Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-07-29
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


A CAN of naphtha exploded in the
sweat-band factory of j. d. Campbell
in Brooklyn, N. Y, killing j. D. Camp
bell and his son and John and Jacob
Weiss, brothers.
T. j. GALLAGHER has made another
confession, this time reiterating the
guilt of Dempsey in the Homestead
pa poisonings.
The town of Even, Mich, was nearly
destroyed by an inccndiary fire and a
man believed to be responsible was said
to have been lynched.
In an effort to drive non-union men
out of the mines at Weir City, Kan,
several persons were injured by strikers.
PROPERTY valued at $500, 900 was de-
stroyed by fire at Long Island City, L.
l., and hundreds of families were home
less as result of the blaze.
The Reynoldsville (Pa.) wooden mills,
Sykes, Allis & Moorehouse, proprietors,
were destroyed by fire. the loss being
500, 600.
JAMES DowLING, cashier of the mint
in New Orleans, was arrested on the
charge of embezzling SIS, 900.
BY collision of freight trains at Tis-
and Henry l.. Strong, engineer, were
killed.
pWHILE going home with his family
from a party Charles Duerr, of Dayton,
o., was murdered by three drunken
rowdies.
E. ii. TAYLOR, JR. & Sons, one of the
Oldest whisky firms in the country,
failed at Frankfort, KY, for 500, 900.
AT Waupaca, Wis, Sam Stout, Tad
Prior and Edward Bronson were acquit-
ted by jury of the murder of Samuel
Mead on the night of October 0, 1883.
The building in New York occupied
by the Eighteenth street telephone sta
ton was burned, causing loss of
100000.
MEXICo's fire brick works, the largest
discontinued operations.
EXCHANGES amounting to s979, 445.-
234 were reported by clearing houses in
the United States during the seven
days ended on the 21st, against 81, ,OOO,-
,677 the preceding seven days. The
decrease, compared with the correspond
ing time in 1892, was rs per cent.
THREE young men, sons of Frank
Lundgren, of Geneseo, Ill, aged re-
spectively Is, 20 and %, were drowned
in Green river by the capsizing of a
boat.
BUSINESS failures to the number of
467 occurred in the United States in the
seven days ended on the 21st. During
the week previous the failures num-
bered 374, against l6S in the correspond
ing time in 1892.
| DURING fight in Wise county, Va,
between state troops and outlaws four
soldiers were killed and six outlaws
were mortallv wounded.
Nj. j. BOWLING, editor of the Star at
Benville, Mimi, a man with neither
legs nor hands, was arrested by order
of the village council for not working
out his poll tax.
The entire business portion of Edger-
ton, o., small town of 1000 inhab
itants, was destroyed by fire, the loss
being 100000.
The senate of the National Union in
session in Detroit, Mich, elected III. T.
Brian, of Washington, as president.
The Commercial bank in Milwaukee
closed its doors with liabilities of ST.
CSC. $50. Other banks closed their doors
as follows: The Union at Greeley, Col.
the Bank of Crested Butte, Col. and the
Traders at Tacomah Falls, Wash. The
First national at San Bernardino, Cal.
resumed business, as did also the Second
national at Ashland, Ky.
BY an explosion of dynamite in a
shanty in Minneapolis Gus Olson was
blown into fragments
IT, . q
Mabel Hallett, of New York city, were
drowned while bathing in the surf al
Shell Bank, Long Island.
w. r. SHOEMAKER, of Metropolis, Ill.
killed George and Richard Lukens anc
then committed suicide. A lawsuit
caused it.
MASCOT defeated Hal Pointer ant
Flying Jib at Detroit, pacing five heat.
in less than 2:OS and breaking the
worlds record.
A NEGRO who assaulted and murdered
the 9-year-old daughter of Carr Elliot
in Lafayette county, Fla, was hanged
by mob
REV. GEORGE STOCKING, of Leavitts
burg, o., who was suffering from poo
health, ended his misery by cutting hi
!, throat.
WILLIAM NAPIER and family. of Co
lumbus, o., were badly poisoned by eat
ing cabbage on which paris green hat
been spread.
DEFECTIVE sewerage was causing
,, dangerous landslide in Cincinnati ant
many houses had already been com
pletely wrecked.
A CARELESS cigarette smoker started
fire in Little Goose Canon, Wyo., ant
much valuable timber was destroyed.
OFFICERS of the revenue cutter Rusl
report the discovery of an active vol
capo near Cape st. John, Alaska.
, MRS. VANERscHEK, farmers wife a
Rutledge, Mimi, was held up by tw
masked men and robbed of SI00.
! AN explosion in a coal mine at Ed
, wardsvile, Pa, fatally injured vii
r liam Jones, Martin Brennan, B. Wilso
and Patrick Malai.
The percentages OF the baseball club