Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-02
DOMESTIC,

DOMESTIC.
THE safe in Ham Brothers store at
Scottsville, KY, was blown open by
burglars and So, 900 in cash taken.
A SPECIAL grand jury returned an in
dictment against eighty-six men in
Chicago charged with violating the
ordinances against gambling.
THE Navarro Mill company in San
Francisco failed for $1,000, 900.
AT the annual meeting in Madison,
Wis, of the international Botanical
congress Prof. E. L. Greene, of the
University of California, was elected
president.
A STEAM mangle in a laundry in New
York exploded, scalding nine persons,
three of them fatally.
The Daily Journal Office at Fond du
Lac, Wis, was destroyed by fire
The buildings in st. Louis occupied
by the Western Brass Manufacturing
company were burned, the loss being
$40, 600.
The coast from the capes of the Della
ware to Massachusetts was strewn with
wrecks by hurricane that started in
New York, and forty-eight lives were
known to have been lost and forty-sev-
en- more persons were thought to have
perished.
THE Farmers exchange bank re-
opened at San Bernardino, Cal.
Mrs. WILLIAM HAPNER and daugh-
ter aged II were struck and killed by
train between Lexington and West
Alexandria, o.
A FIRE in South Chicago destroyed
twenty acres of dwellings and made
1,5o0 persons homeless. The total loss
was estimated at 5000, 900.
SPARKS from an engine set fire to
hay field near Valparaiso, Ind, and
seventeen head of cattle and five horses
We're cremated.
GUSTAV SCHARFF, of Milwaukee, has
confessed to drowning Mrs Ollie King
and her 6-year-old daughter Grace.
STRIKERS in the Pittsburgh pa dis
trict attacked negro miners and one
man was killed Further trouble was
feared.
INCENDIARIEs set fire to woolen and
flour mills in Merce6, Cal, causing
loss of 100000
ZIMMERMAN lowered the mile bicycle
record at Indianapolis, covering the
distance in 2:21&. He won 81, 900 cup
PLANS to blow up the Detroit Mich
waterworks and then fire the city were
discovered
NEAR Palo Pinto, Tex, Edward Nall,
in fit of jealousy, killed Miss Ida
Beatty, his sweetheart. and James w.
Bly,, a supposed rival, and then took his
own life.
OFFICIALS of the worlds fair say the
outlook for the discharge of all indebt-
edness is encouraging.
The Dillon national bank az Helena,
Mont, went into voluntary liquidation.
HEAvENRIcH Bros, one of the oldest
wholesale clothing firms in Detroit,
failed for sl21,995.
FLAMES We're sweeping the prairie
southwest of Momence, H., and farm
products in large quantities had been
destroyed.
The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & West
ern Railway company has sold its road
and all other property to the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway company
BUsINEss failures to the number of
410 occurred in the United States in
the seven days ended on the 25th,
against 455 the preceding week and
2o1 for the corresponding time last
year
DELEGATE O'BRIEN of the Seamen's
union in Detroit was shot and killed by
Capt William Lennon while leading an
attack on the non-union crew of his
schooner, the Reuben Doud.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 25th aggregated
SG74, 212,3 ,3s9, against ST32, 542, 2O3 the pre-
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1899,
was 1873.
CHIEF FOLEY, of Milwaukee, was
elected president of the Firemen's Ma
tional association at its session in the
Cream city.
NANCY HANKS trotted an exhibition
mile in 2:OS at Springfield, Mass, and
Walter f. and Hal Pointer lowered
track records.
AT San Francisco the jury in the
third trial of NJ. b. Curtis, samuel of
Posen," for the murder of Policeman
Grant in September, 1891, returned
verdict of acquittal.
ILsLEY, DOUBLEDAY e. Co., wholesale
dealers in paints in New York, failed
for sl50,0O0.