Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-02-25
DOMESTIC,

BUcKsTAFF's vitrified paving brick
works were buried at Lincoln, Neb.
The plant was valued at S2OO.0OO
ScHEELER QUILLAN and John Ewing,
railroad laborers, fought with pistols
over girl near Catlettsburg, KY, and
both were killed.
REV. E. NJ. BUswELL, leader of the
Christian science faith healers, was in.
dicted by grand jury at Beatrice,
Neb., for illegally practicing the art OF
healing
The funeral of the late DR.. Norvln
Green, president of the Western Union
Telegraph company, took place in
Louisville, KY, and the remains were
inferred at Calvary Hill cemetery.
The republicans seem to have won
the battle at Topeka, Kan, Gov. Lew
elling having given them possession of
the Legislative hall, withdrawing the
militia ard sending the populists to
another room. The deputy marshals
were also withdrawn. This action of
the governor was to afford temporary
settlement of the difficulty or until the
courts could decide it.
JOE DoNoGHUE, the amateur cham
pion skater, was defeated in FIVE
mile race at Red Bank, n. j., by John
S. johnson, of Minneapolis. Johnson's
time was 1s minutes and seconds.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued n
proclamation creating the Sierra forest
reserve, compromising 5000 square
miles in the counties of Mercer Fresno,
Tulare and Kern, California.
The sulphite pulp mill, owned by
the Richards Paper company, in South
Gardiner, Me-. was burned, the loss be-
ing S20O,0 insurance, $3.50. 600.
WILLIAM Mccoy, a negro, who mur-
dered his mistress. Molly McGruder, in
Kansas City, on the night of April 6,
1891, was hanged at Lexington, Mo.
In a riot between teamsters and la
borers at Mark Center, O., over immi-
grafton some fifty took part, and it was
reported that several were killed and
others were seriously injured.
DAVID CANwAY, aged 75, died from
starvation in the cellar of an old house
at Pittsburgh, Pa.
THE Indiana house of representatives
voted down a bill providing for an ap-
priation of $4,000 to be expended in
entertaining visitors at the grand army
encampm ent to be held in Indianapolis
next September.
AT the leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges
during the week ended on the 18th
aggregated $1,252, 252, S97, against ST.
37O,S0S,9sl the previous week. The
increase as compared with the CORE.
spending week of 1892 was 2.7.
In the United States during the seven
days ended on the 18th the business
failures numbered 2SS, against 266 the
previous week and 200 for the corre-
spending time last year
GOLD was said to have been found on
Newton II. Huston's farm in Calhoun
county, Mich.
coI~ GEORGE w. KENDALL aged SIS,
a millionaire, and one of the best
known business men in the west, com
mitted suicide in his room ut the Well
lington hotel in Chicago. Sickness was
the cause
Two YOUNG men named Robinson
and Meniffe were cooked to death by
escaping steam in the engine room of
the Big Four road at Covington, Ind.
nj. b. VANDEeRIFT, a highly respect
ed citizen, aged 65 years, dropped dead
at the Wabash depot in Chillicothe, o.
SEVEN persons were injured, three
fatally, in railway wreck near Brazil,
Ind.
The legislative struggle in Kansas
has come to an end, the republican
house having accepted the terms pro-
posed by Gov. Lewelling which leave
the republicans in possession of the
house, leave the populists in posse cssion
of their hired hall down town, send
the militia home. stop those en- route,
dlsperse the thousand deputies and
leave the situation as to the legality of
each house in the courts.
ROBERT l.. WALKER, n prominent
banker and capitalist at Youngstown,
o., made an assignment, with liabili.
ties of 100000 and assets of Sl00, 0OO
The failure involves Gov. Mckinley,
who indorsed Walkers notes, and the
indications were that every dollar of
property owned by the governor would
be swept away.
The American Newspaper Publish.
ers' association in annual session in
New York elected officers as follows:
James w. Scott, of the Chicago Herald,
president; L. II. Woods, Boston Herald,
vice president; w. G. Bryant, Brooklyn
Times, secretary; j. s. Seymour. New
York Post treasurer.