Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-11-28

previous week. The decrease MS com.
pared with the corresponding week of
| 1890 was 1873.
TWENTY buildings in the business
section of Correctionville. Ia, were de-
stroyed by fire, causing loss of $780,
| 600.
A COMMERCIAL agency in New York
| says that although much has happened
of late to reprcss business and shake
confidence, yet confidence is not
shaken, and the volume of business
throughout the country is still close to
| the greatest ever attained.
ELIJAH JET, teamster, cut his
| wife's throat with razor at Decatur,
Ill.,, and then cut his own. Family
trouble was the cause.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the Goth numbered 2s5, against 291
the preceding week and 274 for the
corresponding week last year.
THE annual report of Redfield Proc.
tor, secretary of war, shows that the
expenditures of his department during
the past year were S51, $50. T64
1T was alleged that unless special
sessions of the Kansas and the Missouri
legislatures We're called to redistrict
the states each one would lose presi-
dental elector.
THE correct estimate of the worlds
wheat crop for this year is 1000, 900
bushels more than that of last year.
while rye is 224,OOO, 600 bushels less
than last year
HILEY CREMANs, farmer living near
Rockford, o., was feeced out of $1,000
by two sharpers.
GIACINTo EpIFAIRIo. an Italian, who
for the last six years has carried on a
steamship agency in Philadelphia, has
his customers.
AT Menlo, Ga, the boiler of saw
mill owned by I. P. Batten exploded
killing two little sons of the employer.
MARY SCHULTzE, of Pierre, S. d.,
has been sentenced to pay fine of SO
for sending letter through the mails
in newspaper wrapper.
UPWARD OF 10000 acres of land in
Pike and Perry counties, Ind, have
been leased for oil purposes by Gin
cinnati syndicate.
Two MASKED men robbed Northern
Pacific express car near the NJ Montana
and Idaho line of $4,000.
THE American Express Company has
revived an old order requiring agents
on railroad trains to wear their re-
volvers in plain sight on their persons
Mrs. MARY MCVAY, aged 10, of Brad
dock, Pa, has been voluntarily fasting
I for 142 days. During all that time she
had taken no food but buttermilk, and
no drugs but opium and cocaine.
DURING the past eleven years the
water in Lake Michigan has decreased
feet.
JOHN KoNoLD, president of the Ko-
mold e Parker Produce Company in
Chicago, was charged with swindling
over forty firms out of about $4,000
NEAR Richland, Minn,, Joseph Col
burn and his stepson, Charles Peasley,
quarreled, and the latter shot the for
mer, killing him instantly.
WILLIAM III. FRIZzLE was hanged in
the Jail yard at Abilene, Tex, for the
murder of his wife in Camanche coun-
ty in 1891.
THE general lumber season of the
northwest is over, and the cut in Min
nesota for the year reaches AT, 1925
feet, 207, 221,0Oo shingles and 81, 7,697, 900
lath. This beats all records.
The National Mining congress in
session at Denver, Col, adopted reso-
luton in favor of the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver by vote OF
4S1 to 8.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has decided to
withhold the appointment of Secre-
tary Proctor's successor until congress
meets.
THE steamer Samuel Mather was
sunk in Lake Michigan in a collision
near Iriquois point The steamer was
valued at $780, 900 and her cargo of iron
ore was worth about $4,000 more.
JOHN HELLINGER, a 17-year-old boy,
was killed in a prize fight in New
York.
Two PROMINENT doctors, Boyes and
McAdams, were arrested at Gardner,
ILL.,, charged with attempting to rob
the bank at that place.
In a fit of jealousy Harry Ewes shot
his wife and William s. Cooper at Elk
hart. Ind, and then took his own life.
LANDLORD DRAKE, of the Grand Pa
cific in Chicago, gave his thirty sixth
annual game dinner.
WILLIAM BLACK (colored) was hanged
by white caps at Moscow, Tex, for in
sulting ladies.
DURING the first twenty-one days of
November the treasury department at
Washington paid out $lO,5OO,OOO on ac-
count of pensions.
BYRNE's livery stable at Leaven-
worth, Kan, was burned, and twenty
one horses perished in the flames.
GOLD has been found in paying
quantities in the dry creeks in the
vicinity of Elizabeth, Col.
THE house of David Cooper (colored)
near Sylvania, Ga, was burned, and
his four children perished in the flames
NINE business blocks in Middlebury,
VT, were destroyed by fire.
JACOB HosLEY, well-to do German
farmer of 80 years, hanged himself at
his home near Charleston, Ind. No
|