Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-04-29

ELEVEN wn1te caps, some OF them the
most prominent men in Carrollton, Ca,
were sentenced in the superior court to
twelve months in the chain gang.
A STORM in the Ohio oil fields wrecked
over 100 wells, the Standard Oil com
pany alone losing over 5000, 600.
THE government expenditures so far
this month have been heavy, exceeding
the receipts by over 81, 100000. The re-
ceipts have been S22, roo, 900 and expen-
ditures S24,900,000, and this has had the
effect of reducing the net cash balance
in the treasury to SPA, ,905, 900.
DURING recent storm in the oyster
growing districts along the Connecticut
coast the oyster crop was almost ruined,
the loss being estimated tower $500, 900.
The schooner Newell Eddy, with a
crew of eight men, foundered on Lake
Huron, and all were supposed to be lost.
THE Bank of Milbank, S. d., made an
assignment with liabilities of over
s100,000
THE hide firm of Benjamin Mclean &
Co., one of the oldest institutions in
Kansas City, Mo-, failed for $4,000.
John BULL" the first locomotive
ever put in service on the old Camden &
Amboy railroad, with it's two passenger
coaches built in 1886, arrived in Chicago
for exhibition at the worlds fair.
THE Friend e Formy Paper company
at Franklin, o., failed, with liabilities
of 100000.
THE two leading business blocks at
Colfax, Wash, were destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $3.50, 200.
JACK BRADY (colored) was hanged at
Bendersville, N. c., for the murder of
L. d. Taylor, a white man, last August.
Brady confessed his crime.
The Surrey Lumber company's mills
at Dendron, Va, with 5000, 900 feet of
lumber, were burned, the loss being
5000. 900.
THE Tennessee legislature has passed
an act authorizing state banks to issue
currency redeemable in gold and silver.
Col. CLARK L. X. ROYCE, treasurer of
the Veterans Home association at
Yountville. Cal, was said to be S20,0 900
short in his accounts.
JOHN S. SMITH and his wife and three
small children were struck by train
at crossing in jackson township, near
Wabash, Ind, and all were killed.
DURING the recent storm on Lake
Michigan fifteen vessels We're wrecked
nine lives were lost and property val
ued at $500, 900 was destroyed.
GEORGE A. PEARCE, who in 1883 was
secretary of the Planters &c Merchants
Insurance company of Mobile, Ala,
and decamped with s1O2. 1000 of the COM
pany's funds, has been found at Abb
lene, Tex.
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chanics at Topeka, Kan, which began
April s, has been declared off. The
terms upon which the men return to
work make it an unconditional surren-
der of the strikers and complete vic
tory for the company.
JOHN L. ABBOTT. United States min
lister to the United States of Colombia,
informs the department of state that
the Colombian government has in
creased the duty on spirituous liquors,
ready-made clothing and other articles.
FROM all portions of Mississippi it
was reported that cotton had either
been killed or greatly injured by the
recent cold spell and frost and that
there was no seed for replanting.
THE McConnell-M Mcguire company at
Moscow, the largest mercantile house
in Idaho, of which Gov. Mcconnell is
the head, was closed by the sheriff on
attachments for $780,
THE recent A. G.. Yates failure at
Rochester, y. Y, caused the failures at
Columbus, o., of the Columbus Coal
company, the Ohio Coal Exchange COM
papy and the Jacksonville Store COM
pany, the total liabilities being over
81 900, 600.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the oath was: Wheat,
74,S71 200 bushels; corn, L., 1929, 900 bush
els; oats, $685. 900 bushels; rye, TS7, 900
bushels; barley, 759, 900 bushels
JOHN PETERSON (colored) was lynched
by mob at Denmark, S c., on the
charge of criminally assaulting Bessie
Baxter, 15-year-old girl. There was
every reason to believe that Peterson
was innocent.
THE foundation to an interior wall in
the Gard company's electric plant in
Cincinnati gave way, causing wall to
fall, and one bricklayer was killed out
right and seven were injured, four ia
| tally.
THE discovery was made that the
! five-dollar currency notes of the La.
| gonda bank at Springfield, o., have
| been counterfeited.
| JOHN SWEENEY and Patrick Walsh
first cousins, who were born in Ireland
seventy years ago on the same day, died
of old age on the same day in Clifton
City, Mo.
The Northw estern elevator at Bel
lingham, MINI, and about 100, 900 bush
els of wheat were burned, the loss being
100000.
AFTER four years of open gambling
the gamblers of Springfield, o., have
closed up by order of the mayor.
AT Geneseo, n. ", Judge Nash sen
fenced Father Flaherty, who was founc
guilty of criminal assault ON a young
girl, to seven years and six months il
prison.
THREE Frenchmen named Triquois
Alphonz Ranger and Cyrille Fourtie
while scuffilng on raft at East Gray
Me-, were drowned.