Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-07-16

GEORGE STONE (colored), and mur
derer of William Birkley, was hanged
al Fayetteville, Tenn
The town of Troy, w. Va, was
wiped out of existence by fire.
PROF CALVIN, of the state university
has been chosen as 1owa's state geolo-
gist to conduct new survey.
Cook & WAITBY's circus was wrecked
near McGregor, Ia, and thirty valu.
able horses were killed and several OF
the show people were injured.
FIRE destroyed the largest part of the
business district of Bethany, Mo-, the
loss being 100000.
NINE long-term prisoners escaped
from the state prison in Boston through
the sewer in the middle of the yard.
EDWARD O'KELLY, who killed Bob
Ford, the slayer of Jesse james, was
found guilty at Lake City, Col, of MUIR
der in the second degree.
IN the National league the percentages
of the baseball clubs for the week ended
on the 9th were: Boston, .70S; Brook
lyn, Gee; Philadelphia, GIG; Cincin-
natl, 577; Cleveland, .55S; Pittsburgh.
1856; Washington, ,472; Chicago, .44s;
New York, .443: st. Louis, .3S9; Louis
vile, .SS4; Baltimore, .254 The per-
centages in the new series in clubs of
the Western league were: Minneapolis,
.750; Columbus, .7l4; Milwaukee. 900:
Indianapolis, 900; Omaha, 429; Kan
sas City, .419; Toledo, 429; Fort
Wayne, $50.
The entire division of the national
guard of Pennsylvania, about 5000
men, has been ordered to Homestead by
Gov. Pattison to support Sheriff Nc
Cleary in suppressing the riots at that
place.
OSCAR W1ssINGER, aged go years. who
was divorced three months ago from
his wife at Springfield, o., shot her
dead and then killed himself. The
couple leaves eleven children.
FIRE practically destroyed the new
mining town of Biwabic, Minn.
BY a series of explosions at the
works of the Giant Powder Company
at Highland, Cal, property worth about
$3.50, 600 was destroyed and six persons
were killed and many were injured.
some fatally.
+. E. SPooNER, of Chicago, broke the
worlds bicyle record for twenty-four
hours, making S75 miles and 1,Gu5
yards, which is II miles and Is yards
better than the distance travelled by
Waller, of California, who had previous
ly held the record.
GEORGE SMITH was hanged at Sher-
man, Tex, for the murder of Marshal
Isbel, of Bells, Tex, in January, 1891.
The Ainsiie Milling Company at Port
land, Ore, failed with liabilities of
$500, 600 and assets 100000.
FIRE at the tannery of Wedkind,
& Bros. in Louisville, KY,
caused loss of 5000, 600.
For the first time in the history of
Dayton, O., all the saloons were closed
over Sunday.
GUsTAvE PORTS and his wife commit
ted suicide near White Plains, n. Y, by
hanging themselves. No cause known.
FIVE car manufacturing companies
effected a consolidation at New York
with capital of So, ZOO, 900.
The Texas Worlds Fair association
has decided to abandon all future at
tempts for the representation of the
state at the Coluin nbian exposition.
JUDGE JEPTHA ID. New, of the In
diana appellate court, committed sui
eide at his home in Mount Vernon by
shooting himself. III health was the
cause.
AT Cheyenne, Wyo, Richard Fleury,
r soldier, killed Jennie Poiguette be-
cause she refused to marry him and
then killed himself.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the l1th was: Wheat,
%, 124, 900 bushels; corn, 7,0S9, 900 bush
els; oats, 5,524, 900 bushels; rye, 237, 900
bushels; barley, 455, 600 bushels.
AN incendiary fred the barns of the
Salamander Company in Wood dbridge,
n. Y. and twenty-seven horses were
roasted
The governor of the Chickasaw ma
lion convened both branches of the |
the object being to appoint !
to the nations schools. |
RAIN has done great damage through
out central Tennessee. All streams
Ire swollen, lowlands inundated, and |
great loss of property has resulted.
FRANK BARNARD, cashier of the firm |
If Linn & Hall, of jackson City, Va,
Nbo iudhC pOOhS On UIle races, drew |
$4,000 of the firms money and skipped. |
mcconnell e. SHAws, sole-leather |
commission merchants in Boston, |
allied with liabilities of about $500, 900.
The new city directory for New York
makes the population of that city L.
Co., sos.
UNION and non union miners at the
lem and Frisco mines in the Ceur d.
Alene region of Idaho had pitched |
'attle in which nine men We're killed
md a mil. blown up.
A FIRE in Portland, Ore, burned
learly block of buildings, the loss be-
ng $3.50, 600.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
'any has refused any further credit to
he state of Kentucky. There is no
money in the state treasury and the
une bill remains unpaid.
HEAVY rains have flooded cotton
ands at Tuscaloosa, Ala, and vicinity,
ausing loss of over 100000
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
AT the Kansas democratic state con-