Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-04-22
DOMESTIC.

Brooklyn, N. Y, were burned, the loss
being S250,O00.
CYCLONES and windstorms passed
over portions of nine states, doing
great damage. In Indiana buildings
were wrecked at Jeffersonville, KolSo-
mo, Greencastle and Rockport. Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank being killed in the latter
place. AT Ypsilanti Mich, nearly
all the business buildings and sew
eral residences were demolished. In
Mississippi the town of Robinsonville
was swept away and several persons
were killed and many injured. At
Coudray, Mo-, only three houses were
left standing, nine persons We're killed
and fifty others were injured,
some fatally. In other portions
of Missouri trees, fences, houses
and barns We're demolished and
many persons killed and injured. In
Illinois many buildings were unroofed
and trees leveled at Rockford, Quincy,
Galena, Alton, Vandalia, Olney and at
other points. Kansas and Iowa also suf-
fered from the tornado.
THE cyclone that wiped out the town
of Robinsonville, Tenn, killed seven
teen persons and injured over 100
others. some fatally.
The town of Saline, Mich, with a
population of 1,500, was entirely wiped
out by cyclone.
On a farm at Bradford, Wis. Matthew
Bitson, during a quarrel, shot and
killed his wife and Mrs. Arthur Hearn,
neighbor who was acting as peace
maker, and then burned the house in
which the two women lay and made his
escape.
The loss by prairie fires in Somerset
and Blair counties in Pennsylvania was
placed at $1,000
IN a fire in a tenement house at VILE
liamsburg, N. Y, Mrs. William Aims
worth and two of her children We're
burned to death and five other persons
were more or less seriously injured
The A. S. Holmes oil refinery at Buf-
falo, n. V, covering twelve acres of
ground, together with $4,000 barrels of
oil, We're burned, the loss being over
$780, 900.
Mrs. MARY GETCHEFsKY, of Green's
burg, Pa, cut her newborn child into
the sewer
The recent cyclone at Ypsilanti.
Mich, destroyed all of the principal
business blocks, stores, the opera house.
post Office, hotels and $50 dwelling
houses. No person was fatally injured
JEFFEsoN ID. BARNETT (white) was
murdered by a negro near Eufaula,
Ala. His murderer was run down by a
posse, shot and wounded and then
burned.
THE village of Hillsboro, Ind, was
almost completely blown away by a
tornado.
THE recent cyclone in Missouri killed
eight persons at Hawkins Bank, five at
Lexington, two at Stanbury, two at
Steeleville and five at Page. A large
number of persons in the places named
were injured, some fatally.
WILLIAM BOND (colored) was hanged
at Rockville, Nd, for the murder of
Margaret Cephas (colored) November
%, 1891.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
$l,210.9o1, 1872, against sl,19s, 742, $40 the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1892 was 90
A CYCLONE which struck Thibodeaux,
La, and vicinity wrecked several build
ings, killed fifteen persons and injured
many Others.
Two POLICEMEN named Firth and
Henry Talcott, officers in the employ OF
the Milwaukee Railroad company at
Dubuque, Ia, were shot dead while at
tempting to arrest tramps.
AT Columbus, o., John E. Mcbride,
of Ohio, was elected president and
Patrick Mcbride secretary treasurer of
the United Mine Workers of America.
BUSINESS failures to the number of
209 occurred in the United States in the
seven days ended on the 14th, against
223 the preceding week and 226 for
the corresponding time last year.
A FOREST fire in Warren county, N.
c., swept over miles of country, de-
stroying over 200 farm buildings and
much other property.
FIRE in the establishment of the L.
NJ. Rumsey Manufacturing company in
st. Louis did nearly 100000 damages.
In the Ohio OIL fields over fifty der.
ricks were blown down by heavy winds
causing great damage.
FLAMES in the yards of the Wesl
Michigan Lumber company at Diamond
Lake caused loss of 100000.
w. G. IRWIN GILLIs, well-knowr
young Louisville man of prominent
family, and Lizzie Kellner, young
woman, a member of the demi-monde
We're found dead in bed at hotel in
Louisville. 1t was evident that the
woman poisoned Willis and then tool
poison herself.