Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11

| ty Md, and five men met death in the
same manner at Fernandino, Fla.
w. +. LAKE, the leading hardware
dealer at Fort Worth, Tex, has failed
for $3.50,
FOUR blocks of buildings at La
grande, Ore, were burned, the loss be-
ing Sl25,0 900. .......
FOURTEEN persons were killed and
fifty-eight injured, several fatally by
the two rear coaches of an express
train plunging through trestle 35 feet
high at Farm, w. Va.
HENRY. HARMS, of Quincy, Mimi,
who had slept almost incessantly for
sixteen years, awolse from his slumber
on the 4th.
MASSACHUSETTS, new law regulating
drunkenness has gone into effect 1t
provides that a person arrested more
| than twice for drunkenness in year
shall be sent to prison for the third Of
| fense.
The Chilian transport Itata and the
| United States cruiser Charleston ar
rived at San Diego, Cal, from Iquique.
In balloon accident at New Lisbon,
o., William Hennessy and G. j. Jones
We're killed, and at Elyria, o., Mile.
Zoetta Bentley fell from balloon and
was dashed to pieces
WHITE and negro miners at SUMTER
| Ala, quarreled, and in the row which
followed one negro was killed and five
Others fatally injured. ,.., os
A BULLETIN from the census office
gives the population of Nevada at 45,-
T61, a decrease of 16,5O5 since 1850.
The population of Idaho is shown to
be S4 3S5, which is an increase during
the decade of 51,775. q sa .s.,
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the Sd numbered 287, against 284
the preceding week and 199 for the cor
responding week lastyear. ,r.D
THREE children of James Curran, of
Bird Island, Mimi, were poisoned by
eating some roots they found on the
prairie. "t' ;,'.. 3"
The fast express train on the New
York, Lake Erie & Western railway
was run into while standing at the de-
pot at Ravenna, o., by fast freight
train and nineteen persons were killed
and twenty-t three badly injured. Care
lessness of a brakeman was the cause.
THE exports of specie from the port
of New York during the six days ended
on the Sd amounted to 81. $50, ,O05, of
which s., S22, 700 was gold and SIG, sos
silver. ""
CHARLES STAFFoLD, a farmer living
near Napiersville, ILL.,, lost sixteen
head of cattle by one stroke of light
ming. r....,.
MAGGIE FABLE, of Shelbyville, Ind,
killed herself because of hopeless love
for Henry Cowein.
Two YOUNG men named Kane, of
Roseville, H.. and Thomas, of Gales
burg, ILL.,, were drowned while boat
riding at Lake George, near Galesburg
FLAMES in w. T.. Harvey's lumber
yard at Colum bus, Ga, caused u loss of
800, 900.
ELI MULLINAX, a noted horse thief,
shot and killed John Johnson and his
son at Lakeside, Mimi. johnson was
prominent farmer.
Mrs. JANE DAVIS died of starvation
at Kansas City, Mo. She had $1,000 in
a local bank, but refused to draw any
of the money to supply her present
needs.
HENRY c. ADAMS, treasurer of the
fund for the relief of disabled Univer-
salist ministers, was arrested at New
York charged with deficit of ST., 700
in his accounts.
j. d. SHAW, editor of the Bishopville
(S C.) Eagle. was killed at a picnic
while trying to quell a row among some
drunken rowdies.
CAPTAIN LUTHER MARTIN, of Bruns-
wick Ga, drowned himself at the same
point where his wife committed suicide
ten years ago in like manner.
E. o. FYFFE was sentenced at Fair
Play, Col, to thirty years imprison-
ment for the killing of A. C. Scribner
ON April a.
A CYCLONE at Baton Rouge, La, de-
molished one of the penitentiary build
ings, killing ten convicts and injuring
thirty-fve, five fatally. In the city
fifty houses were unroofed and a num-
Der of persons hurt a. ~
. CROPS We're suffering seriously from
drought near Jeffersonville, Ind, and
several fields of wheat had been de-
stroyed by fire. 1".@
AT Altus. Ark, twelve persons We're
| poisoned at picnic, four fatally.
IT was reported that all the barbed
wire interests of the country had been
| merged into trust TO be known as the
Columbia Patent Company.
THE press mill of the Moosic Powder
Company at Jermyn, Pa, exploded,
killing two men. ~r.i .#l
JAMES j. SLocuM, who murdered his
wife in New York on December 81,
1889, was taken from his cell in Sing
Sing On. W prison and executed by
electricity.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on The 9th was: Wheat,
II, $685. ,601 bushels; corn, 1920 ,2a1 BUSH
els; oats, 4,563,3 80. san. ~ .r4
Two WHITE men and two Indians
were killed in an encounter in Moiave
desert, California. An attempt was
being made to arrest the Indians for
burning haystacks. 'r@t
The bank of Moses Brothers at Mont
gomery, Ala.,. suspended payment, with