Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-04-25


ton, Mass. on the 10th, falling roof
imprisoned twenty firemen among
beams and burning timbcrs. None were
killed, but several sustained serious in
juries.
JAcKsoN's jewelry store at Norwalk,
Conn, was entered by burglars on the
night of the 18th, who made off with
goods to the value of Sl5, 900.
AT Rochester, n. Y, on the Goth, the
Western Union Telegraph Company's
Office was crippled by the prevalence of
the grip among its employees. Three
chiefs, one lineman and three assistant
booll-kcepers were laid up with the dis
ease.
j. G. MCMAHON, aged 30, son of the
president of the Emigrant savings bank,
committed suicide with morphine on the
night of the 10Th at the Manhattan
club New York City. He was found
dead in his room.
JAMES FLAHERTY, n short term man
in the Albany, n. ", penitentiary, com
mitted suicide on the 19th in his cell by
tearing his throat with large nail. He
was dead when found. The prison au-
thorities tried hard to keep the matter
from the public.
THE stock house of the Norton iron
works at Ashland, KY, was damaged to
the extent of $4,000 by fire on the
morning of the Goth. Fully insured
IN jumping from buggy on the 10th
Nine. Felicia Stafford, proprietress of
dressmaking establishment at Chica-
go, ILL.,, was killed, and the wife of Carl
Delwick, secretary of the Chicago Fuel
Gas Company, was seriously injured.
SEVEN families are down with small
poX at San Gabriel, a country town
eighteen miles east of Granger, Tex.
Mrs. Moore and her baby died recently
and no one could be gotten to bury
them.
A DISPATCH from Braddock, Pa, says
the Edgar Thomson steel rail mill
started up on the 2lst after two month S
idleness, employing several thousand
men.
THERE is every indication of n general
strike of the coal miners in the vicinity
of Ottumwa, Ia, on May /. If the strike
is enforced it will throw 1O,O 900 men out
of employment and cut off the output,
which is over 1000, 900 tons per year.
AT Norristown, Pa, on the 10Th, while
workmen were engaged in removing an
uneXploded charge which had been pre-
pared for blast IN a stone quarry be-
| low that city it exploded, killing two
Italians and wounding another.
In the course of drunken brawl at
Bakerstown, near Coudersport, Pa, on
the Goth, Herman Nelson shot and killed
| l. fotn
George Woodward. The fight was over
the payment of some beer. Nelson was
| arrested
THIEVES went through the Plateau
hotel at Hot Springs, Ark, on the night
of the 18th and secured about $4,000 in
money and diamonds.
MYRTLE SWIM, aged twenty, the wife
of Charles Swim, briclllayer, and
George Hardy, aged eleven, We're
| drowned on the 10th while boating in
the aqueduct at Brighton Beach, near
Indianapolis, Ind.
| PITTSBURGH officer; recently arrested
five of the gang of thieves who have in
u few years past taken 500, 900 worth of
goods from freight trains in that vicini-
| ty. One of the prisoners has made a
confession, and warrants have been is
sued for thirty more of the gang.
AT Chicago on the Goth the federal
grand jury returned true bill against
George j. Gibson, ex-secretary of the
whisky trust, OR the charge of attempt
ing to bribe government officer to
blow up Shufeldt's antitrust distillery
in that city The extreme penalty fol-
| ha Of nd
years imprisonment in the penitentiary
GEORGE S. BOONE, of Ottumwa, Ia,
was arrested by special pension ex
aminer a few days ago. Boone has
been personating his father, who ha.
been dead for several years, and draw
ing pension regularly.
A SEVERE cyclone cut swath through
Pittsburg, Tex, on the Goth, completely
destroying two residences and damaging
half dozen. One woman was killed
and her daughter badly injured.
A REPORT has reached Chattanooga
from lockwood, Tenn, that on the 10th
Il party of native mountaineers rode in
to tan bark camp situated on the Cum
berland mountains, twenty-five miles
from lockwood, and without warning
shot and killed six negroes and wounded
ten. The Inountaineers, it is said, hac
been discharged for incompetency anc
took this method of vengeance.
THE race horse st. Elmo, recent!
sold to Mr.. Chambers, of Louisville, fo
SO, 600, died suddenly at Jeffersonville
Ind. on the Goth, on his way to Green
castle.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
GEN. w. ii. ENoCHs, member of con
gress from Ohio, was dangerously in
jured by a runaway team at Ironton
o., on the 18th.
MAJ. GEN. CHARLEs S. HAMILTON. U