Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-07-09

SOME $50 iron and steel mills in the
Pittsburgh (Pa.) district shut down
owing to difference in regard to
wages and nearly 150, 900 worllmen were
idle.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended ON
the lst numbered 1877, against 10G the
preceding week and 234 for the corre-
spending week last year.
THE coinage of the mints during June
of all kinds of money aggregated in
value S5,70G,9o2 OF this amount S4,
COS, 5l7 was in gold and 5000, ASS in silver
pieces, and Sl7,9S7 in minor coin.
THE extensive operations in iron and
steel formerly conducted by fifteen
companies in Pennsylvania have been
consolidated under the name of the
Carnegie Steel Company. The capital
is s25, 000 900 and the company will have
in its employ upward of 40, 900 men,
Four young men were drowned in
the Patapsco river near Baltimore, Md,
by the upsetting of boat.
BELLE HAMLiN and Globe broke the
double team record at Kirllwood, Del,
going mile in 2:12. The best previous
NtOuplC tNuiil lCCoiu w as lD.
In the National league the percentages
of the baseball clubs for the week ended
on the I'd were: Boston, .T23; Phila.
delphia, .631; Brooklyn, 625; Cincin-
natl, 5T4; Cleveland, .532: Pittsburgh,
AS; Washington, 462; Chicago, .45S;
New York, .444; st. Louis, 400; Louis
vile, 1855; baltimore, .2T0. The per-
centages in the new series in clubs of
the Western league were: Columbus,
1000; Toledo 1000: Omaha, 900; Kan
sas City, 900: Fort Wayne, 900; Mime
apolis, 200; Milwaukee, .000: Indian
apolis, 900.
A CYCLONE at Chaplin, H., and vicin-
ity did immense damage, killed one man
and fatally injured three other persons.
Near Davenport, la, storm wrecked
farm buildings and injured growing
crops.
FIVE railway men were killed in q
wreck on the Wabash road near
Wabash, Ind.
a CYCLONE at Bethlehem, Pa, and
vicinity did damage to the extent of
Sl5O,0O
FGRECRACKERs caused the destruction
of sixteen places of business at San
Jose. Cal, the loss being S5OO.0OO.
WILLIAM MAY, Charles Oliver and
William Gowau were arrested at Brazil,
Ind, on Il charge of counterfeiting, and
nearly $1,000 in bogus coins, mostly
half dollars, was captured.
WHEN arrested for forgery William j.
Pitcher, an Oakland (Cal.) real estate
dealer, was seized with fit of apoplexy
and died shortly afterward.
THE storehouSe of B. i. & r. Knight
at River Point r. l., was burned, the
loss being S50O,OOO.
FIRE in the wholesale dry goods house
of George Etterwell & Co. at Mont
gomery, Ala, caused loss of $500. 600.
THE large furniture manufacturing
establishment of the p. Hanson Hiss
Manufacturing Company at Baltimore,
Md, was completely gutted by fire.
Loss. S1T5, 600.
A STATEMENT prepared ut the pension
Office shows that during the fiscal year
just closed there We're issued 3O5, 1G2
pension certificates of all classes, as
against 250, sos in 1891.
y TENEMENT house at New Castle,
Col, caught fire. and the three small
children of David kingfeld We're burned
to death. The eldest was years of age.
PRoF. G. A. ROGERS, veteran aero
naut, and Thomas Fenton, his assistant,
We're killed while making an ascension
in Boston.
NJ. NJ. PIERCE, of Pottsboro, Tex,
killed his hired man, Morgan Hatch,
killed his wife and then took his own
life. No cause known for the terrible
crime.
Two YOUNG sons and two daughters
of John Westerman, of Kansas City,
Kan, were fatally burned by powder
explosion.
1MMGRATIoN to this country for the
month of May last was 92,242; for the
same month last year, S., Gal: for eleven
months ended May 81 last, 54G, 200; for
the same period last year, 4G7, l7a.
ARTHUR HAzELTINE and wife and
Nellie Narramore, of Cochranton, Pa,
We're drowned by the capsizing of a
slliff.
HANLAN beat .Hosmer about 10 feet
in It Smile race, with three turns, on
the Connecticut river at Hartford