Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-09-05

Goofs~of,oti, uSuiuSb Tl,Voo, stS,ftf Une
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 81.
FLAMES in the building of the Auto.
matte Canning Company in San Fran
cisco caused loss of 100000.
Mrs. l. LANGDALE and her sister,
Mrs. Lizzie Ludwick, were struck by
an engine while crossing the track at
Creston, Ia, and ground to pieces un-
der the wheels.
NEAR Brush Creek, Mo-, two freight
trains going at full speed collided,
killing four men and demolishing both
trains.
A FIRE devastated the whole country
from Faulkton, Faulk county, S. d., sc
miles o the northwest and 30 miles in
width. Nothing was saved and the
farmers were ruined. Not less than
twenty townships were desolated.
AT Nations, Pa, the bicarbonate de.
partment of the Pennsylvania Salt
Company was destroyed by fire, caus-
ing loss of 100000.
TWELVE blocks of business houses in
the public square at Quinan, Tex,
were destroyed by fire.
ROBERT GARvINGER, of Portland
Ind, while cutting string slipped
and fell on the point of his knife, which
cut one of his eyeballs in two.
CENSUS figures make the total popu.
latioa of Alaska $1,000, divided as fol
lows: Aleuts, 900; Indians. 5000; Es
quimauX, $4,000; Chinese, $500; whites
4,S00. This is decrease of 1000 in
ten years.
JOHN RUTTMAN and his little daugh
ter were killed by the cars at Dearborn
Mich.
A PEARL field has been discovered a,
Council Bluffs, Ia.. and a large number
of the precious stones have already
been found.
JACK HOGAN fell $500 feet from q
balloon at the Detroit exposition
grounds and was instantly killed. His
brother was killed in the same way two
years ago.
FLAMES destroyed over $190, 900 worth
of business property at Winnemu
New.
TRAINS collided at Lodi, O., and ten
persons We're injured, but none fatally.
IT was announced that the wool
product of Ohio would amount to &c.
100000 pounds this year.
Two HUMAN skeletons of giant size
were unearthed at Lakewood, N. Y,
by workmen. The thigh bone of one
was 80 inches long.
The visible supply Of grain in the
United States on the 3lst ult. was:
Wheat, 10, 1884, ,S41 bushels; corn. 5,611,.
573 bushels: oats, 2,439,61 bushels.
RUMsEY Bros. & Co., the Oldest firm
on the Chicago board of trade, failed
with liabilities of $1,000 900.
A BUILDING at Palmyra, Mich, un.
dergoing repairs previous to being oc-
cupied by a saloon, was blown up by
dynamite.
AT Chardon. O., train dashed into a
carriage containing Alanson Knox and
his daughter and both were killed.
FIVE persons were instantly killed
and thirty seriously injured by the de-
railing of a passenger train on the
Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis
"Air Line" railroad 2 miles east OF
Troy, Ind.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HENRY F. BUsHEN-
HAGEN, aged SO and II years, respec.
lively, of Bloomfield, Conn.,, were mur-
dered by tramp whom they had given
food, and then thrown into we'll
The extra session of the forty-sev-
enth general as assembly of Tennessee be-
gan at Nashville.
FIRE destroyed the business part OF
the town of Ceres, n. Y.
THREE masked burglars held up the
cashier of the bank at Corder, Mo-, and
robbed the safe of $500.
MAYOR GRANT, of New York, visited
the Park place ruins and discovered the
remains of two more victims, making
siXty-two in all.
Bob SIMS and his illicit murderers
and distillers, seven in all, were cap
tured near De Soto, Miss.
ALL the union bakers in the United
States will strike May 1, 1892, for re-
duction of hours and increase of pay.
TIE American steamer George e.
Starr was seized by revenue officers al
Port Townsend, Wash, for smuggling
Cinnamon into the United States.
The business part of the village OF
Yarmouth. Ia, was burned.
0. ii. WISELY secretly married q
Miss Marvin at midnight near Findlay,
o., against her parents wishes. He
then rode home and shot himself
through the head.
THE annual report of Mine Inspector
John M. Lewis, of Pennsylvania, shows
that the total number of fatal accidents
the past year was fifty-two, making
twenty-four widows and fifty-two
orphans.
The total yield of wheat in North
Dakota this season was placed at 81,
0On,000 bushels, the largest in the his
tory of the state.
THE annual report of the Indiana SUI
per!ntendent of public instruction for
the current year shows the total num-
Der of school children in the state to be
77O, 722.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
NEWTON BACON, the Oldest member
of the masonic order in Wisconsin,
died a ncblxncb ooaI On rpba