Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTlC.

worlds record four minutes forty-eight
and four-fifths seconds made by Tay-
lor last fall.
AS THE result of an unsuccessful eff
fort to involve other railroad organiza-
tions in the switchmen's strike at Buf-
falo, it was officially declared off by
Mr.. Sweeney.
GERTIE CAIRNS, the female balloonist
who has been making ascensions at the
Detroit exposition grounds, was killed
by falling from great height.
AT the meeting of the National Let
ter-Carricrs' association at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, Frank f. Smith, of San Fran
cisco, was elected president and Kan
sas City selected as the next place of
meeting
AT meeting in New York of west
ern and eastern anthracite coal agents
it was decided to again advance the
price of coal twenty-five cents Septem-
Der 1.
A MAN named Unger, living near East
Liverpool, o., shot and killed his broth
er-in-law and then killed himself.
Family trouble was the cause.
THE Hotel Belmont at Sulphur
Springs, n. c., was totally destroyed
by fire. Loss, 100000.
Nor satisfied with the stoppage of
the strike by Grand Master Sweeney,
and with alleged grievances of their
own, the switchmen on the Laclkawan-
ma and Nickel Plate roads at Buffalo
quit work again.
The total assessment of railroad
property in Arkansas for 1892 amounts
to SIS, 7S5, ,2S6, an increase of S461,64
over 1891.
AT the biennial session of the SUI
preme lodge, Knights of Pythias, at
Kansas City, Mo-, w. w. Blackwell of
Kentucky, was elected supreme chan
cellor. The ladies' auXilliary, P.vthian
Sisters of the World, chose as supreme
chief Mrs. Hattie A. Robinson.
AT Coal Creek, Tenn, the trial of the
leaders of the insurgent miners was
begun, and the troops captured few
more of the law breakers at Oliver
Springs.
Mrs. JENNIE MORTON, who was bitten
by a pet dog thirteen years ago, died in
great agony of hydrophobia at her home
near Brazil, Ind.
HENRY FISHER was killed and sew
eral others seriously injured by the
engine on which they We're riding 60
ing through bridge at Dixonburg, Pa.
CHANCELLOR MCGILL. of New Jersey,
delivered an opinion in the Reading
coal combine, so far as it relates to
that state, holding that the trust was
illegal.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the Goth aggregated
s1,00s, ,610, sS7, against $1,000, 774, SS3 the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was 6.7.
By the caving in of sewer at Hunt
ington, w. Va, three worlimen lost
their lives.
FIVE persons were injured in rail-
road collision at Pittsburgh, some, it
was feared, fatally.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
I the Goth numbered165, against 172 the
preceding week and 226 for the CORE.
spending week last year.
FIRE at Muncie, Ind, destroyed tbs
rail mill resulting in loss of S1OO, ,0O0
JACOB YoNDELL and Adelphena Han.
son, were married in Milwaukee by
Court Commissioner Kate Pier, it being
the first marriage ever solemnized in
Wisconsin by woman.
JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER, of Virginia
was elected president of the American
Bar association in session at Sarato
ga, n. y.
A BULLETIN issued by the census
bureau states that there are 2,240, So.
commandments in the Methodist Epis
copal church in the United States, rep
resented in 102 annual conferences.
JAMES r. MORTON was hanged in thu
county Jail at Camden, N. j., for th'
brutal murder of Mrs. Lydia Ann New
by, an old colored woman.
THOMAS H. RoDMAN, formerly dis
trict attorney of Kings county, N. Y.
was accidentally scalded to death in
bath tub at New York.
The failure is announced at jackson
Mich, of w. F. Cowan, carriage manu-
facturcr, whose liabilities were esti
mated at S26O,O0O.
AT meeting of the executive com
mittee of the international conference
of state boards of health at Indianap
oils an international quarantine inspec
tion commission was appointed, and
was suggested to memorialize Presi
dent Harrison with the object of stop
| ping immigration from cholera-infeste,
| ports.
In the second series of the Nationa
league the percentages of the baseball
clubs for the week ended on the 27t
were: Cleveland, .73O; Philadelphia
.56s; Brooklyn, .54l; Boston, .541; Ne,
York, .529; Pittsburgh, 800; Louisville
800; Cincinnati, 800; Chicago, Ara
Baltimore, .457; st. Louis, 1858; Wasl
ington, .297.
WEST bound passenger train on th
500 line went through a trestle nea
Barrett, Mimi, and six persons wer
killed and about forty were more c
less seriously injured.
FIRE in the Northern Michiga
Lumber Company's factory at Fandt
rage, Mich, destroyed property value