Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-10-15
The News Condensed
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

dc So Shook was under the influence
of liquor at the time.
THE opera house and block of bust
ness houses at Paragould, Ark, were
destroyed by fire, entailing a heavy
loss.
l. II. SHrvELY, a young farmer al
Wichita, Kan, died at his home in
terrible agony from hydrophobia.
WILLIAM M. RUNK, of the extensive
dry goods firm of Darlington, Runl &
Co., committed suicide at his country
home at st. Davids, near Philadelphia.
A LOSS of $3.50, ZOO was caused by the
burning of Kinney Bros cigarette fac
tory in New York.
c. L. PETER, a son of Senator PETER,
was killed by the wreclsing of freight
train in Kansas, of which he was the
engineer.
ONE person was killed and several
others injured by collision of freight
trains near Binghamton, N. Y.
ALBEIT FOSTER, who was to have
been hanged for the murder of ex-Con-
gresham John b. Morgan, committed
suicide at Holly Springs, Miss.
TWENTY-FIVE men were injured,
some of them fatally, by the caving in
of tunnel near Worthingtou, Ky.
WILLIAM b. CUTTER, of Buffalo. N.
Y, was elected president of the Ma
tional Real Estate congress in session
at Buffalo.
Rev. EDWARD ELLIS, pastor of the
Bayview Baptist church of Milwaukee,
died suddenly in the First Baptist
church at Hudson, Wis, where he was
in attendance upon the Baptist state
anniversaries.
HoT SPRINGS. S. d., was visited by
an earthquake shock which lasted
thirty seconds, for the first time in it's
history, no great damage was done.
ALEXANDER KRoCKs and William OF.
to, frescoers, while working on the
fourth story of a building at Pitts
burgh, Pa, fell to the cellar from the
scaffold and were fatally injured.
GEORGE NJ. WITTAKER, editor of the
New England Farmer, was fatally in
jured by the overturning of tally-ho
near Boston. Several other persons
| were also more or less injured.
IN Lenone county, n. c., negro
farm-hand named Wakefield fatally
| shot and cut his wife and two colored
men.
GEORGE S. MCCULLOUGH, aged 20
years, and his grandson, Joseph Nc
Cullough, were killed by railroad
train at Excelsior Springs, Mo.
THE Sharon will case, which has been
hanging fire so long in the California
courts, has been finally settled, the su-
preme court declaring the so-called cer-
| IN Df hat -.
| Sharon and Sarah Althea Hill for
gerry.
JAMES ROGERS and his wife, an aged
couple, were found dead in the bed
room of their residence at Detroit. Gas
escaping from coal stove was sup
posed to have been the cause of the
calamity.
THE remains of Albert w. Johnston,
of Pierre, S. d., who recently disap-
peared, were found in Whisky Gulch
with note stating tnat he had shot
himself.
Mrs MICHAEL Cook was murdered
by an unknown person at La Porte, Ind.
A LAMP which exploded in a music
store at Santa Barbara, CAL, started a
fire that destroyed two business blocks
entailing heavy loss.
| WILLIAM j. JAMIsoN was sentenced
to be hanged at Quincy, ILL.,, for the
murder of eX-Supervisor Charles Aaron
last April
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 7th aggre-
gated 81, S03 352, ,Ol5, against 81, 057, sal,
07O the previous week. The decrease
as compared with the corresponding
week of 1891 was ST.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days end
ed on the 7th numbered 220, against 20s
the proceeding week and 27O for the
corresponding time last year.
The two hundred and ninth anniver.
sary of the first settlement of Germans
in America under Pastorious was cele-
brated at Philadelphia.
Mr.. AND Mrs. PEARsALL and grand
son, aged Z, were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed their home at
Sand Lake. Mich.
JOHN WILLIAMS and Mildred Brown
(colored) were hanged at Spartanburg,
S. c. Williams crime was the killing
|
and Mildred Brown, who is only thir.
teen years old, was hanged for the cruel
murder of baby.
ENGINEER ScHAFFER and Fireman
Johnston, of a switching engine at the
mines of the New York & Cleveland
Gas Coal Company, near Pittsburgh,
Pa, was smothered by the foul air in O
tunnel.
THE dead body of Dr. w. b. AlSerly
of Lisbon, Ia, who left his daughters
home, one mile west of Stanwood, Sep
tember 13, was found in field near the
road. He had been murdered ani
robbed.
AT Coatesville, Ind, Mrs. William
Sharp poured kerosene oil over hel
husband while he was asleep and ther
applied a match, burning him to death
The woman was insane.
AN attempt was made at Homestead
by an unknown person to blow up
non-union boarding-house with dyna
L 4 / 4