Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
DOMESTIC.


THE directors have unanimously
agreed that the Columbian exposition
should be opened for the last time Oc-
tober 81.
MRS BLINN, residing north of Brazil,
Ind, gave birth to child that had no
arms and only one foot; otherwise the
child was perfectly formed.
ID. L. JONES, Charles o'Dwyer and
James Harden, the three men who at
tempted to rob the New Orleans limited
express train on the Illinois Central
road near Centralia, ILL.,, have been cap
tured.
THE eighty-tirst annual session of the
rsupreme council, thirty-third degree,
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
Masons, was held in Chicago.
FIVE men were killed and six injured
by an explosion of gas in a colliery at
Plymouth, Pa.
THE Society of the Army of the Cum
berland at it's annual meeting in Cleve-
land reelected Gen. w. S. Rosecrans as
president. Ex-President Harrison was
chosen orator for the next meeting.
New gold reefs We're discovered in
Itasca county Mimi, the specimens
shown indicating that the new finds
are among the richest ever made in the
Rainy river district.
HEAVY damage was done on the
worlds fair grounds by storm of wind
and rain. The loss was estimated at
| $50. .000 Portions of the roof of the Man
| ufactures building, the Art gallery
and other buildings were broken in.
NEARLY dozen charred bodies were
| found in the wake of the Pawnec reser-
vation fire in the Indian territory
The negro Thomas Smith, whose
crime was the occasion of the riot at
| Roanoke, Va, that resulted in nine
men being killed by the state militia
and nineteen wounded, was finally
lynched by mob and his body burned.
| RAIN has eXtinguished the forest fires
in Wisconsin.
| The British schooner Windermere
was wrecked in squall near Mobile,
Ala, and Capt. Charlton and his wife
and three sailors were drowned.
THE five men who held up and robbed
the Mineral Range train in Michigan
have been arrested and the $1,000
stolen has been recovered.
FIVE HUNDRED laboring men who
We're absolutely starving arrived by
the Atlantic & Pacific road at Mojave,
Cal. The men claimed to be from the
Cherokee strip in Indian territory.
IT was reported that train on the
Newport News & Mississippi Valley
railroad was held up at Fulton, KY, by
robbers and that the engineer, fireman
and two passengers were killed.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 22d aggregated
s79S, S,S07, 800, against S792, s53, $50 the pre-
vious week The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1892,
was $50.
FIRE destroyed the sash and door
factory of the Charles Betcher Lumber
company and large amount of dry
lumber at Red Wing, Mimi, the loss
being S175,00O.
BUSINESS failures to the mum ber OF
$40 occurred in the United States in the
seven days ended on the 22d, against
3i6 the preceding week and 1SS during
the same time last year.
CATHOLICS and members of the Amer
lean Protective association came int
collision in Kansas City and many heads
We're broken.
In dispute over land claim a
Waukomis,O o. T., Joseph Williams killed
! a man named Liddle and his two sons
, AT Frederick, Md, Daniel Jones wa
. given thirty nine lashes on the bar
back for wife beating.
IL his annual report to the secretar,
of the interior Pension COMMISSIONS
Lochren says the number Of pensioner
, on the rolls of the bureau is 966,O1a
During the year 24,715 claims for in
crease of pensions and $1,000 for add
tional pension were allowed, and in tn
!, same time 1921 claims were rejected
a The amount of money paid for per
= sions during the year was $l56, 74o, 46I
a TRAINS collided on the Wabash raj
a way near Kingsbury, Ind, and eleve
Z persons were killed and twenty-fou
:. injured, some of them fatally.
a The Oklahoma national bank of on
a lahoma City, o. r., which suspende
payment July 10, 1898, has resume
a business.
n THE thirty-6rst anniversary of Abr;
: ham Lincolns proclamation freeing tn
4. slaves was celebrated in Chicago an
Springfield, Ill