Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06
BUSINESS failures during The seven

United Statesel9 and for Canada %, or
| total of 247, as compared with 95d the
previous week. For the corresponding
week of last year the figures were 21s.
AT North Amherst, o., on the 31st
ult. the Misses Emily and Harriet
Bryant, sisters, aged 81 and 65, were
found dead in bed by their brother
George, asphyXiation by coal gas being
the cause of death.
G.S. CoRLENIUs, cashier of the Sa-
guache County bank, left Saguache,
Col, May is, to attend n masonic ban
quet at Salida. He has not been seen
since, and foul play is suspected. His
accounts are all right.
LAST December the Hughes Lumber
Co. and ID. w. Hughes, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, made an assignment, involving
nearly S300,0O0 of liabilities. On the
1st final settlement was made with all
the creditors of the firm on the basis of
100 cents on the dollar and interest.
THE will of Charles Pratt, the oil
king, has been fled at the surrogates's
| Office of Kings county, N. Y. The es-
tate, which is worth between SIS, 900, 900
and $50, 900, 600, is left to his wife and
children, the only public beneficiary be-
ing the Pratt institute, to which is be-
queathed several lots and blocks of
| real estate.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY, of the Spring
Garden bank, has been placed in the
| county Jail at Philadelphia in default of
$4,000 bail. Every attempt was made
to secure bondsmen without avail.
AT midnight on the 31st ult. the
promenade of the Brooklyn On. W
bridge was opened to the public free
of charge in accordance with recent
act of the legislature.
THE principal business street in
osseo, Trempealeau county, Wis, was
swept by fire which started from an
overturned lamp in H. H. s. II. A.
Fields store on the 3Oth ult. The total
loss will exceed $4,000.
AT Cedar Rapids Ia, on the S0th ult.
A. Traunweiser, a jeweler, 80 years old,
shot his wife, killing her instantly and
then shot himself in the heart, dying on
the spot. 1t is supposed he was crazy.
Mrs. JOHN R. DAVIES, of Bardwell-
town, about twenty miles from U tica,
| n. Y, committed suicide on the 31st ult.
by hanging. She had made previous at
tempts to kill herself.
| AT Nashville, Ten, on the night of
the 31st ult. fire broke out in the Buck
ingham theater. A number of actresses
sleeping in the building had narrow es-
capes. Three of them and child were
rescued from the fourth story by fire
men. Only one person was injured-a
negro who jumped from the third story
and broke his leg. Total loss, SIS, 900;
insurance not known.
WILLIS P. CANDA, aged IS, residing in
Brooklyn, n. Y, died on the 91st ult.
while under the influence of chloro-
form during the performance of an
operation. The doctors made every
effort to save his life, but he gradually
grew weaker and in an hour was dead.
A HEAVY hail and rain storm passed
to the north and west of Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 31st ult., doing great dam
age to the growing grain. The hail
| beat down the standing wheat. A rain
storm which almost amounted to a
waterspout followed, washing out many
bridges.
THE home of Henry Phillips, at
Taylorstown, w. Va, caught fire on
the SOth ult and Phillips, his wife and
a 3-year-old child were burned to death,
and a 15-year-old boy was so badly
scorched that he died in few honrs.
Phillips had been drinking during the
confiagration.
BETwEES six and eight hundred sam
pies of touse letter boxes have been re-
ceived at the post-otfice department
from all parts of the world. The COM
mission appointed some time ago will
meet in Washington June 10 to examine
and report upon the best box submitted.
THE coinage at the United States
mints for May shows: Gold, total num-
Der of pieces $4,000, of the value OF
S2,591, SS1; silver pieces 4,SO2, ,525, value
So, ,Sl2, 90G; minor coins, pieces 1,7S6, 900,
value $4,000. Total pieces, 6,664, ,5S5;
value, $780, ,206.
THE extensive works of the Brooklyn
| IN. " Cooperage Company, and a
number of tenements adjoining, were
destroyed by fire on the 1st, entailing a
loss of 81, 100000.
MINISTER PRICE, of Hayti, has re.
ceived dispatch from Port-au- Prince,
which states that the rebellion which h
broke out on the 2Sth of May has been
suppressed and forty of the rebels exc,
cuted.
THE stonemasons at Detroit. Mich.
went on strike on the 1st and forced
the brick-layers to quit. The stone.
masons demanded S4 day. They had
been getting $3.50.
A SPECIAL from Sturgis, S. q. says:
This city and vicinity was visited on the
1st by the worst storm since 1888.
Water was three feet deep on the main
street and cellars and first floors of bust
ness houses We're overfowed. The losses
reach thousands of dollars.
AT Battle Creek, Mich, on the 1st fire
totally destroyed the Sanitarium print
ing office and building with total loss
of $4,000; insurance $4,000 The or
igin of the fire was unknown.
AT New York City on the 1st in the
court of special sessions, the case o.