Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-31
The News Condensed.
Important ntelIIgencelF From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

The village of Animas Forks, Col,
was destroyed by fire.
A COLLISION of freight trains on the
Illinois Central near Milan, Tenn. set
the adjacent forest on fire, causing a
loss of 5000, 900.
THE boiler of a thrashing machine
exploded at Mnyville, N. D., killing
six men and badly injuring two others.
THE post Office at Brookston. Mimi.
was robbed of $1,000 in money and reg
istered letters.
JOHN G. HOLINESS of Pittsburgh, was
elected president of the National Street
Railway association at the convention
in Pittsburgh.
The Anaconda mines and smeltcrs at
Anaconda and Butte, Mont, were re-
opened, giving employment to 3, 600
men. The mines had been idle for
seven months.
express messenger of the Denver & Rio
Grande Southern, was shot and killed
by Mrs A. w. Watson, who then took
her own life.
A TURTLE in jackson county, Ind,
lived four months without food or
water.
The Glendale wooden mills at Glen
dale, Mass, were destroyed by fire,
causing loss of 100000
AN incendiary fire destroyed the
courthouse at Childress, Tex, with all
the records of Childress and Cottle
counties.
THE loss of three fishing schooners
with their crews of thirty-siX men was
reported at Gloucester, Mass.
EUGENE f. GARCIA, aged 20 years,
and for twenty-siX years paying teller
of the Louisiana state bank at New
Orleans, was said to be defaulter to
the amount of S19O,O0O
A FIRE at Lancaster, KY, DESTROYED
the opera house, five business buildings
and five residences.
j. III. ScHoNE, chief clerk in the treas
urer's Office of Baltimore county, Md,
and two other clerks were indicted for
embezzling $4,000.
FIRE destroyed a stable near Rush
vile, Ind, together with four horses
worth $4,000.
The Forest hotel, the largest and
principal hotel at the famous Natural
Bridge, Virginia, was destroyed by fire.
The Typotheta of America in ses-
sion at Cincinnati elected w. O. Shep-
herd, of Toronto, as president.
AT the leading clearing-houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 23d aggregated
s1,213, 156, 251, against 81, 17o, 49, 35s the
previous week. The decrease as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1890 was l1.60.
Ten negroes convicted of the murder
of Thornton Nance and sentenced to be
hanged at Laurens, n. c., were re-
prieved, pending an appeal to the SUI
preme court.
THE report of the sixth auditor of
the treasury for the post office de-
partmeut shows that the postal rev.
enues of the year ended June 80, 1891,
were S65, ,93l, TS5, against $50, $50. 097 in
1890, and the expenditures S5, T30,67S,
against S5, 04S, 619 the previous year.
ROBERT JORDAN (colored) was hanged
at Hampton, Va. for assaulting Mrs
Moore, white woman.
IT was said that the United States
would demand full reparation of Chill
for the recent attack upon the crew of
the steamer Baltimore at Valparaiso.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 23d mum bered 249. against 259
the preceding week and 225 for the
corresponding week last year
THE number of immigrants arriving
in the United States during the month
of September was 2,T06, as compared
with 45, ATS for the corresponding month
last year.
GEORGE c. McMULKING, farmer liv-
ing near Almond, Wis, was held up by
highwaymen and robbed OF SIS, 600.
COMMISSIONERS MORGAN, of the Indian
bureau, has designated Mount Pleas
ant, Isabella county, Mich, as the site
for the third and last Indian industrial
school.
AD::LBERT GoHEEN was hanged at
Fergus Falls, Mimi, for the murder OF
Rose Bray on March go last.
THE United States grand jury at
Sioux Falls, S. d., returned eleven in
dictments against officers of the Louisi-
ana lottery.
THEODORE DoERFLINGER. treasurer OF
the Seventh ward school board of Pitts
burgh, Pa, was said to be $4,000 short
in his accounts.
CHINAMEN were said to be entering
the United States from Mexico in large
numbers.
THE schooner Red Wing, of Noank,
Conn, was wrecked 100 miles below
Lewes, Del, and the entire crew of
nine persons were lost.
Two BRAKEMEN were killed and two
engineers fatally injured in a collision
of freight trains on the Northwestern
railroad near Lake City, Ia.
PHILIP STEINMETz, a life prisoner at
the penitentiary in Columbus, o., died
of heart failure. He wsls 72 years old
and had been in prison twenty-six
years.
A PECULIAR disease has developed in
the McGuigan family living near Co
lumbus, Ind. Each member of the fam
lily with the right eye can see as great
a distance as is possible with tele-
scope, while with the left eye they can