Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-04-09
SAFES of leaf tobacco at panville. Va.

JOHN MCNAMARA aged 10 years, son
OF wealthy Brighton (Mass.) con-
tractor, was arrested for perjury. When
his father learned Of his sons disgrace
he dropped dead.
A CYCLONE in Kansas wiped out the
village of Towanda and destroyed prop
erty in many other other places. Over
thirty persons were killed and many
others were injured, some fatally. Ter
rife storms also swept over portions of
Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and
Wisconsin, leaving death and destruc-
tion in their wake. In South Haven,
Kan, the entire family of John Bury
MASTER five in all, were killed. and the
family of William Little, five in num-
ber, perished at Wellington, Kan.
A LAWYERS surety company has been
| formed in New York city with capi-
tai of S500,0 900. Its business is to fur
nish bonds as surety in law suits.
The department of state at Washing
ton is advised that at present there are
seventy Canadian seal poachers in the
Behring sea, against ffty-one at this
time last year. ..
THE recent cyclone in Kansas swept
away every building in the villages of
Vine Creek, Smolar and Oakville, and
thirty of the best residences in Omaha,
Neb. Other towns We're badly dam
aged. The total loss of life was placed
at sixty.
WALTER e. SHAW has confessed that
| he killed his mother and aunt with a
razor at Houston, Tex, in order to get
$40 with which to continue spree.
A FIRE in New Orleans destroyed sO,-
| 600 bales of cotton and six squares of
residences, causing loss of $780, oO0
| The fire started from cigarette which
| some person threw among the cotton.
Four men have been indicted for the
murder of Banker Mead, of Waupaca,
| Wis, in 1882.
The disclosure of crime made by
Rev. DIR. ParlShurst has caused the clos
ing of saloons in New York city at mid
night and all day on Sundays.
DowNING's carriage works and the
grain elevators of Phineas & Croach at
Erie, Pa, were burned, the loss being
100000.
NEAR Huntington, WA, Allen Har-
| rison shot and instantly killed Bette
| Adams because she refused to marry
| him.
THOUSANDS of window panes in resi-
dences and in store buildings at Bur-
| lington, Kan, were broken during q
| hailstorm.
The New York Grant monument, it is
said, will be completed in 1898.
BURGLARS stole $4,000 worth of
Omaha-San Francisco tickets from the
union depot at Omaha, Neb.
IN the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 4th was: Wheat,
Al ,02S, 900 bushels; corn, II, $50, 900 BUSH
els: oats, 3,692, 900 bushels; rye, 1,643,-
600 bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels.
| SIX sisters named Harvey, who had
held up stages several times in Idaho,
were captured by sheriff and his posse
near Salmon City.
AT Scottdale, Pierson and Browns
town, in Pennsylvania, windstorm
blew down and unroofed many build
ings.
NEAR Bosworth, Mo-, houses We're
| destroyed by a windstorm and several
persons were badly injured.
THE small village of Barnhill, H.,
was swept by a cyclone, and only three
houses were left standing. No lives
were lost.
Miss CORA SrUBBE, of Springfield,
ILL.,, aged 25, who has been dumb from
infancy, has begun to lisp few sylla-
bles to the surprise of the medical pro-
| fession.
| A FREIGHT train on the Chesapeake
& Ohio was derailed in West Virginia
| by bowloer, the engine was thrown
into the river, and the engineer, fire.
man and n brakeman killed.
WILLIAM l.. BARNETT, of Morris. ILL.,,
who murdered his wife last November,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
| imprisonment for life.
| YETTA OTTESs, Lubbe Grecde and a
man named Lohman, of Fulton, ILL.,,
were drowned in the Mississippi while
attempting to cross from Clinton, Ia,
| in a small boat.
Gov. BOYD has issued proclamation
calling on the people of Nebraska to
aid the cyclone sufferers of Nelson and
vicinity.
IN New York city on the 4th the ther.
mometer marked "A degrees, the hottest
day on record there at this season OF
| eic year.
A SEVERE windstorm passed over
eastern and western Arkansas. doing
great damage.
BoAT containing pleasure party
of six was carried over dam ne,lr
Coleraine, Mass, and five of the occu
pants, two ladies and three men, were
drowned
CHARLIE WARD, one of the most
notorious criminals of the United
States, will be released from the state
penitentiary at Columbus, o., April 15
He is over 70 years of age and has
spent tifty-two years of his life in
prison.
BILLY MURPHY, half-brced Indian
in the Tellico mountains of Tennessee
killed his fifth man. de sayshe is going
to kill ten before he stops. No one dare:
attempt to arrest him.
ANOTHER terrific windstorm swept
over Kansas, doing great damage al