Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-23

was 22.7.
THE fourth span of the great bridge
over the Ohio from Louisville, KY, to
Jeffersonville, Ind. fell and thirty
three workmen were killed and many
Others were injured.
THERE were 500 business failures in
the United States Gncluding seven
banks) in the seven days ended on the
18th, against SS6 the week previous
and 2T9 in the correspo nding time in
1892.
THE Crane from company of Phila-
delphia failed for 500, 900.
IN the Indiana gas belt over 10000
men were out of employment and their
families dependent on charity for sup
port
EXECUTIONS took place as follows:
Arthur Courtney and Henry Taylor
(colored) at Princess Anne, Md, for the
murder of Capt. Cooper, and Dick Rob
inson at Sedalia, Mo, for the murder of
II German domestic named Johanna
Schollman.
EFFORTS will be made by the police
to keep out the horde of tramps now
hocking to Chicago.
~ NhECh OI IHe NEW 1OTk ~ Gill
sylvania road about 6 miles north of
Dunkirk. n. V, resulted in the loss of
eight lives and the injury to others.
HARRlsBURG, Ill, was struck by tor
nado which unroofed houses, uprooted
trees and did other damage.
The available stocks of wheat in the
United States and Canada, according
to Bradstreet's, are 10T, S26, 600 bushels
FARMER JACOB Fox, living near
Lima, o., signed a thirty-day note for
s., 900 believing it was contract for
piano.
AN old lady named Mrs. Jettie Eitel
was sent to the deaconess home at Ev-
ansville, Ind, and cried herself to
death.
TREASURER ARMSTRONG, of Upton
county, Ind, was found guilty of ON
bezzling $4,000 and sentenced to Il
years imprisonment
IN u fight between cattlemen and
"drifters" near San Angelo, Tex, four
men were killed.
y STONE wrecked an express train at
Bamford Station, Pa, and sixteen per-
sons were injured.
THAT female teachers are driving
males out of the profession is shown by
the report of the school superintendent
OF Iowa.
TRADE throughout the country was
said to be very dull, distress among
idle operatives was conspicuous, and
contributions in aid of the suffering
unemployed were feature of the holi-
day senson.
EFFORTS We're being made to save the
neck of Wilson Howard. held at Jeffer-
son, Mo-, for over thirty murders
On her official trial trip the United
States cruiser Olympia made record
of 21.67 knots an hour.
PETE NOLAN, apugilist, had both ears
chewed half off in fight at Cincinnati
with Jim Waters, a circus man.
THE aldermen of Mankato. Kan,
passed an ordinance fining anyone
whistling After the BALI fifty cents
QONE HUNDRED volumes of the origi-
nal edition of Prof. j. d. Dana's work
on "Crustaccae of America were con-
sumed in fire at New Haven, Conn.
They were valued at 800, 600.
HENRY G. GIvENs (colored) was
lynched near Nebo, Ky. He was ac-
cused of poisoning stock.
By a wreck on the Seaboard Air Line
road near Athens, La, twelve passen-
gers and several trainmen were hurt.
Mrs. ADLER. near Brighton, Ia, threw
her husband into n we'll and then filled
him with. bird shot
A. H. PHILLEY was swIndled by kid
ney" Meyer and Joe Blum at Sioux
City, Ia, and he shot and killed both
men.
The grip was epidemic in Connecti-
cut. Reports showed that there We're
more than 1900 cases in the state.
The National Carbon company's
works in Cleveland, O., were burned,
the loss being $4,000.
THREE persons and 300 hogs and
100 cattle were killed in wreck on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern road
near Louisville, KY.
SOUTH BUFFALO, n. Y, was flooded
by the overflow of creek and $500
persons were homeless as a result
Thirty miles of streets and all adjacent
land were under water.
The Terminal Elevator company's
buildings at Buffalo, n. V, were
burned at late hour. Loss, $1,000, 600.
The American Federation of Labor
in session in Chicago reelected Samuel
Gompers president by majority OF
ninety-two votes.
In many localities in Texas cattle
were perishin2 by thousands. No rain
had fallen for five months
IT was estimated that the cost of the
Lehigh valley railway strike to the
several brotherhoods would reach
s105,000.
LOUIS MAY, his wife, Bassy Paul, his
father-in-law, and James Hilliard and
Henry Williams, of Freeport, Fla,
were capsized while crossing Chocta
whatchie bay in slsiff and all We're
drowned
p. u. HALDEMAN, superintendent of q
coal mine at Piedmont, w. Va, was
killed and robbed of $1,000.
THE presidents Hawaiian policy,
with all the accompanying correspon-
dencc since March 4, 1850, with a
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