Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-10-07

bicycle record at Springfield, Mass,
going miles, with standing start, in
4:15 3-5.
CLIFFORD NJ. CLAvERTY, n tight-rope
walker, fell a distance of 30 feet at
Trenton, N. j., and sustained fatal in
iuries.
JOHN TURPIE, a brother of the Indi-
ana senator, has returned to his home
in Delphi after being mourned us dead
for quarter of u century.
LOUIS KING, Chinese merchant at
Seattle, Wash, was denied citizenship
in the United States court.
AT an African Methodist conference
in Indianapolis Bishop Walters said
that the lynching of negroes in the
south for trifling offenses, and in many
cases innocent negroes, was increasing
to an alarming extent, and called for
vengeance. DR.. Thompson, of ST. Louis,
urged the negroes to avenge their
wrongs with blood
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the goth aggregated
$772, 06s, 725, against $T9s, so7, 800 the pre-
vious week The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1892,
was 27.0.
HENRY COLEMAN, Jr., a negro who at
tempted to assassinate Capt. Thomas
Lyles at Midway, was hanged by mob
near Benton, La.
BUSINESS failures to the number of
329 occurred in the United States in the
seven days ended on the Goth, against
Sf9 the preceding week and III during
the same time last year. During the
past three months the total number of
failures was nearly 1000 and the ag-
gregate of liabilities about $3.50, 600, 600,
greatly surprising the record of any
previous quarter.
ROBERT 7. HUNT shot and killed his
wife and himself at Indianapolis. He
was a dissolute artist.
w. c. PERCIvAL, cashier of the Ma
tional shoe and leather bank of Lewis
ton, Me, died in the state prison at
Thomaston.
Milo WILSON, who killed 11-year-old
Ina Warman because she would not
marry him, committed suicide by blow
ing his brains out at Williamsburg, O.
AT meeting of the Greene County
Baptist association at Springfield, Mo-,
Elder j. NJ. Carter, as we'll as the Ash
Grove Baptist church, was expelled for
heresy.
HARLEY JOHNS and Sim Reynolds
were sentenced to two years in prison
at Macon, Mo-, for attempting to wreck
a train.
THE Texas state treasury was said to
be bankrupt.
A TREMENDOUS rain poured down at
Pine Bluff, Ark, and with it came mil
lions of small frogs. The streets in the
business part of the town were so COW
cred with them that it was difficult to
walk.
COUNTERFEIT twenty-dollar bills were
in circulation in Chicago. The bills are
wood-cut limitations of silver certif-
cate of the series of 1oS0, check letter
A. Its number is b 313216S.
Snow fell in portions of New York,
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
FOREST fires were raging near Win
o., and in jefferson township,
and many farmhouses and barns had
been destroyed.
FIVE negroes were hanged together
on one scaffold at Mount Vernon, Ga
Three of them murdered Alexander
Peterson, rich merchant, last July;
the fourth killed 5-year-old child and
the fifth murdered negro companion.
THE Michigamme river broke through
the Mansfield iron mine near Crystal
Falls, Mich, drowning twenty-eight of
the employees at work directly under
the stream.
LABoRERs in making excavations
near Mechanicsburg, o., eXhumed
twenty skeletons of an ancient race.
One of them, richly decorated, sat up
right and evidently had been chief.
A dog sat by his side.
THE league baseball season ended
with Boston the winner of the penant.
The percentages of the clubs at the
close was as follows: Boston, .667; Pitts
burgh, 62S; Cleveland, $40; Philadel-
phia, .55S; New York, .515; Cincinnati,
.512; Brooklyn. sos; Baltimore, .4sS;
Chicago, AL; st. Louis .4S2; Louis
vile. 400; Washington, .3OS.
WILHELM MARQUARDT, on the day
that he was to have been married,
climbed into a freight car at Chicago
and blew out his brains.
JOHN Nj. SCHAEFFER was accidentally
shot and killed by Edward Egeberdt at
a Carthage (Ill.) amateur theatrical re-
hearsal.
BANDIT SoNTAG has made a confess
sion at Sacramento Cal, with a view
to having his life sentence reduced.
WILLIAM HUNT fell headlong into
we'll near st. Joseph, Mo-, striking
George Anderson who was at the bot
tom doing some repairing The skulls
of both were crushed
IT was said that the bodies of the
twenty-eight victims of the mine dis
aster near Crystal Falls, Mich, would
never be recovered.
FOREIGN nations are contributing
articles to be woven into the Inter
national peace rope" for the new lib
erty bell
DIPHrHERIA has become epidemic at
Wis, the disease being of
the worst type. Many persons were
diving daily.