Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-08-12
BANK failures were announced as fol-

| change at Colby, WIS, Lebanon (Pa.)
Trust and safe deposit bank, and the
First national, National citizens and
Mankato national at Mankato, MINI.
AFTER n separation of seventy years
Robert Duncan, of Indianapolis, and
Mrs. Annie Caulliins, of Lafayette,
Ind, discovered that they were brother
and sister Mrs. CaullSins is So years
old and Mr.. Duncan is SO.
The percentages OF the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 9Th were as follows:
Boston, .674; Philadelphia, .632; Pitts
burgh, .595; Cleveland, 800; New York,
.4ss; Brooklyn, .4sS; ST. Louis, Al;
Cincinnati, All; Baltimore. .44o; Chi
cago, All; Washington, 1863; Louis
| vile, 1851.
CAPT. j. w. ALLEN, editor of the In
terstate News at Texarkana, Tex, was
killed by John j. King, county judge of
Bowie county. An article in the News
rejecting on King was the cause.
| A DISPUTE on the Smith farm near
Newark, o., about the division of GER
| tain wheat, resulted in the killing of
one man and the wounding of three
others.
| A BIG Four freight train fell through
a bridge over a river a distance of 63
| feet into the water below near Danville,
| ILL.,, killing Brakeman Stone and dam
aging property to the extent of $780,
| 600.
KNIGHT, LEONARD & Co., printers
and publisher in Chicago, made an as
signment with heavy liabilities.
A. X. WILLIAMS was killed and
| Shn,;F fot, lal 81
McCrary, Ark, by a negro who was be-
ing taken to Jail.
ABOUT 100000 spindles were stopped
| in Fall River (Mass.) factories for an
| indefinite period, throwing 1000 per-
sons out of work.
UNDER the ruling of the first comp
troller of the treasury congressman are
not entitled to mileage for attendance
on the extra session.
A WAGON was struck by train at
Dellwood, Mimi, and Mrs. ]. P. New
strun, Mrs. e. ?. Clouse and E. w.
| Newstrum were killed.
THE reservoir of the Portland Water
company at Portland, Me-, burst,
letting loose its 2O,oOo,OOo gallons of
water, wrecking two houses and drown
| ing the wife and two children of Den
| mis- NJ. Conley and James Moseley.
a TRAIN on the Lake Shore road
| jumped the track near Fremont o., and
| four persons were killed and ten others
were injured, one fatally.
The following bank failures were re-
| ported Bank of ST. James at st.
James, Mimi, State bank at Mapleton,
Mimi, the Exchange national at
Wheeling, w. Va, and the Farmers
and Traders bank at Leon, the Garden
Grove bank at Garden Grove and the
Citizens bank at David City, all in Iowa
and operated by A. B. Stearns and L.
| p. Sigler.
A RICH gold strike was made near
Natchez, Wash.
JAMES L. WRIGHT, one of the founders
| of the Knights of Labor. died at his
home in Philadelphia, aged 76 years.
A TORNADO at Philadelphia unroofed
a score of dwellings and factories,
causing a loss of 100000.
The grand jury failed to indict any
body for the blame in the cold-storage
building fire on the worlds fair
grounds
The suspended Hutchinson (Kan.)
| National bank has resumed.
The Bank of North Branch, Mimi;
the National bank of Sturgis, Mich,
and the Greene county bank of Spring
| field, Mo-, closed their doors.
STOCKHOLDERS of the Milwaukee ma
tional bank have voted to resume. The
capital stock VIII be increased $500, 900
| PUBLICATION of a private letter of
Col S. II. Boyd, minister to Siam,
in which he reflected on Secretary
| Gresham, is said to have led to his res
| ignation.
AN international bicycle tournament
| present from many countries.
| SNowDRIFTs foot deep We're found
along the line of the Haverhill & Ames-
bury road on the hillsides of Amcsbury,
| Mass.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was:
Wheat, SO, 425, 900 bushels; corn, $685.
600 bushels; oats, 1,661, 900 bushels; rye,
$4,000 bushels barley, $50, 900 bushels.
| GEORGE DIXON, the colored feather
weight champion, knocked out Eddie
Pierce in three rounds before the Coney
Island club.
LEVI BUTLER, cashier of the bank of
c. NJ. Wright & Co. at Altamont, ILL.,,
absconded with 200 and the bank
suspended.
SIXTEEN nonunion boilermakers were
attacked in a st. Louis hotel by TWEEN
ty-fve unionists. Knives and pistols
were used and score were injured.
THREE masked men entered general
store at Pennington, N. NJ, ordered
hands up and secured $1,000 in money
and jewelry.
A PROPOSITION to keep open the
Worlds Columbian exposition through
out the summer of 1894 will be present.
ed to congress at the extra session.
BANDS of Utes were roaming through
the western part of Colorado, and the
settlers had asked protection of the
governor.
RESIDENTS of Marion county, Miss,
celebrated the sentencing of William
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