Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-27

SEVEN colored persons were drowned
in Curtis Creek, near Baltimore, Md,
ON the goth by the capsizing OF a row
boat. &s F5 M
ATNew York on the 21st three serv-
ant girls in the employ of Otto Getz-
hard were found dead in bed in their
room, No. 10 East Eighty-sixth street.
They had been suffocated by gas.
AFTER months of idleness the brick
makers strike at Detroit, Mich, was
declared off on the 22d, and the men re-
turned to work at the reduced wages
The reduction is equal to about 90 per
cent.
HARRY CARPENTER, wealthy far
mer of Marion county, Ind, recently
suicided by shooting himself in a fit of
despondency caused by broodirg over
an increase in his taxes
AT Waterbury, Conn, on the 21st
Joseph Laundroy, French Canadian,
shot twice at his sweetheart, Annie Car
rigan, and thinking he had killed her,
shot himself dead. Miss Corrigan was
not hurt
ANTON KARL, an old and trusted dis
bursting officer of the United States geo.
logical survey, was arrested at Wash
ington on the 22d, charged with embez-
zllng $4,000 of government funds. 1t is
understood that Karl has made a con-
fession of his guilt He was under
bonds in the sum of 100000
IN the United States court at Chicago
on the 22d Judge Blodgett rendered
decision to the effect that clause in
the insurance policy exempting the COM
pany from liability in case the insured
dies of poison or asphyxiation is valid,
and dismissed a suit to recover the
amount of insurance in case wherein
the insured was suffocated by gas in
hotel.
JOHN McLAuGHLIN was killed and
John Poker severely injured by a
premature explosion of dynamite at
Leiper's quarries, near Chester, Pa, on
the 22d
The total amount of expenses for the
maintenance and transportation of
troops during the riots in the Pennsyl-
vania coke region, was SS5, ,029.22. p.
The convention of machinists, black
smiths and blacksmiths' helpers, in ses-
sion at New York City recently, de-
cided to organize under the name of the
International Machinists' Union of
America.
A FREIGHT collision on the Chicago 6
Alton railroad occurred at a point be-
tween Elkhart and Williamsville, Ill,
on the 21st Three engines and six
cars were demolished, Engineer Brown
fatally injured and two other trainmen
badly hurt.
AT Los Angeles, CAL, the Solomon
block, a two-story brick structure was
burned on the 22d. 1t was occupied by
Harris &c Dukeman, wholesale jewelers.;
the Cable grocery, the Pacific States res
taurant and a number of small offices
and lodges. Loss $4,000.
THE Florence national bank, of Flor.
ence, Ala, closed its doors on the 22d.
The spread of false reports caused rnn
on the bank.
AT Lacon, Ill, on the 22d Peter Hol-
Ter, who murdered his wife on March 4,
and was sentenced to fourteen years
hard labor in Joliet penitentiary, COM
mitted suicide in his cell at the county
jail by hanging himself with a strip of
his blanket
AT Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 22d the |
pavilion at Lake Harriet, owned by the |
street railway company, and costing |
about $4,000, was destroyed by fire. |
Insurance, S1O,Oeo.
WILLIAM MAUsER, who was tried and |
convicted at New York City of assault
ng Rev. Clark Wright with pistol on |
June 6, was sentenced on the 22d to |
line years imprisonment
THE Nashville (Tenn.) savings bank
'losed its doors on the 22d. Liabilities
md assets variously estimated at from
$50, 900 to 100000.
AT Glens Falls, N. Y, on the 22d A.
3. Gown, editor of the Daily Times, and
'harles Burke. editor of the Weekly Re-
were arrested on suits charg-
ng them with criminal libel. Damages
we're placed at $4,000
AT Rondout, n. Y, Lincoln B. Has
:ins, principal of the public school, who
vas arrested recently by the superin-
endent of the poor of that county, on
he 22d instituted three actions for dam
ges for false imprison ment against the
hief ofpolice, jailer and deputy sheriff,
laiming $1,000.
AT New York City on the 22d DIR.
lenry McGonegal, who had been at the
'ombs since July last pending an ap-
cal of his conviction of causing the
cath of Annie Goodwin, the cigarette
irl, was released on S., 600 bail.
FIRE at the Border City mills, Bowen
lille, Mass, on the 22d damaged store
ouse and contents to the amount of
100000. The storehouse contained
bout 1000 bales of cotton and guam
ty of fancy cloth. Loss covered by. in
trance.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,
WEDDING of unusual interest was ;
,lemnized at the Church of the Ascen-