Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-12-03
AN explosion of grs caused by leak

IT was feared that forty-eight miners
had perished from hunger and cold in
the mountains east of Snohomish,
Wash.
In speaking of the southern posts of
the Grand Army of the Republic Com
mander Weissert says colored soldiers
must be recognized.
The building of the Indian Industrial
school at Clontarf, Mimi, was entirely
destroyed by fire.
THE Forthcoming report of A. b. Hep
burn, the comptroller of the currency,
shows that the number of banks in
operation October 81, 1892, was S,TSs,
having an aggregate capital of $685.,
s6s,645 and total resources of S3,510,-
O94,S9T. The circulation outstanding
shows net increase for the year of
$40, 4S7, 226.
The residence of A. II. Austin, treas
urer of Harrison township, O., was en-
tered by burglars, who blew open the
safe and took $500.
The Northern Pacific overland ex-
press was held up at Hot Springs,
WASH, by three masked men who re-
lieved the passengers of cash to the
amount of $1,000.
1.-THE Breakers" the elegant and
costly summer residence of Cornelius
Vanderbilt at Newport, II. l., with its
valuable contents, were burned, the
loss being 100000.
DISPATCHES received from various
parts of the United States indicate
general observance, in the usual man.
ner. of Thanksgiving day throughout
the country.
A wHIRLwIND swept over California,
carrying destruction in its wake. In
the harbor at San Francisco dozen
vessels were destroyed and orchards in
the interior of the state were ruined,
causing loss of over $500, 600.
ALL towns in Ohio using natural gas
were greatly aroused over the unmis-
taxable evidence that the supply was
slowly failing.
A FIRE that started in the cigarette
factory owned by Valos & Co. at
Havana, Cuba, caused loss of $3.50, 600.
HENRY BANKS, a colored farmer at
Clarksville, Ark, who had been absent
from home. returned and found his
wife talking to Joseph Perry, a neigh
Dor. Banks pulled out r1zor and
literally carved them to pieces.
Four men lost their lives by the cap
sizing of boat near Newberne, N. c.
Ten business houses at Dunlirlz,
Ind, were burned, the loss being
S10O. 900.
SHERIFF McGINNIs, of Gordon coun-
ty, Ga, was killed while attempting to
arrest two desperadoes at Plainville.
The criminals. Jester Scott and William
Morrow, were lynched by mob.
The secretary of the interior trans
mltted to the secretary of the treasury
the estimates required to pay pensions
for the next fiscal year. The sum of
s166, ,s31, $50 will be necessary.
TIE treasurer of the United States,
E. II. Nebeker, in his annual report
says the total receipts for the year
were 1886, 4o1, ,296 and the expenditures
1854, 0l9,2S9. OF the aggregate stock of
money at the end of the fiscal year
S771, ,252,313 was in the treasury and
mints, leaving $1,6O3, Osl,736 in the
hands of the people. The holdings of
the Treasury increased S50,o00,O and
the amount in circulation 500, 900, 900
during the year,
In the heat of passion Kate Green, a
colored woman at Louisville, KY,
killed her 1O-year-old daughter because
she told lie.
THE trial of Prof. Charles A. Briggs,
of Union seminary, on the charge of
heresy, was begun by the presbytery
in New York.
bers-elect of the Fifty third congress
on the question of an extra session
shows that seventy-two favor it, seven
ty-eight are opposed and thirty-eight
are non-committal.
The lumber firm of Bills G. Koch at
Toledo, o., has failed for $4,000
ALICE and Clifford Vessey, the former
3 and the latter years of age, were
burned TO death by fire at their home
in Chicago.
JAMES STONE and William Blaken-
ship were arrested near Admission, Ala,
while making counterfeit nickles.
The damage suit Of G. w. Herricls
against the Lake Shore railroad was
decided at Norwalk, O., the plaintiff
getting $1,000. The case had been on
trial eleven years and Herrick has since
died
WHILE on their way to school at
Madison, Neb., Ambrose Malone and
Ridgley Wagner, each aged i5 years,
attempted to cross mill pond and they
were drowned.
PRAIRIE fires near Aberdeen, S. d.,
started by sparks from railroad loco
motives, spread over Il large territory,
burning out several farmers.
In the United States the visible sup.
ply of grain on the 2sth was: Wheat,
0,765, 600 bushels; corn, 2,033, 600 bush
els; oats, S,O27,00O bushels; rye, 1885,
600 bushels; barley, 2,74S, 900 bushels.
THREE men and two women, UNI
brella-menders, were burned to death
| in an old barn at Middletown, Conn.
Mr. AND Mrs. d. MANUs, aged 90 and
sc years, respectively, two well-knowr
and influential German people living
near Freeport ILL.,, were suffocated by
coal gas.
A LARGE number of non-union mer