Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-16

/ WOTiu > ldlT uOUelS Nelson, Matter ~
Co, one of the oldest furniture houses
in Grand Rapids, made an assignment
| with liabilities of $500, 600.
Two MEN captured mail wagon at
Terre Haute, Ind, and gagged the
driver and rihed the pouches.
JOSEPH DYsART. lieutenant governor
of Iowa from 1874 to 1878, died at his
home in Vinton, aged rs years.
RICHARD NJ. HooLEY, the veteran
| theatrical manager, died at his home in
Chicago. aged II years.
THE worlds fair directors say the
total disbursements up to the 1st inst.
amount to s25, ,516, $50 and the balance
on hand was s562, 901.99.
AT Dunlap, Tenn, Lafayette Grimes
was murdered by white caps whose ar
rest he had procured.
AT Bayport, Mich. Peter Straubus. a
bridegroom, was shot and mortally
wounded by party of serenaders.
THE office of the Adams Express
company at Akron, O., was entered and
81, 900 taken from the safe.
ALMOST the entire business portion of
the town of Cayucos Cal, was destroyed
by fire.
The receiver of the Evansville &
Terre Haute railroad was dismissed
and the road restored to the stock
holders
THE percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 9th We're as follows:
Boston, .714; Pittsburgh, COZ; Phila-
delphia, .5S4; Cleveland: $50; New
York; $40; Brooklyn, .52S: Cincinnati
,4S2; Baltimore, .446; st. Louis, .416;
Chicago, .41G; Louisville, .3e3; Washing
ton, 1927.
FIVE children of F. w. Whitney,
near Silver Hill, Ark. were burned to
death while their parents were at
church.
EXCEPT s13 the $4,000 stolen from the
Adams express at Akron, O., has been
recovered and the thieves arrested.
ACCORDING to the government report
the drought has worked greater dam
age to corn than was expected. Figures
on wheat make it the smallest weld
since 1885, the amount being about 37l.-
600, 600 bushels.
BENEFITS casino, variety theater
in Brooklyn, n. Y, was burned, the
loss being S15O,OOO.
GEORGE w. Dye, one of the wealthiest
planters in northeast Georgia, is dead,
and has left his fortune of over half a
million to the negro family who attend
ed him for the last fifty years.
AN incendiary fire destroyed the prop
erty of the sulphur Mines company at
Mineral City, Va, causing a loss of
100000.
PRECISELY at noon on the 9th Presi-
dent Cleveland was made a father for
the second time, the new baby. like its
predecessor, being a girl. Mrs. Cleve-
land and her daughter were reported to
be doing well.
FIRE destroyed the United States
marine hospital at Port Townsend,
Wash
GUITEAU's body was buried under the
laundry floor of the Washington Jail,
and is still there, according to Deputy
Warden Russ. 1t was supposed to be
in a museum.
GEORGE 2. kEGARIZ, a prominent
Dunkard preacher, aged go, hanged him
self to tree at his home near Salem
vile, Pa. No cause was known.
GEORGE SICoR, Frank Fare and David
Simmons, United States marshals at
Dennison, Tex, became involved in
row which resulted in all three being
fatally shot.
JAMES H. WALKER, of Philadelphia,
aud Joseph L. Kilran, of Elwood, Ind.
died at the same hour on passenger
trains at Pittsburgh, Pa,
The grain elevator of the W. C.
Fuhrer Milling company at Mount YER
non, Ind, was burned the loss being
100000
AT Chillicothe Richard Brown (col-
ored) shot and killed Nellie Wolfscall
(also colored) whom he was about to
marry, and then fatally shot himself.
THE worlds first parliament of relig-
ions began seventeen days session in
Chicago. In these meetings the dele
gates from different churches all over
the world will present their views of
the great subjects of religious faith and
life.
TWENTY business houses and resi-
dences We're destroyed by fire at Candy,
Mimi, the total loss being 100000.
IN the past six months thirty-fve
state banks in Kansas closed their
doors. five of which have resumed bust
ness.
The distillery at Lynchburg, O.,
owned by Freiburg & Workum, was
burned, the loss being 800, 1000.
IN filing a lighted gasoline stove
Mrs. Maxwell, of Clinton, Ia, and her
daughter Stella were fatally burned.
TwENTY-THREE men scattered through
jackson and Ebert counties, Ga, We're
arrested with wholesale counterfeits of
silver dollars in their possession.
SOME fend or tiends entered the
graveyard in Hudson, Wis, and pushed
over, broke and otherwise destroyed
twenty-five of the most costly grave
stones.
THE town of Colfax, Wis, was said
to have been destroyed by fire.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints and treasury offices for
the week ending on the 9th was $780,
$50, against $3.50, ,2Os for the correspond
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