Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-10

attended the annual dinner recently,
all the others having married.
THE National league base ball season
closed with Boston in the lead, the
percentage OF that club being $780,
The other clubs stood: Chicago, .6O7;
New York, .53s; Philadelphia, .495;
Cleveland. .46S; Brooklyn. AS; Gin
cinnati, 409 Pitts burgh, .4O7.
A LARGE thrashing machine which
was being taken across bridge near
Bluffton, o., fell through and crushed
Frank c. Goss and Emanuel Rink to
death.
In his annual report w. r. Harris,
commissioner of education, says there
were enrolled in lss9-9O in the public
schools of the United States of elemen-
tary and secondary grade I2,6SS, ,973
pupils, as against 9,s67, ,505 in 1880.
The amount expended during the year
was S140,277, ,4S4, against S7S, O94, ,67s in
1880.
THE canning works of the Van Camp
Packing Company at Indianapolis were
destroyed by fire. the loss being $780,
600.
Two FREIGHT cars were run off a
transfer steamer at Memphis, Tenn,
and four men were drowned.
THEODORE VAN DUYNBRooK and Pc
ter Rauch were asphyxiated by gas at
Portland, Ore.
AN explosion of gas in the Richard
son colliery at Glen Carbon, Pa, killed
twelve men.
AT Walla Walla, Wash, Fritz Form,
an old soldier, shot and killed his wife,
mortally wounded his mother-in-law
and then shot himself.
THE Ulster county savings institu-
tion at Kingston, n. Y, was robbed by
its treasurer and assistant treasurer of
| S463, 900.
JOHN HARTMAN drove over the edge
of an almost perpendicular bluff 100
| feet high at Warsaw, Ill, and escaped
unhurt.
The boiler of the tug G. w. Parker
exploded on the river in Chicago, kill
ing instantly eight persons and injur
ing ten more, some of them fatally
MRS. WILLIAM C. PRATT, widely
known as Universalist preacher. was
drowned in pond at North Montpel-
Ter, VT
HORACE HAMLIN, prominent busi-
ness man, drowned himself and his
three children at Corpus Christi, Tex.
AN English company with 81, 900, 900
capital has been formed to work the AZ
legged ruby mines of Montana.
ELEVATOR A of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company's system, situated at
Locust Point, Md, was destroyed by
fire. Loss S6OO,oOO.
THE season of the American Baseball
association has closed. The clubs stood
| as follows: Boston, .692; St. Louis,
.625; Athletic, sec; Baltimore, .52S;
Milwaukee, Al: Columbus, .437;
Louisville, 1896; Washington, 32S.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Sd was: Wheat,
! 27,755, 056 bushels: corn, 1916, 5S4 bush
els; oats, 5,S54. 2Sl bushels.
THE Greenwood gold stamp mill near
Deadwood, s. D., was destroyed by fire,
| causing a loss of $780, 1000.
In quarrel over billiard game at
Pittsburgh, Pa, Edward Scott stabbed
his brother Richard, fatally injuring
him.
THE 6-year-old son of Robert Kirk. of
| Purcell, Ind, was killed and almost de-
voured by hogs
A ROYAL blue train on the Baltimore
& Ohio made the run from Canton to
| Philadelphia, distance of 81 miles, in
| exactly 81 minutes.
THE arrest of two men at Niagara for
smuggling in Cinnamon has disclosed a
| conspiracy with a United States mar
shall to bring Celestials across the line
and have them captured, tried, etc, for
the sake of the fees.
THE total collections of internal rev.
enue during the first two months of
the present fiscal year were SIC, 1876, 1873,
an increase of S632, 557 over the cor
responding period of last year.
| AT Green Bay, Wis, Victor Lambeau
shot his wife because he was jealous
OF her and then committed suicide.
| THE Greenlee and Forst oil we'll at
Mcdonald, Pa, has been drilled
deeper, increasing the flow to 14,4OO
barrels per day, making it the largest
| oil well in the world.
| JOHN HosTETTER, of Lexington. Va,
accidentally killed his 2-year-old baby
by stepping on it.
AT Dubuque, Ia, Matilda Kochen-
dorfer poisoned herself because her
parents forbade her to keep company
with young man.
GEN. PATRICK KIRBY, aged 81, dropped
dead in the hall of his residence in New
York.
The packing establishment of John
p. Squire & Co. in East Cambridge,
Mass, was partially destroyed by fire.
Loss, $780, 900; fully insured.
The Atlantic steamships arriving in
New York reported severe storms off
the banks of Newfoundland The
brigantine Minnie Ellsin, of st. John.
was lost with her crew of twenty men
in gale.
THREE persons lost their lives in a
tenement house fire in New York.
THE business portion of the village of
Kane, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire.
AT meeting of the New York pres
bytery Prof. Briggs was indicted for
heresy. The principle charge against
him is disbelief in the Bible as the only