Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-08-27
The News Condensed.
lmpotant Inte!Iigenee From AII Pata
DOMESTIC.

AN incendiary fire destroyed the busi-
ness part of Ashville, Pa.
STANLEY A. AUSTEN, the paymaster
| of the Upson Nut Company ut Cleve-
land, o., confessed to having embezzled
$40, OOO
CARROLL RUTHERFORD, a wealthy ne
gro at Memphis, Tenn, killed his wife
in a fit of jealousy and then took his
own life.
AT Fall River, Mass, Charles H.
Pecltham, 80 years old, confessed to the
murder of Mr.. and Mrs Andrew j.
Borden. He was said to be insane.
Mrs. HENRY EBERLY, of Wooster, o.,
attempted to drown her three children
in a barrel of water. Their cries
brought men to their rescue. The
woman was insane.
Two-THIRDs including the business
section, of the town of Delta, o., was
destroyed by fire.
AT the Washington park race course
in Chicago Hal Pointer paced a mile in
2:054, the fastest harness record in the
world either at the trotting or pacing
gait.
In a fight with soldiers and miners
on the 18th at Coal Creek, Tenn,
twelve of the latter were killed and
over fifty were wounded.
AT Fern Leaf, Ky, Buck Stroud fred
four pistol balls into Fleming Williams,
killing him instantly. 1t was claimed
| Williams insulted Stroud's sister.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
| United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated
81, 1,OO9, IA, sS9, against 81, 600, O22, 5S4 the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was 0.5.
AT Pendleton, Ore, Frederick Zorn
was hanged for the murder of his wife
and mother-in-law near Milton last Oc-
| tober.
BY the running away of their horse
and overturning of their carriage
| Thomas Lee and wife, of ST. Clair,
| Tenn, were instantly killed.
MARY GooDTNG, aged 81 years, and
Harry Goodwin, both of Catlin, Md,
have just been married, They had been
engaged twenty-seven years.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 10th numbered 172, against 1S9 the
preceding week and 1919 for the corre-
spending week last year.
FIRE destroyed the entire business
portion of Geneva, O., and it was esti-
mated that the loss would reach S175,-
600.
A CLoUDBURsT occurred at Freeman,
Pa, town of 5000 inhabitants, which
nearly destroyed the entire place. 1t
was feared that several persons had
been drowned.
The Amalgamated association and
the iron manufacturers of Youngstown,
o., have agreed upon a scale of
wages and over 10000 men in the val
ley would return to work at once.
IT was estimated that $4,000 acres of
wheat in North Dakota had been de-
stroyed by the recent hailstorms.
AFTER battle lasting two hours the
miners at Coal Creek, Tenn, surren-
dered to Gen. Carnes. Two men were
killed and several wounded.
AT Hillsboro, Tex, Warren Fisher
slapped his 1S-year-old sister for some
petty misdemeanor, and she picked up
carving knife and fatally stabbed
him. She would not be arrested on
account of her tender age
| THE board of control of the worlds
fair have decided to issue over l2O, 600
invitations for the dedicatory exercises
in October.
By the explosion of gasoline stove
at Chino, Cal, the house of an engineer
named Wright was destroyed and his
wife and 3-year-old child were burned
to death.
STATE TREASURER MORRISON has thus
far paid out S152, 900 on account of the
service of troops at Homestead, Pa.
CHARLES EVANS, the murderer OF
Sheriff w. H. Cook, of st. Tammany
parish, was hanged at Covington, La
DAN MoRIARTY, an old man, was
locked up at Mondori, Wis. for being
drunk His pipe set fire to the Jail and
he was burned to death.
OFFICERS have been compelled tc
guard the Yaston coal mines at Fair.
mount, w. Va, on account of the re-
placing of union men with non-unior
lahorers.
AS THE result of poor patronage the
Des Moines Qa.) trotting races were
declared off and claims for $50, 900 were
filed in court against the Driving Park
association.
In the second series of the National
league the percentages of the baseball
clubs for the week ended on the 2Ott
were: Cleveland, .710; New York.. $50
Philadelphia, .5Sl; Brooklyn, ,5Sl; Bos
ton, .533; Pittsburgh, .533; Baltimore
800; Louisville, .467; Cincinnati .419
Chicago, .9s7; Washington, .367; st
LOUIS, 1913.
FIRE in the furniture house of Shive
Rick e Co. at Omaha, Neb., did damage
to the amount of 100000.
AT the farm of Jacob Bayless in Mis-
sissipnawa township, o., William Jones
and Cal Armstrong were struck by
lightning and instantly killed,
THE body of the famous Cardiff giant
which has been buried under livery
stable in Independence, Ia, for twenty
years, has been eXhumed.
The Frisco east-bound passenge
train was held up about . miles east o
Augusta, Kan, and two valuable safe
of the Wells Fargo express robbed o