Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-22

Un1teQ SUatcS Une exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
s940, 270, ,940, against $1,000, 245, 207 the
previous week. AS scompared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to l6.1.
AT Somerset, Ind, Lincoln Cochran
and young lady were thrown from a
wagon during runaway and killed.
IT was reported that farm profits
would be worth 81, 900. 600, 600 more this
year in the United States than they
had been during the recent years of de-
preston.
THREE persons died in Milwaukee
from drinking impure water from a
well and several others were danger
ously i'll.
GREAT damage was done to property
by cyclone near Eddyville, Ill.
HARRY CoURsIN, 20 years of age. and
his 12-year-old sister, were drowned
near McKeesport, Pa, while bathing.
JAMES BUCKINGHAM, an aeronaut,
made descent into the lake at SYRIA
cuse, N. Y. and was drowned
MRS. MARY Bolt, a white woman,
died in New Orleans of leprosy. There
were other cases in the city.
MONROE EVANS and his son John, ar
rested at Baileytown. Ala, for shoot
ing Pierce Mooney, were taken from
Jail by a mob and lynched.
E. B. PRESTON, lumber merchant of
North Ottawa, Kan, shot and killed
his wife and then fatally shot himself.
Domestic trouble was the cause
FIVE houses at Elizabethtown, Ind,
were struck by lightning and Ezra Sis
co, Charles McCully and DIR. Thompson
We're killed
DR.. JUDAH, the proprietor of the Av-
enue hotel at Bedford, Ind, fatally
shot his wife and then blew his brains
out
The Saranac lake clubhouse near
Plattsburg, N. Y, was destroyed by
fire, and seventy five guests lost nearly
all their personal effects.
In a fight on train at Texas City,
ILL.,, Otis johnson and Mike Witzle
killed each other
AT Independence, Ia., Nelson trotted
mile in 2:1o, thus beating the worlds
stallion record
THE rope and twine firm of John
Bonte Sons Company at Cincinnati
failed for S100, 600.
FIRE almost completely destroyed
the machinery in the mine of the New
Pittsburgh Coal & Coke Company at
Alum Cave. Pa Loss, S100,0
IN Severns county, Ga, the three
sons of Wallace Williams, all preach
ers, were fatally struck by lightning.
IN attempting a parachute descent
from a balloon near Cincinnati Miss
Annie Hardness was killed, and Prof.
Parker met like fate at Tacoma,
Wash.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
19,556,6S9 bushels: corn, 1855, 1o4 BUSH
els; oats, 2,2OS, S,22T bushels.
j. L. RAY, clerk for the bondsmen of
defaulting Treasurer Woodruff, of Ar
kansas, was arrested on the charge of
stealing 100000 of state scrip.
THE lowest estimate of the wheat
crop of Minnesota and the Dakotas is
$50, 900, 900 bushels.
IN riot at Shinndon, w. Va, Ben
jamin Stout. wealthy farmer, was al
most instantly killed and Manly Champ
fatally wounded.
THE dry goods and house furnishing
establishments of Goldstein & Nigel
and Curtis & Grand at Waco, Tex,
were totally destroyed by fire. Loss,
S275, 200.
BY sudden rise in the Platte river
near Agency, Mo-, fifteen farms were
ruined and houses, barns and stock
were swept away.
SECRETARY FOSTER says there is a
marked improvement in the monetary
situation in the country.
NEAR Burr Oak, Mich, an attempt
was made to wreck fast mail train on
the Lake Shore railroad by placing ties
on the track.
REV. WILLIAM 7. CURRIE, rector of
st. Pauls Episcopal church; Miss Ruth
Currie, his daughter, aged 13, and Miss
Dora Van Kirk, aged II, were drowned
while bathing in the Red river opposite
Grand Forks, n. ID.
Mrs. MARY SWEET, of Little Rock,
Ark, has been given a verdict of $685.
600 against the st. Louis & Iron Noun
tain railroad for killing her husband.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ended
August IS was S455, 232. The issue dur
ing the corresponding week last year
was SG25, ,46S.
Ten Cinnamon were arrested near
Port Townsend, Wash, and taken be-
fore the United States commissioner,
who ordered them returned to China.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
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