Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-02
Two MEN were killed in a wreck on


the Baltimore & Ohio near Plymouth, O.
under the lead Of job Sims robbed the
store or John Mcmillan and shot and
killed four persons.
LowENTHAL, LIVINGSTONE g. Co.,
merchants Mt San Francisco, failed,
with liabilities of about 500, 900, near
ly all due to English firms.
MARTIN MEYERS, one of the leading
checker players of this country, was
found dead at Rea''ng, Pa, the result
of excessive drinking.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
by the director of the mint Mt Wash
ington for issuing the new silver sub
sidiary coins, dimes, quarters and half
dollars early in 1892.
THE bureau of statistics reports that
49, immigrants arrived in the United
States during the month of November,
1891, against 4O,643 during November
of last year.
AN express train on the New York
Central ran into another train near
Hastings, N. Y, and eleven persons
were killed, six fatally injured and
four badly hurt A drunken brakeman
caused the disaster.
FLAMES in the plumbing works of
the l.. Wolff Manufacturing Company
in Chicago caused loss of 5000. 600.
IT was reported that Capt Francis
Hardie of the Third cavalry and his de-
tachment of fifty men met an armed
force of Garza's followers near Carriso,
Tex, and that in the engagement that
ensued fourteen of the United States
soldiers were killed.
Miss EuLA BEACH WILLIAMS, pianist
of the Bijou Theater Company, while
playing the overture at Starsel's hall,
in Jessup, Ga, fell dead.
ALvAN L. GREENWOOD was arrested
in Boston, charged with the mbezzle-
ment of $50, 900 from the Mutual One
Year Benefit Order
STEPHEN B. ELKINs took the oath of
Office as secretary of war in Washing
ton.
A BEER wagon collided with Pitts
burgh ca ble car, crushing in the side
and fatally injuring two persons and
seriously wounding several others.
ABOUT one-half the business houses
at iNaverly, ILL.,, were destroyed by fire.
FIRE destroyed business block at
III Hutchinson, Kan, the loss being $780,
600.
In A fire at Bingham, Utah, Pat
O'Malley and Eric jacobson, miners,
were burned to death.
PINK FRANKLIN and his son and John
Canterbury were struck by falling
tree near Gadsden, Ala, and killed.
A PASSENGER train on the East Ten
nessee railroad ran off the track near
Williams, Ga, and seventeen persons
were injured, none fatally.
WILLIAM BRENNAN, an old recluse
living near Huntingdon, Pa, was fatal
ly beaten by unknown men and then
robbed of $1,000.
The hospital for the insane at Pom
tiac, Mich, was burned and the inmates
were saved with great difficulty. Loss.
S25O,OOO.
ISAAC SAwTELLE, under sentence of
death for the murder of his brother
Hiram, died of apoplexy in his cell in
the state prison at Concord, N. II.
THE 115th anniversary of the battle
of Trenton, N. j., was celebrated in
that city by laying the cornerstone Of
a monument to Washington.
THE residence of w. Fl. Pearsall,
near Goldsboro, N. c., was burned by
wife and two children perished in the
flames
SEVERAL business houses at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, were destroyed by fire,
the loss being $3.50. 900.
Bon SIMS and six members of his
bloodthirsty gang were lynched in
Choctaw county, Ala, by mob.
JUDGE GEORGE w. MCCLAIN, for
twenty years judge of the circuit court
| fell so feet from stairway in the
courthouse at St Joseph, Mo-, and was
killed.
The Carpenter steel works at Read
| ing, Pa, were burned, the loss being
| $125, 900.
THE old Wolsey homestead on tn e
Casino farm in Bowery Bay, L. l., was
destroyed by fire, causing loss OF
$780,
DURING the wedding ceremonies of
| William Wright and Miss Phillips near
Meridian, Miss, a jealous rival named
johnson fred through window and
killed the bridegroom.
CARTWRIGHT won the siX-day walk
ing match in St Louis, making 502
miles; Hegelman second, 500 miles.
FLAMES among business buildings in
Boston caused "a loss of $500 600.
w. j. SEAMAN, the noted comedian,
was stricken with paresis in New York
and would probably never play again.
BY the sinking of an Erie railway
barge in the river at New York 143
head of cattle were drowned
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
JOHN /. HANDLEY, of East Wilton,