Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-08-19

FIVE funnel-shaped clouds descended
in the vicinity of Larncd, Kan, and did
great deal of damage.
BY a surgical operation ut Rochester,
n. Y, u finger has been substituted for
nose upon Fred Darcy.
THE business portion of Milford Gem
ter o. was destroyed by fire.
In New Orleans Hernsheim's cigar
factory, Maginnis' cotton mills and
Fishers sawmills, employing in the ag-
gregate over 1000 hands, were closed.
HENRY HALL was hanged at Pike
vile, KY, for the murder of his brother.
EDITH FLAY, Lizzie Pond and Ella
johnson, aged 10, Ii and II years, re-
spectively, were drowned in Newark
bay while bathing at Bayonne, n. j.
BUSINESS throughout the country was
said to be improving
A W. DUNHAM killed his wife at Pen
socola, Fla, because she refused to live
with him and then took his own life.
UP to date the expenditures at the
worlds fair were s2S, 101, ,S21 and the re-
ceipts asS, $50, All.
The percentages OF the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the i2th were as follows:
Boston, .696; Philadelphia, .6o7; Pitts
burgh, .6O2; Cleveland, .602; New York,
500; Brooklyn, .4s9; Cincinnati, .472;
St Louis, .456; Baltimore. .4S3; Chi
cago .407; Louisville, 1866; Washington,
.356.
THE warship Minneapolis was
launched at Philadelphia in the pres
ence of many persons of note.
BY the collapse of a scaffold in Gin
ciunati seven men were injured, three
fatally.
Two INCENDIARY fires in Minneapolis
destroyed three planning mills, a sash
and door storehouse, bottling and malt
house, boiler works, box and ladder
factory, ice-house, carriage factory, liz
dwellings and in addition about 40, 00O,-
600 feet of cut lumber, the total loss
being $1,000. 600.
A WEALTHY farmer named Fisher,
living at Canton, ILL.,, was relieved of
$500 by the gold-brick swindle.
BARRETT SCOTT, treasurer of Holt
county. Neb., was said to be $50, 900
short in his accounts. He had disap-
peared.
Mrs. CHARLES REF, Mrs. George
Ref, Miss Wagner and a child named
Weber were drowned by the capsizing
of boat at Chattanooga, Tenn.
SETH HAsKINs and Harry Creaston
were killed by poisonous gases while
cleaning well near Chillicothe. Mo.
MADELINE V. POLLARD, of Louisville
KY, has brought suit against Congress-
man w. 9. p. Breckenridge for $50, 900
for breach of promise and seduction.
THE strike at the Carnegie mills in
Pittsburgh, Pa, inaugurated during
the Homestead trouble in 1892, has just
been declared off.
GRACE MCDONALD, Fred Roome and
brother, of Chicago, and Carrie Ham
mond, of Wauconda, were drowned by
the capsizing of a yacht on Bangs lake
at McHcnry, Ill.
THE Prairie City bank at Terre Haute
Ind, closed its doors, and Josiah Nor
ris & Co., the leading private banking
house in Alabama, made an assignment
at Montgomery with liabilities of ST.
10000 and assets of $4,000, 600. Other
bank suspensions were: The peoples at
Lewisburg, Tenn, the Bank of Plaque
mine, La, and the First national at
Gadsden, Ala.
L. S. MEINTJEs, of South Africa, won
the 62-mile international championship
at the bicycle tournament in Chicago,
the time being . hours and 46 minutes
JOHN i. SULLIVAN got in row with
a man in a New York saloon and was
shot at, but ran away and escaped un-
hurt.
A CYCLONE destroyed property and
killed two children of w. Jackson in
the northwestern part of Logan coun-
ty, Kan.
The fertilizing works of Nelson Nor
ris & Co. at the stock yards in Chicago
were destroyed by fire, causing loss
of S271, 900.
BANK failures were reported as fol-
lows: Citizens national at Atica Ind
Bank of Springfield at Springfield, Mo-.
and the Peoples, Citizens and CONNER
cial banks at Pulaski, Tenn.
A BLAZE which started in barn
caused loss of 100000 at Steuben-
vile, o.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the I4th was:
Wheat, 5S, 500, 900 bushels; corn, 6,214,-
600 bushels; oats, 1,92S,0Oo bushels; rye,
$4,000 bushels; barley, 377 900 bushels.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints and treasury offices dur
ing the week ended on the 18th was
s7O,96 against 526,O45 for the cores.
ponding period of 1892.
The Coatesworth elevator at Buffalo,
n. Y, was burned, the loss being
| $1,000, 900.
"MATILDA THE FOURTH" one of the
most famous'J COWS in the world
owned by Congressman Joseph c. Sib
ley, died at Franklin, Pa. She was val
ued at $4,000.
BY the blowing up of the steamer
Annie Faxon on the Snake river neal
Almota, Wash, eight persons were
killed and six injured.
MAY Bros. & Co., wholesale dealers
in clothing in Cincinnati, assigned will
assets and liabilities about $1O0, 900.
BRUCE CROSSING and Matchwood, two
small towns $50 miles from Superior
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