Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-05-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOM ESTlC,

ElbOgen, VINO sent girls 10 New prleuuS
for immoral purposes, was sentenced to
five years and eleven months imprison-
ment.
AN explosion of gas occurred on the
22d at the Pratt mines near Birming-
ham, Ala, in shaft where negro con-
victs are worked. Ten convicts and one
free miner were killed.
THE society of American Civil Engi-
neers met on Lookout Mountain on the
22d in twenty-third annual convention
with large attendance. Papers were
read by II. NJ. Wilson, of the irrigation
department, United States geological
survey, and number of others.
AT Belair, Md, on the 22d the direct
ors of the Maryland Central railroad
were indicted by the grand jury for
manslaughter The indictment was
found in connection with the accident
of April 16. when several lives were
lost in the wrecl<ing of freight train.
BUSINESS failures during the week
ended the 22d numbered for the United
States PA and for Canada 80, a total of
254. as compared with 2S7 the previous
week. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures were 222.
AT birmingham, Ala, on the 22d, DIR.
ii. c. Dubose, of South Carolina, was
chosen moderator of the southern Pres
byterian assembly.
AT Memphis, Tenn, on the 22d the
Hill Shoe Company failed and William
Villas Hill, president of the company,
committed suicide. The failure was
due to the failure of the Lynn Davis
Shoe company, which owed the Hill
company between $500, 900 and S400, 000
BY the unanimous ruling of the full
bench of the superior court at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 23d, all the suits
against Silas T. Brown, growing out of
the falling of his building, in which
thirteen firemen lost their lives, were
thrown out of court. The court holds
that the owner of the building could
not be held responsible for the accident
and that there is no cause for action on
the part of the sufferers against him.
THERE were 3,049 immigrants landed
at the barge office, New York, on the
oath. Twelve hundred and forty-eight
Italians arrived on the Marsalla and
ton of them were detained, as they had
served time in prisons in Italy for vari-
Gus offenses.
AT G-eensburg, Pa, on the esd the
jury in the case of Captain Loar and
deputies charged with murder at the
Morewood riots, after deliberating five
hours returned verdict acquitting all
the defendants. ..... .....
THE standing committee of the do
cese of Indiana on the 22d voted unani-
mously to confirm the election of DIR.
Phillips Brooks as bishop of Massachu.
setts.
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, one hundred
men in the employ of the American
Wheel trust went on strike on the 22d
against reduction of wages.
DIR. LoRIMER's Emmanuel Baptist
church at Chicago was damaged by fire
on the 24th to the extent of S45, O00 The
fire was caused by defective flue in
the basement.
A BOAT with four men capsized in st.
CroiX lake, Wis, on the 24th. William
Treham and Dennis Driscoll were
drowned.
CHARLES A. McGRAw, of Augusta,
Me-, and Thomas Barney, of Chippewa
Falls, Wis, two well-known lumber
men, were drowned in Kettle river al
Sandstone, Mimi, on the esd.
WILLIAM and John Anderson, colored
who held the girl, Jane Ware, on the
railroad track in Bossier parish, La,
until the train ran over her and killed
her, were pursued by a posse of negroes,
captured and hanged. They offered nc
explanation for their deed. The Ander.
sons We're bad characters.
THE Pittsburgh traction road has an.
nounced cut in fare from five to three
cents en- it's entire length of six miles
This is supposed to be the cheapest
street car fare in the country
cent per mile.
Col. w. l.. BROWN, chairman of the
newly formed Irish National Fedora.
ton, says the federation has already
cabled $4,000 to Archbishop Crolse for
the evicted tenants and has S25, 600 or
hand, besides 81, 900 or IS, 900 subscribed
but not yet collected.
PETER GREENWOOD, town treasurer o1
Upper Alton, ILL.,, for eight years, has
disappeared. A hurried examination o1
the books shows he is perhaps $4,000
ahead, and the township that much out
He got behind with the township years
ago, but concealed the fact by paying
debts for the year past with the taxes
as they came in for the year at hand.
THE bronze monument to the An
drews raiders was erected in the nation
al cemetery at Chattanooga on the 23d
1t is in six sections, surmounted by &
bronze locomotive, fac simile in min
iature of the General" the engine
which the daring party of soldiers stole
ut Big Shanty, Ga, being captured
while attempting to destroy bridges be
Chattanooga and Atlanta in 1868. Sew
eral of them were hanged eight OF
them being buried in the cemetery
The monument will be unveiled Deco
ration day
AT Knoxville, Tenn, on the night O
the 2Sd, while bathing in the river
Charles Payne was taken with cramps
and while Alexander Beal, who went Il
his rescue was trying to save him, botl