Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-04-08
DOMESTIC,


JOHN HILL, boy sentenced to be
hanged April IA at Camden, N. j., has
confessed to the murder of Joseph
Dodson.
A GREAT prairie fire was raging at
Culbertson, Neb., and vicinity. The
whole valley between Trenton and
Culbertson had been burned over and
much stock had perished.
The last of the 5000, 900 worlds fair
souvenir half dollars have been struck
off at the mint in Philadelphia.
ENGINEER WILLIAM GRAY was killed
and. Fireman Lewis Mitchell fatally in
jured in a wreck on the Georgia Pacific
at Waco, Ala
THE Doxie music hall and theater at
Anderson, Ind, was burned the loss
being S1OO, 600.
FRANK LONG, a Cincinnati gas filter
2S years of age, who had not been liv-
ing with his wife for the last six
months, went to her home and cut her
throat and then took his own life in
the same manner.
THREE dories containing six fisher
men were wrecked near Provincetown,
Mass, and the men were drowned.
IT is said that the maple sugar out
put in Michigan this season will be
triple that of last year.
IMPEACHMENT proceedings were be-
gun in the Nebraska legislature against
j. G. Allen, secretary of state; A. B.
Humphrey, commissioner of public
lands and buildings; G. H. Hastings,
attorney general, and j. T. Hill, ex-
treasurer of the state. They are
charged with failing to prevent sys-
tematic plundering of the state by con-
tractors.
NEARLY every western railway presi-
dent has issued stringent orders against
the issuance of free passenger trans
portation after April l. The orders are
all alike, and forbid the issuance of
free transportation and the cancella-
ton of any already issued.
A BUILDING in Kansas City, Mo-, oc-
cupied by the Campbell Paint & Glass
company was partially destroyed by
fire with its contents, the loss being
500, 600.
THE exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the Slst ult. aggregated
81, ,050, SOS, $50, against 81, 227, 224, AIS the
previous week. The decrease as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1892 was 3.
THIRTEEN buildings were destroyed
by fire at Walnut Ridge, Ark, the loss
being 100000. A man and child per-
ished in the flames.
NAVIGATION on Lake Erie between
Cleveland and the head of the lake is
open.
In the United States during the seven
days ended on the 31st the business
failures numbered 1914, against 24S the
preceding week and 21S for the cor
responding time last year. The fail
ures during the first three months of
the present year number 5000, against
S,207 during the same time last year.
ADMIRAL GHERARDI. with the Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, Yorktown, Vesu-
vius and Cushing, arrived at Fortress
Monroe.
The Electric company's plant at Nc
keesport, Pa, was totally destroyed by
fire, the loss being 100000
The American Stove and Cooperaeo
company was incorporated with cap.
ital stock of s4,OOO,OOO at Trenton,
N. j. The company proposes to COLI
troll the manufacture of whisky and
drug casks and barrels
AN incendiary burned about half of
the town of McComb. o. Loss, S1OO, 600.
WILLIAM BLUNCK, aged IA, and John
L. Luviene, aged 10, were each sem
fenced in Chicago to forty years i'm
prisonment for the murder of Albert
Eckroth.
The new Columbus stamped en-
velopes were placed on sale in Wash
ington for the first time. The stamped
impression is of the same color as the
Columbian adhesive stamp, but the de-
sign represents an eagle with out
stretched wings and open mouth.
THOMAS G. ALLEN, of Ferguson, Mo-,
and viii l.. Sachtleben, of Alton, Ill
rolled into ST. Louis on their bicycles,
having completed a tour of the world
in three years.
The American Press, an organiza-
tion for the gathering and dissemina-
tion of news, filed articles of incorpo-
ration at Trenton, N. j. The capital
stock is So, 800, 900.
A TRAIN on the Denver & Rio Grande
road was ditched near Leadville, Col,
by the rails spreading and seventeen
persons were injured.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has announced
that no one who has been discharged
from the treasury department will be
restored.
The original drafts of the declara-
tion of independence and the constitu-
tion of the United States will not be
sent TO the worlds fair, Secretary
Gresham having decided that the risk
is too great.
The town of Galena, Md, containing
900 inhabi@ants, WAS destroyed by fire.