Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-12-10
CHARLES BupprssrrK, the New York

iuB CHpirCo.
The efficiency of the different corps
is the subject of comment in the an
nual report of Secretary of War EllSins
and the revival of the grade of lieuten-
ant general is urged. The expendi-
lures for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1892, were S5l,21S,970.52.
The superintendent of immigration
shows that 979,663 immigrants arrived
in this country during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1892.
The annual report of Secretary No
BILE to the president covers in detail the
doings of the interior department. The
work accomplished during the present
administration is shown to greatly ex-
ceed that of any like preceding period
in the history of the department.
GEORGE w. REED, press agent for the
Leslie Davis Dramatic Company, com
mltted suicide at a hotel in Fort
Wayne, Ind.
THE Elm Park Methodist church at
Scranton, Pa, which had just been
completed at cost of 5000, 900, was de-
stroyed by fire.
FIRE on the Northwestern coal dock
at Superior, Wis, caused loss of $780,
900.
ERNEST NICHOLSON, a farmer, his
wife and two children, were drowned
in creek near their home at Pleasan-
ton, Cal. They were driving through
the creek when the wagon upset.
By the caving in of bank at Wood
vile, Miss, the three little girls of DIR.
j. p. Caro- were killed.
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berland Gap, Tenn, was destroyed by
fire.
MosT of the business part of Gran
ford, n. j., was burned.
The treasury department has decided
that Chinese boy may enter the
United States for the purpose of re-
ceiving an education, provided he has
the permission of his own government
to visit the United States.
Col. Z. II. BOYD, editor and propri-
etor of the Morning Olympian at
Olympia, Wash, was shot and killed at
Seattle by his wife. Domestic trouble
was the cause.
For many months a comparison of
outgoing and incoming steerage pas
sengers in New York has shown the ar
rivals greatly in excess of the depart
ures, but now the tide is turned the
other way and the departures are in
excess by the thousands daily.
SURGEON GENERAL WYMAN, of the
Marine hospital service, in his annual
report to the secretary of the treasury
recommends that immigration be sus-
pended for at least one year from the
first of January next.
SECRETARY FOSTER, of the treasury
department, has submitted to congress
the book of estimates for the fiscal
year 1s93-94. They aggregate s421,612,-
215. The appropriations for 1S92-93
We're s423, 36l. 97O67.
DAVID BLOCK, manufacturer of tin
ware in New York city, failed for
S132. 900.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER
in his annual report says $4,000 900
have been added to the gross revenue,
the deficit has been reduced $1,000, 900,
2, 700 new offices have been established,
and the experiment of free delivery in
villages has been successful. He also
says that one-cent letter postage is
near possibility.
AT the annual meeting in Baltimore
of the National Prison association
Judge Wayland, of New Haven, said
the three principal causes of crime
were unrestricted immigration, the
saloon and neglect of children. He
suggested as the remedy the perpetual
imprisonment of all habltual criminals,
paupers and drunkards.
LOUIS NEWMAN, managing editor OF
the German edition of the New York
Evening News, fell dead while at lunch
in restaurant
The pianoforte workers of Chicago,
New York, Philadelphia, Boston and
other centers of the industry have de-
cided to organize national union.
ARTHUR WIULLMEAN commenced q
fifty days fast at Cleveland, o.
PARKER CRANE was arrested at Mid
dletown, O., and identified as an
tence of death at Vincennes, Ind, in
1888.
FRED MARSH, one of the most dan
gerous counterfeiters in the country,
was arrested in Milwaukee.
AN explosion of powder at Scottdale,
Pa, wrecked J. M. Bradley's house and
fatally injured his two children.
A FLOOD carried away part of the
dam of the Honey Lake Valley Land &
Water Company in Lassen county,
Cal, causing loss of $4,000
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Gov. TnLMAN, of Edgefeld, and
Lieut.. Gov. Eugene b. Gary, of Abbe-
Vile, were inaugurated at Columbus,
S. c.
CHAUNcEY MoRLAN and Annie Bell
were married in New York city mu-
scum. The bridegroom is 21 years old
and weighs 442 pounds. The bride is a
year younger and tips the scale at $40
pounds.
ALICE MAUD STONE, for whom the
celebrated trotter Maud 5. was named,
was married at her home in Cincinnati
to Albert Carey, of New York.