Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
DOMESTIC.


Work upon the first of the worlds
fair buildings was begun on the 26th
The structure is the woman's building,
to be erected according to the plans of
Miss Sophia G.. Hayden, of Boston,
Mass. 1t is to be 200 by 400 feet in size,
and three stories high.
FIVE persons were drowned in the
Ohio river near Cincinnati on the 25th.
They were pleasure riding in yawl
and were run down by a barge in tow
of tug. The victims were Thomas
Truman, Joe Zins, Miss Edith Zins,
Miss Catherine Cox and Miss Kate Rid
die.
The sixteenth annual four-mile eight
Dared straightaway race between the
Yale and Harvard university crews was
rowed on the Goth over the Thames
course from Winthrop Point to Gales
Ferry, and was won by Harvard by
eleven lengths. Time, 21:23. Yale's
time, 21:57. The record now stands:
Yale, nine victories and seven defeats;
Harvard, seven victories and nine de-
feats Yale holds the time record.
j. A. PARHAM, the attorney for State
Controller Colg an, has advised him not
to pay the S300,00 appropriated by the
legislature for California's exhibit at
the worlds fair on the ground that the
appropriation is unconstitutional.
NEAR Galveston, Tex, on the Goth
the powder house of the American Pow
der Company, containing 1000 kegs of
powder, was struck by lightning and
exploded. The conclusion caused the
Hazard & Dupont and Latin e. Rand
powder houses to explode and the fire.
works magazine of Victor Cortinas.
Buildings within radius of three-quar-
ters of mile were wrecked and num-
ber of persons seriously hurt. The
offices of the stock yards were badly
wrecked and fourteen head of cattle
and other stock were killed The total
loss is 500 900,
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the Goth, Ed
win Mcmillan was convicted of murder
in the first degree. Mcmillan was
charged with having murdered his wife
by burning her about certain portions
of the body with red-hot irons, after
ward pouring live Goals into the wounds
thus made. The crime was committed
while both husband and wife were
maudlin with liquor.
THE following fourth-class post offices
have been raised to the presidential
class Mound City, ILL.,; Walnut, Ia;
North Abingdon, Mass; Mount Vernon,
Mo-; Red Lodge, Mont; Ashland, N. H.;
Yellow Springs, o.: Norman, o. T.; Me-
chanicsville, Pa; Buena Vista, Va; AL
derson, w. Va, and New Castle, Wyo.
IT is stated on the authority of an Off
Ger of the New York Life Insurance
Company, that a new shortage of $685.
600 has been discovered in the accounts
of the Spanish-American department.
This deficit is also due to the peculiar
business methods of Agent Merzbacker,
and, added to the former shortage in his
accounts of S372, 1000, brings the total
amount of his defalcation up to nearly
half million.
THE Norfolk and Merchants woolen
mills at Dedham, Mass, shut down on
the 27th for an indefinite period, owing
to a dull market.
AT New York City On the night of the
27th ult Darwin j. Meserole, son of
Gen. j. b. Meserole, president of the Will
iamsburg savings bank, of Brooklyn,
shot and killed Theodore Larbig during
an alteration. Larbig was shot through
the heart and died almost instantly.
In the case of Alonzo Barrett, of In
diana, sentenced to five years inpris-
onment and a fine of 500 for passing
counterfeit money, the president has re-
mitted the fine and coInmuted the SEN
tence to two years Imprisonment.
AT Wilmington, Del, on the 2Sth ult.
the mills of the Diamond State Iron
Company, covering about four acres of
ground were totally destroyed by fire
Loss estimated at S40O, 900, partly COW
cred by insurance on the machinery.
The mills gave employment to about
5000 hands.
THE Diamond plate glass works at
Elmwood, Ind, the largest plate glass
factory in the world, burned on the
26th. Loss, heavy.
The body of an unknown flood victim
was found at Johnstown, Pa, during
baseball game there on the Goth.
In the case of W. w. Holiday, of the
District of Columbia, convicted of man.
slaughter in killing George Brice, Febru-
ary 6, 1889, the president has granted
pardon to take effect July Is next, one
day before the expiration of the present
sentence.
AT Des Moines, Ia, on the 2sth ult
w. Bennett, railroad brakeman, was
instantly killed by electricity. While
passing through an alley he touched
wire which was crossed with an cleo
trio light wire and received the full
charge of an alternating current
AT Newburyport, Mass, the stables
and car house of the Newburyport and
Amesbury Street Railway Company
were burned on the night of the 27th ult.
with thirteen cars. Loss estimated at
S75, 900 to 100000, nearly covered by in
surance.
The police visited the offices of the
Panama Canal Company at Paris on the
27th and seized all documents relating
to the business of the company.
NEAR Denver, Col. ,on the Goth ult. dur
ing cyclone houses were blown down,
trees uprooted and crops destroyed