Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-05-28

on the SlSt were: Boston, .74l; BrOOk-
lyn, $40; Chicago, COZ; Cleveland, .577;
Louisville, .53s; Cincinnati, .536; Pitts
burgh, .519; New York, 800; Philadel-
phia, .444; Washington, .440; St. Louis,
.251; Baltimore, $50. The percentages
in clubs of the Western league were;
Columbus, .792; Milwaukee, .667; Kan
sas City, .526; Toledo, All; Omaha,
4Ss; st. Paul, .S13; Minneapolis, .S13;
Indianapolis, .167.
FLAMES at Brigham City, U. T., did
800, 900 worth of damage to business
houses.
Two CHILDREN were playing in barn
at Guttenburg, Ia, when it caught fire.
Their mother tried to save them, and
all perished.
A FIRE at Oswego, N. Y, practically
wiped out the milling and elevator in
terests in that city. The total loss was
estimated at $1,000. 600.
The factory of the Etna Pyrotechnic
Company at Hartford, Conn.,, blew up,
killing five persons.
BY the falling of the roof of the First
Methodist church at Pittsburgh, Pa,
two men were fatally and five seriously
injured.
SERBoRN SMITH was hanged in the
Jail at Covington, Ga, for criminal
assault upon 1S-year-old girl.
CHARLES STEWART, a prisoner in the
Perry county Jail at Morrillton, Ark,
was lynched by a mob for killing
Sheriff Holmes.
An express train on the Jacksonville,
Tampa & Key West railway was held
up near Sanford, Fla, by four masked
robbers who killed Express Messenger
w. n. Saunders, but were frightened
and escaped without securing any
money.
THIRTEEN persons were killed in a
wreck on the Cotton Belt road near
Goodman. Ark.
DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHAL E.
L. DRAKE killed two horse thieves,
William Miller and William Hostetter,
near Deep Forks. o. Il.
THE village of Chehallis, WASH, was
nearly wiped out of existence by fire.
A MESSAGE from Gen. Miles to Gen.
Howard was carried by bicycle riders
from Chicago to New York by a 975
mile route in 4 days, Is hours and 5
minutes more than schedule time.
THREE families, consisting of twelve
persons in all, were drowned by the
flood in Pemiscot county, Tenn. Three
fourths of the county was under water
and assistance was urgently needed.
THE flood situation between Cairo
and Memphis was serious, and it was
estimated that 500 horses and mules
and 1000 head of cattle had been
drowned and that 100000 acres of Guilt
waited farms We're under water.
Mrs. JOHN LUTEER and her 4-year-old
boy and Frank Goodrich, aged years,
lost their lives by the burning of barn
at Guttenburg, la.
FROM various points Il. the United
States siXty-three contract laborers
were returned to the countries whence
they came by the treasury department
at Washington.
In row at dance in a suburb of
Atlanta, Ga, three men were fatally
shot.
FLAMES that started in a lumber mill
at Spokane, Wash, caused loss of
S230,000. Three men were suffocated.
AT the Presbyterian general assem-
bly, in Portland the committee on the
revision of the confession of faith rem
dered its report recommending twenty
eight changes.
THE famous horse, Rarus, so long
king of the trotting turf, died of old age
at Robert Bonner's farm near Tarry-
town, n. V, aged 25 years.
BY the capsizing of boat at Arkan-
sas Pass, Tex, T. G. Tinghom and wife
and the daughter of Charles Pinckley
were drowned.
A MILWAUKEE man claims to have in
vented a self-regulating gas burner
that precludes the possibility of asphyX-
iation.
FARMERS in Illinois and Nebraska
have began to plant corn in the dis
tricts which were flooded.
Two MEN named Williams and Davis
fought with knives at O'Fallon, Mo-,
and both were fatally injured.
SHREVEPORT, La, has applied to
President Harrison for aid for the col
ored sufferers from the flood.
INDIANAPOLIS felt sharp shock OF
earthquake, lasting five seconds. No
damage was done.
In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 23d was: Wheat,
30,6O7, 600 bushels; corn, 2,272,000 bush
els; oats, 2,s62,O 900 bushels; rye, Ill.,
900 bushels: barley, $685. 900 bushels.
S. CHAMBLIss BRIGHAM, manager for
Col. George c. Phillips, who owns q
plantation on Island de Siard, La, was
shot and killed by an old negro. The
colored man asked Col. Phillips to hang
him and his request was granted.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE democrats of California in con-
vention at Fresno chose delegates to
Chicago instructed for Cleveland. The
| platform demands reform in the tariff
laws and the free and unlimited coinags