Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01


corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to &c.
AN earthquake shock at Evansville,
Ind, caused a great fright but no dam
age.
A NEGRO tramp named Craig went to
the house of Nathan Conway near
Paris, Ky, and killed Conway and his
wife and their two sons. Neighbors
captured the murder and shot him to
death.
MARY and Bertha, aged II and 10
years respectively, daughters of G.
Thompson, of Cedar Falls, Ia, were
drowned while bathing in the river.
FIRE at Newport News, Va, de-
stroyed over twenty buildings, stores
and dwellings
In a rear end collision near Gallon,
o., five persons were killed.
j. w. SAULTRY, a merchant at Rapid
City, S. D., shot his wife fatally and
then killed himself. Jealousy caused
the deed.
THE town of Genoa, Mo-, was almost
swept away by cloudburst.
WILLIAM A. TEAL was arrested at In
dianapolis while in the act of making
counterfeit dollars.
JOHN BRowN, a young negro desper-
ado, was taken out of Jail at jackson,
Tenn, by a party of masked men and
hanged to a tree.
JOHN GRANGER, Franklin CKy.)
negro, was lynched for making threats
against his white neighbors.
AN excursion train returning to Day
ton, o., from Cincinnati, was run into
at Woodsdale Park by freight train
and four of the eXcursionists were
killed and fifty injured, some fatally.
FIRE destroyed seventeen business
houses and residences in South Haven,
Mich.
HENRY NELSON, of Corona, L. l.,
killed his wife with an AK and then
took his own life. No cause was known.
FRANK LINDENsTINE, of Kansas City,
Mo-, broke the worlds high diving
record by diving from a platform s5
feet high into the lake at that place.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 27th was: Wheat,
IA, 100, Az bushels; corn, 3,O35, ,S76 bush
els; oats, 1,77O,5 535 bushels.
GRAssHoPPERs had swarmed the coun-
try surrounding Valparaiso, Ind, so
thiclly that the farmers would prob
ably lose all their oat crops, which
were not yet ripe.
FIVE persons were killed in various
ways at Dayton, o., on the 27th
IT was discovered that Peter S. Will
liams, a wealthy lumber dealer, had
two homes, one in Fostoria, o., pre-
sided over by Mrs. Williams No. l, with
two children, the other in Findlay, O.,
in which was domiciled Mrs. Williams
No. 2.
REV. WELLINGTON WHITE and his
wife and two children, Hattie Hastings
and Susie Mccarthy were killed by the
cars at crossing near Elmira, n. Y.
Mr.. White had spent ten years in mis-
sionary work in China and was at
home on leave of absence.
IN a quarrel over watermelon at
Grafton, Ill, James McDonohue and a
man named Murphy killed each other
with knives.
GEORGE BRoPHY, aged years, and
William Peacock, Syears, We're drowned
in the Lehigh canal at Catasauqua, Pa.
A FIRE destroyed every business
house in the village of Blair, Wis, the
loss being S15O,OOO.
A TORNADO wrecked several houses
at Hot Springs, S. D., and destroyed all
the crops in the Cheyenne valley.
A DARING attempt to wreck a train
was made by three boys near Port
Waltham, Va, by placing spikes on
the track. The distractions were seen
and the boys arrested.
The aggregate stock of wheat in the
northwest on the 27th was 9,15S, $40
bushels. One year ago the stock was
estimated at 9,474, 700 bushels.
JOHN CHURCH and William Myers wei e
instantly killed by fall of coal in the
mines at Portage, Pa, and third man
fatally hurt.
FIRE nearly wiped out the village OF
Los Gatos, Cal.
IN a fight on an excursion train a
Johnstown (Pa,) police officer and
fatally injured.
THE greater portion of Midland,
Tex, was destroyed by fire.
AT Jonesville, Ind, white caps took
a young man by the name of Mark
Perry from a saloon, bound him to a
telegraph pole and admonished twenty
five lashes because he would not stop
drinking and go to work.
The Berkeley land syndicate at Den
yer, Col, failed for 100000.
FREE gold has been discovered at Pine
Nut, New, 25 miles from Carson A
town site named Zirnville has been laid
out. Experts returned from the scene
say the country for 10 miles square has
many quartz ledges.
WILLIAM p. DREW, the examiner of
the Keystone bank, has sent detailed
statement to Secretary Foster endeavor-
ing to clear himself from all blame in
connection with the banks affairs.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Col. WILLIAM H. MERRITT, of Des
Moines, died at the age of II years, He
was the democratic candidate for gov
ernor in 1864 and was postmaster at