Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters
DOMESTIC.

wagon and team were swept down the
stream by the strong current and the
three children were drowned. The
father and mother barely escaped
THE coroner's verdict on the people
killed in the railroad wreck on the Pan
handle railroad at Hagerstown, Ind,
says that the train was run at an unsafe
rate of speed at curves and therefore
holds the road responsible for the deaths
caused.
CAPT. MCKEAGUE, of the Inflated
steamer Utopia, has been arrested at
Gibraltar on the charge of wrongful
acts, improper conduct, negligence and
mismanagement in the control of his
steamer before and at the time of the
disaster.
The great hall of Cooper Union, New
York, was packed with 5000 Italians on
the night of the Goth, called together to
denounce the New Orleans tragedy. A
detail of $50 police were kept busy in
preserving order. A. de Angelo pre-
sided. The speeches were all in Italian
and were almost terrifying in their
vehemenee. Resolutions deploring and
denouncing the tragedy and demanding
reparation We're adopted and ordered
sent to President Harrison and Italy's
premier.
A DISPATCH of the Goth from Butte,
Mont, says all the mines belonging to
the Anaconda Company, the greatest
copper producer in the world, have shut
down. This action was caused by dis
agreement with the Montana Union
railway, which hauls ore from Butte to
the smelters in Anaconda. The railway
wanted to advance rates about one
third and the company refused to stand
the raise. About 500 men are thrown
out of work.
SIDNEY DILLON, presidentofth the Union
Pacific railroad, confirms the report that
the directors are arranging to place Il
mortgage on the property. 1t is stated
that the mortgage will be made for
$780, 900, 600, the largest ever recorded,
and will provide for taking up the un-
DERIVING liens as they mature, and also
for an immediate issue to pay off the
floating debt.
EX-AT.DERMAN JAMES BARKER, of
New York, was arrested on the Goth
and placed under S5, 600 bail on a charge
of attempting to defraud the United
States internal revenue of duty on fifty
four barrels of highwines. 1t is alleged
they were stored in public warehouse
by Barker as cider vinegar under the
name of James Clark.
JOCKEY DECKER, who has been one of
the foremost riders of race horses at
Guttenburg, n. j., during the winter
meeting, was instantly killed on the
21st, while alighting from a moving
train on The New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad at Westchester.
w. HoUGHTALING, conductor of the
train which was wrecked on the Lake
Shore road at East Hamburg, N. Y,
last April, in which several lives We're
lost, and who was indicted for man
slaughter in connection Herewith but
was acquitted, died at his home in Buff
falo on the 21st His friends claim that
he died of broken heart.
The Atlantic mills strike at Prov
dence, r. l., on which 1000 operators
went out and 1000 were thrown out of
employment by the shut down of the
mills, has ended and work was resumed
on the 23d. Both sides were satisfied.
GEN. SAMUEL THOMAS, of the Lake
Erie e Western road, denies that there
40 any lultlOICu pun
chase of the Monon route by the Brice
syndicate. He says there is no founda-
ton for such deal.
The biggest soap manufacturing con-
Germ in the world was organized at
Houston, Tex, on the 21st. The cor
poration will have a capital of Sl5,000,-
600 and proposes to establish plants to
cost from $50, 900 to $500, 600 in Houston,
New Orleans and other cities in the cot
ton belt.
j. r. BARNwELL, an officer in the
revenue service, was killed and Deputy
Marshal L. L. Brim was mortally
wounded by moonshiners in Stokes
county, n. c., on the 21st.
CHAUNCEY MARBLE, a wealthy farmer
and mill owner, was brought before
the United States commissioner at Erie,
Pa, on the 21st, charged with manu-
featuring and passing counterfeit coin.
Marble lives in Pine Valley, Warren
county. The mint, dies and tools were
captured. The oil country was flooded
with spurious coin from his mint.
THE estate of Christian Rausch, a
supposed pauper, who recently dropped
dead at Galena, Ill, will inventory, it
is now thought, upwards of $4,000 in
cash, government bonds, notes and other
valuable securities. Rausch had long
been supported by relatives.
THE wrappers found in the state Ii
brarian's waste basket at Sacramento,
Cal, have been identified as being
about packages of money from the
Crocker- Woolworth bank. The amount
in all was about $500. John b. Jones
got the money.
THE bureau of navigation of the navy
department has taken the preliminary
steps towards the establishment of the
naval war college, and the institution
will soon be in active operation. The
college will be located on Coasters is
land, near Newport, II. |.
The Jersey City IN. J.) Argus news
paper Office, u five-story brick building,
burned on the 2lst. Loss, 100000.