Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-12-26

near Catawissa, Pa, and Enginee,
Fisher and Fireman Smith were killed
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended or
the 18th mum bered 1856, against $40 the
preceding week and 404 for the CORE.
spending week last year.
A FIRE in the wholesale millinery
house of Porter, Donaldson & Co., In
Pittsburgh, Pa, entailed a loss OF
S150,0OO.
IT was reported ut Omaha, Neb., that
the Chicago e. Northwestern road had
issued orders to discharge all their EN-.
ployes who were members of the Order
of Railway Telegraphers and refused
to withdraw from that body.
The editors of the national prohi-
bition party press met in Chicago and
organized National Prohibition Press
association, with James Lamont, of
Rockford, ILL.,, as president
MICHAEL HARVEY, maniac, shot
and killed John Connerton and wound
ed two other persons in Brooklyn, N.
Y, and then took his own life.
BY an explosion at the Busk tunnel
near Leadville, Col, three men were
killed, two seriously injured and a
number of others hurt.
A GANG of silver coin counterfeiters
who had been operating in Texas for
many months past were nearly all
captured.
AT Roaring Springs, KY, Ben Davis
shot James Dunn dead and fatally
wounded John Dunn, his brother. The
killing was the outcome of an ancient
feud.
New YORK tobacco importers, it was
claimed, had swindled the government
out OF over S2,OoO,O0O in duties within
the last few months.
WRIGHT POLAND and his wife were
murdered in their home at Buckhorne.
La, by Jack Smith, with whom Po
land had quarreled.
MRS. SOPHIE RoMPT, who was serv-
ing her tiftieth term in the Paterson
IN. J.) Jail for drunkenness, has been
left fortune by the death of her
father in Germany.
AN unknown tramp was lynched in
Emmett county, Ark, for assaulting
Miss Bette McGough, a school-teac
Two NEGROES suspected of the mur-
der of young Parramore in the streets
OF Branford, Fla, were lynched by a
mob
THE Federation of Labor in conven-
ton at birmingham, Ala, passed res
olutlon favoring woman's suffrage
amendment to the constitution Sam
mel Gompers was reelected president
GERTRUDE KUNKLE, aged IS years,
was burned to death and her father
fatally injured by the explosion of a
lamp at Knoxville, Pa
GEORGE w. CHILDs has presented al
most his entire collection of rare prints.
manuscripts, autographs, etc, valued
at 100000, to the library of the Drexel
institute in Philadelphia.
RAY RICHARDS and John Johnson,
two boys, were drowned while skating
at Deer Isle, Me.
AN ancient Indian burying ground
was discovered on tine Pike farm at
East Saugus, Mass.
A GAS well with a capacity of 49,
100000 cubic feet day was struck at
Muncie, Ind.
LoU1svnLE(Ky.) colored persons will
petition the legislature not to make
railroad companies provide separate
coaches for negroes.
The Seventh ward livery stables in |
New York were burned and forty-three
horses were cremated.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union at Yellow Springs. O., passed
resolutions to boycott all merchants |
and storekeepers of the place who sell |
tobacco in any form.
A. l.. FERGUSON and wife were in
stantly killed and their little babe ia. |
tally injured by the cars at Pawnee
City, Neb.
JOHN DoDD found his sweetheart,
Sophy Antony, in the arms of his rival,
Andrew Chancey, at st. Louis, and
killed both of them.
ELEVEN business houses at Croton
Landing, N. Y, were destroyed by fire
REV. j. w. MORGAN, Baptist minis
ter aged 60 years, dropped dead while
delivering sermon at Mount Pleasant,
KY.
SIXTY convicts in the Kansas peni-
tcntiary are under sentence of death.
PHILLIP DAVIS and Robert B.air
were instantly killed and George Crews
was fatally hurt by the explosion of a
boiler at Springfield, Mo.
AN explosion of dynamite near Grace
vile, Mimi, blew off the head of Ira
Bell and blew out the heart of Henry
Gordon.
The dairy barn of Henry Hess near
Bay City, Mich, was burned, and
seventy cows and three horses perished
in the flames.
The El Dorado and Ruby Bar
sapphire fields near Helena, Mont,
were sold to an English syndicate for
81, 200, 900 in cash and an equal amount
n stock.
The population of North Dakota, as
given by the official report of the
census department, is 1S2,719.
REV E. j. HAMILL, a Methodist min.
ster en- route from Jacksonville, ILL.,,
o Chattanooga, Tenn, expired on the
rain.
The last spike in the main line of the
RIO Grande Southern railway was
lriven at Durango, Col.