Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-03-04

then fatally shot himself.
THE agent of the Missouri, Kansas a.
Texas road ut Adair, /. T., was robbed
by three desperadoes of IS, 700.
AT Johnstown, Pa, Joseph Zetzoch
undertook to drink two quarts of al
cohol for wager of two dollars. He
drank one quart and was eating some
sausage when he fell dead.
The Daughters Of the Revolution in
session in Washington elected Mrs
Stevenson, the wife of the vice presi-
dent-elect, rs president general of the
society.
The paint and car shops of the South
ern Pacific and fourteen passenger
coaches were burned at San Antonio,
Tex, the loss being 500, 900.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has approved
the act granting pension to the widow
of the late Maj Gen. Doubleday.
FRANK GlLBoUaH, aged 90 and popu-
lar young man, shot and killed Miss
Dora May Watson, aged II, at Calves
ton, Tex, because she refused to mar
ry him, and then killed himself.
S. GLEITz and wife, of Tarentum,
Pa, returned home from n funeral and
found their two children burned to
death.
SAMUEL PRICE, railroader, who was
badly frozen in a blizzard, had his
hands and feet amputated at Pitts
burgh, and it was said that he would
live.
AT Bermuda, Tex, Mrs John Stew
art, farmers wife, gave jeff Masten,
for insulting her, 100 lashes with
horsewhip while her husband covered
him with Il revolver.
PRESIDENT HARRISON issued proc
lnmation convening the senate in extra
session March 4.
The Kansas supreme court decided
that the republican house is the legal
house of representatives of the state.
HENRY DAVENPORT, an old farmer
near Knoxville, Tenn, was roped in
by the gold brick ancient fraud for
49, 500.
AN immense deposit of rich bessemer
ore was discovered on 4O-acre tract
located in ST. Louis county, Mimi,
owned by w. r. Burt, of Saginaw,
Mich. 1t was calculated that over TO-
600, ooU tons were in sight
Four oyster boats were wrecked near
Laurel, Del. and seven oystermen were
drowned
FIRE. destroyed the building and stock
of the Minnesota Shoe company in ST.
Paul, the loss being $500, 0UO.
THE planning mill of the Commercial
Lumber company at FELTON,, Ga, was
burned, entailing loss of $50, 900.
James Berry. the night watchman, per-
ished in the flames.
IY-r -.
ing shoe merchant of Atlanta, Ga, shot
and killed her two sisters. She was
thought to be insane.
AN Erie vestibule train was wrecked
near Vandalia, N. Y, and ten persons
were injured. but no one was killed.
FIVE members of life-saving crew
were drowned near New Bedford.
Mass, while going to the rescue of a
wrecked brig
WILLIAM MILLER a pugilist. died in
San Francisco from a blow received
during fight with Dal Hawkins.
LEATHER trust with a capital of
S45, 600, 600 has been formed by New
York and Boston leather houses.
A BARN owned by w. Chesrown near
Olney, ILL.,, was burned, and fifteen
horScS auu uVc COWS peTiSneu III lne
flames.
The Cofrodt & Saylor company, con-
trolling the Reading CPa.) rollingnills,
failed for $500, 900.
CHARLES r. CARTER has been sen.
fenced at Mount Vernon, Mo-, to hang
April IA next for the murder of Robert
Crockett seven years ago.
SAMUEL BROWN and his sons Sidney
and George fell distance of 125 feet
in Il coal mine at Coalton. o., and were
killed.
JOSEPH PAYNE, q negro, was lynched
by mob at Jellico, Tenn, for assault
on white girl named Mamie Cecil.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the eth was:
Wheat, 79.564,o bushels; corn. 49,
094, 900 bushels; oats, $, ,456, 900 bushels;
rye. 9l5,O bushels; barley, 1872, 900
bushels.
FRANK Fl. JENKINS, of Roxbury,
Mass, driver of an express wagon,
shot his wife and himself fatally. Do
mestic trouble was the cause.
The entire senate, without distinc-
tion of party, united in rendering
complimentary dinner to Vice Presi-
dent Morton and in bearing testimony
to the admirable manner in which he
has presided over the deliberations of
the upper chamber OF congress for the
last four years.
A BLOCK of twenty houses and stores
was burned at Pocahoptas, Va, the
loss being 100000.
LEE TAYLOR, who lately met with
financial reverses, deliberately lay
down on the log carriage at sawmill
at Mud Run, Pa, pulled himself up to
the rapidly revolving saw, and his
head was severed from his body.
FREIGHT trains collided on the Bos-
ton g. Maine road near st. Johnsbury,
VT, and Fred Clark, Fred Green and
Charles West were killed.
John SMITH and his wife and three
children and John Kunze and his wife
were killed in their homes in Chicago
by the falling of n wall of partially
k,,;1