Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-28

ran through an open switch and into
| loaded box car on the side track near
Louisville, Ky. The engine, baggage
car and three coaches were demolished;
Engineer George Burgess was killed
and Fireman Alfred Erickson seriously
injured. No passengers were hurt
IT has been discovered that J. p.
Davis, deputy clerk of courts at st.
Paul, Mimi, by ingenious methods has
within the past three years forged thou
sands of jury certificates, thereby pocl1-
citing S24,s00. The loss will fall upon
District Clerk O'Connor or County Treas
urer Nelson.
ELEVEN large greenhouses belonging
to the celebrated idle Hour" farm of
w. X Vanderbilt at Islip, II. l., were
destroyed by fire on the 21st, causing an
estimated loss of from S75, 900 to $780,
600. The greenhouses contained many
plants and ferns, some of them 200
years old.
WHILE $50 Italians were holding
meeting at Broy, N. Y, on the 2lst to
protest against the mob's action at New
Orleans the building was bombarded
with cobblestones and the meeting
broken up by mob outside.
THE conference committees represent
ing the carpenters and the carpenters
and builders association came to an un-
derstanding ut Chicago on the 21st after
being in session for four days. The
agreement signed says that the work
shall be eight hours, the pay by the
hour, and the minimum rate of wages
thirty-tive cents per hour for the next
two years.
THE Brazil Mail Steamship Company
has made n contract for the transpor-
tation of forty-six locomotives recently
ordered from manufacturers in this
country by the railway companies in
Brazil.
THE switchmen employed on the Chi
cago 81 Northwestern railroad in Chi
cago went out on q strike on the Esd,
but returned to work few hours Inter,
the company conceding their demands.
THE grand jury at Louisville, Ky,
will investigate the failure of Theodore
Schwartz S Co., the bankers, and Grim
| inal prosecution will follow. The assets
now turn out to be nothing.
| In the criminal court at Washington
on the 2Sd Charles e. Kincaid pleaded
mot guilty" to the indictment for the
murder of eX-Congressman Taulbee, and
the work of securing jury began.
The Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Com
pany, which was organized in 1887 and
did large bridge business throughout
the northwest, has failed. Liabilities
$4,000 assets not known.
THE police of Omaha. Neb., raided the
gambling dens of that city on the Esd,
and as II result more than 500 prisoners
filed the station. 1t is asserted that
this is merely the beginning of regu-
lar war to be waged against all gam
bling houses.
THE twenty-one firms of the clothiers'
exchange, of Rochester, n. Y, have is
sued notice to their striking cutters that
until March 2S they may apply for re-
employment at the old hours and pay,
but no knights of Labor will be en-
ployed under any condition.
The prevalence of grippe in Pitts
burgh and Allegheny, Pa, has become
a matter of serious alarm. The number
of cases is now larger than at any time
during last years epidemic, and 5000
cases lis an approximate figure. The
death rate for the past two weeks has
been unusually large.
HENRY CONRAD, Nicholas Miller and
David Higgs, three young men of Wilkes
barre, Pa, were poisoned on the 2Sd by
eating a kind of parsnip which they
found while hunting. Conrad and Miller
both died within short time. Higgs
may recover.
THE five steamers arriving at New
York on the 22d from European ports
brought 3, 143 immigrants.
The Washington national bank of
New York City closed its doors on the
Esd, it having been discovere that its
capital had been impaired to the extent
of S135,000. 1t is understood that the
banks capital had been loaned out by
President Sherman to friends on poor
and worthless collateral. He has dis
appeared.
The funeral services of Lawrence
Barrett, the actor, were conducted in
the Windsor hotel, New York, on the
23d by Thomas Sherman and were of
the simplest character, consisting only
of the prayers for the dead. The re-
mains were then taken to Coh.,ssett
Beach, for interment
AT the meeting of the coal agents in
New York on the Esd it was decided to
reduce stove coal 40 cents per ton, egg
80 cents and chestnut 25 cents. The
new schedule makes stove S3.75, egg
$500 and chestnut S3,50 per ton. The
new prices go into effect April l and are
55 cents to 65 cents below those in effect
last year. 1t was also resolved to re-
strict production for the month of April
to 1000, coo tons.
FRED CowIE, Leon Philenti and Bert
johnson, who were arrested at Boston.
Mass, recently on charges of having
set fire to several places in town and
entering number of stores, have con-
fessed that the gang to which they be-
longed fired and burglarized number
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