Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-12-17
DOMESTIC.

MEREDITH STANLEY jumped in sue
cession from the five bridges across the
Ohio at Cincinnati The height ranged
from 100 to 100 feet. Time, one hour
and twenty minutes
DR. CHARLES K. KEyEs, assistant
state geologist, has discovered rich
nickel ores near Keolkuk. Ia. This is
the first discovery of the kind ever an
nounced from Iowa.
A BUILDING at Burlington, Ind, oc-
cupied by John A. Graham for saloon
purposes, was blown up by dynamite
and completely destroyed.
The great Mercer county (O.) gas
field has given out. A total population
of 800, 600 was dependent upon the field
and more than 1000 industries would
be compelled to close on this account.
A TERRIFIC blizzard prevailed in
Kansas, stopping all railway traffic
and freezing to death hundreds of cat
tie.
DURING the season just closed ninety
five lives We're lost in navigating the
great lakes. The death list is much
longer than for many years in the lake
marine. In property the losses of the
| season aggregate 81, 050, 900.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER in his
annual report to congress says that
| during the fiscal year 1892 the expenses
| of his department aggregated So, 74S.-
239. .OS, and 1909 civil suits and lS,T24
criminal prosecutions were terminated.
/ The attorney general says that the in
crease in the number of southern war
claims (now aggrcgating $500, 900, ,000)
is a subject that demands the imme-
diate attention of congress. The num-
ber of convicts pardoned by the presi-
dent during the year was II out of sos
applications. Sentences were COM
muted in 50 cases.
JAMES HARGUs, Of Nevada, NO.. IA
tally shot Miss Pearl Mann because
she refused to marry him and then
killed himself.
JACOB B. CRowELL, of Greencastle,
Pa. was buncoed out of $1,000 in the
usual way by man who wanted to
buy farm"
AFTER long fight the home for dis
abled and INDECENT confederate veterans
has been accepted by the Georgia legis-
lature.
JOHN S. MCDONALD, assessor of the
by the upsetting of q lamp.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER
sent an order to New York for 3,OO0,-
100000 Columbian postage stamps, to
be delivered in 1893
In a railway collision on the Central
road in Jersey City, N. j., young
woman was fatally injured and ten
other persons were badly bruised.
The city armory at Cleveland, o.,
was completely gutted by fire, the loss
being S10O. 600.
THE jefferson woolen mills at Jeffer.
sonville, Mass, were burned, the loss
being 100000.
THE relief committee at Homestead
Pa. is caring for seventy-five families
which are destitute as a result of the
strike.
A POLL of both branches of congress
on the subject of restriction of immi
grafton shows that siXty-three senators
and 1856 representatives favor restric-
tion, while sixteen senators were non
committal.
The Rock Island railway telegrapher.
went on a strike. and it was thought
they would be joined in their struggle
by the conductors and switchmen.
In the United States the leading
clearing houses reported exchanges O
81, = 450, 562, ,s72 during the seven day,
ended on the 9th, against 81, 1882, ,96G, 3s'
the previous seven days. AS compared
with the corresponding week of 1s9
the increase was 1873.
Il. II. PAuLLsoN, aged 55, a wealthy
Detroit (Mich.) man, killed himsel
with revolver at hotel in Boston.
WILLIAM RAMSEY. a pioneer farme
of Sunman, Ind, so years old, wa
mangled to death by hog.
Gov FLOWER has pardoncd Poll.
Frisch, who, il, 1859, was indicted il
Genesee county, N. Y, for killing he
husband and two children by poison
ing them and sentenced to life i'm
, prisonment.
DENNIS MCCARTHY and Stephen Hit
(white) and Grant Thomas and Nelso
Lewis (colored) were hanged from tn
; same scaffold in the jailyard at Louis
, vile, KY, for murder. This was tn
: first quadruple hanging in the state.
!. JAMES NEEDLES and Frank Levi
: fought during revival in church i
! Monroe township, o., and both wer
, fatally injured.
REV. MR. LIGHTFooT, colore
: preacher, was assassinated by ban
!. of negroes at a church II miles west c
Newport. Ark.