Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-06-11


Cleveland, 800: New York, .4s7; Louis
vile, .446; Washington, .421; ST. Louis,
.S41; Baltimore, 1881. The percentages
in clubs of the Western league were:
Columbus, 1855; Milwaukee, .654 Kan
sas City, 1856; Toledo, $40; Mime
apolis, Ar; Omaha, 414; Fort Wayne,
1854: Indianapolis. 100.
A DYNAMITE bomb was exploded in
the house of j. r. Turner, a jeweler at
Kensington, Pa, killing Turner and
young lady named Scheffer. Turner's
wife and two Children were badly in
iured. The author of the crime was
unknown.
NEARLY every building in 'Jimtown,"
the main part of Creede camp, in Col
orado, was destroyed by fire. The loss
will be about 81, 100000.
THE Platte valley bank at Central
City, one of the Oldest and wealthiest
institutions in Nebraska. closed its
doors. 1t was said Cashier Starrett had
lost $4,000 bulling corn at Chicago.
A PASSENGER train collided with an
excursion train filed with negroes near
Carrollton, KY, and four persons were
killed and twenty-five were injured,
several dangerously.
A FARMER named Loewe, aged As
years, and his two sons, aged II and Is
years, were drowned by being carried
over dam in a boat near Milwaukee.
BURGLARS entered the house of S. d.
Spratt at Indianapolis, chloroformed
the occupants and made off with S3, 500
in cash.
ROBERT T. DAY was hanged at Kala-
ma, Wash, for the murder of T. c. Bee
be last October.
JAMES DooLEY, the murderer of Mrs.
Coons and her s-year-old daughter at
Prescott Ia, May II last, has been sem
fenced to be hanged June of next year.
THREE men were instantly killed and
two others hurt by lightning at Gaines
vile. Ga.
Col, PARKS, the negro who murdered
Mrs. McDonough and daughter near
Brenham, Tex, has been found guilty
and sentenced to death.
A CYCLONE at McCook, Neb., de-
stroyed the Congregational church and
other buildings and injured many per-
sons.
The training stable at Woodburn
farm, near Lexington, KY, was burned,
and nine valuable horses were cre-
mated.
A CLoUDBURsT flooded Oil City, Pa,
and the surrounding country and leak
ing oil tanks covered the inundation
with oil and benzine, which took fire,
and soon everything was sea of
flames. The loss of life in Oil City and
Titusville was estimated at $50, and the
property loss was placed as follows:
Titusville, S1,5O0, 900; Oil City, $780,
600: Cory, 500, 900; Meadville, $3.50. 900.
and surrounding country probably a
million more.
Snow to the depth of 8 inches on the
level fell near Cheyenne, Wyo., causing
severe loss to cattle and sheep herds.
RUDOLPH HACKER, a cigar manufac-
turer, and Mrs. Louise Plum, wife of
Jacob Plum, baker, were found suffo-
Gated in a room in Chicago. They had
turned on the gas and took their own
lives.
CHARLES CARR and his wife were
crushed to death by an electric car at
Omaha, Neb.
FURTHER advices state that by the
catastrophe in the oil regions of Penn
sylvania over 200 persons were burned
to death or drowned and two or three
millions of property were consumed in
| Oil City and Titusville, besides great
| damage to property in other localities
near by owing to inundation. The to.
| tai property loss will reach probably
about SIS, 900, ,OOO Thousands have lost
| their homes and large manufacturing
| interests have been wiped out. Sixty
seven bodies have thus far been recov-
cred at Oil City and fifty-slx at Titus
VILE Eighteen miles of death and des,
| olatio n is the story in brief.
The levee protecting the Hunt drain
age district below Warsaw, ILL.,, broke
flooding thousands of acres of ricl
farming lands and causing great de
struction to property.
| A CLoUDBUsT between Harold ant
Blunt, S. d., flooded large section o
the country, doing great damage, ant
Mrs. X. NJ. Foote and three children
were drowned.
The bodies of five dead babies wer'
found under sidewalk at Twenty
second street and Armour avenue
Chicago.
JOHN c. BROWN, of Saginaw, Mich.
one of the most extensive logging con
tractors in the northwest. failed fo
Sl15, 600 and nominal assets of $4,000
The United States will exhibit il
the government building at the world
fair specimens of the various imple
ments used by the army since l776.
CHARLES LEE, the Dubuque Ia.) bo
convicted of murder for completely il
the killing of street car driver, wa
sentenced to twenty years in the pen
tentiary.
! AFTER shutdown of nearly thre
months the Spreckles sugar refinerie
at Philadelphia resumed operation:
nearly 1000 men going TO work.
EDWARD MCMILLAN. who killed hi
wife February 20, 1891, was hanged a
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
A COMPANY with capital of $4,000
OOO was orpaniZed in New York to buil