Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-12-05

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A LARGE portion of the business part
of Tracy, Mimi. was destroyed by fire.
Two EARTHQUAKE shocks shook up
Seattle, Wash. No damage was done
WILLIAM CUTAJAR, a customs broker,
was under arrest in New York, charged
with deceiving the government out of
$4,000 by means of alleged false en-
tries.
THE state university for colored peo-
pie in New Orleans was destroyed by
fire.
ID. Z. THOMAS, an employe of Mar
shalltown Qa) packing house, shot
and killed John Hockridge, the pro-
prictor of boarding house, and then
committed suicide.
FLAMES destroyed a grain elevator
and contents Mt Escanaba, Mich, caus-
ing loss of S25O,O0O.
WILLIAM ROBERTS, William Graham
and John Graham were drowned near
Erie, Pa, by the capsizing of boat.
THE celebration of the fiftieth ami
versary of the ordination 10 the priest
hood of Archbishop Peter Richard
Kenrick took place in ST. Louis.
The Mississippi river at Galena, H.,
was frozen from shore to shore, this
being the first time such thing was
ever known in Novemb Der.
A SPAN of bridge of the Great North
ern railroad extension at Kalispell.
Mont, fell, killing FIVE men and iniur-
ing ten others
THE annual report of Superintendent
Leibhardt of the dead-letter Office
says that 7,2S9,2 ,240 pieces of original
dead mail matter were received during
the year, an increase of 311,9O4 pieces
over the previous year.
D. I'll. STINE, editor of the Whiteson
(Ore.) Advance, was shot and killed by
N. Z. Cook, section boss on the rail-
road. Cook then blew his own brains
out. No cause was known.
The official count of the population
of Alaska shows the number of whites
to be 1903; mixed Russian and natives,
1879; Indian, 23,274, and Mongolians.
2,2S7. The population of the territory
entire is 3l,7l0. Three hundred vii
lagos and settlements are enumerated.
In fire in Peoria, ILL.,, Miss Brown
was so badly burned that she would
lose her eyesight-
The report of Superintendent Pol
lock of the free delivery of the post
office department shows that the num-
Der of free delivery offices at the close
of the year was $40. an increase of 65
over the preceding year. The cost of
this service was 50, ore, ,O60. The local
postage for the, year amounted to SILL
ia, 75i. The number of pieces of mail
handled was 1906 354, $40.
THE firm of j. Olkenheimer, of Du-
buque, Ia, will soon begin the manu-
facture of white enameled pottery by
process hitherto known only in Ger
many.
A GANG of counterfeiters operating
in Nebraska and river cities have been
arrested at Beatrice
IN the trial at San Francisco of John
White, late business manager of the
San Francisco Call, for embezzlement,
White confessed that he had stolen
$4,000, most of which was sunk in
horse racing and speculation.
BENJAMIN BERENsEN, a drv-eoods
jobber at Boston, has disappeared,
taking with him $4,000 belonging to
other Hebrews.
Mrs. EDWARD LYONS clothing caught
fire while she was trying to thaw out
frozen water pipe in New York, and
she was burned to death in sight of 500
people in the street below.
THE window-glass works at Bellaire,
O., were burned, causing loss of
100000. One man, James Stewart,
was burned to death.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 30th ult- was:
Wheat, 1856, 62S bushels; corn, 1885,
$50 bushels; oats 4, 1S7, AT bushels.
THE western Cherokee Indians have
recovered judgment against the United
States for SS24,OO0, money due them
since 1910.
FLAMES in the Arc Light and Power
Company building in Chicago caused
loss of $500, 600.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week
ended on the 30th ult. was S454, $50. The
issue during the corresponding period
of last year was S563,20O.
AN express train on the st. Louis e
San Francisco road was held up by
seven men near Glendale, st. Louis
suburb, and the Adams express car
robbed of SIS, 900.