Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-01-14


capital of $25, 1000, 900.
THE breaking of the ice gorge at Gin
cinnati destroyed forty-five loaded
barges and sixty empty ones, the total
loss being 100000.
CHARLES UzAY, police judge, died at
Oakland, Cal. He was probably the
largest man on the Pacific coast, weigh
ing 4S0 pounds
ISAAC II. SLAvIN, a wealthy farmer
residing near New Castle, Pa. 80 years
old and his wife, were probably fatal
ly wounded by burglars and robbed of
large sum of money.
A DANGEROUS two-dollar counterfeit
is in circulation in St Louis. 1t bears
the head of Gen. Hancock and is of the
series of 1856, letter b. The paper is
SO good as to defy detection by anyone
except an expert
THOMAS DUFFY and his wife and
child were killed by an explosion of
natural gas in their home at Pitts
burgh, Pa
The First Baptist church at Bing-
hamton, N. Y, was burned, the loss
being Sl1O, 900; insurance. $50, oO0
ALBERT MCDONALD, aged 20, shot and
hiiiOu hio anu SlCpliiothCi db
Huntsville, Tex. quarrel over a
horse was the motive.
A FIRE at Fall River, Mass, destroyed
the Troy building, causing loss to
several firms of $4,000.
Mrs. RILEY YATES, aged Al, wife of a
teamster at Springfield, O., gave birth
| to her twenty-fourth child
NINE business houses and one dwell
| ing were burned at Odessa, Mo-, the
total loss being 100000.
JOHN DEDENETo caught his wife with
another man at Tacoma, Wash, and
fatally shot her and then committed
| suicide.
BURGLARS ransacked safe in the
| county clerks office at Fairfax Court
house, Va. but failed to carry off the
will of George Washington, the father
of his country which was in the safe.
THE cigarette trust has blacklisted
all antitrust dealers with the purpose
to drive them out of the business.
LIFE insurance statistics show that
the average of mans life has increased
per cent. during the last twenty-five
years.
THE two hundredth anniversary of
the introduction of the art of printing
in New York is to be celebrated on the
18th of April next by dinner at Del
monico's.
THE first through train from the east
over the Great Northern road reached
Seattle, Wash.
THOMAS MAXWELL went suddenly in
sane at Lima, o., and after fatally
hacking himself over the head with a
hatchet assaulted his aged mother with
the weapon and killed her.
A SUMMARY of the value of crops
raised in Illinois during 1892 shows a
total value of S196, 900, 600, a shortage
of S62, 900, 900 from 1891.
The great Reading coal combine is
broken. The Jersey Central Railroad
company has withdrawn from it and
hereafter will be operated independ-
entity.
DEWEY, ROGERS & Co., wholesale
boot and shoe dealers at Toledo, O.,
failed for over S4oO, 900.
In the United States the visible sup.
ply of grain on the 9th was: Wheat,
S1,7SS,000 bushels; corn, 11,s40, 00C
bushels; oats, 6,311, 900 bushels; rye,
1,113,00O bushels; barley, 2,157,0
bushels.
The Lincoln Qll.) post office was
robbed of 500 in cash and between
$500 and S4OO in stamps.
CAPT. WATKINS of the British bark
Countess of Derby. from Genoa, re-
ported at Baltimore that an apprentice
named Samuel Coolidge, aged 10, fell
overheard on Decembe Is and was de-
voured by shark.
F. w. THORNTON, of Fayetteville N
c., dry goods dealer, failed for 5000, 600
FLAMES in the stores of Berliner,
Strauss & Danzor, and Altman. Sum
mer & Co., neckwear manufacturers in
New York. caused loss of S25O,0OO
THE Forcite powder works at Lake
Hopacong, N. j., were blown up. shak
ing the country for miles around ant
shattering windows in many of the
village houses. No one was killed.
FIRE destroyed several large business
houses at Crested Butte, COL, the los:
being 100000.
A NUMBER of leading women of Kan.
sas City have agreed not to wear ou
doors any dress or garment that does
not miss the ground by at least :
inches
RESIDENTS of the state of Washington
are protesting against the use of Wash
as an abbreviatiou for the name of the
state. Wn. is suggested as more dig
nified and satisfactory.
JUDGE LATHRoP, of the supreme
court in Boston, ordered that the Five
Year Benefit order, one of the larges
endowment orders in the country, b,
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
MRS HENRY MEIER died at Grafton
H., aged l07 years.
The republicans of the Massachusetts
Legislature met in caucus and nominal
ed Henry Cabot Lodge for Unite'