Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-07-22
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC,

| KELLY and Peterson, two laborers
were instantly killed by lightning at
Cedar Rapids, Ia.
THE National Retail Clerks union in
session at Nashville, Tenn, decided to
make Chicago their permanent head
| quarters and elected f. p. Fitzwilliams,
of Nashville, as president.
| ii. {. w. MEYER was arrested in De-
troit charged with poisoning no less
than five young women-each of whom
he represented as his wife-and one
man, for the purpose of securing life
insurance which he had taken out on
| their lives
| j. X. ARMSTRONG, of Upton, o.,
county treasurer, was said to be short
s25, 900 in his accounts. His term ex-
pires August II, 1898.
The dead bodies of two unknown men
| were found in n dense thiclet on the
| Ray farm near West Newton, Pa.
THE business section OF Luckey, o.,
was almost completely wiped out by
| fire, the loss being $1,000
For the first time in the history of
the trade every plate-glass fectory in
the United States is closed, and that
indefinitely, and fully 10000 men are
idle. Overproduction is the cause.
The Nebraska savings bank at Lin
coin closed it's doors with liabilities of
500, 900.
The total number of original pension
certificates of all kinds issued during
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1898, was
121,62s, against 222, ,297 duripg the pre-
! ceding year. The net increase to the
rolls during the past fiscal year was o.
62s, against 109. sos for the year before.
THOMAS CRAIG and William Shan
non, two well-known explorers, were
drowned by the capsizing of their boat
in Rainy lake, Minnesota.
ANNA WAGNER, the Indianapolis
servant of the Koesters, has been in
| dicted for poisoning five of the family.
FIVE persons were killed and score
more injured by an accident to West
Shore express train at Newburg, n. Y.
THREE highwaymen rode into Mound
Valley, Kan, bound the cashier of a
bank and secured 5000 in money.
RoLFE N, with a record of 2:26, val
ued at $4,000, dropped dead on the
track at Saginaw, Mich.
APPLICANTS for pensions must here
| after file their military and medical
history, according to Commissioner
Lochren's order.
WHILE drunk William Cook, of Penn
berville, o., made a murderous assault
with club upon his four children, in
| juring three of them fatally.
ANNIE MORRIS has been masquerade
| ing as Frank Blunt for fourteen years.
| Her arrest at Milwaukee revealed her
| identity.
The third annual meeting of the Bap-
| tist Young Peoples Union of America
commenced at Indianapolis with nearly
5000 delegates and visitors present.
HENRY HOWARD, a farmer near Pu-
eblo, Col, 80 years of age, was muir
dered for his money and his body
thrown in well. He was unmarried
and hermit.
In a freight wreck at Henryville,
Ind, George Shirley, engineer, and
Brakeman Brookbank We're mortally
wounded.
OTTO REINEcK, Tillie Williams and
Annie Watson, noted Chicago gang of
thieves We're sentenced at Denver to
ten years each in the penitentiary.
ALLEN BUTLER, a wealthy colored
man of Lawrence county, Ind, was
found hanging by the neck dead near
| Vincennes, and it was believed he was
hanged by a mob for performing a
criminal operation upon young white
girl.
AN army 6 crickets was devastating
Wyoming of every sort of vegetation.
THE National bank of Kansas City,
Mo-, failed with liabilities of 81 600, 900
and assets of s3,000,O00 The failure
caused the Franklin savings bank OF
the same city to close it's doors.
| ANTICIPATING raid by robbers Off
cials of the Missouri, Kansas Il Texas
road placed armed guards on trains.
BY vote of "a to the local directory
of the Worlds Columbian exposition
passed resolutions resembling the ac.
tion of the meeting of May l6 and or
dered the gates closed on all Sundays
after the 10th.
The head chief of the Sioux nation
of Indians, Young-Man-Afraido His
Horses, dropped dead at atNewcastle, Wyo
IT was reported at Ishpeming, Mich.
that the Schleisinger syndicate, the
largest operators in ore in the world
had failed with millions of liabilities.
BUSINESS failures to the number Of
874 occurred in the United States in the
seven days ended ON the 14th. During
the week previous the failures NUM-
bered 324, against l6S in the correspond.
ing time in 1892.
W. III. BUSH and N. NJ. Tabor, lessees
of the Brown Palace hotel in Denver
made an assignment with liabilities
placed at $3.50, ,O00
EXCHANGES amounting to 81 1000. 800,
677 were reported by clearinghouse in
the United States during the sever
days ended on the 14th, against sl,051, ;,
4O2,2s2 the preceding seven days. The
increase, compared with the correspond
ing time in 1892, was 1915 per cent.
Two PERSONS We're killed, over doz
en- injured and much property destroyed
by cyclone which passed over Still
water, Mimi, and vicinity.
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