Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-05-21
DOMESTIC.

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body
DOMESTIC.
B, A. ScHoFIELD, of Ewing, Mich,
shot and killed his wife at Duluth,
Mimi, and then took his own life. Mrs.
Schofield had left her husband because
of his drinking.
THE wife and child of William Coon,
living near Prescott, Ia, were mur-
dered during the absence of Mr.. Coon
nephew named James Dooley, who
had disappeared, was thought to be the
criminal.
FOUR boilers exploded in lumber
mill at Midland, Mich, killing John
Allen, Eugene Valkenburg and Dick
Stears. Several other men were in
jured.
The new steel bridge across the Mis-
| sissippi river at Memphis, Tenn, was
| opened for traffic with imposing cere-
monies. The structure is nearly miles
long and cost So, 500, 600.
AT Cherokee, Cal. Jack Powers Jr.,
j. c. Hall and L. P. Hall were killed by
the caving in of the walls of mine in
which they were working.
REPORTS of the Michigan agricultural
department show the condition of
wheat to be slightly above last years
| average.
THOMAS A. MADDOX & Sons pottery
works at Trenton, N. j., were burned,
causing loss of $175.OOO.
A CYCLONE blew down every tent and
house in the new town of Cheyenne, in
| Oklahoma. No one was killed but sew
eral were badly hurt
| The caterpillars have made their ap-
| pearance in large numbers in North
Carolina and have stripped the forests
of all their leaves. They were moving
slowly westward
TwENTY-sEvEN houses were burned
in one of the best residence portions of
Savannah, Ga. Loss about $4,000
The territorial capitol at Santa Fe,
N. NJ, was totally destroyed by an in
cendiary fire. Loss, S250,000; no IN
surance. The records were saved
| The Childs-Drexel national home for
INDECENT printers was dedicated at
Colorado Springs, Col The building
cost $50. 900.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
| United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
| S1,231, ,297, ,204, against S1,2s0, ,6S3, 610 the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
| 1891 was 40.
THE auditors statement for April
shows that the total receipts for the
worlds fair from all sources to April
go were IS, 1sG, 7l7.22. The disburse-
ments were S5,277, ,Ss3.22, leaving bal
ance of So, 9OS, 1874.
failures during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered IT'S, against 2O9 the
preceding week and 2S7 for the corre-
spending week last year.
THE dwelling house of Walter Fitch
at Spades, Ind, was burned and Mrs.
Leah Fitch and Mrs. Knapp, the house
keeper, were burned to death.
EDWARD ZEHMER, a general store
keeper at Perrysville, Pa, shot his wife
and sister-in-law, Mrs. Rapp, and then
committed suicide. No cause known.
The executive board of the knights
of Labor, in session at Pittsburgh, Pa,
| decided to ask all farmers not to buy
| footwear unless it is union made.
The secretary of the treasury and the
director of the mint have approved the
plan suggested by the worlds fair man.
| agement that $40, 100000 in fifty-cent
pieces be struck off with designs ap-
propriate to the eXposi ton.
| ETIENNE DEsCHAMPs was hanged at
New Orleans for the murder of 13-year-
old Juliet Deitsch; Elijah Cheavers was
executed in Ware county, Ca, for the
murder of Sheriff Culpepper, and Cole
man Wilson, who murdered d. f. Ad-
kins, in McDuffy county, Ga, was also
| hanged
RESOLUTIONS were adopted at TIE
| deep waterway convention in Memphis
| that congress should make liberal ap-
| preparations to improve the Mississippi
and it's tributaries.
The Missouri river WAS nearly foot
above the danger line at Kansas City
and the flats were flooded. AT ST.
Louis the water was higher than it had
been at any time since 1883. Reports
from other points in Missouri and from
Kansas were to the effect that the
waters were steadily rising, doing great
damage.
DURING the season just closed 5,354,'
| $50 bushels of oysters were measured
In maryland.
ALL the bodies of the victims of the
recent gas explosion in the mine al
Roslyn, Wash, have been recovered
The total number is forty-three. Abou,
250 children are left fatherless.