Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-06-04
DOMESTIC,

DOMESTIC,
NEARLY 10000 children marched il
the sixty-third annual parade of tn,
Brooklyn IN. W Sunday-school union
wATERSPouT burst over Kinsman
O., drowning six persons and destroy
ing buildings, stock and crops
DESPITE the floods Kansas expects tc
raise $4,000, 600 bushels of wheat and in
the central and western sections the
rain has proved benefit rather than 8
detriment.
AT Wichita Falls, Tex, an incendiary
lire in the hardware store of j. c.
Siegler caused a loss of 100000.
AS THE result of collision in mid
lake on Lake Michigan between the
passenger steamers Pilgrim and Kala-
mazoo the latter went to the bottom
and the former was badly damaged.
| No lives were lost
The Peoples bank of Sea Isle City,
n. j., has closed its doors.
! DARFLINGER's glass works at White
| Mills, Pa, were burned, the loss being
| 500, ,O00
Two CHILDREN were burned to death
| at Abner Gray's home in Lauderdale,
| Tenn.
Two OF the men who killed Express
Messenger Saunders near Palatka, Fla,
were shot dead by a sheriff's posse at
Buffalo Bluff, Fla.
A NATIONAL convention of those who
favor free bimetallic coinage of silver
commenced in Washington.
The treaty of commercial reciprocity
between Austro- Hungary and the
United States was proclaimed by Presi-
dent Harrison.
BETWEEN Cairo and Memphis there
were 100000 acres of land under water,
and the crops that were covered were
estimated as follows: Wheat, 125, 200
acres, $1,000, 900; corn, 100000 acres,
$1,000, 900; cotton, 100000 acres, So, ,OOo,-
600; land washed away, 1,sOO acres,
s1S,Ooo; homes destroyed, $4,000; cattle
drowned, $4,000. Total, S6,66s, 900.
PRESIDENT HARRISON gave reception
to about 700 delegates to the Home
Missionary society of the Congrega-
tional church.
The National Editorial association in
annual session at San Francisco elected
b. p. Brice, of Hudson, Wis, as presi-
dent.
The Methodist conference at Omaha
adjourned after voting to allow con-
ferences to decide to admit women as
delegates.
AT the annual meeting in Boston of
the United States Brewers association
Ellis Wainwright, of st. Louis was
elected president.
f. A. BEE, aged 76, for many years
Chinese vice consul at San Francisco,
dropped dead on the street.
NEBRASKANs celebrated at Lincoln
the twcnty-hfth anniversary of the ad-
mission of the state into the union.
{. +. MONTGOMERY, president of the
German national bank and wealthy
citizen of Lincoln, Neb., was shot and
instantly killed by w. H. Irvine, for
mer partner, who claimed that Mont
gomery had destroyed his home.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 27th aggregated
81, LAG, ,so5,69S, against 81 ,231, ,s99, 1877 the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was 12.1
AINsLEE, COCHRAN & Co., proprietors
of the Louisville (Ky.) foundry and ma
chine works. failed for S126, 900; assets,
S240, 600.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on |
the 27th numbered 1913, against 1872 the
preceding week and PAT for the corre-
spending week last year.
JAMES MCFARLAND, of Girard, o. was
lxil1al and T,n,,ic Af tla
place, fatally injured in railway col
lision near Niles, o.
ANincendiary fire destroyed the court
house and Jail at Henderson, Ky.
THE flood caused by the White and
Arkansas rivers in Arkansas entirely
swept away the towns of Hollendel,
Chicot City, Red Fork and Pendleton.
All the big plantations for 40 miles in
the Arkansas valley were utterly ruined
and many persons were drowned.
A CYCLONE passed over Wellington,
Kan, killing fifty or more persons and
injuring scores of others. The storm
passed directly through the center of
the town, wrecking everything in its
path. Hundreds of dwellings were
either totally destroyed or more or less
damaged. The devastation in the coun-
try was frightful.
STATE TREASURER WILSON estimates
that there are from $4,000 to Is, 900 per-
sons in Illinois who have suffered from |
floods and need help
THE fruit crops in the south of Eng |
land have been greatly damaged, if not |
destroyed, by terrific storm that |
passed over that section.