Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-06-25


session at Washington elected jeremiah
Sheehan, of st. Louis as president.
WHAT remained of the village of
Rockdale, Ia, since the disaster of
1876, was wiped out by storm.
GRAssHoPpERs were destroying many
cotton fields in Mississippi.
A cLoUBuRsT flooded Chatsworth, ILL.,,
doing great damage.
THE body of woman with head and
arms gone was found near Oconomo-
voc. Wis.
IN the National league the percentages
of the baseball clubs for the week ended
on the 18th were: Boston, .692 Brook
lyn, .627; Philadelphia, .577; Cincin-
natl, 500; Cleveland, $3.50; Chicago,
$40; New York, 400; Washington, 4SO;
Pittsburgh, .455; Louisville, .404; st.
Louis, .353; Baltimore, .294. The per-
centages in clubs of the Western league
We're: Columbus, .739; Milwaukee,
GIL; Toledo, 514 Kansas City, .512;
Omaha, ASS; Minneapolis, 424; Fort
Wayne, .S43: Indianapolis. .25S.
The race between the White Star
steamer Alaska and the Cunarder
Aurania across the ocean was won by
the arrival of the former off Sandy
Hook in days hours and As minutes,
twenty minutes ahead of her rival.
LIGHTNING struck and exploded two
kegs of powder in the store of w. II.
Ryan at Parmleysville, KY, and fifty
persons were injured, some fatally
A BOAT capsized on Lake St Clair
near Detroit, Mich, and Lizzie Mogg,
aged is, Carrie Bieber, aged 10. and
Henry Floethe, aged 22, were drowned.
THE chief of the bureau of statistics
reports that the total value of the en-
ports of merchandise from the United
States for the twelve months ended
May 81, 1892, was SS2S, 767, SIS: same in
1891, ss4G. SSs,9l3.
Two SONS and daughter of John
Hartman, residing near Sardis, O.,
We're killed by lightning during a
storm while picking berries.
JOHN JOHNSON, one of the negroes
implicated in the murder of Merchant
Colquhoun at McComb City, Miss, was
hanged by mob.
A PART of the Kentucky Mating
Companys plant at Louisville was
burned, the loss being S135,OO
JUDGE j. B. MORGAN, ex-congress-
ihah lioLi NiioSlSSlpplt was hlllCu III
the cars near Horn lake by Henry Fos-
ter, lawyer. The trouble was over
| lawsuit.
PETER MARRIGoLD was killed by
| lightning in his home at Traverse City,
Mich He was sleeping with his child
in his arms, but neither the babe nor
| his wife were hurt.
| The Bayou levee at the town of Bayou
Sara, La, gave way and the whole town
was under from to IL feet of water.
| No lives were lost, but the property
loss would be heavy.
ENoCH MORRISON, a negro, shot and
fatally injured two negro women on a
| train near San Francisco and then
killed himself.
! A TRAIN ran into drove of cattle and
was ditched near Gladstone, ILL.,, and
Engineer Robinson and three Italian
laborers were killed and twenty others
We're injured.
| NJ. NJ. SPANGLER's malt house at
| Cleveland, O., was wiped out by fire,
the loss being 100000.
DURING riot at a. colored picnic near
Memphis, Tenn, three negroes were
killed and a dozen were seriously in
jured.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 20th was: Wheat,
26,006, 600 bushels; corn, 5,246, 600 bush
els; oats, 4,032,000 bushels; rye, 3T7, 600
bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels.
JAMES MAXWELL and Ernest and
William Knouse were drowned near
Ottumwa, Ia.
DR.. II. NJ. ScUDDER, in Jail in Chicago
on the charge of numbering his mother
in-law, Mrs, f. H. Dunton committed sui
eide by taking poison.
AT Ashley, Pa, George Fisher killed
John Washington, whom he found in
his wife's room, and then fatally
wounded his wife.
FIRE totally destroyed the Hyde coun-
ty courthouse at Highmore, S. ID.
Mrs. SARAH ELLA BRADY, Thomas
Sloan Brady and Miss Mary Kingston,
of Desota, were drowned near Spring
field, Mo-, while trying to ford n stream.
FLAMES which started on p. McNa.
mara's farm near Merced, Cal, burned
over 1000 acres of fine grain The loss
was 100000.
Mrs. JOSEPH KEIM undertook to hive
a swarm of bees at Wabash, Ind, wher
the insects became infuriated and stung
her to death.
EMIL WEST killed Miss Hattie But
tress in Allegheny City, Pa, because
she refused to marry him, and ther
took his own life.
The 25-mile amateur bicycle roaS
record was broken in Detroit by w. C
Rands. his time being hour Is minutes
and SO seconds.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE democrats of Ohio in convention