Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-24
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


THE Western Union Telegraph Com
pany directors have decided to increase
the capital stock Sl3, 600, 900, making
the capital stock of the company $780,
100000.
THE steamer Bohemia arrived at low
er quarantine, New York, with over
600 immigrants on board. Eleven
deaths from cholera occurred at sea
during the voyage. One more death
from the pest was reported in New
York city.
AFTER the fireworks at the state fair
in Columbus, o., u section of pavement
gave away and over fifty persons were
prccipitatcd to the excavation below, a
distance of about 10 feet, and many
were seriously injured.
Four lives were lost in head-end
collision on the Northwestern railroad
near Marshalltown, Ia, as follows:
Engineer Tom Howes, Fireman Will
liam Linebaugh, Engineer Jack Ash
ton, of Clinton, and w. L. Carlen, of
Powell, Mich.
MOB at Bonita, La, lynched black
James Patton for numbering Eli Lind
sey, white.
of Red Men of the United States at At
lanta, Ga, Thomas Donnelly, of Penn
sylvania, was selected as grand prophet.
CHARLES II. CowAN, of Chicago has
been appointed consul at Manila, Phil
ippine islands.
HORACE II. BRoADHURsT was arrested
at Newton Pa, for harvesting his crop
of peaches on the Sabbath day and
fined $50.
The locled-out granite cutters of
Concord, y. H., have organized a COM
pany, leased a tract of land and will
begin business Immediately.
GEORGE TAYLOR made a mile on a
bicycle at Springfield, Mass, in 2:15 30,
beating all previous records.
AN order has been made by Acting
Secretary of the Interior Chandler for
the payment of 5000, 900 authorized by
congress as an indemnity to the Sioux
Indians for 5000 ponies taken by the
government some years ago during one
of the Indian outbreaks in the north
west.
Mrs. ANNIE CHERNEY, who was ar.
in Jail, charged with poisoning her hus-
Dduu, CoIltSSCu IIldU Sic ulCl IIic uteu.
ALL the steamship companies have
notified President Harrison that they
will bring no steerage passengers to
this country until congress assemblies
or the cholera epidemic ceases.
THE grocery establishment of j. II.
Menge SE Co. at New Orleans was
burned. Loss, Sl25,00O; insurance,
100000.
GEORGE MEYERS carriage factory in
New York was destroyed by fire, the
loss being estimated at $1,000
THE Amalgamated Association of
Street Car Employees in session at In
dianapolis elected j. L. Hustled. of
Toledo, o., as president
AUGUSTUS +. KERR, an employe of
the Jarvis Conkling Investment Com
pany at Kansas City, has fled to Eu-
rope with from $40, 900 to S25, 600 of the
company's money.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated
LII. S13, 125, against 81, 126, 23s, sS5 the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was rs.
NORMAN COVE, a prominent dairyman
and cattle raiser, committed suicide
near Springfield, o.
| In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 10th numbered 1872, against 119 the
preceding week and 239 for the CORE
| spending week last year.
| a CENSUS bulletin gives the number
of foreigners in Ohio at 459,293, in In
diana, l46.205, in Illinois. S42.347, in
| Michigan. 543.SS0, in Wisconsin, 5l9 1919,
and in Minnesota, 4G7,356.
STATE SENATOR SAMUEL p. SPARKS.
the author of the Sparks election law
now governing elections in Missouri,
committed suicide at his home in War
| rensburg, Mo. Financial trouble was
| the cause.
TwENTY-NINE true bills on various
charges against as many Duquesne
| strikers We're returned by the grand
jury at Pittsburgh, Pa.
DIR. J. Ii. MULLEN. of Montezuma, la. +,
dropped dead at his home as he was
preparing to visit patient.
SAMUEL A.. MOODY, cripple living
near Johnson's Corner. Me-, shot and
killed Fannie B. Nichols aged 2a, and
then shot himself. No cause was
| known.
The National Association of Repub-
lican Women held its annual session IN
Buffalo, n. Y, with it's president, Mrs.
j. Ellen Foster. in the chair.
JOHN j. VAN METRE, about 35 years
of age, while insane killed his wife and
child near Idaho. o.
THE wife of Charles Billings, living
in Ashe county, N. c., gave birth to
six children, all boys.
SINCE work began year ago on the
worlds fair buildings in Chicago nine
teen men have lost their lives by acci-
dent, and $500 men have been either
permanently or temporarily disabled
by accident or illness in the service of
the exposition.
In the second series of the National
league the percentages of the baseball
clubs for the week ended on the 18th
| were: Cleveland 7O1. BoStOn 6ll