Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-04-15
The counties Of Bann,r. Keith, Daw-


BURGLARS stole $4,000 in cash from
the county treasurer's office in Fort
Madison, Ia, and made their escape.
JUDGE JACKSON, of the United States
district court at Wheeling, w. Va, in
labor riot case said that men could re-
fuse to work, but the law did not per-
init them to intimidate others from
working in their places
JESSE JACKsoN's large barn was
burned at Dayton, o., and with it six
teen horses and 100 sheep perished.
THE bodies of three persons. man,
woman and child, We're found in the
river near Williamson, w. Va. Their
identity was unknown and foul play
was suspected.
IN st. Louis a six-day go-as-you-
please pedestrian contest ended as fol-
lows: Moore. 525 miles; Cartwright,
500: Hughes, SIS; Hegelman, 465; Click,
454.
THE usual proclamation prohibiting
the taking of seals or other fur bearing
animals in Alaska or in Behring sea in
the season of 1898 has been issued by
the president.
THE hailstorm which swept over the
southern portion of Chicago did damage
to the extent of 100000.
MORE than 200 mummles have arrived
in Chicago for exhibition at the worlds
fair. They We're collected for the most
part from the tombs of the Incas in
Peru, and from the burying grounds of
the prehistoric Chilians.
HARRY HARING fatally shot Annie
Kurtz at Allen, Pa, because she re-
fused to marry him and then shot him
self
THE steamer Hekla, after being twen-
tyfour days at sea. was towed into port
in New York by the steamer America
and her 700 passengers were safely
landed
THE Legislature of Nebraska ad-
journed sine die. Before adjournment
resolutions of impeachment We're adopt
ed against ex-Attorney General Leese
and eX-Auditor Benton.
LUKENs e Co., lumber dealers at Phil
adelphla, failed for sl7o,o0o.
THE total number of fourth-class post
masters appointed from March 4, 1898.
to April 8, 1898, inclusive, is S7s, of
which sos were to fill vacancies caused
by designations and deaths and $40
were removals.
w. A. GILBERT, young member Of
an aristocratic southern family. and
highly educated, spent $4,000 in two
years and paid the penalty of his folly
by throwing himself into Lake Michi-
gan at Chicago.
LEE NEWELL and Leon Styles were
burned to death in the calaboose at
Stanberry, Mo. They fired the building
in the hope of gaining their liberty.
STATIsTIcs just issued of grain ex-
por,s from New York for the year 1892
show that 73,3O6,s2s bushels were
shipped during the year The wheat
amounted to 4S.057,32 bushels; corn,
1878, ,119; oats. 1891, ,475: rye, 3,O63, 719;
peas, s2S,67S; fax seed, s55, 1913; barley,
674,s11, and buckwheat, e34, ,46s.
ALMOST the entire western half of
Nebraska has been swept by prairie
fires, the area laid waste being 80 miles
wide and so miles long. The counties
of Grant, Perkins, Thomas, Keith,
Brown, Rock, Deuel., Scots Bluffs,
Kimball, Banner and Cheyenne suffered
immense loss.
The timber lands of the counties of
Ross, Pike and Athens in Ohio were laid
waste by fire, the total loss being over
$500, 900.
GEORGE Snow and Arthur Gainer were
shot and killed by Arthur Fields as
they We're going to church at Living
stone, Tex. Jealousy over a young lady
was the cause.
THE New York Historical society eel
u, ~, - -
introduction of the printing press into
the colony of New York by William
Bradford, who began his services as
public printer in 1893.
Towns along the Rio Grande in New
Mexico felt four severe shocks of earth
quake.
MISS EDITH DAY returned to Portland
Ore, having completed her 10.000-mile
railroad journey through the United
States and Mexico in seventeen day:
and fourteen and one-half hours.
MISS BESSIE MITCHELL, who left Chi
cago for a trip around the country il
three weeks, on wager that she coult
| go 10000 miles without leaving the rail
road car, succeeded in accomplishing
| the feat.
THE scheme of New York capitalist
to secure all the rolling mills and fur
naces in the Mahoning (G) valley TO
| s7,000,000 has been successful.
The famous trotting stallion Lebasct
died at Beatrice, Neb., of laryngitls
His owner, j. G. Ladd, had refused al
offer of 800, 900 for him.
THE April report of the statistician O
the department of agriculture at Wash
ington makes the average condition O
winter wheat 77.4, against S1.2 las
year.
TWELVE hours saw the beginning an
the peaceful ending of strike at tn
worlds fair grounds that involved al
union workmen within the gates, to tn
number of 5000 or more, and imperile
the successful opening of the exposi
| ton.
The train containing the souther
California worlds fair fruit exhibit wa
wrecked near Albuquerque and most c
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