Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-16

kill his sistcr-in-law and then ended his
own life with a bullet.
THE final report of Treasurer See
berger shows that the total disburse-
ments of the Columbian Exposition
company were S31, ,679, 045.94, while the
total receipts were $685., 147 ST. Thus
n balance of s1,915, ,l01.93 was left to
the credit of the company.
THE Famous shoe house at st. Louis
was damaged by flames and water to
the amount of Sl50,000.
HARRY STARKs, Harry Dunbar and
Charles Gallagher, of the schooner
Hustle's crew, got astray on Grand
Banks, near Gloucester, Mass, and
were drowned.
THE big betting establishment and
tannery of James Davis at Pawtucket,
r. l., were burned, the loss being
1925. 900.
LEAVING her two little ones to go
downtown at Kansas City, Mo-, Mrs.
Nichols returned to find them fatally
burned.
Gov. CRoUNsE, of Nebraska, will in
vestigate reports of starving farmers in
the western section of the state.
The wants of the suffering Gogebc
(Michigan) miners have been tempo
rarily relieved, but the men and fami-
lies will need help all winter.
IT has been settled that the Corbett-
Mitchell fight will take place at the
state fair grounds in Jacksonville, Fla.
BEN MINTER and Bob Wilkens (ne-
groes) were lynched at Berlin Ala, for
robbing a store and killing Reuben
Smith, clerk who slept therein.
THREE business firms at Syracuse. N.
Y, were burned out, the total loss be-
ing 5000. 600.
THE manufacturing jew welers of Plain
and Attleboro, Mass, ninety-six in
number, have suffered losses aggregat-
ing $780, 900 by reason of failures in the
pastuyear
EDWARD WEBB and Samuel Kerr took
their own lives in Chicago because they
were out of work, needy and despon-
dent.
COMMANDER IN CHIEF ADAMS, of the
G. A. R., has issued an official circular
asking all comrades to report any per-
son known to be in receipt of a pension
to which he is not entitled.
The Colorado Stag Portland Cement
company of Denver claims to have a
process which will revolutionize the
cost of Portland cement
a MILLION dollars for charity in Chi
cago this winter is the demand made by
the people who are most intimately ac-
quainted with the suffering and desti-
tuition of the city's unemployed.
CHARLES CHANNELS killed his wife,
| who was suing him for divorce al Green
castle, Ind, and then shot himself.
FIVE men rode into Plano, Tex, and
blowing open the safe of the First ma
tional bank secured $4,000.
SUPERINTENDENT OF Poor CLUG says
he never saw such suffering as exists
among the unemployed of Milwaukee
SOUVENIR coins are to be melted
down and recoined. The amount is es-
timated at 81, 10000
OF 1857 car loads of exhibits received
at the worlds fair only 2,546 have thus
far been shipped away.
TWENTY-FIVE passengers were hurt
by the wreck of Southern Pacific
train at Landsburg, n. NJ.
The Lehigh railway officials have
adopted the plan of reducing wages as
rebuke to those employees who went
on strike.
GEN. ALGER has induced owners in
the Michigan peninsula to open their
mines and employ the starving men.
THOUSANDS of letters containing
money have been stolen at South Bend,
Ind, and government officers were in
! vestigating,
THE Mutual Fire Insurance company
at Knox, Ind, collapsed and the officers
were said to have taken the funds and
| fed
Two REPORTS were made by the civil
Service commission. one favorably re-
viewing the work and the other criti-
cising it.
FARM products show a decline ac-
cording to agricultural department re-
ports for the month of December.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 11th was: Wheat
| rs, 1856, 600 bushels; corn. 6, 151, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 4,Ol2, 900 bushels; rye, $50, 900
| bushels; barley, 2,S74,000 bushels.
RoBBEgs "held up an express train
| on the international Il Great Northern
near Austin, Tex, and secured $1,000
from passengers
| JAMES ELAN, Emmett Barber and Jo-
seph Wernett, young men of Seattle,
| Wash, were drowned in Lake Union by
the capsizing of boat
| JAMES HILLIARD and Mark De Witt
ware arrested at Youngstown, o., for
making counterfeit money.
| FoR numbering his wife and Mrs.
Arthur Hern and burning their bodies
in farmhouse Matthew Bitsou was
sentenced at Janesville. Wis, to life
imprisonment.
FIRE destroyed Jacob Stearing's liv.
cry stable at Merced Cal, and William
Murphy and nine horses were burned
to death.
THE officers of the Mutual Insurance
company at Knox, Ind, left for parts
unknown, taking all the funds of the
company, upward of 100000
THE dwelling of Gus Hinch at Fay
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