Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-31

THE wholesale dry goods firm OF
Richardson, Williams & Co. at New
Orleans has been victimized to the ex-
tent of $40, 600 by Thomas Ii. Kelly, the
cashier
Co., q row of tenement houses and n
barn containing dozen horses were
totally destroyed by fire at Bowling
Green, Ky.
MARTIN, of Detroit, won the six-day
bicycle race in Madison Square garden,
New York, making 1,466 miles and
breaking all records. Six of the four
teen starters were in at the finish.
Lucy JEwETT and Sarah Praeter, of
Paris, ILL.,, blew out the gas in hotel
at Terre Haute, Ind, and were as
phyxiated.
EIaHTY cars loaded with 1000 bales
of cotton were burned at Birds Point,
Mo-, causing a loss of 100000.
AT Topeka, Kan, an incendiary fire
destroyed the livery barn of j. E.
Grouse, and ten horses perished in the
flames.
The schooner Franklin was wrecked
off Gurney Point, Mass, and Capt.
Kelly, his two sons and three men were
drowned.
NEAR Glasgow, KY, the boiler at
John Quigley's sawmill exploded and
six persons were fatally hurt
A REIGN of terror existed all along
the Mexican border of the Rio Grande
river, and the inhabitants from over
there were focking into Texas in
droves.
OFFICIAL figures issued by the bureau
of statistics at Washington show that
the foreign commerce of the United
States during the past year was great
er than any other year in the history
of the country.
THE 125th anniversary of American
Methodism was celebrated with appro-
pirate services in the old John Street
Methodist Episcopal church in New
York, the first church of that denom-
ination established in this country.
FIRES along the Wolf river and it's
tributaries in southern Wisconsin de-
stroyed over $4,000 tons of hay, and
farmers would have to sell their cattle
to prevent them from starving.
KATIE COLE, girl of 1S years,
dropped dead in the street at Potts
town, Pa, from tight lacing.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
34,644,257 bushels; corn, 1881, 1868 BUSH
els; oats, 4,44S, $50 bushels.
FLAMES in Boston in the building oc-
cupied by the New England Preserving
Company caused loss of 100000.
In billiard match in New York be-
tween George Slosson, of New York,
and Jacob Schaefer, of Chicago, for a
purse of $1,000, the former won by a
score of 500 to S92.
AT Chadron, Neb., 17-year-old In
dian girl was frightened to death by a
gam bier.
BUILDINGS on James Harper's stock
farm at Paw Paw. ILL.,, were fred by
an incendiary and ten valuable horses
were burned.
RALPH CUNNINGHAM, aged 81, son of
one of the most prominent business
men in Fostoria, o., threw himself into
the furnace of his fathers factory and
was fatally burned Ill health was the
cause.
THE discovery was made that George
Heidecker, a farmer, who was supposed
to have died two weeks ago near Erie,
Pa, of heart failure, was buried alive.
A BOILER explosion in the works of
the gas company at Louisville, KY,
started fire which caused loss of
nearly 100000 and the fatal injury of
William Adams.
The Omaha (Neb.) Rubber Com
pany's plant was Quilted by fire, the
loss being 100000.
JOHN MATTEL, Connellsville (Pa.
striking miner, cut veir in his finger
9nd fed his babe on blood to keep it
from starving.
FIRE at Pine Grove, KY, destroyed
the greater portion of the hamlet
A FIRE at Springville, Ala, destroyed
the Advance newspaper office and five
other buildings.
SEVERE earthquake shocks were felt
at Columbia, Charleston and Summer
vile, in South Carolina.
BURGLARS at Omaha, Neb, blew
open the safe of the street railway
company and secured $1,000
LEE GREEN, who murdered the wife
and child of Farmer Lowe near Queen
City, Tex, was taken from Jail by a
mob, fastened to tree and burned to
death.
AT Nashville, Tenn, Direct outpaced
Hal Pointer in three straight heats in
200, 2:0S, 2:0SA, the fastest time ever
made in "A pacing race.
SECRETARY TRACY has named the
2,oO0-ton cruiser soon to be launched at
Baltimore the Detroit"
FREDERICK HIMKENs and William
Fitzpatrick, farmers, were killed by q
Panhandle train near GAINESVILLE, o.
FOREST fires in Oklahoma territory
destroyed the town of Cimarron City.
and in the surrounding country hun
dreds of farms were swept of houses
and barns.
THE Franklin street car stables al
Evansville, Ind, were burned, and
seventy mules perished in the flames.
THE United States government
through Minister Egan formally de.
manded reparation from the govern