Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-02-13
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
THE wife and child of Dr. f. c. Peas
ley were suffocated by coal gas in their
home at Norwalk, o.
FIRE in the factory of Joseph Z.
Farrar at Danvers, Mass, caused loss
of S15G,OO0.
AFTER an absence of ten years James
McGuire, an iron yorker, surprised his
wife and six children at Youngstown,
O., by suddenly returning. He is
mental wreck, and can give no account
of himself except that he was in Cali
fornia.
EARTHQUAKE shocks at Omaha,
Neb., caused bank of earth to cave
into the street, crushing house and
fatally injuring one of its inmates.
Shocks were also felt in Portland and
Astoria. Ore.
JOHN A. NORRIS, the principal owner
and director of the Louisiana Lottery
Company, announced that he intended
to withdraw his proposition for the re-
charter of the company, and that the
concern would wind up its affairs and
retire from the field when its charter
expired in 1894.
JUDGE JOHN RITTER, cashier of the
defunct Glasgow (Ky.) bank, proves to
have been short $4,000.
MEREDITH STANLY and his wife, both
dress ed in tights, jumped simuitane-
ously from the railroad bridge at Gin
cinnati, 100 feet, into the Ohio river.
Neither We're injured.
AT the Sloss furnace in Birmingham,
Ala, two men were killed and six in
jured, three fatally, by the falling of
scaffold.
TWENTY-FIVE saloonkeepers at OF
tumwa, Ia, were arrested for neglect
ing to cancel the stamps on empty
liquor casks.
The braiding shop of the John
Roebling's Sons Company at Trenton,
N. j., was destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of S15O,00O
The $500 memorial hospital at
Johnstown, Pa, was dedicated. 1t
was erected by the state flood COM
mission.
The work of laying a cable between
New York and the Bahama islands has
been completed.
The house of A. M. Lennig at Jack
sonville, Fla, was burned, and his
wife and two children perished in the
flames.
MARCY. GEER & McCANN's bank at
Ration. n. NJ, was closed, with liabil-
tiles of $500
A MOB near Hendersonville, Tenn,
attacked two negroes who had been
acquitted of q charge of barn burning,
shot through the window of their abin
and l-illa5 tlair ,ra1 nathan
FITzsIMMoNs, the Pittsburgh thief
and murderer arrested in New Orleans
recently, committed suicide in the par
ish prison by cutting his throat with a
penknife.
JAMES ODEM, who wantonly killed
two negroes in Louisiana, was shot
dead while resisting arrest.
The steamer Burton, from Brazil.
was quarantined at New York with
yellow fever on board. Five of the
crew had died and four were down
with the disease.
S. v. WHITE and f. w. Hopkins,
representing the firm of s. v. White &
Co., stock brokers, of New York,
which failed recently, have been rein
stated by the stock exchange.
In Kentucky William Puckett was
hanged at Irvine for the murder of
William Hall; Robert Charlton (col-
ored) was hanged at Henderson for the
murder of Minnie Hoskins, and Will
liam Bush was executed at Stanford
for killing his wife.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 5th aggregated ST.
819,s74, 432, against Sl,2os, ,579,sl7 the
previous week. The increase as com
pared with the corresponding week Of
1891 was ILL.
FIVE deaths from spotted fever"
were reported from Dangerfield, Tex. {,
and the people OF the affected locality
were greatly alarmed.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended ON
the 5th numbered 319, against 297 the
preceding week and 293 for the corre-
spending week last year.
The supreme court of Texas holds
that receivers of railway companies
are not liable for damages resulting
| In death.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued his
proclamation promulgating reciproc-
ity treaty with the British West India
colonies.