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

1T was eStlmated That over twenty
settlers had lost all their possessions
by the recent prairie fires in Oliver
county, N. ID.
| GEORGE KERN's barn at Frankfort,
Ind, was burned, and seven valuable
horses perished in the fla<nes.
FLAMES at Beverly, Mass, caused n
loss of 100000.
| The secretary of war has reduced
from So to so years the maximum age
at which recruits will be accepted for
the army.
| THOMAS WILLIAMSON was hanged Mt
Sedalia, Mo-, for the murder of Jeffer-
son and Thomas Moore in that city in
May, 1890.
The Maverick national bank of Bos-
ton has suspended with liabilities of
SO, 900, 200.
THE Blair county almshouse at Hol-
lidaysburg, Pa, was destroyed by fire,
and the sixty inmates narrowly escaped
with their lives.
The state bank at Homer, Neb., was
robbed of $1,000 by two masked men.
A FIRE at North Baltimore, o., de-
stroyed fifty-eight business houses and
| dwellings with their contents. Total
loss, $500, 600.
GOLD was found on the banks of the
Missouri river at Kansas City, Mo-, at
depth of III feet.
AS THE result of a temperance re-
vival in Ottumwa, Ia, nearly 5000 per-
sons signed the pledge.
JOHN j. MORTON, secretary of the
Mutual Building, Loan and Savings
association and Peoples Building and
Loan association at Evansville, Ind,
was charged with shortage of SO, 700.
A WELLs-FARGo express package
containing $4,000 for the Planters ma
tional bank of Honey Grove, Tex, was
spirited away between the depot and
express office.
LARKIN Nix was hanged by a mob
at Camilla, Ca, for criminally assault
ing girl named Mize.
THE public debt statement issued on
the I'd showed the total debt to be ST.
$40, 6S9,3S cash in the treasury, S74O,-
$50, 25S; debt less cash in the treasury,
5000, 159, 12S. Increase during October,
81, 300, ,521.
A FIRE at Albany, Ga, did $4,000
damage.
ASA p. POTTER, president; Jonas III.
French and Thomas Dana, directors of
the Maverick national bank of Boston,
were arrested on the charge of embez-
zling S2,O0O,000.
WHILE Mrs. Keifer and Mrs John
son were driving in the country near
Lima, o., their horse took fright and
running away dashed down 6O-foot
n m IA N I'm
killed.
Much damage was being done in st.
Louis county, Mo-, by forest fires.
SEVENTEEN houses were burned at
Waterville, Me-, leaving thirty families
homeless.
THE receipts of grain at Duluth for
the year ended October 81 were ga
$40, LOG bushels, against 9,747, ,999 for
the previous year.
FIRE destroyed Mears' barrel factory,
warehouse, out buildings, two dwell
lings and railroad trestle at Martins
Ferry, o., causing loss of S1OO, 900.
Mrs. ELIZA RILEY (colored), of War
saw, ILL.,, went on an errand, leaving
two small children locked up in the
house, which took fire, and both We're
burned to death.
THOMAS SHEPHERD, a prominent
merchant at Georgiana, Ala, and his
wife were murdered in their home by
unknown men.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints and treasury offices
during the week ended October 81 was
S755,975, against Ss4S,313 during the
corresponding period of 1890.
FOREST fires were doing great dam
age in the vicinity of Vernon, Ala.
The Mcdonald oil fields near Pitts
burgh. Pa, touched the worlds record
by producing 77,OOO barrels of oil in
twenty-four hours
CHINESE highbinders fought in San
Francisco and three Cinnamon were
killed.
Two SMALL children of Luther NJ.
Tiffany, of Fremont, Mich, were
burned to death in their home.
Two HUNDRED more convicts work.
ing in the mines of east Tennessee
We're liberated at Oliver Springs by an
armed mob. This made 461 prisoners
who had been set at liberty.
The visible supply of grain in the
- ullcu oldleS Oh UHc "a was. Wneat,
36,231, 75s bushels; corn, 3,O52,475 bush
els; oats, 4,1SS,445 bushels.
WHILE boring gas well in the Ale
gheny cemetery at Corapolis. Pa, an
explosion occurred and hundreds of
dead bodies in the cemetery were
hurled from their resting place and
many costly monuments were shat
tered.
WHLIAM BOWMAN, aged SO years,
living near Martinsville, Ind, was Wis
tied by fifty whitecaps, who beat him
probably fatally with hoop poles.
A COMMERCIAL congress will be held
in Kansaa City, Mo-, December Is and
16 to urge upon congress the systematic
improvement of the Missouri and lower
rivers.
DURING quarrel between Alexander
Scott and his wife near Indianapolis,
Ind, the latter shot and killed her hus-
band.