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

JOHN GIDB, prominent Manitoba
farmer living near the town of Nc
Gregor was burned to death on the
night of the SOth ult. He was bach
elor, and the FIRE which destroyed his
residence was caused by a defective
furnace. He had no neighbors within
two miles and consequently the catas-
trophe was not discovered until too late.
THE rod mill, the remaining depart
ment of the rolling mill at Joliet, Ill,
closed on the 30th ult., thus closing the
entire mill, leaving $500 or more men
without employment. The Amalga-
mated association says that it has ac-
ceded to the demands of the company
and is nonplussed over the turn affairs
have taken.
JOHN MULLINS, So years old, who was
employed to do odd jobs in the liquor
store of Uriah Ellis at 1908 Broadway,
New York city, was suffocated early on
the morning of the 30th ult., in fire
which occurred there. Loss by the fire
was only about 5000. The fire was
caused by an overheated stove in bar
room adjoining the store.
AT Brooklyn, N. Y, j. Bilofsli, j.
Turches, Wolf Turchen, Il. Reingold, j.
Libe and Peretz Goldstein, the Polish
cloakmalSers who wrecked the store of
Greenbaum, q cloak manufacturer at
Jamaica, l.. l., because he employed
non-union labor, were before Judge Gull
lin, of the Kings county supreme court,
on the 30th ult., on writ of habeas COR
pus to have their bail reduced The
I n1,
is SO, 600 each.
IN championship foot race at De-
catur, ILL.,, ON the 30th ult., 100 yards,
for purse of $50 side, Charles Brown,
of Kcoliuli, Ia, was beaten by Ben
Alexander, of Decatur. Time, 11X sec
onds
BALL D. WALKER died ut Chicago on
the 30th ult., from pistol wound in
fiicted while he was delirious with the
grip.
The return of the Alaska district court
to the writ of the supreme court of the
United States asking that cause be
shown why writ of prohibition should
not issue in the Sayward Bering sea
case, has been received by the attorney
general and will be filed in the supreme
court within week or two and argu-
ment will take place on the second Mon
day in April.
WHILE eating dinner at indianapolis,
Ind, on the 30th ult. Nicholas Haige,
aged so, got piece of meat in his wind
pipe and was chol<ed to death before it
could be dislodged.
The grip scourge at Pittsburgh is still
L.
ty-two funerals occurred on the S0th
ult. and an equal number were post
poned until the next day on account
of dearth of horses and carriages
AT Carlisle. Ill, few days ago three
children of w. II. Walker got hold of
some poke root and ate it. One of the
children has died from the effects of it,
and the chances are against the recovery
of the other two.
GEN. CHARLES A. JOHNSON, retired
army officer. suicided at New Haven,
Con-, ON the 3Oth ult., by shooting. He
was IS years old and descendant of
ohm Quincy Adams.
THE famous St Bernard "Alton" died
at Washington on the 30th ult from
pneumonia. He was the champion dog
of the country until the recent arrival
of Sir Bedivere. He cost $4,000.
w. p. MOORE was arrested at Port
land, Ore, on the 3Oth ult., charged
with having embezzled So, 500 from the
Southern Express Company while acting
as chief clerk. it. t.-
FRIcKE, the noted Pittsburgh anarch-
list, was taken to hospital in that city
on the 3Oth ult., in starving condition.
THE cupola in the blast furnace at
Terre Haute, Ind, exploded on the 3Oth
ult., fatally burning Michael Garvey
and Patrick Hurley. Two other work
men were also seriously hurt.
THE trial of the indictment of W. S.
Hughitt, charging him with wrecking
the First national bank of Auburn, was
ended by acquittal before Judge Coke
in the United States district court at
Utica, n. Y, on the 30th ult.
DAVID LEWIS, a pressman in the Du-
luth (Minn.) Tribune, was notified on
the 30th ult. that he had fallen heir to
fifth interest in S2S, 900, 600 at Ports
mouth, England. The fortune is left to
Lewis by his grandfather on his
mothers side.
THE president has granted pardon
in the case of Nicholas III. Groesback
convicted in Utah of adultery and sen
fenced October 81, 1890, to eighteen
months imprisonment.
PERsoNAL AND POLITICAL.
A BILL has been passed by the Maine
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