Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.

sanity, shot apd fatally injured ms H.
year-old daughter.
A SEVERE shock of earthquake was
felt at San Francisco on the Sth. Build
lngs were shaken but no damage is re-
ported.
FIRE in the wholesale lumber yard of
Bennett Bros, at Lakeside, Mich, on
the sth, destroyed 2,oOo,o0O feet of lum-
ber, estimated to be worth $50, 900; fully
insured. Origin unknown.
AT Chicago, on the Sth, the jury in the
case of Paul Holz charged with killing
his father, Carl Holz, last December,
brought in verdict of guilty and fixed
the punishment at fourteen years in the
penftentiary.
BUSINESS failures during the week
ended the sth numbered for the United
States 212 and for Canada 80, total of
242, as compared with 255 the previous
week. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures were 200.
AT Indianapolis, Ind, Minnie Whit
aker, young country girl who came to
that city to secure money to aid her
father, sentenced to the penitentiary
for theft, committed suicide on the sth
by taking morphine. She was Is years
of age.
WILLIAM WRIeHTMAN, living near
Middletown, Ind, who has kept sew
eral hundred bushels of wheat stored
in his barn for year, while removing
the wheat for market, found in the
grain an old pocketbook containing
S11,5OO in gold and paper currency.
How the money came there is n mys-
terry.
THE Massachusetts, State board Of
health reports that there were seven
teen deaths from hydrophobia during
the past year. This is the highest num-
-ber of deaths from this disease ever re-
corded in that state.
A STATEMENT prepared at the pension
Office shows that during the month of
April last there were issued 81, 545 pen
sion certificates of all classes, the first
payment on which aggregated S3,S74,-
S15. The average first payment to each
pensioner was S122.s3. OF the total
number of certificates issued 11.167
were under the general law, and POSTS
under the act of June 81, 1890.
The Philadelphia granite cutters
strike was settled on the Sth by the
bosses acceding to the advance of
twenty cents per day asked for by the
men.
GEN. B. F. BUrLER's property at
Lowell, Mass, has been attached for
$4,000 by the Prescott National bank
of that city. The attachment is for
money due on a personal note dis.
counted by the bank four years ago.
Lock EZEI.I, a United States mar
shal, was waylaid and killed at a point
few miles south of Russelville, Ala,
on the sth. 1t is supposed to have been
the work of "Wildcatters"
THE Western Farm Mortgage Com
pany at A berdcen, S. D., assigned on the
sth. The authorized capital was $780,,
900, over $23G, 900 of which was paid in
President Wilson says the asset. exceed
the liabilities.
THE National Stove Manufacturers
association concluded it's business al
Philadelphia on the sth and adjourned
A resolution to maintain the prices o.
stoves at the same figures as last yeal
passed.
AT st. Louis on the sth 25, 900 Sunday
school children inaugurated unique
crusade. Divided into eighty partie.
they made a complete canvass of the
city for the purpose of ascertaining how
many children do not attend Sunday
school or church. and extended an invi
tation to all such to visit places of wor
ship.
THE large livery barn of Angus
Huntzman at Manson, Ia, burned OF
the Sth. Nineteen horses, including
two thoroughbred stations were ere
mated The loss will be over $40, 900.
AT Ashland, KY, on the 9th, Will,
workmen We're engaged in tearing dow
the Methodist Episcopal church, tn,
ceiling and timbers fell, precipitating J
b. Stephenson, aged 65, killing him in
stantly and fatally injuring the Cnmb
brothers.
A FREIGHT train on the Chicago, Mil
waulsec & st. Paul road, near Dubuque
Ia, jumped the track on the 10th. En-
gineer James Richmond was killed an,
the fireman and brakeman seriously in
jured.
AT Bridgeport, Conn, on the 9th tn
livery stable of c. w. Durand was to
tally destroyed by fire. Twenty-nin
horses, a lot of harness and a numbe
of carriages were destroyed.
AT Lancaster, Pa, on the 9th Ed
ward Mcpherson, last surviving execu
tor of the estate of Thaddeus Stevens
fled final account after nineteen year
service. The balance on hand wa
$50, ,349.
THE insurance commissioner of New
Hampshire, decided on the 9th to gran
fA
and endowment organizations to d.
business in that state.
THE Union Pacific Tea company, o
New York, with ninety-fve branches il
that and many other cities, assigned o.
the 9th without preferences.
FIRE at Manning, Ia, on the OF
destroyed almost the entire busines
portion of the city. Lost, about S12b