Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-22
The News Condensed.
Important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC


disease among the cattle of the state.
THOMAS l.. DAVIS, a farmer near
Crothersville, Ind, in boring for water
struck n heavy flow of petroleum.
WoLFGANG BALLEsTRoM. German
tramp staying at Santa Cruz, Cal, has
inherited fortune of $780, 900 and the
title of count by the death of his father
near Berlin.
The village of Ellsworth. Mimi, was
almost entirely swept away by tor
nado.
A THICK vein of extremely fine grade
of silver ore, which assayed from 1000
to 5000 ounces to the ton, was struck
at Leadville, Col.
b. Y. SMITH, a prominent resident of
Brownsburg, Ind, was smothered to
death in a grain shute in his elevator.
The exhibits of the Columbia eX-
position in Chicago are to be insured
for something like SSoo,OoO,OOO.
THE factory of the Henry c. Hart
Manufacturing Company in Detroit
was burned, causing a loss of Sl20, 900.
The state department at Washington
received dispatch from Lord Sails
bury expressing the sorrow and regret
of Queen Victoria at the death of Mr..
James Russell Lowell.
HENRY HENSON, wife-murderer, was
hanged in st. Louis, and Chris Young
was hanged ut Lexington, Mo-, for the
murder of George Ferguson.
A. w. WILCOX, well-to do farmer
aged 10 years, living near Gaylord,
Mich, killed his 19-year-old grand
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himself dead.
GEORGE WIEMAN, a farmer of st.
Clair county, ILL.,, was held up by three
masked men and robbed of $3.50.
A BOILER of a thrashing machine ex-
ploded at Hiawatha, Kan, killing the
engineer and injuring two other men.
JOB HAss, wealthy coal dealer at
Mount Airey, suburb of Philadelphia,
was found murdered in his office.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, Charles f. Wolf.
who had just been elected executive
officer of the worlds fair commission
from Pennsylvania, dropped dead on
his way to his home.
IT has been decided by Acting Post
master General Whitfield that postal
cards the edges of which have been cut
and the shape of the card materially
changed for advertising purposes can
not be sent through the mails.
INDIANA bankers have decided to
fight the proposed effort of the state
board of tax commissioners to compel
them to expose the accounts of the de-
positors.
Mr.. AND MRS. EUGENE BoNNIcK, of
Denver, Col, committed suicide by talk
ing morphine. Domestic infelicity was
the cause.
A wINDsToRM at Keokuk, Ia, blew
in the city and wrecked several build
ipgs.
THE st. John 6 Marsh Lumber Com
pany of Chicago failed for Sl46,000
JACOB FRANZREB, eX-secretary of the
Camp Washington Building association
of Cincinnati, was charged with embeZ-
zling $4,000.
THE National Association of Fire
Engineers in session at Springfield,
Mass, elected as president A. P. Les
mere, of that city.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 227. against 231
the preceding week and 1877 for the
corresponding week last year.
AT Columbia, S. c., David Jacobs and
Mrs. Mary johnson, sentenced to be
hanged for murder, were placed on the
scaffold and the nooses adjusted about
their necks, when respite arrived
from the governor.
ANDREW JENNINGS died at Farley,
Ia, while drinking whisky on wager.
A NUMRER of representative farmers
of Indiana met at indianapolis and
established state farmers reading
circle.
CoMMANDER-IN-CH CHIEF PALMER ap-
pointed Col. Frederick Phisterer, of
New York, adjutant general of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
A sAwMILL and yard containing l.
600, 900 feet of lumber were burned at
Lindonville. VT.
AN express train on the Philadelphia
d Reading railroad collided with a
freight at Egg Harbor, N. j., injuring
nine persons.
OVER 1000 members of the New
York cloakinalers' union went on a
strike to force a recognition of their
organization by employers.
THREE men were killed and seven in
iured by the explosion OF a powder
mill near Huntington, w. Va.
The village of Campo, Cal, was de.
stroyed by cloudburst No lives were
lost.
Col. JOHN CoYLE, a prominent citi-
zen of Winston county, Ala, was toy
tured by burglars until he gave up
5000.
The office of the Daily Bulletin al
Anderson, Ind, was destroyed by fire.
AT Bowling Green, KY, Clyde Rag
land, the 19-year-old daughter of Squire
j. p Ragland, fell from a horse she
was riding and was dragged to death
THE two daughters of b. King, OF
Nashville, Ind, were fatally hurt in q
runaway accident.
In the National league the percent
1f &1,. aln al, he 20,