Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-08-12
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

September.
The branch house at Kansas City,
| Mo-, of the Whitman e. Barnes Manu-
| featuring company of Akron, O., was
destroyed 10y fire. the loss being S135, ooo
The first general meeting of women
| lawyers ever held convened in Chicago
with delegates present from every sec
| ton of the United States.
AT the races in Buffalo, n. Y, Hulda
went mile in 2;os15, the fastest ever
made bya 5-year-old, and Hal Pointer
paced three heats in 2:o714, 2:o61S and
:O6.
In a jealous rage Douglas Davis fatal
ly stabbed his wife at Greenville, Ill. q,
and cut his own throat, dying instantly
THE fire which had burned for week
in Burlington county, N j., exhausted
itself. The damage to buildings was
s150,O00; to timber, 81, ,S00,0 900, and to
the crop of cranberries, $4,000.
FRANK VAN Loon was hanged at CO.
lum bus, o., for the murder of William
Vandermark during an attempt to rob
bank at Columbus Grove August 8,
1891.
STATISTICS show that in fifty-seven
trades in New York city there are &c.
900 men out of work
AT Elberton, w. Va, two local ter
rors started a fight which became so
general and serious that the MALTA
was called out to stop it.
FELIX POOLE, notorious character
was lynched by mob near Owensboro,
KY, for an assault on Miss York,
aged IS.
Four persons were killed and twenty
ty-five Others were seriously injured by
the falling of the second balcony of the
yacht clubs house at Chelsea, Mass.
INSURANCE rates in Iowa have been
raised 10 per cent and merchants have
been notified that they must meet the
increase.
ALL the silver dollars in the govern
ment treasury which are accessible
have been exhausted, owing to the de-
mand for money of small denomina-
ton.
BOILER explosion in a sawmill at
Camp Creek O., killed two brothers
named Wolfe and John Alexandria.
MICHAEL FoRsHAM left Watertown,
N. Y, to walk to Los Angeles, Cal.
He expects to accomplish the feat in
1s5 days.
The amount of gold and silver coin
and certificates, United States notes
and national bank notes in circulation
August was sl,611, ,O99, III. an increase
during the month of July of SIT ,23T 600.
The increase during the last twelve
months was in round figures 1000, 900.
IT was learned in New York that ex-
tensive frauds had been perpetrated on
the railroad companies by the issue of
bogus worlds fair excursion tickets.
DURING the past three months the
mines of California have turned out
IS, 500, 900 in fine gold.
The failures were reported of the
Commercial bank at Stevens Point,
Wis, the National German-American
bank at st. Paul, Mimi, and the bank
ing house of Lazarus Silverman in Chi
cago.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 4th aggregated
S973, $50, ,753, against SS7,9sS,5 500 the
previous week. The decrease as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1892 was or.
THEODORE THOMAS has rendered his
resignation as director of music of the
Worlds Columbian exposition.
THERE We're 436 business failures re-
ported in the United States during the
seven days ended on the 4th. In the
week preceding there We're $50, and
during the corresponding time in 1892
the number was 160
Grl, a..
sobriquet of the Sailor Kid" was
killed in prize fight at Denver by Will
liam Robinson.
SIXTY persons, including the sheriff
and other officers, have been indicted
at Memphis, Tenn, for lynching and
cremating the negro Lee Walker.
PENNSYLVANIA iron millers have in
structed their superin tendents to en-
ploy none but Americans hereafter.
JUAN BURGER, the l3-year-old son of
Edgar Burger, of South Kokomo, Ind,
died from the direct effects of cigarette
smoking.
company of Denver was placed in the
hands of receiver. Its capital was
$3.50, 900.
AT keshuqua, Pa, sawmill, board
ing-house and several tenements in a
lumber camp were destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
JOSEPH H. HOWELL, who murdered
Mrs. Nancy Hall and seven children
January 10, 1892, was hanged at Tren-
ton. Mo.
The steam yacht Rachel sank in the
lake at Lake George, n. Y, with
twenty-nine passengers, nine of whom
were drowned.
Gov. TILLMAN, of South Carolina, is
angry at the treatment his liquor con-
stables has received and says arms will
be resorted to if necessary.
The James H. Walker company, one
of the biggest dry goods concerns in
Chicago, doing an immense wholesale
and retail business, failed for s2,4OO,-
600.
WALTER E. SHAW was hanged at
Houston, Tex, for the murder of his
mother and aunt March 81, 1892.