Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-04-02

THE courthouse and all the county
records at St Charles, Mo-, were de-
stroyed by FIRE.
j. j. GAFFoRD, young travelling
man of Manning, Ia, killed Mabel
Stevens and then shot himself at
Omaha, Neb.
Four counterfeiters-three negroes
and white man-were arrested at
Nevada, Mo.
AT Cerro Gordo, ILL.,, ten buildings
were completely wrecked by cyclone
and twenty others were more or less
damaged. No lives were lost
Four men stole a boat from the
whatf at San Francisco and went to
picnic across the bay. The boat cap
sized and all were drowned
Two YOUNG women. Lizzie DEMONS
aged 10. and Eva Williams aged II,
were run down by train at Evans
vile, Ind, and fatally injured.
ADAM NEIDIG, a German miner, shot
and instantly killed his wife Barbara
| own life. jealousy was the cause.
| FIRE in the curtain works of John
Bromley e. Son in Philadelphia caused
loss of S4OO 600.
REV. Fl. NJ. LAMPoRT, pastor of the
Methodist church at Kendallville, Ind,
and Henry Bowles, his brother-in-law,
were struck by train and killed.
A RowBoAT containing eight colored
men capsized in the Mississippi oppo-
site Canton, Mo-, and six were
drowned.
The French line steamship La
Touraine made the trip from Havre to
New York in 6 days, 2a hours and 80
minutes. the fastest on record.
Four carpenters were fatally injured
at Durango, Col. A building on which
they were working was blown down
by the wind.
The explosion of converter in Car
negie's mill at Homestead, Pa, burned
nine men, six fatally.
THE steamer Benture was wrecked
at Rockport, Cal, and both engineers,
the steward, one fireman and one
sailor were drowned.
The American Bobbin. Spool and
Shuttle Company at Woonsocket, R. l.,
has failed for 5000, 900; assets, $1,000, 900.
BISHOP JONES, a noted colored minis
ter in Allendale, S. c., was shot dead
his pulpit by some person unknown.
LORD SALISBURY in his reply to the
note from Mr.. Wharton, acting secre-
tary of state, says the Behring sea mo-
dus vivendi may he renewed, but in
sists that the pending treaty must first
be ratified and provision made for the
assessment of damages.
In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 2sth was: Wheat,
Al, 297 900 bushels; corn, 12, 154, 900 BUSH
900 bushels; barley, 1,090, 900 bushels
JEREMIAH CoTTo, the Italian who
murdered Louis Frankelosa in Brook
lyn last July, was electrocuted in Sing
Sing prison.
JACOB WILBUR, of Pownal, Me-, aged
81 years, committed suicide by hang.
ing. Dependency was the cause.
Mrs. c. A. SMITH, living near Holly
Springs, Miss, has given birth to six
well-developed boys
JOHN j. ENGELDRUM broke the
worlds twenty y-fve-mile go-as-you.
please running record in Chicago. max
ing the distance in 2 hours and SO min.
uteS-
On Friday, May "a, four men and one
woman, Elisha Young, Isaac Young,
Holman Noble, Alfred Crosby and
Martha Young, will be hanged in the
jailyard at Chester, S. c., for the muir
der of Alfred McAllilay.
IN a saloon quarrel at O'Brien, Wash,
Mike Crowley, a bartender, shot and
killed Richard Harm and then commit.
ted suicide.
THE City of Detroit passed down De-
troit river into Lake Erie and naviga'
ton was considered to be open.
MRS. HOMER r. BALDWIN, who was
injured in the wreck at Hastings, n
Y, Christmas eve, has sued the New
York Central for S25O,O0O damages
She lost both hands, both eyes, botl
ears and all her hair.
Mrs. MYRA BRADwELL, of Chicago
has been admitted to practice before
the United States supreme court. Sht
is the fifth woman to gain that distinc
ton.
IT is reported from New York thai
leading manufacturers are endeavor
ing to organize an umbrella trust. This
branch of manufactures amount Il
SIS, 600, 900 year.
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