Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-11-19
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
THE non-union boarding house of
Mrs. Marley in Sharpsburg, Pa, was
blown up with dynamite, hut no one
was injured
FRANZ HELBING, n mail carrier for
seventeen years, committed suicide at
Leavenworth, Kan.
The Venango county almshouse at
Sugar Creek, Pa, was burned, the loss
being $500, 900. The 100 inmates were
rescued without serious injury.
The general committee. on missions
of the Methodist Episcopal church in
session at Baltimore appropriated
S1,275, 900 for missions in the coming
year.
The treasury department at Wash
ington has arranged for the immediate
shipment of 100000 half-dollar silver
pieces to the United States mint at
Philadelphia for coinage into souvenir
half-dollar coins for the worlds fair.
1t is expected that the first lot of the
souvenir coins will be completed by the
close of the present year.
A FREIGHT and passenger train on
the Missouri Pacific collided near
Pleasant Hill. Mo-, and several per-
sons were injured.
WILLIAM +. KECK, who was to have
been hanged at Allentown Pa, for
murder died in his cell of nervous pros
tration.
THE business part of Camden, Me-,
was practically wiped out by fire.
A FAST freight train dashed into the
caboose of the local freight which
was standing on the track at Highland
Center, Ia, telescoping the caboose
and four cars. The caboose caught
fire and Miss Lizzie Battordoff, Mrs.
Jones, Joseph Thornton and an un-
known woman were burned to death.
FIRE at Nickerson, Kan, destroyed
four of the principal business houses.
IN an election row at Big Rock Creek,
N. c., knives were freely used. Four
teen men were seriously wounded, six
fatally.
OCEAN steamers arriving in New
York report great storms at sea and
that submerged and capsized wrecks
were drifting about in mid-ocean.
The amalgamated council virtually
surrendered and the great strike at
New Orleans is over. They abandoned
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union and agreed to arbitrate the ques-
tions of time and wages and to allow
the merchants to retain the men en-
ploycd.
The representatives of the United
States to the international monetary
conference at Brussels have sailed on
their mission. 1t is believed they were
instructed to use all the influence of
the United States toward securing an
agreement by which the parity of silver
and gold may be established.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States exchanges during the
week ended on the 11th aggregated
| S1,176, l59, 1913, against S1.39S, T9S, 44S the
| previous week The decrease as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
| 1891 was ILL.,
A FIRE in the large peanut factory of
| the Merchants and Farmers Company
| at Norfolk, Va, caused loss of $780,
| 600.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended
| on the 11th numbered 2l0, against 23s
| the preceding week and 291 for the cor
| responding time last year.
AUDITOR ACKERMAN has furnished
| another statement of worlds fair
| finances which shows that the total re-
! ceipts to November were S11. .416,-
| 677S1 and the disbursements S11 ,O63,
313.1s.
MARY MORRIS, an old lady living
| miles southeast of Kokomo, Ind, was
burned to death in her bed by fire from
her pipe.
In view of the possibility of fresh
| outburst of cholera in European coun-
tries in the spring and the consequent
danger of it's introduction into the
United States immigration will bc
| generally discouraged and the PR
visions Of President Harrison's procla-
nation OF September l, imposing n
quarantine of twenty days on all sus.
| pccted immigrants, will be vigorously
enforced.
ERNEST G. TAIME, fifth auditor of the
treasury department, states in his an
nual report that the relief of seamen
during the year cost the government
$34, 900.
THREE cannon-32. Founders, weigh
ing 5,7OO pounds each-have been
| placed in position to mark Capt. Miles
Standish's grave at Duxbury, Mass.
THREE train robbers held up train
at Adairsville, Ca, but were driven of
without any booty.
DR.. LEWIS SWIFT, of Rochester, N.
Y, saw a new comet, making six now
visible in the heavens.
ARTHUR w. WUELLMEAs, a French
man, will begin fifty-day fast in
Cleveland on December 5, under the
auspices of the western reserve univer.
sity medical college.
STATE TREASURER MORRISON says the
total valuation of Pennsylvania is
S59l, 107, 55S. 81, an increase of over S15,.
100000 as compared with 1891.
Two more bodies have been found in
the yard of the house formerly occupied
by the Maxim family at Redfern, N. S.
w., making thirteen bodies thus fan
unearthed.