Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-02-28

vessel went to pieces and is total loss.
| LAGER beer breweries of New York,
representing Ss,000,000 capital, have
perfected arrangements for forming q
rival pool to protect the interests of
those who were left out Of the comsina-
ton made in November, 1883.
| NELSON PILE, of New Albany, Ind,
was bitten by dog on the 9th of last
December The wound healed rapidly,
and he felt no uneasincss, A few days
ago he was seized with convulsions, and
died on the atst in all the agonics of hy-
drophobia,
AT Rochester, N. V, at the 21st
Moses 5. Marks, the man who stole
$4,000 from the American Express
Company, and forged a telegram signed
by the Flour City bank on New York
bank for the money, was brought into
court, and af'er pleading guilty to both
charges was sentenced by Judge Wer-
ner to he confined in the reformatory
at Elmira until discharged according to
law.
The drouth which has prevailed for
some time in Southern Illinois was bro
ken on the 20th by one of the heaviest
rainstorms in many months. All the
streams are now bankful.
ELMER ii. WILLIAMS, the forger and
embezzler recently arrested in Mani
toba, has be an returned to Lancaster,
n. II. Williams fled last June, leaving
an unpaid debt and forged notes and
taking with him some trust money
amounting in all to 100000. He goes
back without dollar, the large sum
having been entirely squandered.
THE new convent just completed at
O'Neill, Neb., by the Dominican Order
of Sisters was totally destroyed by fire
on the 21st. Loss, $50, 900; half insured.
w. +. KERsHAw, cashier of the Nc
Donald overall factory at st. Joseph,
Mo-, was on the 21st knocked down by
two men just as he was about to enter
the factory and robbed of $500, which
he had drawn at bank to pay the en-
ployes. His assailants escaped across
the river into Kansas.
The coroners jury in the case of
William ProtZman, who died recently
at Des Moincs, Ia, under Christian sci
ence treatment, has returned verdict
to the effect that death was caused by
reason of neglect and the disregard OF
all dietary rules, the testimony show
ing that Protzman, who was suffering
from typhoid fever, received no other
treatment than silent prayer. War
rants have been issued for the arrest of
the scientists" who had him in charge.
The schooner James II. Gordon,
which sailed from Bridgetou, n. j., on
January IS for jacksonville, Fla, has
been given up for lost and it is feared
that her crew of nine men have perished.
JOHN L. WILLIAMS, the leader in the
notorious Cotton Belt train robbery per-
petrated at Spur Switch in June last,
has been convicted at Linden, Tex, and
sentenced to nineteen years in the peni-
tentiary. Napoleon McDaniels, one of
his partners, who was given similar
sentence last September and afterwards
escaped, is still at large.
THE Brook Iron Company's rolling
mill and nail factory at Birdsboro, Pa,
resumed operations on the Esd in all de-
partments as result of the acceptance
by the puddlers of reduction from
S3.75 to $3.50 per ton. Over 1875 men
went to work. They were idle three
weeks
THE railroad coal operators associa-
ton of the Pittsburgh district, at a meet
ing on the 2Sd, decided to demand from
the miners that wages be reduced on
the 1st of next May, when the present
agreement will expire.
THE first triennial meeting of the
Women's national council of the United
| ,f 4,
esd. President Francis E. Willard de
livered an interesting address.
THE body of Prof. Timothy W. Ban
croft, professor of English literature a
Brown university, who disappeared
December s, 1890, was found on the 23t
in Dyer's pond at Cranston, r. /. HI
was feeling i'll when he left home fo
the last time and may have been de
ranged. He was So years old.
On the 2Sd there was lockout at al
the planning mills in indianapolis, Ind
All the bench men and machine hand
demanded an eight-hour day and 25 pc
cent advance in wages. The bosses de
, cline to grant either demand.
FRANCIS LLEwELLYN YOU'VE, once
; famous Southern belle and n member o
n, old Southern family. died on the 90,
i in abieet poverty in New York tene
ment house. She had been i'll for tel
years.
THE annual report of the New Yorl
) state board of health shows that 500
, people died of the grippe in that stat
during the year 1890.
FIVE of the men entombed by the re
cent mine explosion at Evansville, Pa
were found alive on the esd. They ha
been buried in the mine eighteen day
| and their escape is considered miracu
= lous
A FIRE at Evansville, Ind, on the 2S
: totally destroyed the Peoples theatc
ana badly damaged adjoining property
causing total loss of 100000.
? WAsHINGToN's birthday was exter
} sively observed in Pittsburgh and A.
\ | 1aphanU Pa RusipeGS was uanaroll