Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-05-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters,
DOMESTIC.

who was elected governor of Nebraska,
for writ of error to the supreme court
TO test the questions involved in the de-
cision of the majority of the supreme
court Of Nebraska, who decided that he
was not an American citizen and there
fore not eligible to the Office of COVER
nor.
DURING a thunderstorm at Cairo,
Kan, on the 18th the store of Rhodes
Bros, was struck by lightning and de-
stroyed. Loss, $4,000.
GEORGE 2. GERoE, superintendent of
the Indian agency at st. Stephenson, N.
D., was arrested and placed under bonds
on the 18th, charged with misappropri-
ating government funds. Geroe is an
ex-Methodist minister and formerly
lived at Sidney Center, N. Y. ..
THE hod carriers of Cleveland, o., to
the number of 900, struck on the 10Th
for an advance in wages from S1.75 to
81 per day.
WILLIAM FRIEDBoRNE, a watchman
for the Ault & Wieborg Printing Ink
Company, at Cincinnati, was severely
burned on the 18th while extinguishing
n fire in that company's warerooms. 1t
is thought he will die. Howard Kilby
was also badly injured. Loss to build
ing $1,000.
MACKcowN BOWER, ELLIS & Co.,
wholesale druggists at Philadelphia, on
the 18th decided to make an assignment
for the benefit of their creditors. Liza
bilities $4,000; assets unknown.
IN fight near Pennington, w. Va,
an the 14th, John Pyles shot and killed
John Fast. Both men were prominent
farmers, and feud had existed between
them for years. Pyles was slightly
wounded in the fight, dozen shots be-
ing exchanged.
BUSINESS failures during the week
ended the 18th numbered for the United
States 212 and for Canada 25, total of
237, as compared with 242 the previous
week. For the corresponding week of
1astyear the figures were 212.
By an explosion of gas in a sewer at
New York City on the 18th, five men
were severely burned. They We're taken
TO a hospital. The explosion was
caused by accumulation of sewer gas
and illuminating gas, which was ighited
by lights carried by worlsmen.
AT Greensburg, Pa, the trial of the
Morewood rioters ended on the 10th
and out of the indicted, twelve were
found guilty, This is the sealed ver-
dict as brought in by the jury
AT Denver, Col, on the night OF the
10th the grand jury in the Barnaby case
found an indictment against DIR. Graves
for murder in the first degree. He was
arrested on the 18th.
THE body of Mrs. Emma Mailer, of
Brooklyn, n. Y, was washed ashore at
Newdorp, Staten Island, on the 10th.
The woman had been missing since jan
uary 49, and was supposed by her rela-
tives to have committed suicide. The
woman, who was 55 years old, is said to
be insured for $4,000.
THE strike against a reduction in
wages begun thirteen months ago by
the 3 900 miners of the Pennsylvania
and Westmoreland gas and coal com
panies at Irwin, Pa, was declared off
on the 10th, and the few hundred of the
strikers who remain at Irwin will return
to work at the operators terms.
Mrs. SUSAN PAsCoE, aged "a, her in
FAINT son Christopher, and Miss Mary
Carr, aged 80, were drowned in the
Schuylkill river near Philadelphia
on the 18th, by the upsetting of sail
boat. Five other persons who were also
in the boat, were rescued.
AT Youngstown, o., on the night of
the 10th as several policemen were chas-
ing a burglar who had broken away
from officer Petrie, the thief drew a re-
volver and shot Petrie and Officer Freed.
Freed will probably die.
ROBERT BROTHERS and Andrew Hardy,
aged about 16 years, were drowned in
the Merrimac river, near North Chelms-
ford, Mass, on the 18th, by the capsiz-
ing of their canoe.
SINCE April / about 100 undesirable
immigrants have been debarred by the
inspectors at the port of New York.
The number is not large, but it is large
enough to serve as a warning to all
steamship companies to be careful about
bringing over passengers whom they
will be compelled to take back.
F. II. STRITTER, manager of the Chi
cago Watch and Jewelry Companys
branch office at Buffalo, n. Y, is missing
and it is alleged has taken all the
watches and money within his reach.
GEN w. g. VEAzY, commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Repub-
'i", has issued official general orders
o ling upon all Grand Army comrades
/ all parts of the United States to con-
tribute to the $780, 900 fund required to
erect the national G. A. r. memorial
hall at Decatur, the birthplace of the
organization.
AT Chicago, on the night of the 10th,
lust as Joseph Reidel was about IN
close his meat market, three thieves en-
tered, and while one grasped him by
the throat another shot him in the face
with fatal effect. After robbing their
victim of $500 which was in his pocket
book, the thieves escaped, and have not
yet been captured.
ABOUT thirty people in sharpsburg,
Pa, were poisoned on the 18th by eat
ing smoked sturgeon which had been
bought of a Pittsburgh fish dealer at