Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-06-10
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

oldest banking institution in Tacoma,
Wash, suspended payment temporarily
with 5000, 900 liabilities and sl,000,000
assets.
DURING the first five months of 1898
there were twenty failures of national
banks, the capital involved being &c.
150, 900, against seven failures for cor
responding period of 1892, when the
capital aggregated se25,000.
The Presbyterian general assembly
in session in Washington suspended
Prof. Charles A. Briggs from the min
istry.
The PlanSinton bank of Milwaukee
closed its doors with liabilities of 81
100000. Continued withdrawal of de-
posits was given as the cause.
THE Home brewery and rice mill at
New Orleans were burned, involving
loss of $3.50, 900. Thirty horses perished
in the flames.
WITH a paid-in capital stock of 81
200, 900 the National union bank of
New York has begun business.
MANY houses were wrecked by Ia
cyclone near Forest City, Ark, and
Mrs. Thomas, a widow, and her 49,
year-old daughter were instantly killed.
AT Van Buren, Point, n. Y, farm
house was burned and four of the five
inmates perished in the flames.
FIRE destroyed the iron foundry
works of j. b. & j. NJ. Cornell in New
York the loss being S300,U00.
THREE men were killed, two others
fatally and one seriously injured by
cave.in at the Ivanhoe tunnel near
Leadville, Col.
Mrs FRED SHEFFNER, of Bowerstown,
Pa, was accidentally shot and killed
by her husband as she entered their
doorway.
THE public debt statement issued on
the I'd showed that the debt decreased
S739, 1876 during othe month of May.
The cash in the treasury was 1854, 122,-
9S4 The total debt, less the cash bal
ance in the treasury, amounts to $780,
1878
AT Battle Creek, Neb., Fred Sargent
shot and killed his wife and then fa-
tally wounded himself.
FAILURE to raise money on Cherokee
strip lands has caused suspension of
credit in Indian territory.
CHEvERToN, MARTIN & Co., private
bankers in Chicago, have assigned. The
assets were said to amount to 100000
and the liabilities to $4,000.
w. G. MORROW shot and killed Effie
Baker at Greenville, Miss, and then
fatally shot himself. Jealousy was the
cause.
IN unknown schooner was sunk in
collision with the steamer Corsica in
I 4 IL.
MARTIN PETRITUs fatally shot Mrs.
Frank Wiethom at Springfield o., be-
cause she would not leave her husband
for him and then shot himself.
The Thorp e Martin company of
Boston, manufacturers of stationery,
made an assignment with liabilities OF
Sl25 900.
A NEW counterfeit two-dollar treasury
note has made its appearance in Chica,
go. 1t is described as initiating the series
of 1891 and as bearing the check letter
3D." and the counterfeit signatures oi
W.. S. Rosecrans, register, and E. I'll.
Nebel1er, treasurer.
The worlds congress on social purity
was opened in the Art institute in Chi
cago.
PoTTER's bank, the oldest bank in
Paulding county, and heretofore con
sidered one of the safest, closed its
doors at Paulding, o.
NEAR Cotton Plant, Ark, cyclone
spread death and destruction. The
plantation of John Gazallo was left
without house of any kind standing
The width of the cyclone was about !.
miles.
Two DAUGHTERS of f. G.. Smehla, liv
ing near Wilson, Kan, perish ed in the
flames which consumed their residence
The rear coach of Nashville, Chatta
nooga & st. Louis train jumped tn,
track near Newsom's, Tenn, and clever
| persons were hurt
A CYCLONE swept over Huntingdon
| Falcon, Camden and Trumble, in Ten
nessee, destroying vast amount o
| property and killing several persons.
GREAT damage was done by extensive
| floods in eastern Galicia and eight
| cen persons We're drowned.
The village of Eldorado, Ark, wa
destroyed by cyclone and fifteen per
sons were SAID to have been killed.
PROF. HOLDEN, of Lick observatory
| bSiCSi uPio tidt q idiS &c SiouP VI oPoI
are now clearly visible on the sun
which can be seen with the naked ey
by the use of smoked glass.
The survey to- settle the Alask;
boundary question has been begun b.
the American and Canadian commits
sioners.
The plant of the American Straw
board company at Lima, O.. was burned
causing loss of 100000.
| THERE were 23S business failures re
ported in the United States during tn
seven days ended on the I'd. In tn
week preceding there were 276, and dur
ing the corresponding time in 1892 tn
number was 175.
STRIKING quarrymen inaugurated
reign of terror along the route of tn
drainage canal between Romeo an
Lemont, H., and several men We're in
| jured, some fatally.
DURING the week ended on the I'd tn
leading clearing houses in the Unite
States reported exchanges amountin
to 1899 142, ,352, against 81, O43, ola, 447 tn