Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-16
DOMESTIC.

A. a. ZIMMERMAN, the worlds bicycle
champion, went mile at Springfield,
o., in 2:O5 S-5, breaking his previous
record.
H. HELLMAN, dealer in general mer-
chandise at Kyle, Tex, failed for
100000.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made to
open a spiritualistic college at Liberal,
Mo, the first school of its kind ever
founded in the world.
IN session at Indianapolis the ladies
of the Grand Army of the Republic
elected Mrs. Amanda j. Withern, of
Minnesota, as president. The Woman S
Relief Corps selected Sarah c. Mink,
of New York, as president
ROBERT L. GRUsCHow, cashier of the
Pabst brewing company, was held up
in his Office in Chicago and robbed of
$1,000.
The twenty-seventh national en-
eampment at indianapolis of the Grand
Army of the Republic adjourned after
adopting the report of the pension COM
mittee which deny that the secretary
of the interior and the commissioner
of pensions have power to drop pension
ers from the rolls without first giving
them hearing; declare against the
presumption of fraud until charges
have been proven, and say it is the duty
of the pension commissioner to at once
restore to the rolls the thousands of
pensioners now standing illegally sus-
pended.
Gov. FLOWER, or behalf of the state
board, presented the New York build
ing on the worlds fair grounds to the
board of lady managers, the magnifi-
cent structure to remain in jackson
park as q permanent museum of wo.
mans industrial work.
A CYCLONE struck Lockport, La,
killed six persons, seriously injured
several others and left the town a mass
of ruins
AN outbound worlds fair special on
the Panhandle road and inbound
Valparaiso accommodation on the
Pennsylvania road collided near Cole
hour, Chicago suburb, and eleven
men We're killed, fourteen were sci lious-
ly and five were slightly injured.
Mrs. WILSON BERRY and her son
were killed near Fairfax, Va, by Mrs.
John Scott and her son. A quarrel
was the cause.
THE three national banks at Mankato,
Mimi, reopened their doors after hav-
ing been closed little over month.
NANCY HANKS went mile in 2:O4%
at indianapolis, This was within three
quarters of a second of the wonderful
mares record.
Mrs. CAROLINE TGGEN, aged 45, died
in st. Louis of self-imposed starvation
For twenty days nothing but one glass
of lemonade passed her lips.
CASHIER BLACKLEY, of Delta (Col.
bank, was killed by robbers. Two Of
the highwaymen We're killed by a resi-
dent.
ROBERT MCEVoY, trusted clerk in
cago for twenty years, played the races
and is defaulter to the extent of $685.
coo. He was missing.
TWENTY THOUSAND persons in the
track of the recent hurricane in the
south We're said to be in danger of star
vation.
The town of Baldwin, Wis, was
almost entirely wiped out by fire, the
loss being over 100000.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the sth aggregated
1888, 575, ,7O5, against s6G1, l52, 2O9 the pre-
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1892,
was 34.9.
FOUR children of James O'Neal
tnegro) We're burned to death in their
home near Versailles, Ky, during the
absence of their parents
ANARCHIST CLAUS ZIMMERMAN was
sentenced in New York to six months
in the penitentiary for melting to riot
BUSINESS failures to the number of
1898 occurred in the United States in the
seven days ended on the Sth, against
1856 the preceding week.
BEN JACKSON, a negro, was taken
from the Jail at Quincy, Miss, and
hanged by mob He had poisoned a
well.
DISCOVERY of extensive forgeries OF
clearinghouse certificates caused con-
Sternation in business circles in Bir-
mingham, Ala.