Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-13


A RELAY bicycle race from Boston to
Chicago was ridden in 112 hours.
THE national commission of the
worlds fair has decided that the rules
closing the gates of the fair on Sunday
cannot be changed.
AS A result of the. panic on the New
York stock exchange spectators in Mon
treal dropped over $1,000, 600.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the national league for the
week ended on the 18th were as
follows: Cleveland, ia: Cincinnati,
.666; Washington, .G25; st. Louis, .625;
New York, .571; Brooklyn, 800; Phila-
delphia, 800; Boston, 429; Chicago, 400;
Pittsburgh, 400; Baltimore, .375; Louis
vile, .143.
THE village of Ogden, N. Y, was
nearly wiped out by fire.
JACOB VALDEZ, prominent and
wealthy young merchant at Fresnilo.
Mexico and Plutarco Margro, a rising
attorney, fought duel over the hand
of a well-known society young lady and
both were killed.
A FREIGHT train on the Dayton q
Michigan railway was wrecked near
Tadmer@ o., causing the death of five
tramps
C. A. CARR, William Helm and Ellis
Reed were killed by the fall of tile
kiln at Casey, Ill.
THE president has appointed Alexan-
der Mcdonald, of Virginia, as minister
to Persia; William C. Renfrow, of Okla
homa, to be governor of the territory of
Oklahoma, and Robert b. Bowler, of
Ohio, to be first comptroller of the
treasury.
AT the village of Mountain Iron,
Mimi, Herbert Tarsney was hanged to
the limb of tree and riddled with bull
let's by a gang of miners. Tarsney
criminally assaulted two little girls
EDWARD I. SWIFT, teller the Bir-
mingham Comm National bank, was
arrested on the charge of embezzling
$4,000.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND makes the an
nouncement that hereafter he must re-
fuse personal interviews with all those
seeking appointments to office, and fur
ther says that applicants for Office will
only prejudice their prospects by re-
naming at Washington to await re-
suits.
THE steamer Ohio, belonging to the
Memphis e Cincinnati Packet company.
collapsed fue while opposite Wolf
island, 80 miles below Cairo, H.. and
seven men were killed and twenty more
were badly scalded.
JOHN w. FLOOD, eX-cashier of the
DonohoeKelly bank at San Francisco,
charged with embezzling S164,0O0, was
arraigned and pleaded not guilty.
A PASSENGER train on the Big Four
road left the track and dashed into the
depot at Lafayette, Ind, killing ten
persons and lnjuring eleven others.
some fatally. The accident was caused
by the failure of the air-brakes to work.
PETER JACKSON and wife and two
children We're drowned by the upset
ting of slliff near Carmi, III.
WILLoUGHBY COMPTON, aged 10, and
his sister Florence, aged %, We're
drowned in the river at Detroit, Mich,
by the capsizing of boat.
DIR. GEORGE WILLIAMS, living near
Nashville. Tenn, and his sister have
fallen heirs to s2,5OO,0 600 by the death
of their uncle, Isaac Morgan, who lived
to be 100 years old.
JOHN JONES, a prominent citizen of
Pottstown, Pa, was huncoed out of
$4,000 by three strangers.
The steamer Paris of the American
line and the Campania OF the Cunard
line left their docks in New York for a
race across the ocean.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Sth was: Wheat,
73,O6S, 900 bushels; corn, 1888, 600 bush
els; oats, 1921, 900 bushels; rye, 662, 600
bushels; barley, 5S5. 600 bushels
SIX more of the men scalded by the
bursting of the fiue of the steamer Ohio
near Cairo, Ill, have died. making
total of thirteen victims.
JOHN j. SHEA, of Lima, o., was paid
the sum of $10,920 for the loss of an arm
while in the employ of the Lake Erie &
Western road as yard conductor
LIZZIE BORDEN was arraigned in the
superior court at New Bedford, Mass,
for the alleged murder of her father
and stepmother in Fall River August
last and pleaded not guilty.
The Chemical national bank of Chi.
cago, with capital stock of 81, 200, 900,
and branch at Jackson park, where
worlds fair concessionaires deposited
their cash, closed it's doors.
FLAMES in the works of the Shepard
Hardware company in Buffalo, n. Y,
caused loss of 5000, 900.
WARD II. LAMoN, marshal of the dis
trict of Columbia under the admiuistra-
ton of President Lincoln, died at Mar
tinsburg, w. Va.
ROBERT DowNEY, Richard Hoban and
Watson Major were swept over dam
at Dixon, ILL.,, and drowned.
CARLYLE w. HARRIS was executed by
electricity in the prison at Sing Sing,
n. Y, for the murder of Mary HELEN
Potts. his wife. Harris declared his in
nocence to the last.
AN explosion of natural gas at Ander-
derson, Ind, fatally injured Eli Murray
and his wife and seriously hurt his two
children.
IN fourteen districts of Greene coun-
ty, Ia, the schools were closed because
no teachers could be found to take
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