Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-04-29
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

injured.
In their ninth annual report the civil
service commissioners urge that the
classified service be extended as rapidly
as practicable to cover every position in
the public service possible, and hope
that bill may pass congress to take
the fourth-class postmasters out of poll
tics. The whole number of places sub
iect to competitive examination under
the rules is now 42,92S.
The governorl of Tennessee ordered
troops to Tracy City to suppress a
| miners riot.
ALL the gambling houses in Louis
vile, KY, were closed by order of the
mayor.
AT Salina, Kan, mob of 500 citizens
lynched Dan Adams, n young negro, for
having assaulted Agent Stout of the
Union Pacific freight Office with razor.
ALL over Illinois, Michigan, Indiana,
Wisconsin and Iowa violent blizzard
ragged, accompanied by hail, sleet and
| snow, stopping all travel and wrecking
many barns and several houses
A STEAM scow was upset in the river
at Lock Haven, Pa, and three men were
drowned.
MINERS made n desperate attempt to
liberate the convicts from the stockade
ut Tracy City, Tenn, and during the
battle two men were killed and dozen
others were wounded
FURTHER advices from the cyclone in
Jasper, Clarke and Jones counties in
Mississippi state that over 200 homes
were ruined and nearly fifty persons
were killed. A negro named Henry
German with his wife and nine children
were imprisoned under the ruins of his
cabin, and fire originating from a
stove slowly roasted the unfortunate
wretches.
An Ohio River railroad train was de-
rallied on the twelve-pole trestle near
Ceredo, KY, and one man was killed
and thirteen other persons were Sc
riously injured.
THE town of Shubuta, Miss, was de-
molished bv tornado.
WARNER, a town of / 200 inha bitants
in the Cour d'Alene mining district of
Washington, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
A CYCLONE struck Midland City, Ala,
and destroyed a dozen residences four
stores and two warehouses.
In some portions of Minnesota the
snow was feet deep on level
THE business portion and thirty
houses of the little town of Water
Valley, n. Y, were destroyed by fire.
A TERRIFIC hurricane swept over Ne
braslSa and windmills, barns and hay
stacks were overturned and wrecked
and several persons were more or less
injured.
THE citizens of Lexington, Mass, cell
ebrated the 11Sth anniversary of the
firing of the "Shot heard around the
| world"
Fox over forty-eight hours Lake
Michigan was lashed into frenzy by
tempest and several vessels were driven
ashore near Chicago, others were
wrecked and several lives were lost.
THE new waterworlss crib at Milwau-
kee was washed away during a terrific
storm and fourteen men lost their lives
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses In the United States during the
week ended on the 21st aggregated s1,-
242, 2,015,644, against s1,210,9O1, ,192 the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1892 was 1915.
FRANCIS d. HARRIS, ointment
young man at New Haven, Conn, died,
and when his wife was told of his death
she took her own life with pistol.
The rivers in Minnesota and Dakota
We're booming, and the Red river valley
the great wheat region of the north,
was one sea of water almost from Fargo
to the Manitoba border.
BUSINESS failures to the number of
POS occurred in the United States in the
seven days ended on the 21st, against
e09 the preceding week and pol for
the corresponding time last year.
REPORTS made to the comptroller of
the currency by the 3,S06 national
banks doing business in the United
States show that in round numbers
these banks have 100000 900 in gold
coin and gold treasury certificates and
gold clearing house certificates approx
imating s75, ,OO0,oO
THE 500, 100000 gold reserve of the
government has been depleted to the
amount of sa,7OO,OOO.
BY fire in one of the shafts of the
Butte and Boston company at Butte,
Mont, nine miners were cut off from
escape and were either burned to death
or suffocated.
FATHER VANDEvER, a priest in the
parish at Butte, Mont, was said to have
squandered $4,000 belonging to the
church.
FATHER CHARLES FLAHERTY, of Mount
Morris, N. Y, on trial at Geneseo for
criminal intimacy with Mary Sweeney
parishioner under 16 wears of age was
found guilty.
WILLIAM p. CASPER, a colored hod
carrier at Kensington, Pa, is heir tc
$4,000 left him by slavery days mis-
tress, Miss Mary Struthers, living neal
New Philadelphia, o.
RoHLE and Pallister, two murderers
under sentence of death, escaped from
the prison at Sing Sing by throwing
pepper in the guards eyes. They are
both New York men.
STORM damaged TO the extent of 500,
900 the United States ship canal con