Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-10-18

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the 18th were struck by Rock Island
train and instantly killed.
Mrs. ELIZABETH SAUNDERS, keeper OF
toll house near Washington, Pa, was
fatally shot by masked robbers few
| nights ago Two masked mon called at
the toll house and Mrs Saunders an
| swered their summons. On opening the
door the mon demanded her money or
her life. She reached inside tho door to
get revolver when ono OF tho men
fired, tho ball lodging in her body. The
robbers then fed. Mrs. Saunders can
not recover.
TEN THOUSAND farmers from Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado,
who were in st. Louis during fair week.
attached their signatures to a memorial
addressed to Levi p. Morton, president of
the Senate. The memorial embodies the
objections OF tho farmers to the Conger
bill, which passed the House on August
2S, and WHICH places tax on compound
lard and prohibitory restrictions on it's
sale.
A STOCK train and section train on
the Milwaukee road collided near Lake
City, Mimi, on the 18th. About 5wenty
cattle were. killed, the engines wrecked
and Conductor Will Day and Fireman Nc
Chamberlain, of the section train, are
perhaps fatally injured.
NEAR bridgeport, Ia, on the 11th,
August Shultz fatally shot his sweet
heart, Miss Minnie Bargaman, aged
twenty, and then killed himself. Jeal-
ousy the cause.
THOMAS GREESING, a farmer living
near Cameron, Mo-, fatally shot Bill
Lohman, whom he caught in the act Of
firing his (Greenings) barn and house.
This is the third time Grooming has lost
barn and once before house by in
cendiarism in the last four hours. Some
time ago he armed himself and has been
watching for the incendiary with the
above result
The steamer John e. Tygert was de-
stroyed by fire while lying at her dock
in Baltimore on the 11th. She had been
laid up for repairs. Loss, $40,
WALTER KERNoCHAN, wealthy
young man of New York, committed
suicide in his room in the Delta Chi
Clnb on the 18th by blowing off the top
of his head with a revolver. He was
twenty-five years old and three years
ago inherited large fortune from his
father, John A. Kernochan, 4 we'll
known capitalist of Pittsfeld, Mass. No
cause is known for deed.
AT Decatur, Ind, on the 11th the six
year-old son of James Niblack fatally
shot his baby brother with a revolver as
hn fol 1ar HI
entered his head and passed entirely
through the skull.
THE boiler of locomotive on the
Chicago & Erie railroad blew up at
Huntington, III Ind, on the 11tb. Engi-
neer Murphy and Fireman Kirby were
badly injured.
STATE SENATOR Z. E. SwEARESGEN,
of Concordia, Kan, committed suicide
on the l3th byshooting himself through |
the hearr. His mind is believed to
have been unsettled by financial diff
culties.
THE barge Warner ran aground near
the mouth of the river at Alpena,
Mich, a few days ago, and went to
pieces under the heavy sea. The crew
were saved. The loss is $50,
TIE $1,000 live pigeon shoot between
James Elliott, of Kansas City, and Edgar |
Gibbs Murphy, of New York, at Holly |
wood, Long Branch, on the 18th attract
ed big crowd. Elliott won by killing |
% to Murphy's IS ont of 100 birds each. |
TIE entire edition of the Hartford |
Comm Evening Post was thrown out |
of tho mail on the 18th because it con-
tanned half column advertisement of |
the Louisiana lottery.
AT Brooklyn, n. Y, on the 18th Ann |
Aldrich went to the grocer's leaving her
twin babies in crib near
the kitchen stove. She returned in ten
and found the babies burned to
death.
THE Census Office has announced the
following population statistics, with in
creases since 1880: Illinois 3,S1S, $50.
increase 740,665; Louisiana, 1,116, S2S.
increase 175,SS2; Mississippi 1,2S4,s sS7,
increase 15S,29O !
THE handsome cottage at Bernards-
Vile, N. j., owned and occupied by
George I. Scney, the New York banker,
burned on the 18th. Loss $40, 900. The
inmates barely escaped.
A DISASTROUS collision occurred near
st. Paul, Mimi, on the Great Northern
railroad on the 18th between a stock
and freight train. Both trains were rum
ming at top speed and both were COM
pletely wrecked. One man was killed,
one fatally injured, and four wounded.
Forty head of cattle were killed and as
many more injured. Thirty-fve freight
cars and both engines were demolished.
TEN business houses in the center of
Usage City, Kan, were destroyed by fire
on the 18th. Loss, $50, 600; partially in
sured.
MATTHEW $. PINcKNEY, who recently
surrendered himself to the authorities
to answer to the charge of embezzling
81, 700 from the Lake Shore &c Michigan
Southern Railroad Company two years
ago, while cashier, was on tho 18th som
fenced to the penitentiary for two years.
THE report OF the loss at sea OF the
American ship Magellan, which sailed
f,oD, pnctnp or Moy IN ,y;+l ~ oon..1