Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-12-12
The News Condensed.
lmpotan, Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

THREE children were burned to death
| in Capt. Maxwell's store at Little Rock,
Ark.
THE annual report of the comptroller
of the currency shows that during the
year ended October 81 last 103 new
bank were organized, with an aggre.
gate capital of $50, 100000. The num-
ber of banks in operation was 1904,
having in capital stock 1854, 1853, s85.
The affairs of 102 insolvent banks were
finally closed.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER
in his annual report will recommend
enlarging the free delivery service, and
will ask congress to pass bill to en-
title towns of population between
5, 900 and 0, 300 to the free delivery.
Gov. MCKINNEY in his message to
the Virginia Legislature urged that the
railroads be forced to provide separate
coaches for negroes.
FIRE destroyed the Western normal
college at Shenandoah, Ia, causing a
loss of 100000.
ROBBERS held up train on the East
Tennessee, Virginia e Georgia road
near Rome, Ga, and secured about
1000 from the express car.
MRS. GEORGE MARTIN and her son,
aged u years, were burned to death
at Denver, Col. The accident was
caused by the child upsetting a lamp.
The five mercantile appraisers of
Philadelphia Patton, Houseman,
Crawford, Bell and Hunter-indicted
for fraud in office, were sentenced to
dismissal from Office.
COUNTY TREASURER Lands, of Stat
ford county, Kan, was said to be Sl5,-
100 short in his accounts.
FRANK PALMER, a soldier who mur-
dered Tremaine, an Indian scout, near
Fort Sully, S. d., in 1878, was captured
in Bonham, Tex.
GELS & Co., photographers at Buffalo,
N. Y, were reported to be insolvent,
with S475.O00 nominal assets and S275,-
600 liabilities
THREE persons were killed and seven
badly injured in a collision on the Bal
tinore & Ohio road near Pennington,
N. J.
Four negroes were drowned in the
river at Memphis, Tenn, by the cap
sising of a boat.
JASPER MANS, his wife and their two
children were fatally burned by gaso-
line explosion in their house at Cres-
ton, la.
A NEW band of holiness has been
organized in Kansas City, Kan, which
has fixed the end of the world to come
off Christmas day of this year.
THE first attempt in the history of
the country to afford relief to the
famine-stricken peasantry of Russia
has originated in Minneapolis. The
scheme is to send shipload of flour to
Russia by the middle of next January,
and the 5000 merchant millers of
America are to be asked to help.
JOHN MCMANUs was hanged at Phil
adelphia for the murder of Eugene
Maginnis, February 81, 1890.
COMMODORE FoLGER, chief of the
bureau of ordnance, in his annual re-
port estimates the expense of the
bureau for the next fiscal year at
S4,7sO,29l, of which total the sum of
s., 1856, $50 is to be applied toward arma-
ment of new vessels authorized to be
built
A FIRE which started in barn ad-
joining the coal and lum ber yard of the
ID. j. Boyce estate in Plainfield, N. j.,
caused Il loss of Sl50,OOO.
WHILE Mrs. Clement Kits, of Lima,
O., was temporarily absent the house
caught fire and her two little children
We're burned to death.
In his annual report Postmaster Cen
eral Wanamalser shows that, in spite
of the fact that over 81 900, 600 worth of
lottery revenue has been lost during
loc ha et,1 laGa Ga;< of on
100000 is surely disappearing. Mr..
Wanamaker favors postal telegraph,
telephones and postal savings system,
and thinks penny postage will be de.
manded in the near future, and shows
how newspapers may be transported
free from July l, 1898.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 4th numbered $50, against 295
the preceding week and 312 for the
corresponding week last year.
Two PASSENGER and two freight
trains were wrecked on the New York
d. New England railroad at East
Thompson, Conn.,, and three men were
killed and seven injured.
PAYMAsTER GENERAL STEWART in his
"Ahuoi iSPoiU W lHc secretary OIL Une
navy says that the growth of the navy
has called for expenditures of S3, $780,
600 at shore stations during the fiscal
year.
DIR. FELIX Roam, a prominent citizen
OF Caswell county, N. c., on his death
bed confessed that he killed Senator
John w. Stephen twenty years ago
A SEVERE shock of earthquake was
felt at Cincinnati and windows were
broken in some instances.
NEAR Owosso, Mich, small log
church was blown up with dynamite
by unknown persons.
NINE men were killed and six in
jured, three fatally, by the collapse of
the wall of the burned building recently
occupied by Farwell, Ozmun g. Co., in
St Paul.
NEAR Liberty Center, Ia, Mr.. and
Mrs Levi Mills, an aged couple, were
cremated by the burning of their home.
Uni tyIp h,..