Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-10
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

HE Uldn WiiO ClulIneu 10 nave saved
the Pennsylvania limited from being
wrecked recently at Enon, Pa. is said
to have confessed that he himself
placed the ties on the track and after
ward removed them for the purpose ol
obtaining a reward from the company.
SMALL boat capsized on Lake SUI
perior near Bayfield,, Wis, and Fred
Conlee, Fred Masher, Ira Richardson,
Charles Thorn and an unknown man
were drowned.
w. r. BROOKS, of Smiths observa-
tory, Geneva, n. Y, announces the dis
covery of a comet
THE public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed the total debt to be
81, ,6S1, 949; cash in the treasury,
S242, 543, 960; debt less cash in the treas
ury, SS3s, 074,OT5. Decrease during Au-
gust, S2,254,5T3.
THE old state house was burned at
Des Moines, Ia 1t was built in 1855
and fifteen assemblies were held in it.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued a
proclamation prescribing twenty
days quarantine for all vessels carry
immigrants coming to this country
from any foreign port immigration
is stopped not because of the persons
being immigrants but because they
come from the cholera breeding dis
tricts.
ROCKY BAR. an Idaho mining town.
was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of
100000. One hundred and fifty per-
sons were homeless.
The freight steamer Western Reserve
was lost off Sable banks, near Deer
Park, Mich, and of the twenty-seven
persons on board only one was saved
Among the lost were Capt. Minch and
his wife and two children.
JOHN KoLEsER, Hungarian. who
had been in Jail at Cleveland since No
vember 16 last for numbering his wife,
hanged himself in his cell.
DURING quarrel Henry B. Orm.
faro dealer, shot and instantly killed
his mistress, Dolly Reed, at Denver,
Col, and then took his own life.
NEAR Steubenville, o., farm hand
named John Skinner shot his employer,
George Feetner, and the latter's wife
and mother and then committed sui
eide. A quarrel over money matters
was the cause.
A FAST mail train on the Hudson
River railroad ran into an open draw
at New Hamburg, N. Y, and was
wrecked, and the engineer and brake
man and a mail clerk were killed.
WILLIAM LIVELY, farmer near East
Pepperel, Mass, killed his wife because
she accidentally broke cheap glass
salt-shaker and then killed himself.
A SUDDEN rise in the Colorado river
near Wharton, Tex, drowned hundreds
of cattle.
The government receipts during Au-
gust aggregated S34,0S2,92s, against
1854, S51 in August, 1891. Customs
receipts aggregated SlS,27l, 66s, against
Sis, 164, ,G14 in August year ago. In
ternal revenue receipts amounted to
loss, 459, against Sl2, sol, $40 in Au-
gust, 1891.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the I'd aggregated
S965, $50, Gel, against sl,ooS, ,61O, SS7 the
previous week. The decrease as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was 2l.7.
Two BOYS were killed and two fatal
ly injured by an express train on the
Reading road in Philadelphia.
The treasury department monthly
circulation statement shows a net de-
crease in the circulation during August
amounting to 81, ,692,7 741. The total cir
culation on the 1st was placed at ST.
500, $50 5S4, or per capita of S24. 80
against $l,506, 131, 1873 On September 1,
| 1891.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
| the I'd mum bered 176, against 1G5 the
| preceding week and eli for the corre-
| spending week last year
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's proclamation
regarding the retaliation canal bill of
| twenty cents ton has gone into effect,
| the first Canadian steamer to comply
| being the propeller United Empire,
which paid $114 into the custom house
at Sault Ste Marie.
| NOTICES have been issued by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company to all
freight agents and officers who have
charge of stations relative to the disin.
fection of all buildings along the entire
line.
AT Bangor, Me-, Bunco. Jr., paced q
mile in 2:134. breaking the worlds
record on half-mile track.
NEVER in the history of western New
York have the plum and peach crops
been so large as they are at present.
THE stables of the Belt Line railroad
in Washington were destroyed by tire
and sixteen horses were roasted.
TALToN HALL, the noted desperate
and outlaw, vas hanged at Wise Cour
House, Va, for the murder of Enos B
Hylton on July 25, 1891. During Halr'
career of crime he has killed nineteeI
men.
MAGGIE JoNAR, of Kansas City, Mo.
shot c. E. Seaman, her lover. and thei
killed herself.
The family of Charles Leaning a
Springfield, o., were poisoned by eat
ing canned corn beef and Mrs. Leaning
and her sister would not recover.
A MOB broke into the Jail at Edmon
ton, KY, and killed John Wilcoxsen,
negro, who murdered James Coffee,
| xyhita man