Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-03
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

Gen. Sigel, convicted of forgery
A VERY severe and long-continued
shock of earthquake was felt at Halds-
burg, Cal
THE annual report of Commissioner
Raum, of the pension bureau, shows
that on June 80. 1891, there were &C.,
160 pensioners upon the rolls, an in
crease of 1873, ,2l6 over the previous year.
The total amount disbursed during the
year was Sis, 54S, 050.7l, against $780,
49S,s00.l9 the preceding year. During
the last year 20,525 pensioners were
dropped from the rolls, 1920 by rea-
son of death. There were about 1907
203 soldiers of the union now living.
AT II negro church in Sheffield, Ala,
negro named Wilson, becoming en-
ragged at another negro for paying at
tention to his wife, shot and killed the
man and cut his wifes throat.
The National Women's Alliance was
organized at Topeka, Kan. The object
of the association is to establish bu-
reau for the better. education of the
women in economic, social and polit-
ical questions.
BY the bursting of bomb at an
Italian. celebration in Newark, N. j.,
four persons We're killed and eighteen
injured
j. X. CUMBERLAND, arrested in St.
Joseph, Mo-, confessed that he mur-
dered james Robertson and his son
Jasper at Harlan, Ia, two years ago.
A FREIGHT train wreck on the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne &c Chicago road
near the Ohio and Pennsylvania state
line caused loss to the company of
100000.
In the newly opened Oklahoma lands
great suffering was reported among
the settlers owing to the lack of the
necessaries of life. Water was twenty
five cents a glass. bread fifty cents a
loaf, lemons twenty-five cents each,
ham and bacon one dollar pound and
other things in proportion.
THE boiler in sawmill near Tion-
esta, Pa, exploded, killing ]. Elva Ber-
lin, James Conger and Charles b.
Grove, all well-known lumbermen.
A RAILROAD elevator and other build
ings at Minneapolis were burned, caus-
ing loss of $500, 900. Nine firemen
We're injured, some probably fatally.
| ELIJAH WATT shot Miss Kate Halo
ran at Topeka, Kan, because she re-
fused to marry him and then killed
himself.
NANCY HANKS trotted mile at Cam
bridge City, Ind, in 2:O94.
Two lots in the town of Chandler,
just plated in the land opened in Okla
homa territory, were offered for sale
for ham sandwich, but no buyers
We're found.
THOMAS CARR, farmer living neal
Quincy, KY, prompted by jealousy
killed his wife and sister-in-law with
corn cutter, fatally wounded his
mother-in-law and then took his own
life.
a FLIGHT train ran into work
train at McKim's siding, Pa, killing
Engineer Houghton and eight Italian
worllmen.
The forest and prairie fires in Min,
nesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas
were burning more fiercely than ever
and several towns seemed to be doomed
20 destruction. Loss of life was reported
from several places. Many farmers
had lost their all.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended or
the 25th nun bered 21O against 90!
the preceding week and 219 for the
corresponding week last year
BURGLARS cleaned out every store
and the post Office in San Antonio, Mo.
FIRE destroyed S. Gucl1enheimer &
Sons wholesale grocery and liquor
building at Savannah, Ga, causing q
loss of S45O.OOO. -
S. G. WEBsTER's warehouse, the
largest in Chattanooga, Tenn, was
burned, the loss being 100000.
THIRTEEN houses in OalScliffe, Tex.
a fashionable suburb of Dallas were
burned.
The report of Commissioner Garter
on the operations of the general lanC
office during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1891, shows that the number
of acres of public lands disposed OF
during the year was 10, 1926, III. Tota
cash receipts during the year, S. 429,
220. The vacant public lands in the
public land states and territories wa:
$40, ,664 ,6S3.
PETER JOHNSON, of Dassel, Minn,
claims to have rediscovered the lost ar
OF tempering copper. .'
INDICATIONS of silver IN paying quan
titles have been discovered at Sain
Croix Falls, Wis.
, REPORTS from the large centers o
, trade throughout the country shov
business was constantly on the in
crease.
Four men were taken from resor
5 near English, Ind, and severel
whipped.
FRED TYLER was killed near Ashe
vile, N. c., in a quarrel with negr
named Rankin. Friends of Tyler 500
5 after hanged the colored man to tree
, JAMES DARLING and Sandy Ferr
t were killed near Garfield, Pa. by
S premature explosion of dynamite.
TEN negroes were sentenced to b
y hanged at Charleston, S. c., October q
: for the murder of another negro.
v RILEY SMART, of Madison, Ind, die
r from the stings of a swarm of yello'