Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-25

AT the leadlnR clearlng-houseS in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
81, O04, 079, 1855, against 81, III, ,953, 22O the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 1915.
JoHN FARMER (colored), the assassin
of DR. Buckner, was taken from jail at
Dermott, Ark, and lynched.
THE two little children of Carl
Schwartz, of Erie, Pa, were burned to
death while playing with matches.
Mrs. ELLA TAReETT, of New York,
was made insane by taking laughing
gas in order to have teeth extracted.
Mrs. THOMAS LoCKRIDGE. wife of a
prosperous farmer living near Spring
Hill, Tenn, killed herself and two of
her children while temporarily insane
IN New York Michael Barto attacked
Dominica Peranda and his wife with
baseball bat because of an imaginary
debt of five dollars and fatally injured
both of them. ....".
THERE was great excitement at
Ellcnsburg, Wash, over magnificent
gold finds in Menastash canyon.
THE village of Sawyerville, Mich,
consisting of thirty houses, one store
and several mills, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
PARTIsANs of Chief Ispieche and
Wesley Smith, candidates for principal
chief, fought at barbecue near Fish
erton, l. T., and four persons were
killed ..f
THE body of Mrs. Maggie Cramer
with her months-old child tied to her
waist was found floating in the river
at Philadelphia. Mrs Cramer was par
TALLY insane because her child was
born cripple.
Two BODIES were discovered in the
whirlpool at Niagara Falls floating in
the eddies. .ff
VERN SIX, aged 81 years, died at No
blesville, Ind. He had been afflicted
for three years with disease which
turned his skin black.
FROM June so, $780, to the same date
this year 3,s7S immigrants were landed
in New Orleans, of whom 2,661, or IS
per cent, We're Italians and Sicilians.
A PIER attached to dancing pavilion
at Coney Island. n. Y, collapsed, pre-
cipitating 100 persons into the surf.
All were rescued. ..u ...
MACK BROWN, a negro who criminal
ly assaulted Mrs. James Cowden, liv-
ing near Village Springs, Ala, was
lynched
THE village of Roundhead, in Har-
din county, o., was destroyed by a fire
started by lightning. Loss, SS00,000.
The government immigration bureau
says that the publication of advertise
ments in foreign papers for laborers in
this country is violation of the alien
contract law and that all offenders
will be punished. .sF
THE percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 18th were: New
York, $50; Chicago, .5SS; Boston, .535;
Cleveland, .5O7: Philadelphia, .493;
Brooklyn, ,4G4; ttsburgh, 42O; Cincin-
natl, All. The percentages of clubs
in the American association were:
Boston, .6T5; st. Louis, oil; Balti-
more, COS; Athletic 800 Colum bus,
.462; Cincinnati. .43O; Louisville, .345;
Washington, 342.
ED BROWN, Walter Stroder, j. l..
Meader, Dick Evans and John L.
Brame, well-to-do citizens of Murray,
KY, were drowned by the capsizing of
their boat.
AT Crystal Falls, Mich, James Nc
Cormick died from injuries received in
prize fight with William Daniels.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
12,472. 294 bushels; corn, 1866, 2O2 bush
els; oats, 1.759, ,SOS.
THE famous trotting stallion Adj
vance has been sold by his owner,
Howard Cunningham, of Knoxville,
Ia, to Mr. Nuttall, of Mich, for S25, 600.
The destitution among residents on
both sides of the Rio Grande river in
Texas for hundreds of miles was said
to be appalling. owing to the failure OF
crops.
The striking miners at Coal Creek,
Tenn, over 1000 strong, caI tured the
state troops located there to keep the
| peace, together with the convict miners,
and took them to Knoxville. The gov
ernor proposed to appeal to President
Harrison for regular troops.
THE Central bank of Kansas at Kan.
sas City, Kan, has failed for 100000.
JOHN BURNS, fisherman, while in,
toXicated crawled out on the cables OF
the old suspension bridge near Lewis
ton, N. Y, and leaped to the river be.
meath, a distance of over $50 feet. He
was not seriously hurt
The Merchants national bank OF
Fort Worth, Tex, has closed its doors
with liabilities of $500, 900; assets, 81,
100000.
THE boiler in planning mill at Lake
View, Mich, exploded, killing E. e
Perkins, Robert Gregory and his sol
Edward.
THIRTY-Two convicts in the Michigan
state prison at jackson were confirmed
by Bishop Foley as members of the
Catholic church. .....
The Bayley hat factory at Newbury
port Mass, has failed for S175,o 600.
The wife of Thomas Lochridge, o
Maury county, Tenn, killed her thre
! young children and then committed
suicide.
NEAR Flora, ILL.,, the residence of II
IL.