Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-05-16

room were spattercd with blood and
the woman had apparently been dubbed
to death. Her husband was arrested on
suspicion of being the murderer.
WILLIAM and Irwin Duncan, brothers,
Of Dayton, o., were run down and in
stantly killed by n train on the Big
Four road while attempting to cross the
track at East Cumminsville on the 10th.
A FIRE broke out in the wholesale
grocery house of Francis II. Leggett &
Co., New York, on the 9th and before it
could be controlled the immense stock
of groceries in the building was com
pletely ruined. The loss is estimated
at $500, 900. Fully covered by insurance.
A FREIGHT train loaded with cattle,
while descending the Ration mountains,
Colorado, on the 9th, became unman-
ageable, owing to failure of the air
brakes to work. While going at fear
full speed the engine broke away from
the train, and sixteen cars went over
an embankment twenty feet high,
smashing the cars into kindling wood
and killing 800 cattle. Four tramps,
who were stealing a ride, were buried
in the wreck.
A CHEESE exchange has been organ
lied at jamestown, N. ", for the pur-
pose of centralizing the cheese business
of western New York.
IT is reported from Washington that
the italian consul at New Orleans, Sig
nor Corte, has made himself so obuox-
ious in the lynching affair that this gov
ernment is likely to ask for his recall
A DISPATCH from Tacoma, Wa, says
the steamer Lucy Lowe has foundered
In the straits of Juan de Fuca with fifty
five colonists on board. The party
numbering fifty-six left Tacoma April
81 to settle on land near the mouth of
the Guestahes river but were driven
back by high seas and became short of
food. John N. Grant, the only sur
vivor, returned to Tacoma on the 9th.
He believes the entire party has been
lost.
AT indianapolis, Ind, the appealed
case of John Griswell against the Noel
Feed Company, where the plaintiff sued
to recover wages at S1.25 per day for
the excess over eight hours, the time of
service extending over period of ten
months was decided on the 9th. Judg-
ment was given in Griswells favor, the
court holding that the law makes eight
hours legal day.
THREE men were killed and thirteen
injured by collision between two Sec
tions of log train near Shepherd,
Mich, on the 11th.
FOREST fires in Newaygo county,
Mich. have destroyed the villages of Otia,
Fields and Park City and the depot at
Lilley is all that remains of that village.
A great number of cars belonging to
the Chicago and West Michigan railway
have also been burned. The above
named places are villages of about 300
population each.
THE coroner's jury in the Ocean mine
disaster in West Virginia returned a
verdict censuring the owners and min
ing bosses and accusing them of wilfully
neglecting the necessary precautions
for the safety of the men.
THE United States supreme court on
the 11th affirmed the order of the New
York circuit court denying writs of ha-
beas corpus in the cases of the prisoners
Woods and Jugiro, now in Sing Sing
prison under sentence of death by cleo
trocution.
THE striking cigarmakers of Chicago
have decided to institute a boycott
against all employers who refuse to
come to their terms. A committee has
been appointed to call on every organ.
lied body of laboring men in the city
and request them to stop using cigars
and tobacco manufactured by all such
firms.
AT Ncwburyport, Mass, on the 11tt
an indictment was found against Rev.
George A. Andrews, of Essex. He is
with the object of obtaining the insur
ance thereon.
THE Belding Motor &5 Manufacturing
Company at Chicago made an assign
ment on the 18th. The liabilities are
about $1T5, 600, of which 100000 is fol
borrowed money. The assets are MOI
scheduled but are thought not to exceed
the liabilities.
CUSTOMS receipts at the port of New
York for the first ten days in May were
S2,35s,64 in May, 1890, for the same
period they were S3,571 1862, showing ;
falling off of about 40 per cent.
| L HE lJotiS idSo iouLuiy dlollS WlUI
surrounding buildings at Chautauqua
N. Y, were destroyed by fire on the
10th. Loss, $4,000.
SNYDER's planning mill and five houses
were destroyed by fire at Weissport
Pa, on the 11th. Loss 5000 The fir,
is supposed to be of incendiary origin.
AT Parkersburg, w. Va, Georg,
Shirk, noted desperate, against whom
there are dozen indictments, was cap
tured by the sheriff and fifteen men OF
the 18th, who surrounded his retrea
and drove him out. He has broken jai
three times, once killing the jailer.
AT Duluth, Mimi, the carpenters
union, embracing all the carpenters a
the head of the lakes, some three or fou
thousand in number, have resolved Il
strike June for an eight-hour day.
IN the court of general sessions TO
New Castle county at Wilmington, Del.