Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-08
The News Condensed.
Important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


The tragedy was the result of quarrel
over n horse.
WHILE 200 people were assembled at
Lower High Tower church, near Os-
burn, Ga, stroke of lightning entered
the church and nearly every one was
burned or marked in some manner, but
no one was killed.
DR.. j. EeE, of Reading. Pa, has sue
ceeded in grating a mustache on the
lip of Miss l.. S. st. Clair, n young
woman of New York city, by taking
strips of skin from her armpits.
FIRE destroyed large part of the
business portion of Croolston, MINI.
The soldiers home for union veter-
ans near Louisville, KY, has been
opened.
CASHIER KIRBY, who embezzled $780,
600 from Marshall (NIich.) bank, was
arrested at Sedalia, Mo.
PoRTIoNs of the town of Williams
port, Pa, were flooded by a heavy rain
fall, and the wind carried thirty-five
houses off their foundations.
AN unusually sharp shock of earth
quake, lasting several seconds, was felt
throughout San Diego, Cal,
DURING the year ended June 80 last
over 114,oOO entries for public lands
were made in the United States.
DR. WILLIAM II. HARPER, president
of the Chicago university, has accepted
the principalship of the Chautauqua
system of study.
The Suffolk Suspenders Manufactur-
ing Company of Boston has failed for
$3.50, 900.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 3lst ult. numbered PAT, against 254
the preceding week and 1S9 for the
corresponding week last year.
ROBERT TANKERsLEY, aged 12 years,
who was bitten by mad dog about
two months ago, died in horrible agony
at Wichita, Kan.
IsoM WHITE (colored) was hanged at
Helena, Ark, for the murder of Prince
Malloy.
The Continental Land and Security
Company, with capital stock of ST.
900, 600, and whose offices are located at
Boston, New York and Denver, made
an assignment for the benefit of its
creditors.
STATISTICS covering the export lum-
Der trade of the Pacific coast for the
six months of the present year show a
shortage of 5,000,09 feet as compared
with the same period last year, but an
excess of 1000, 600 feet when compared
with the same period in 1889.
AT Birmingham, Ala, fifty kegs of
powder exploded in the Alabama Great
Southern depot, wrecSing the building
and injuring several people.
AN organization was completed at a
mass meeting in Johnstown, Pa, to sue
the South Fork club for losses sus-
tanned by food
AT Seattle, Wash, George Williams
butcher, was cremated and negro
cook and his wife sustained fatal iniu-
ries in fire.
WILLIAM KEPKE, farmer residing at
Melke, Mich, confessed that seventeen
years ago he, with other citizens of
Presque Isle county, formed an oath
bound compact to assassinate Albert
Moliter, who was murdered at that
time. His clerk, named Sullivan, was
also slain.
A FIGHT at Pyle, Tex, over an at
tempt to evict tenants, resulted in the
killing of VIII Holman and the fatal
wounding of Eli Gilcrearc. Holman's
landlord.
A PASSENGER train on the Bellaire,
GAINESVILLE & Cincinnati Narrow-guage
railroad left the track near Bellaire,
o., and two cars filled with passengers
overturned and dragged some distance,
injuring fourteen persons, one fatally
REPORTS from Hillsboro, ILL.,, are to
the effect that cattle in that vicinity
are suffering from fatal disease. The
mouth gets sore, the legs become swol-
len and stiff, and the animals die of
starvation.
THE 5-year-old son of Mrs. George
Whitner, living at Creston, o., caught
his foot in cattle-guard while walk
ing on the track, and his mother,
while attempting to rescue him, was
run down by an express train and in
stantly killed.
IT was said that John E. Baall, a
rea.-estate expert, testified before the
Rock Creek Park commissioners at
Washington that ex-President Cleve-
lnad bought his RED Top" property
for S26, 600 and sold it for $14O, 600, re-
alizing $4,000 profit.
FRANK l.. PRATT, a somnambulist OF
Fort Smith, Ark, sat down on the rail
way track while asleep and was killed
by freight train.
WILLIAM CALDWELL (colored) was
hanged at Houston, Tex, for the muir
der of DIR. j. NJ. Shambleu.
BUT 322 miles of railroad have been
built since January l, a heavy de-
crease from the figures of last year.
The president has issued his procla-
nation announcing the completion of a
reciprocity treaty with Spain as to
certain products of Cuba and Porto
Rico and the United States.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 1st were: Chicago, .614;
Boston, ,575; New York, 500; Cleve-
land, .494; Philadelphia, .469; Brook
lyn, .463; Cincinnati, All; Pittsburgh,
.4O7. The percentages in clubs of the
| American association were. ROStOn