Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-03-25
DOMESTIC.

stoyed between fifty and sixty houses
of the cheaper clacs.
In fit of dependency Abner Carter
and his wife shot and killed each other
near Relfoot Lake. Tenn.
DURING the absence of Thomas
Dixon his house at Rutherfordton, n.
c.. was burned and his wife and two
children perished in the flames.
The Wheeler opera house was totally
destroyed by fire at Toledo, o., the loss
being 5000, 1000.
Mrs. VINCENT OLIVER, Mrs. Walker
and the latters child were killed at
New Iberia, La, while crossing rail
ro ad track in front of a train.
TURNER hall at Paterson, N. j., a
building covering block, was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being S10O, 900.
Eight persons were injured, two IA
tally
NEARLY 800 new hotels have been
erected in Chicago for the entertain
ment of worlds fair visitors
AUTHORITY has been given to Secre-
tary Gresham to exchange with Min
lister Grip certificates of ratification of
the eXtradition treaty between the
United States and Sweden recently
ratified by the senate.
IT has been decided to name the new
military post to be established near
Essex Junction, VT, Fort Ethan Allen,
in honor of the revolutionary patriot.
THE Kinyon block and the Jones
block were destroyed by fire at Oswego,
N Y, the total loss being $175,OOO.
HOWARD j. SCHNEIDER, who mur-
dered his wife and Frank Hamlink, his
brother-in-law, January 81, 1890, was
hanged in Washington.
LIZZIE Il. HINcKLEY, the 12-year-old
wife of Henry Hinckley, of Bridgeport,
Conn, gave birth to triplets, two girls
and boy.
The firm of William Schwab & Son,
for S225. 900.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
S1,2S1, 454, 500, against 81, 3Ol, $50, Tl6 the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1892 was 2.
The Platte river in Nebraska over
flowed its banks and carried away stock
and houses as we'll as changing boun-
daries.
IN the United States during the seven
days ended on the 18th the business
failures numbered 220, against 225 the
preceding week and 240 for the COR
responding time last year.
FLAMES at Newton, Ala, DESTROYED
the hotel, town prison, the post Office
and all the stores and their contents
The project to build an electric rail-
way between Milwaukee and Chicago
has been revived.
THERE were 1000 families along the
Kansas border awaiting the grand
rush to the Cherokee lands and it was
thought that the Indians were anxious
to close the sale of the strip If the
opening is delayed until fall 5000 peo-
pie will be destitute.
A PETITION was pres ented to the
Massachusetts legislature which pro-
vides that Intoxicating liquors shall be
sold only by salaried appointees of the
state
A MAIL pouch containing over S25,-
600 in drafts mysteriously disappeared
somewhere between Akron, O., and
Pittsburgh, Pa.
LEWIS A. WRIGHT, aged II, has con-
fessed to starting the recent large fires
in Boston.
WILLIE DUFFEY, aged Z; James
Dougherty, aged II, and Willie Gettis,
aged 13, who were picked up on the
street in Pittsburgh, Pa, by the police,
were found to he unconscious and in a
dying condition from the effects of
liquor.
The new American passenger steam
er New York arrived in New York in
six days and Twenty-Five hours from
Southampton.
HERR Most, the chief of anarchists,
has been expelled from all anarchistic
circles in New York He is accused of
betraying secrets to the police.
POSTMASTER GENERAL BIssELL or
dered the discharge of thirty-nine
fourth-class postmasters in Illinois, In
diana, Kansas, Kentucky and Virginia
SHERIFF RUTHERFORD. of Anderson
county, was killed in ree-for-all fight
at Caryville, Tenn, and three other
men We're mortally wounded
NICHOLAS SMITH, of Stroudsburg. Pa,
aged 05, who has been totally blind for
twenty-seven years, has regained his
eyesight.
The aggregate collections from in
ternal revenue for the first eight
months of the current fiscal year were
$107, $50, 542, an increase over the COR
responding period of the previous fiscal
year of 81, 1854, 1914.
The largest shaft ever forged in
America was sent from the Bethlehem
pa iron works to the worlds fair.
1t weighs SO, 800 pounds.
MIR. AND Mrs. HENRY BoEDEcKER
were burned in their home ut Free
port, Ill. 1t was thought that rob-
ber killed the couple and then fred the
premises.
FLAMES in the distillery of James
Walsh & Co. at Covingtor, KY, caused
] a loss OF sa5O,OOo.