Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-15


previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to .0t
Mrs. NELLIE WEBB, wealthy widow
of Louisville Ky, committed suicide
by drowning herself in a bath tub. She
was n victim of drink.
THE Masonic savings bank of Louis
vile, KY, failed for 81 900, 900.
INABILITY to handle yacht resulted
in the drowning of six persons in the
harbor at Boston. The drowned were
John Burke and two childron, Thadue
Manthorn and Annie and Thomas Car
mody.
In quarrel over money claim Hez-
ekiah Arp shot and killed two brothers
in Fannin county, Ga.
THE Old Colony Distillery Company
Mt New Haven, Conn, failed for $780,
900.
WILLIAM j. ELLIOTT, convicted of
murder in the second degree for the
killing of A. c. Osborn at Columbus,
o., last February, was sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
| ASHLAND and Washburn, Wis, were
visited by tornado and several houses
were blown down ana scores of build
ings unroofed. Twenty vessels, most
| ly small yachts, were driven ashore.
! At Washburn Williams circus tent was
blown down and two children were
killed and about fifty other persons
were injured.
DURING row at Cedar Mills, I. T.,
John Hutt shot and killed his brother
James and the latter's wife.
THREE boys We're drowned in the bav
at West Bay City, Mich, by the cap
sizing of boat
a RoBBEK entered the bank at Column
bus Grove, o., shot Cashier Maple and
escaped with $1,000. Mr.. Van Debark.
who went to the bank about the same
time, was killed, and another man met
on the street was wounded. The rob-
ber escaped.
The United States commissioner of
| pensions issued 1856, 4S2 original certifi-
Gates last year, which was more than
twice as many as We're ever issued in
one year before. There were still 9a9,-
4S6 claims on file.
THROUGH the capsizing of sailboat
on Pewaullee lake Albert Barth and
his sister Emma, Martha Kindling and
Belle Siegler were drowned. All the
young people were residents of Mil
waukee.
CALVIN PAGE, of Boston, has Just re-
covered his two daughters who were
stolen from him in Dakota twelve wears
ago by Indians.
THE Cooper house, large summer
hotel at Cooperstown, n. Y, was de-
stroyed by fire, the 800 guests barely
escaping with their lives.
a TORNADO in Iowa unroofed many
houses and outbuildings at Humeston,
Corydon, Centerville, Bloomfield and
Ottumwa In the surrounding country
crops were badly damaged.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
1854, ,034 bushels; corn, $500, a. bush
els; oats, 2.103, AL bushels.
NEARLY the entire village of Camp
Douglas, Wis, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being over S15O,o 900.
PAUL B. TATE, boolikeeper in the
Merchants national bank at Omaha,
Neb., left for parts unknown, taking
with him $4,000 belonging to the bank
1T was discovered that the National
Capital Savings, Building and Loan AS
sociation of North America, with head
quarters in Chicago was gigantic
swindle, and that l.. F. Mortimer, the
manager, had escaped with $3.50, 900 in
his possession.
SLIGHT shock of earthquake was
felt at North Stonington and Preston,
Conn.
The grand army post at Vicksburg,
Miss, has declared that it will persist
in refusing to recognize negro posts,
although the latter are received by the
national organization.
j. o. WYNNE, of Atlanta, business
agent of the Georgia State Alliance ex-
short in his accounts.
THE Glenion Lumber Company of
Boston has failed for over $500, 600
ACCORDING to census bull etin the
population of Iowa has increased 2S7,-
29l, or 17.6S per cent, within ten years.
The total population was given at
1,911,S96.
THE state of Pennsylvania has begun
suit against the late Treasurer Bards-
ley for S527, ,024, and against the coun "
of Philadelphia for 622, 900 taxes said to
be due the state.
In free-for-all fight over a pint of
whisky at Atlanthus, Mo-, Frank
Coffey was killed and two young men
fatally wounded.
In New York city on the 10th the
thermometer registered 81 degrees in
the shade, and there We're twelve fatal
cases of sunstroke.
The new directory of the city of
Cleveland, o., makes the population
299,475, against 277, ,496 the previous
year.
DIR. II. w. BALDWIN and his newly
made bride, of Norwalk. Conn.,. arrived
in Chicago, having made bridal tour
OF nearly 900 miles ON bicycles in thir-
ty-two days.
A wINDsToRM swept over Decatur
county, Ia, unroofing many buildings
and causing other damage.
NINE Italian laborers were injured,
three fatally, in railway accident
near bradford Conn