Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-09-12

IT was reported that Secretary of
War Proctor had sent in his resigna-
tion to the president and that Stephen
B. Ellsins would be appointed as his
successor.
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the 5th were: Chi
cago, ,625; Boston, .577; New York,
$50; Philadelphia. .5S3; Cleveland, AGO;
Brooklyn, .445; Pittsburgh, .414 Gin
cinnati, 1906. The percentages in clubs
of the American association were:
Boston, .7o5; St Louis, .62o; Balti-
more, $3.50; Athletic, .5S1; Columbus,
.444; Milwaukee, .428; Washington,
.35s; Louisville, S4s.
THE state department at Washington
notified Minister Egan to formally rec
ognize Chili's new government.
AT Race Track, Mont, in saloon
row Bryant Mcdonald, farmer, killed
Lee O'Dair, miner
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 5th aggregated
81, 22S, 445, SAP, against 1854, 2S4,57l the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 4.6.
GEORGE Orr. aged 90, fatally stabbed
his brother John, aged 10, at their
home in Allegheny. Pa.
GEORGE PHILLIPS and j. III. Iced, of
Wellington, ILL.,. We're instantly killed
while crossing the railroad track in a
buggy at Boswell Station, Ind.
FIVE persons died from drinking
poisonous water taken from a well on
farm near Dundee. Mich
WILLIAM NULL was killed and four
other persons seriously injured near
Findley, o.. by the explosion of a
thrashing machine in which dyna-
mite cartridge had been placed.
1T was said that the wheat yield of
Minnesota and the DalSotas would
amount to 5000, 900 bushels, as
against 9O,0OO,0 900 bushels last year,
and that train $50 miles in length
would be required to haul the grain to
market.
JAMES CHAMBERS, glass manufactur err
of Pittsburgh, Pa, made an assignment
with liabilities of over $500, 600.
The two daughters of Henry Hughes,
of Thomaston, Conn, Ellen, aged 10,
and Catherine, aged years, wandered
away from home and their bodies were
found in the Nanytucl1 river.
G. w. TREFEN, prominent business
man and mayor of Broken Bow, Neb
absconded, leaving creditors to mourn
the loss of about $4,000
A BALD eagle attacked an Indian
baby at Echo Lake, Mich, and tried to
carry it away, but it was rescued by
its mother and died soon afterwards
AT Elizabethtown, KY, Col. William
| Wilson was fatally gored by a bull
which he was trying to halter.
AFTER long and earnest discussion
the board of lady managers of the
worlds fair passed resolution in favor
of the closing of the fair Sundays by a
vote of So to 36.
Lincoln park, Chicago, will take place
October s, and it was said that every
civil and military organization in the
United States would be invited to par
ticipate in the exercises.
LABOR day was appropriately OBJ.
| served in the various large cities
throughout the country on the 7th. Pa.
rades, picnics and speeches were feat
ures of the celebration.
A sKIFF containing six young men
capsiZed on the Ohio river, near Port
Homer, O., and two brother named
Kinson We're drowned.
NEAR Harrington, Neb, Dennis
O'Flaherty, wealthy ranchman, gave
three of his neighbors poisoned alcohol
Two died and the third would recover
| O'Flaherty was arrested.
II was said that c. w. Villa ms, owner
of the trotting stallion Allerton, re
fused $500, 900 for the animal
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, DIR. c. E. Bal
lard shot and killed Miss Bertha Isor
and then committed suicide. The mur
derer had implored the young lady tc
marry him and her refusal was the re
suit of the tragedy.
| EDWARD HENNEssY, charged with
many bold confidence games in Ohio
and Missouri, walked out of Chicago
police court while awaiting hearing
and escaped.
Two PRISONERS in the industrial
school at Manchester, N. H., drugged
Watchman John Clough and then bea,
him with a baseball bat, infiicting ia
tai injuries.
PRESIDENT Fl. A. CHWIsTIE, of Chi
cago and Treasurer E. E. Wise, of tht
Mcpherson, Texas e. Gulf railway
of Kansas, were arrested charged with
the embeZzlement of S250,0O0.
THE body of S. S. Avery, agent o
the Standard Oil Company at Fargo, S
D., was found in the Mississippi rive
at Minneapolis, having committed sui
eide. Disappointment in a love affai
was the cause.
In Pan Handle freight collision a
Camden, o., two tramps were kille'
and $50, 900 worth of property destroyed
OFFICER KELLY fatally shot Jane
Dewyer at San Francisco for objectinI
to the policeman's attack on cripple
f. l.. CARROLL committed suicide in
San Francisco hotel by exploding
dynamite bomb. The windows wer
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