Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-18
The News Condensed
important intelligence From All Parto.
DOMESTIC.

Harry odel, were beaten to death with
club by an insane negro named
Daniel Welsh.
THE West MICHIGAN Press association
in session at Kalamazoo elected Il. A.
Blackman, of Hiiisdale, as president.
A FIRE which started in Mitchell.
Bros, lumber yard at Jennings, Mich,
destroyed 5000, 600 feet of lumber,
planning mill, engine house and four
dwellings,. Total loss, S25O,OOO.
JIM BAILEY, negro who assaulted
Mrs. Folsom at Beebe, Ark, was taken
from Jail and lynched by n mob.
NEAR Edmonton, KY, Special United
States Bailiff Cutliff was shot from am
bush and fatally wounded by violators
of the revenue law.
Mrs. RAYMOND and her 4-year-old
son were struck by passenger train on
the Ohio & Mississippi road near Olney,
ILL, and instantly killed
JOHN COLLIER, living near Monrovia,
Ind, found piece of gold ore on his
farm weighing about ten pounds.
THE house of S. p. Anderson, Is
miles west of Clifton, Tex, was struck
by lightning, and his wife and three
daughters were killed.
ELIZA RYAN, of Lamar Ark, aged
so years, was restored to sight after be-
ing blind thirty years by having tooth
extracted.
THE tenth international convention
of the Young Peoples Society of Chris
tian Endeavor opened at Minneapolis
on the 9th with 10000 delegat ties in at
tendance. The secretary's report
showed that there were in the country
1924 societies with total member
ship of 1,0OS, $50. Among the denomi-
nations the Presby yterians have 4,O1S
societies, Congregationalists 3,745, Bap-
fists 1881, Methodist is 206S, Christians
SOL During the year $500 members
of the societies became church mem
bers.
PHILIP STEPHENS, 81 years old and
hard of hearing, was run over. by a
train on the Pennsylvania road at Fort
Wayne. Ind, and instantly killed.
JAMES FENNELL was killed near
Wichita, Kan, by horse suffering from
hydrophobia. The animal seized him
with its teeth and shook him and
trampled him to death.
Columbus, Ind, and thirteen box cars
We're smashed to pieces and several per-
sons were injured.
THE Chesapeake & Ohio railroad has
closed hve-year contracts for three
steamer lines between Newport News,
Va, and Liverpool.
THE board of visitors to the Annapo-
lis naval academy in its report to the
secretary of the navy comments severe
ly on the odious, brutalizing and un-
American habit of hazing."
Mrs. GRIsLEY, of Lancaster, Wis,
confessed upon her dying bed that she
had murdered her sons wife in 1882,
whose dead body was found in a field
perforated with bullets the second day
after the murder.
The dead bodies of j. H. Puterbaugh,
prosperous farmer living near Ellis,
Neb., and his wife and four children
We're found dead in their home with
bullet holes in their heads. 1t was sup
posed the horrible deed was committed
by the father, who was temporarily in
sane.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended ON
the 10th numbered 247. against 237
the preceding week an, 1917 tor the cor
responding week last year.
BELLE HENDERSON, Ella Henderson,
Mile Chenowyth and Rev. John
Spachmann were drowned in Lake
Erie near Oak Point, o., by the upset
ting of boat.
j. r. DuwoRTH, president of the Dill
worth Cattle Company of Billings,
Mont, was shot and killed in a quarrel
over land claim by young French
man.
THE immense company stores CT the
Cambria Iron Company at Johnstown,
Pa, at which thousands of their work.
men traded, has been sold to party OF
capitalists for nearly $1,000, 900. The
law against company stores in that
state goes into effect August l.
AN immense downpour of rain for
three hours at Sioux City, Ia, flooded
the city, causing an aggregate loss o1
$100, 900.
The entire wooded portion of Chip
| pewa county, Mich, and the Canadian
territory north of it were on fire on the
10th. Settlers We're being burned out
and everybody was fighting the flames
FIFTY families charged with being
intruders were arrested by the Chick
asaw militia and sent across the Rec
river into Texas.
Tom ROCHE, a wealthy railroad con
| tractor, committed suicide at For
Worth, Tex, by shooting himself il
the mouth.
+. o. POTTER, wealthy New Yorl
man, was found dead in the woods neal
Seattle, Wash. 1t is believed that he
was murdered.
INVESTIGATION has resulted in the
discovery that the State of North Car
olina is entitled to S2G,21S more thar
was originally allowed it on account OF
the direct tax act.
A CENSUS bulletin gives the total pop
ulation of Wisconsin at 1856, $50, an in
crease of 81, 9s3 over the population il
1880.
CONSIDERABLE damage to property