Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-07-02

Males, S2,06T, $50; females, 30,554,370
native born, 5S,372, 708; foreign born,
9,249, 547. The population as whole
increased during the decade froIi 1880
to 1890, 2,466, 467, or 24.s6 per cent.
LOT SMITH, a noted Norman bishop
and ex-Danite leader, was killed by the
Navajo Indians, near Flagstaff, A. T.
IT is now n settled fact that the poet
Whittier will write the opening ode for
the worlds fair at Chicago.
In the National league the percentages
of the baseball clubs for the week ended
on the 25th were: Boston, M; Phila-
delphia, .627; Brooklyn, .62l; Cincin-
natl, 56l; Cleveland, .559; Pittsburgh,
.475; Chicago, .474; Washington, 467;
New York, .44S; st. Louis 800; Louis
vile, 800; Baltimore, .254. The per-
centages in clubs of the Western league
were: Columbus .643; Milwaukee,
sos; Omaha, 511; Toledo, 500; Kansas
City, .479; Minneapolis, .447; Fort
Wayne, 1906; Indianapolis. .2S2.
AN explosion at the Consumers iron
works in New Orleans demolished a
portion of the building, killing five per-
sons. ....
THE Mississippi river at Burlington
Ia, was is miles wide and rising rap
idly, causing great damage to property.
THE supreme council of the United
Commercial Travellers Association of
America in session at Columb bus, o.,
elected as supreme councillor w. A.
johnson, of Cincinnati.
HENRY NoRBERG, a real estate dealer
at Portland Ore, shot and killed his
sweetheart, Augusta Shogrena, and
then put bullet through his own brain.
JACK WEIGH and Michael McManus,
of San Francisco, were both fatally in
jured as the result of family feud.
The body of DIR. Henry NJ. Scudder,
who committed suicide in Chicago Jail,
where he was confined on the charge of
numbering his mother-in-law, Mrs. Ma
ry Dunton, was cremated at the Mount
Olivet crematory at Fresh Pond, l.. 1.
The Keystone express on the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne e Chicago railroad
went over an embankment near Val
paraiso, Ind, killing Charles Miller,
the fireman, and injuring nine passen-
gers.
AUGUST Harding, of st. Louis in a fit
of jealousy shot his wife and then shot
himself.
YALE observed at New Haven, Conn,
the 191st anniversary of the founding of
the college.
AT Paris, Ark, County Treasurer
Thomas E. Fuller was robbed of S45,-
600 of the money belonging to Logan
county.
c. j. RIEGERs became involved in
fight with three negresses in st. Louis,
and one of them literally cut him to
pieces with n razor.
By the breaking of a dyke the Chi
cago suburban towns of Grand Cross
ing, Fordham and Dauphin Park were
under water, and thousands of dollars
worth of property ruined.
f. j. RYAN, wanted in Washington,
d. c., where he robbed the United
States Express Company of $780, 900, was
arrested in Denver. Col.
JOHN and Cornelius Kearns and Frank
Schlicht were drowned while bathing
in pond in Chicago.
By the failure of the First national
bank at Erie, Kan, Neosho county
loses $500
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 27th was: Wheat,
1865, 900 bushels; corn, 6,213, 600 bush
els; oats, 4,132, 900 bushels; rye, 327 900
bushels; barley, 329 600 bushels.
A LEATHER trust, with capital of
sl,O00,O0O, was formed in Trenton. n. j.
A TEXAS steer running wildly
through the streets of Brooklyn. n. Y.
fatally injured Richard Burke and
Henry Hertzog
A CYCLONE swept over Titusville, Pa,
wrecling houses and doing other dam
age. No lives were lost, but several
persons were injured.
THE first national convention of pub
lie readers and teachers of elocution
begun at New York with leading elo-
cutionists present from different por-
uions of the United States and Canada.
GILBERT PALMER and Emma Conklin,
of Port William, o., took poison to-
gether and died.
The steamer Vega, from Lisbon,
which was five days overdue and sup
posed to have been in collision at sea
with sailing vessel. has arrived at New
York.
Miss A. HANCoX shot and fatally
wounded w. N. Houston at Cardonia,
Ind, the elimination of family fued.
w. NJ. BATES was taken from jail at
Shelbyville, Tenn, by a mob and
hanged Bates was charged with MUIR
dering his wife, but died protesting his
innocence.
A CYCLONE at Fort Yates, S. D., killed
four Indians.
The relief party for the rescue of
Lieut.. Perry and his colleagues, who are
impri soned by the ice in the Polar re-
gions, sailed from Brooklyn, n. Y.
IT was said that Treasurer Dann's
stealings of the National savings bank
funds OF Buffalo, n. Y, would exceed
5000 900
A TERRIFIC rain and windstorm passed
over eastern Pennsylvania, doing great
damage at Reading, Chester, Hamburg
and other places.
THE National bank at Goshen, N.
Y, closed its doors, and William NJ.