Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-03-26
DOMESTIC.

THE Spencer house, one of the oldest
and best known hotels at Niagara
Falls, was entirely destroyed by fire.
Loss, S1OO, 900.
The national association of State
Commissioners of Labor will be held in
Denver May "a to 2s
TEXAS and other southern states
were visited by severe blizzard that
greatly damaged the fruit crop.
Two CASES of sudden blindness caused
by the grip are reported from Vicks.
burg Miss
CATTLE were dying in large numbers
in Indian territory from cold and ex.
posure.
B. +. HILL, of Mllburg, Mich, be-
came entangled in the machinery in
his sawmill and his body was sawed in
two lengthwise.
Snow was 20 inches deep in some
parts of Texas.
The Indiana supreme court has de-
clared the Australian ballot law in the
state to be constitutional
THE severest snowstorm in many
years prevailed in Virginia, Alabama
and Mississippi
IT is said that flax can be raised in
any part of Texas with more profit
than can cotton.
A UNITED STATES express car was
burned near Honey Bend, ILL.,, with
its contents, including $4,000 in cur
rency.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated ST.
200, 8ss, 1922, against $1,000, s26. 7ss the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week OF
1891 was 1877.
THE national bank note circulation
is now S161, 100000 an increase OF
nearly $50, 900, 900 since July last.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 24O. against 256 the
preceding week ana 245 for the CORE
spending week last year.
LEE HEFFLIN and Joseph Dye, who
murdered the Kines family, were
lynched near Gainesville, w. Va, by a
mob.
IT was estimated that 10000 cattle
perished along the line of the Denver,
Texas G. Gulf road between Trinidad,
Col, and Fort Worth, Tex, during the
past week and as many more north and
east of Trinidad.
LIGGIT & MYERS tobacco factory at
St Louis was damaged S345, 900 by fire.
JOHN ALEXANDER was instantly
killed and his son James fatally in
jured by the explosion of a sawmill
boiler near Linneus. Mo-
Rev. II. ID. BENJAMIN, a prominent
minister of Portsmouth, o., was found
in his room dead, hanging to an iron
bracket. Temporary dementia caused
by illness was the cause.
The family of Richard Melrose at
Nashville, Tenn, were poisoned by
drinking coffee containing arsenic.
Matte and Katie died and the others
were in critical condition. Robert,
the younger son, was suspected of the
crime.
PATRICK MILLEY, a gatekeeper at
Pittsburgh, Pa, fatally shot his wife
and then killed himself Domestic
trouble caused the crime.
THE receipts from internal revenue
during the first eight months of the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1892, were
500, 667, 28S, an increase of So, 700, ,07s
over the receipts during the corre-
spending period of last year.
THE Michigan supreme court rem
dered a decision sustaining the new
tax law.
THIEVES stole the money deposited in
an Elkhart Qnd.) church corner stone.
EX-SENATOR BOWEN, of Colorado, lost
$4,000 in cash and $50, 600 in bonds in
a bathroom in the Palmer house in
Chicago. The money was found by a
colored employe and returned to its
owner.
DANIEL POTTER, an eccentric and
wealthy Iowa farmer of Wamcoma, 9S
years of age, starved himself to death.
The depot of the New York, New
Haven g. Hartford railroad in New
Haven, Conn.,, was almost destroyed
by fire. Loss, 100000
MIKE MCCARTHY, T. e. Doyle and
Dennis Shaunnessy, laborers employed
at u tunnel at Ivanhoe, COL, were fa-
tally injured by snowslide.