Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-06

| SCelS OI JllG OuJDreuK,
The worlds fair engine No. 9es. a
type of the most modern used by the
New York Central railroad, took the
Empire state express from New York
to Buffalo at u speed of s6& miles an
hour.
THE naval review ceremonies were
brought to an end in New York in the
shape of n street parade participated in
by the marines and blue jackets of all
the nations represented in the review
except Spain.
HEAVY withdrawal ofdeposits caused
the Second national bank of Columbia,
Tenn, to suspend.
REPORTS from Washington say that
| the exports have increased by S75. .OOO.-
600 during the first three months of the
| year. The most notable advance was
in cotton manufactures, pig iron and
| corn.
DURING an entertainment at the
Methodist church at Fairview, Pa,
| panic was caused by premature ex-
plosion of some colored lights, and
many persons were seriously injured in
the rush for the doors.
THE settlement of the miners strike
in the Pittsburgh district by deciding
to accept the wage scale of last year has
national effect 1t puts an end to the
| prospective strike of nearly 10000 min
ers in the UnitedStates
CLIFFORD RUNYAN, aged IA, died in
horrible agony at Springfield, o., from
nicotine poisoning. His last act was to
smoke seventy-two cigarettes without
stopping.
Mrs. L. e. FINNEY, the pretty young
wife of L. f. Finney, Il prosperous mer-
chant at Huntsville, Ark, has dis
tinguished herself by presenting her
husband with five baby girls, all within
the space of one year.
JIM BURKE and Sam Massey (both
colored) We're hanged at Benham, Tex,
the former for killing Mrs. j. w. Smith
and the latter for criminal assault on
Mrs, B. f. Clements. Over 10000 per-
sons witnessed the execution.
The Standard Oil company has Sc
cured control of its chief living rival,
the Manhattan Oil company of Findlay,
O. The property transferred by the
deal is valued at S15, ,0O0,00
FIVE prominent citizens of Colbert
county, Ala, have been indicted by the
United States grand jury at Huntsville
for intimidating voters at the last pres
idential election.
E. L. HARPER, the wrecker of the
Fidelity bank of Cincinnati, was freed
from the penitentlary at Columbus.
CHARLES CALDWELL, a negro, was
hanged at Jonesboro, Ark, for the
murder of Tab Freeman, also a negro,
at Big Bay February is last. The two
had quarreled about woman.
For the ten months of the current
fiscal year the receipts of government
from all sources aggregated 1924, $50, 1893,
or $50, 600, 900 more than during the cor
responding months of the preceding
fiscal year. The expenditures during
the same time We're 1892, ,377, ,552, or $780,
100000 more than during the corre-
spending months of the preceding fiscal
year.
Mrs. MARY JENSEN, wealthy widow,
lTed %, was shot and killed at Seattle,
Wash, by n. a. Sandborn, aged %, who
then killed himself. Mrs Jensen's re-
fusal to marry him caused the tragedy.
DURING a heavy snowstorm in Wyo-
ing ranchmen last over 1,6O0 sheep. the
animals being smothered in the snow.
The Worlds Columbian exposition at
Chicago was opened on the 1st in the
presence of nearly 5000 persons. At
noon the president of the United States,
after a brief address, pressed the cleo
trio button, and the vast machinery of
the exposition was set in motion. The
nature of the opening ceremony was
characterized by dignity and simplicity.
FOUR women jumped from street
car in Toledo, o., and one was killed
and the Others We're fatally injured.
They were frightened at the approach
of an engine while crossing a railway.
OWING to family quarrel John II.
Engels fatally shot Thomas Kamerling,
his brother-in-law, at Wauwatosa, Wis,
and then killed himself.
The bank of Salem, S. D., was forced
to assign by inability to raise a loan of
$780, 600 The liabilities We're $4,000.
OWING to law now in effect absolute
divorce is legally impossible in Massa-
| chusetts.
TWENTY thousand miners in Ohio
struck for an advance of five cents per
ton in price of mining.
THE most terrific cyclone that ever
visited Texas devastated Cisco and East
land county, laying waste everything
in it's path, which was about three
fourths of mile wide. All but about
fifty houses in Cisco were wrecked, not
a church or schoolhouse was standing
and but one house was intact. Thirty
persons were killed and over 100 were
injured. The most conservative esti-
mates placed the total property loss at
over 81, 900, 600.
FIRE in Milwaukee destroyed the dry
goods store and stock of Edward Schus-
ter & Co., entailing a loss of 100000
A BOARDING house at Burlington, Ia,
was destroyed by fire and six men per-
ished in the flames and several other
persons were injured.
THE curing factory of Stephen Dow
& Co. at Woburn, Mass, was burned,
the loss being $175,0OO
JOSEPH HALsoN, an insane man, killed
| his wife and seven children near st.