Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-06-04
J. J. FAY, a retired Michigan lumber.

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The Empire Order of Mutual Aid, a
state insurance order, failed at Buffalo,
N. Y, with assets $4,000 less than the
liabilities.
GEORGE ScorT, convicted of assault
ing his sister and then numbering her,
was hanged at Henderson, Tex. Ed
ward Specrs, who murdered S. C. Huut
near Camden July l, 1891, was executed
at Magnolia, Ark
The siXtieth annual meeting of the
American Baptist Home Mission society
began at Philadelphia.
FOUR boys, ranging in age from Z to
10 years, were fishing at Woodville. Pa,
| when the bank caved in and they were
thrown into the river and drowned
ADvIcEs from regions affected more
seriously by floods point to an aggre-
| gate loss of property in five states of
$50, 100000. Illinois and Missouri suf-
fered the most
MICHIGAN railroads earned ss,6oo.
37S.61 in April, against 81, $50, SIS. SO for
the same month last year
A WIDOW named Scott and her four
daughters, Fanny, Alice, Kate and EN-
ma, aged 16, is, % and 26 respectively.
were found murdered in their home
near Lone Tree, Ky. A negro, who
probably committed the crime, was
found in the cellar with his throat cut.
JOHN A. BENSON, Gus Hallgren and
Swan Soderbird, three young men,
were drowned in the river at Red Wing,
Mimi, by the upsetting of boat.
In the National league the percentages
of the baseball clubs for the week ended
the 2Sth ult. were: Boston, .T2T; Brook
lyn, .645: Chicago, .504; Cleveland .5TG:
Cincinnati, .559; Pitts sburgh, .514: Louis
vile, 500; New York, .479: Philadel-
phia, .424; Washington, 419; St. Louis.
1874; Baltimore, $50. The percentages
in clubs of the Western league were:
Colum bus, .75s; Milwaukee,, .6G6: Kan
sas City, .541; Toledo, $40; Omaha.
454; Minneapolis, 1868; Fort Wayne,
.3lS; Indianapolis, .125.
A CYCLONE did enormous damage in
Audrain county, Mo-, and seriously in
Jured eleven persons.
WHEN Charles Block opened the grave
OF his wife in Hazlewood cemetery,
near Montezuma, Ia, he found the re-
mains, that had been buried eight |
years. turned to stone.
LEvEEs along the Sacramento river
broke and quite an extent of farming |
land was flooded in central California. |
A TORNADO and rainstorm did great |
damage at Caldwell, Medicine Lodge.
Corwin, Olathe, Attica, Mound CITY and |
Sterling, in Kansas.
PRESIDENT HARRISON participated in
the Memorial day services at Roches-
ter, n. Y, and delivered an address at
unveiling of the new soldiers monu.
ment in that city.
ONE HUNDRED villages and hamlets in
the valleys of the st. Francis, White
and Arkansas rivers in Arkansas have
been swept away and will never be re-
built until adequate protection is pro-
vided against floods.
SEVERAL houses were demolished and
stock injured by a cyclone near sum
ner, Ill.
AN oil syndicate to rival the Standard
has been formed in Chicago with a cap
ital stock of $4,000, oOO
GEN GRANTS tomb at Riverside Park
on-the-Hudson was buried under floral
offerings on Memorial day, many of
which came from across the sea.
TKE cyclone that wrecked Yelling
ton, Kan, also did great damage at
Harper, where seven persons were
killed and $50 houses totally wrecked
Five lives were lost at Argonia.
FIRE destroyed the Fulton iron
works, Hammond car works and Van
brakes brass foundry at San Francis
co, causing loss of S50O,0OO
ENGINEER IsBELL was killed and
twelve persons were injured, one fatal
ly, by collision on the Santa Fe road
near Lamont, Ill.
NEGRO named Lawrence Adams
and his wife and five children were
drowned in the flood on the Glass
plantation nerr TeXarkana, Ark.
cLoUDBURsT at Webb City, Mo-,
Hooded all the lead and zinc mines
searly to their tops and the loss will be
enormous.
jim SMITH, a notorious colored des-
Gerado, was lynched by mob in Logan
county, w. Va, for numbering Charles
Serpell, a colored boy.
FIRE in the village of st. Prissen,
La, destroyed forty houses.
FLAMES among tobacco warehouses
n Lancaster, Pa, caused loss of S112,-