Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-06

lcdEuc inc peTCcnJdBtS OI Une DhS0Ohll
clubs for the week ended on the S0th
ult. were: Philadelphia, .643; Brook
lyn, .64S; Cleveland, .643; New. York,
.615; Baltimore, .571; Boston, .571; Gin
cinnati, .53s; Washington, .429; Chica-
go, .429; Pittsburgh, 1886; Louisville,
1856; st. Louis, 1881.
The cotton factorage and commission
firm of Bickman g. Moore at New Or
leans failed for over $3.50, 600.
KELLEY, Claude, Walter and Charles
Forney, aged respectively 10, 10, IL and
years, and Alvin and Winther Brock,
aged 16 and IL years, were drowned
near Arlin, KY, by the upsetting of a
boat on the river.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued a
proclamation commanding all persons
in Wyoming to keep the peace and
cease opposition to the law.
The La Lauraine, French steamer,
covered the distance between Havre
and New York in 6 days II hours and
80 minutes, breaking all previous rec
ords by six hours.
JOSEPH r. CLARKsoN, a prominent
Nebraska lawyer, was drowned in
Honey creek, miles north of Council
Bluffs. Ia.
SIXTY striking families moved out of
the company houses at Homestead, Pa,
and as soon as the houses We're put in
repair they would be occupied by non
union workmen.
PROF EDWARD HOPE, balloonist, fell
half mile at st. Paul from the
failure of his parachute to work into a
slough and was driven 10 feet into the
soft mud. He was dead when taken
out.
The Sussex county (Del.) almshouse
was struck by lightning and totally de-
stroyed by fire and four of the twenty
eight inmates perished in the flames
The jury in the Alice Mitchell case at
Memphis, Tenn, for the murder of
Freda Ward, returned n verdict finding
the prisoner insane and recommending
that she be confined in an asylum.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 1st was: Wheat,
23, 993, 900 bushels; corn, 6,996, 600 bush
els; oats, 5,O5S. 1000 bushels; rye, 1876, 900
bushels; barley, 375,O0 bushels.
Two HUNDRED persons were injured
over thirty seriously, by an explosion
of gasoline which followed a freight
wreck on the Big Four Road near
Springfield, o.
AT Lake Providence, La, three chill
dren of Robert Dorsey (colored). the
eldest years, being locked up in their
cabin while the parents were absent,
set the place afire and were burned to
death.
AT Mechanicsburg, Ind, fire ruined
barns of Thomas Willhoit, destroying
fifty head of fine cattle intended for ex-
hibition at the various fairs.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed the total debt to be
Sl,5ST, ,O54, T3S; cash in the treasury,
S127 $50, 2S6; debt less cash in the treas
ury, $40, S2S, GAS. Decrease during July,
81, 1878
DURING thunderstorm at Waterloo,
Ia, John Thompson, colored man,
and his wife and child were killed by
lightning.
DURING storm lightning struck
tree on the farm of Ole Oleson in Farm
ington, Wis, killing a flock of fourteen
valuable Southdown sheep.
The government receipts in July
amounted to S34,571, 1856, against S34,-
800 344 in July, 1891, and the expendi-
lures We're S37, ,249, 407, against $50, 1885,
Oil in July year ago.
COINAGE was executed at United
States mints during July as follows:
Gold, $4,000 pieces of the value of ST.
100000; silver, 100000 pieces of the
value of $3.50, 900; minor coins, 1900, 900
pieces of the value of $500
JOHN BUCHANrER and Tom Palmer
settled an old quarrel with revolvers at
Garrison, Tex, and both were killed.
NJ. SCHRAM, the largest clothing
dealer at Galveston, Tex, failed for
$4,000
PRESIDENT HARRISON has signed the
act limiting the hours of labor of labor
ers and mechanics employed on public
works to eight hours day.