Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-03-12

| The corner stone of the Grant me-
mortal monument in New York will
be laid on Gen. Grants next birthday.
April "a.
MARK B. COIN and his brother Abra-
ham set fire to their store in st. Louis
to secure an insurance of SIS, ,O00 but
they were burned to death before they
could escape from the building.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 4th aggregated ST.
213, 1923, 0SS, against S1,072, 46S, 401 the
previous week. The increase rs COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was 143.
FIVE men were fatally injured by a
fire. damp explosion in the Elmwood
colliery at Mahanoy City, Pa.
| +. l.. MONTAGUE, an artist, shot his
wife in Washington at her request and
then took his own life. Dependency
was the cause.
In fight between negroes and
white men near Edmonton, KY, four
Of the former were. killed and four
wounded and two of the white men
were seriously hurt
Bob CURRIE shot John Butler and
Sarah Washington at Brownsville,
Tex, because he was jealous.
c. A. DEAN, of Denver, was awarded
damages of $4,000 against S. w.
French for alternating his wife's affec-
tions
IN race fight near Memphis,
Tenn, Deputy Sheriffs Cole and Harold
were fatally wounded by negroes
JAMES DUBOIS drowned his infant
child at Cincinnati because he said he
could not support it.
The 6-year-old son OF Mrs. Mary
Coyer, of Pittsburgh, Pa, has become
an idiot through drug given him by a
spiteful servant girl.
AT Dexter, Mo-, fire destroyed the
Iron Mountain depot and fourteen busi-
ness houses, causing loss of Sl5O,OOO.
THIRTY of the most prominent citi-
zens of Marine City, Mich, were ar
rested for smuggling.
THE boiler in Whites sawmill Mt
Port Huron, Mich. exploded, killing
Frank Moran and fatally scalding five
others.
THE Ocean and Beach hotels and
three cottages at Tybee beach, near
Savannah, Ga, were burned.
The barn OF James Harverstick near
Noblesville, Ind, was burned, together
with contents, including eighteen
milch cows and eight horses.
In fit of jealousy Edgar &. Drew
shot and killed his wife in Lowell,
Mass, and then took his own life.
LUDWIG BILINEIR and Felix Green,
employed in Chicago livery, were as
phyxiated by gas.
THE heating apparatus in car on
the Santa Fe road exploded at Meri-
den, Kan, ana Almon Richards and
Alexander Erickson were killed and
five others were badly injured.
In the United States the visible sup.
ply of grain on the 7th was: Wheat,
1885, 2S5 bushels; corn, IL ,O51, o97 bush.
els: oats, 1886, 3S7 bushels; rye, $685.
S54 bushels; barley, 1910, 759 bushels.
AN attempt was made to wreck the |
fast Chicago express on the Hudson
river railroad near Tarrytown, n. Y,
but only slight damage resulted.
RUFUS 7. COLLINS was convicted of
wife murder at Gordon, Ga. He paid a |
negro $50 to shoot his wife.
F. w. TALBERT, founder of the Inter-
national Order of Mechanics, was killed |
at Florence, S. c., by two boys, one of
whom he had cowhided for slandering
his daughter.
THE new bark Invertrossachs, valued !
at $3.50, O0O which sailed from Phila.
delphia on February for Calcutta, |
laden with 1,092, 500 gallons of oil |
valued at $40, 752, was lost at sea, and |
ten of the crew perished.
-FOUR persons were bitten oy a mad |
dog at Springfield, o.
CHARLES F. BEGGs, of Waukesha,
Wis, in fit of jealousy shot his wife |
fatally and then shot himself dead.
The first entry of goods to be exhib-
ted at the worlds fair was made at |
New York. The articles came from
Port Limon, India.
RAILROAD accident at Rockville, |
Ind, caused the death of brakeman |
named Teaters and a fireman named
Buckalls.
THEODORE HERTZ, laborer, shot |
and killed his wife at Walla Walla,
Wash, and then killed himself. Do
mestic trouble was the cause.
THE Allouez apartment house at West |
teen families were made homeless.
Loss, Sl20.OO0.
TROUBLE between negroes and Polish
workmen at Niagara Falls resulted in
the death of two of the Poles and the
mortal wounding of several others.
In fit of jealous rage Richard Scan
lon, of New York, threw a lighted lamp
at his wife, her clothes ignited and she
was burned to death.
SIDNEY GREEN, farm hand living
near Elgin, Mimi, was tarred and
feathered and ridden on rail Last
fall he eloped with another mans wife.
THE complete returns of the census
just taken give New York city popu-
lation of 1,s00, s9l, an increase over the
federal census of 2S7,29O
JACOB PFEIFER, miser worth $50
900, starved himself to death in his
home at Columbus, o.
In freight train wreck on the
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