Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-11-05

| wife in the shoulder and then killed
himself. Since his return from the
| arctic regions Bartlett's mind has been
weak.
| AT Kansas City, Kan, Mrs. Clara
Seiger, aged 65 years, put pistol ball
! through the head of her 4-year-old
| grandson, Frank Volckers, and then
| fred shot into her own brain. No
cause was known.
SEVERAL business blocks were burned
at st. Johnsbury, VT, the loss being
$780, and man and his wife were
cremated.
A BUILDING in Chicago occupied by
the Tudor Buggy Company and other
manufacturers was burned, the loss be-
| ing S10U, 900.
A COW caused the wreck of train
on the Newport News e Mississippi
| Valley road at Gordon Station, Ky,
and the engineer was killed and the
| fireman and q colored man fatally
| hurt.
SUPERINTENDENT CHIsLETT, of Crown
Hill cemetery at Indianapolis, has Sc
lected six men from among the en-
ployes at the burying ground to guard
Mrs. Harrison's grave.
THE boiler of the steamer Wakefield
exploded off Maryland point, Va, and
three colored men were killed.
EDWARD c. SOLAR and Miss Ella Cole,
of Scranton, Pa, were killed by the
cars near Lehigh while returning home
from a visit to friends.
ALLEN PARKER (coloreD was lynched
by mob at New Monroeville, Ala,
for burning cotton gin.
FURTHER advices say that the great
fire in Milwaukee sweep over thirteen
blocks of business houses and resi-
dences, containing 465 buildings in all,
caused the loss of four lives, destroyed
property valued at SIS, 500, 900 and made
$500 persons homeless.
The town of Gallery junction, Pa,
was almost entirely destroyed by fire.
SIX fast horses, valued at $4,000,
were lost in fire at Milo Thomlinson's
barn near Indianapolis.
The Euclid Avenue opera house at
Cleveland was burned, the loss sbeing
estimated at 100000
l.. III. DRIscoLL, an aeronaut, was
fatally injured by falling so feet from
his balloon while making an ascension
at Harper, Kan.
THE Phoenix national bank at
Phoenix, n. Y, was robbed of 81, 900 in
cash.
FLAMES among shipping in Philadel-
phia caused loss of nearly 100000.
WHILE delivering a temperance lee
ture at Grand Army hall in South Nor
walk, Conn, Henry S. Leer, aged 62,
fell from the stage and died of apo
plexy.
WILLIAM d. FULLER was arrested in
Boston for passing counterfeit silver
dollars, and he confessed that he had
put over $50, 600 of the spurious coin on
the market.
Two MEN We're killed and one fatally
hurt as result of collision of train
with a hand car of the Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha road near
Sioux City, Ia.
THE building of the Chicago Athletic
association, almost ready for occu-
pancy, was partially destroyed by fire,
involving loss of about 100000
BY proclamation President Harrison
has extended the benefits of the Ameri.
can copyright act to Italy.
REUBEN JONES, member of the state
senate, dropped dead near the capitol
in Atlanta, Ga
JOHN COLLINS and Jacob Krell were
killed at La Porte, Ind, by falling from
buildings.
In fire in a dwelling house near
Des Moines, Ia, the three children of
George Cage and their grandmother
were burned to death.
w of Gov
cisco, has purchased the celebrated
stallion Ormonde, the peer of the Eng
| lish turf, from the Rothschilds, for
| $780,
WHILE walking on the railroad track
| at Akron, o., w. j. Golden and Robert
| II. Conley were struck by train and
| killed.
JAKE WINTERS, who had not washed
or shaved himself for twenty-fve,years,
died in Carson, New, aged 90 years.
| THE Grunewald opera house in New
Orleans was destroyed by fire, involv-
ing loss of 100000.
THE Pennsylvania railroad is expert
menting in the matter of lighting its
track with electricity, and, if success
full, it is proposed to place powerful
arc light on every telegraph pole along
the line
| T.. c. OBRIEN, commissioner of navi-
cation, in his annual report to the sec
retary of tie treasury notes an in
crease in the tonnage of shipping on
the great lakes from 1859 tons in
1882 to 1,1S3, 5S2 tons in 1892, and says
it now embraces fleet of large steam
vessels, models of beauty and efficiency,
which are offering unequaled transpor-
tation services
| Mrs. SUSAN MANAK, one of the Es-
quimaux colony on the worlds fair
grounds in Chicago, gave birth to the
first child born on the grounds, and it
was named Columbia Susan Manak.
In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 3lst ult. was: Wheat,
l6l, ,635, 900 bushels; corn, 81 295, 600 bush
els; oats, s,465, 900 bushels; rye, 1,O4s,
900 bushels; barley, 2,S01, 900 bushels.
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