Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-02-20
DOMESTIC,

abroad on the free list a bill to establish lin
cal promotion In the army was passed
DOMESTIC.
FLAMES at Cincinnati in the building
occupied by Ezekiel & Bernheim,
auctioneers and storage commission
dealers, caused a loss of $500, 1000.
The failure of Phillip Burns, with
liabilities of S400, 900, was announced
on II c New York stock exchange.
The house of j. w. Sweatman near
Ladonia, Ala, was entered by moon
sinners during his absence, and Mrs.
Sweatman and her little boy were shot
dead.
A FIRE in McCune's block in Column
bus, o., caused loss of 100000. Miss
Cora Blair jumped from second-story
window and was killed
JAMES Couch, one of the oldest and
wealthiest citizens of Chicago, was run
over by heavy truck wagon and died
in few hours from his injuries. He
was 81 years old.
Two BEAUTIFUL young girls, daugh-
ters of William Criswell, a wealthy cit
izen of Cameron, Va. were killed by
the cars.
w dS ulduC loT TcCtlNtI
for the type-founding firm of Farmer,
Little & Co., of New York.
MARION HEAsPETH, wanted at St.
Louis for completely in the Glendale
(Mo.) train robbery, was arrested by
detectives in San Francisco.
| A FORT WAYNE passenger train run
ming so miles an hour crashed into a
street car in Chicago, injuring eleven
persons and killing John Waylan.
NEAR St Joseph, Mo-, a discharged
hired hand named John Hemele set
fire to the dairy barn of William
Rudke, and it was burned with sixty
head of cows and twenty-five head of
horses.
| LEADING negroes in Little Rock have
organized national association with
81, 500, 600 capital stock, the object be-
ing to operate business houses for col
ored people.
WILLIAM JONES and Perry Mcknight
were run down by railroad train near
Hopkinsville, KY, and fatally injured.
WILLIAM HENDRICKS was bunkoed
out of $1,000 at Lima, o., by a conf
dence man giving his name as Henry
Owens.
Fl. A. Bruins, president of the Mer-
chants bank of Moorhead, Mimi. was
arrested on charge of defrauding de-
positors.
AT Cimmaron, Col. the Denver and
Rio Grande round house was burned
together with four locomotives.
THE Russian charge d'atfaires at
Washington was formally rotified that
over 5000, 900 pounds of flour had been
contributed by the millers of the
United States and the people of Ne
braska and Minnesota for the relief OF
famine suffers in Russia.
HAMP BIscoE, his wife and son. who
were arrested and placed in a small
house at Keo, Ark, were all shot dead
by two masked men.
THE Grand Central hotel at Ell Paso,
Tex, was burned. Loss, 100000; in
surance, $4,000
THE first volume of the blue bool for
1891 shows that there are employed in
the postal service of the United States
in all capacities lS4, 431 persons and in
all other departments of the govern.
ment 62, s6S persons, making total OF
247,294.
On the New York stock exchange
the total sales of railway stock on the
11th were 1,452.613 shares The trans
actions were the greatest for one day
in the history of the exchange.
CAROLINE GARDNER, Is years old, o.
Federal Station, Pa, died of fright
Two men chased her, causing her tt
have convulsions, from which she died
SAMUEL KELLY shot and killed julia
Long at Marshalltown, Ia, and then
killed himself. Unrequited love was
the cause.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated ST.,
!, 349,331, l72, against sl,3l9, S74, 432 tn,
previous week. The increase Us com
pared with the corresponding week o
: 1891 was 26.7.
In the United States the busines.
failures during the seven days ended OF
the 18th mum bered $40, against $40 thu
preceding week and 297 for the CORE
spending week last year
= THE dead bodies of two American
were found in an adobe hut near E
Paso. Tex. The murder was though
, ! to have been committed by renegad
y Indians
e REpoRTs from the leadipg cite
4 throughout the country indicate gen
eral improvement in trade.