattanooga, Tenn, on the 9th at the
Chattanooga blast furnace, instantly
killing Jem Foster, Budd Tables and
Nat Sanders, and dangerously injuring
Lem Whitker. The explosion was
caused by dynamite. Foster and Ia
bles' heads were blown to atoms.
AT Salt Lake City on the 9th in At
of jealousy caused by suspicious con-
duct of his wife, Sam Liday, a restau-
rant keeper, shot her alleged paramour,
John Kirby, his own child, aged years,
and after firing shot at his wife turned
The pistol on himself and committed
suicide.
AT Toledo o., on the 9th the grand
jury returned an indictment for defal-
cation of city money against W. H.
Cook, ex-police clerk. The shortage is
placed at $40, OOO and this is but part of
the huge sum he owes. He was taken
10 the county jail and all attempts to
secure bail have been fruitless.
GEORGE b. MERRITT e. Co., one of the
largest dry goods firms at Kington, N.
Y, failed on the 9th. The liabilities are
unknown.
A DISTINCT shock of earthquake from
southeast to northwest, accompanied by
rumbling noise, was felt at New
Brunswick, N. j., on the 9TH.
THOMAS BELLHoUsE, an insurance
agent at Rochester, N. Y, committed
suicide on the 9th by jumping into the