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

600.
NANCY HANKS trotted a mile at Rich
mond Ind. in 200.
HEAVY rains have fallen in Texas
and the government rainmakers were
likely to move to dryer regions.
The Chrisrnan Qll.) bank is closed
and its principal officers were reported
missing The liabilities were S1OO, 900,
while the assets were very small.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed the total debt to be ST.
534, 142, 251; cash in the treasury, S741,-
COS, 200; debt less cash in the treasury,
S702, 474,O42. Decrease during Septcm-
ber, SIS, ESQ, 426.
Ten THOUSAND railroad coal miners
in the Pittsburgh district struck for in
creased wages.
THE Irish national league convention
met in Chicago with 500 delegates pres
ent from all portions of the country.
WILLIAM DIXON and his wife were
burned to death in their home near
Roxboro, N. c.
The Leland Stanford, Jr., university
at Palo Alto, Cal, which has an en-
dowment of $4,000, 900, was formally
opened with an enrolment of 440 stu
dents.
THERE was said to be great short
age in the tobacco crop this year, the
principal deficiency being in that grade
used for cigar wrappers
GEORGE j. BALDWIN and his son John
were murdered at Fontanelle, Neb., by
James Anderson, a step-so of Bald
win. The killing was the result of an
old feud.
NINE negro strikers of Lee county,
Ark, were hanged to tree by an
armed mob as they were being con-
veyed by sheriffs from Cat Island to
Mariana. Two of the same gang were
shot earlier in the day.
EDGAR III. KELLOGG, until recently
the Chicago agent of the Home Life In
surauce Company of Brooklyn, N. Y,
was said to be short $50, 900 in his ac-
counts.
THE fishing smack Ada, of Pensa-
cola, Fla, with crew of six men, was
given up as lost
The Harper Manufacturing Com
pany's wooden mills at Oxford Me-,
were burned causing a loss of S1OO, 900.
Connecticut tobacco market have ad-
vanced from to s cents per pound.
FRANK RUDY, wealthy citizen of
Lima, o., was hypnotized and feeced
out of 5000 by confidence men.
ANDREW QUINLIN. aged so, and the
oldest railway conductor in the United
States, was killed by train near Avon,
N. j.
DURING the month of September the
coinage at the United States mints was
II, 437, ,246 pieces of the value of S3, 7O2, =.
67l.
JAMES JOHNSON, city marshal of Ant
werp, o., while arresting two burglars
in the railroad yards at that place was
thrown by them under a freight train
and fatally injured.
THE corner stone of the Ohio cottage
of the National Woman's Relief Corps
Home was laid at Madison, o.
A TRAIN ran down a hand car near
Carrollton, o., killing two men and
wounding seven, three of whom would
die
AT Davenport, Ia, the water in the
Mississippi river was lower than it had
been for years.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the I'd numbered 23O. against 2lO
the preceding week and 297 for the
corresponding week last year
THE schooner Frank Perew was lost
in gale on Lake Superior off Vermil-
lion Point and the captain and five of
the crew were downed.
TURNER & BRO, Boston bankers, have
failed for 100000.
THE census office issued a bulletin
which showed that the real estate
mortgage debt in force in Illinois jan
uary l, 1890, was 1884, ,299,26O.
The city marshal of Baltimore gave
notice that the sale of cigars, candy,
soda or mineral water, in fact every
thing except milk or ice, would not be
permitted on Sunday hereafter.
THE Irish National League of Amer
lea in session in Chicago elected Nj. v.
Cannon, of Omaha, as president. The
report OF the secretary scored Parnell
and the parliamentary party, and de-
clared that Parnell and his followers
were more anxious for American dol
lars than anything else.
The great huckleDerry marsh west
of Walllerton, Ind, caught fire and
was totally destroyed, entailing a loss
of many thousands of dollars.
JOHN BROWN (colored) and a well-to-
do farmer at Childersburg, Ala, was
lynched to prevent his testifying
against two white men in barn-b
ing case.
JOSEPH HoBE attempted to kill his
wife at Fremont, o., and failing, took
his own life.
The Minnesota supreme court has
declared that contracts in futures are
not valid and therefore persons who
get caught on the boards of trade may
repudiate their contracts unless they
buy and sell real grain.
WILLIAM HoUsER and Spencer Cam
eron, farmers living near Kenton, O., 4,
fought duel and both received fatal
wounds.
AN explosion of giant powder in a
mine at Butte, Mont, wrecked fifty