Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-02-11
DOMESTIC.

to prevent the consideration of the ant-option
bill prevented any business being transacted.
DOMESTIC.
SEVERAL buildings, including the
Hotel Roclkton, Grand Central hotel
and the Metropolitan block, were
burned at Little Falls, N. Y, the loss
being $780,
COUNTERFEIT silver dollars, halves,
quarters and dimes of the issue of 1892
were in circulation in Chicago.
SNowsLIDEs at Aspen, Col, killed
three man, and at Carbondale one man
lost his life in the same manner.
The First national bank of Little
Rock, Ark, closed it's doors with heavy
liabilities.
JAMES MITCHELL and his wife and
child were frozen to death in their
house near Topeka, Kan.
PRESIDENT HARRISON sent to congress
n message dealing with the subject of
the importation of foreign goods into
the United States across the Canadian
border under consular seal in which he
says that the present system shows
favoritism to Canadian transportation
routes and seaports against those of
our own country.
THE advance sheets of Hotfman's
Catholic directory, the official publica-
tion of the Catholic church in the
United States, gives the total Catholic
population in this country at S,S06, ,095.
The total number of priests is 9,3SS;
children attending parochial schools,
73S, 269, and children in orphan asy-
lums, 26,5S3. There are 1877 Catholic
colleges, 656 academies, 3,5S7 parochial
schools, 463 charitable institutions and
SAT- churches.
The $4,000 miners in the Wyoming
and Lackawanna valleys in Pennsyl-
vania will hereafter work eight hours
day.
IT has been determined to remove
the remains of jefferson Davis from
New Orleans to Richmond for inter-
ment on May so.
THE Reading Railway company says
that if the bill before the New York
legislature to fix the price of anthracite
coal becomes law they will not bring
any coal into the state at all.
FIVE weekly newspaper offices in
Topeka, Kan, were destroyed by fire.
A VERDICT of guilty was rendered at
Pittsburgh, Pa in the case of Robert
j. Beatty, charged with poisoning the
non-union workmen at Homestead.
Mrs. JACOB PLIMEER, of Brooklyn, n.
Y, a handsome woman of 36 years of
age, after brief quarrel with her hus-
band shot him fatally and then shot
herself dead.
DIR. LANCASTER DREW, treasurer of
the Central Savings Fund. Trust &,
Safe Deposit company at Philadelphia,
was said to have embezzled $4,000.
A LAMP explosion set fire to the house
of Alfred Burgerson in Chicago and
Mrs. Burgerson and her baby were fa-
tally burned.
The total number of deaths reported
in the state of New York for the year
1892 was 1870, $50. This makes the death
rate for the year 2o.7s per 1000 popu-
lation.
AN explosion in the Conygham shaft
| near Wilkesbarre, Pa, burned nine
men, two of them fatally.
SAM SMITH, a 19-year-old negro, was
hanged at Birmingham, Ala, for the
murder of Isaac Burger nine months
ago.
THE boilers of the Planters Com.
press company at Vicksburg, Miss, ex'
ploded, killing three men and injuring
twelve others.
The Chicago Milk Shippers associa
tion, with a membership of 1900, failed
for 100000.
| WALLACE HOLMES was hanged al
Springfield, Mass, for the murder o.
his wife on election day in Novem
| ber, 1891.
| EXCHANGES amounting to 81, 800, S15.
7ss were reported by the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the seven days ended on the Sd, against
1873, $40, 603 the previous seven days
AS compared with the corresponding
| week of 1882 the increase was 80.
In the United States during the sever
days ended on the Sd the business
failures numbered S01, against 295 tn,
previous week and 297 for the CORE
spending time last year.
GEORGE GOODRICH, colored middl,
weight, was instantly killed in tn,
ring at New Orleans by his opponent
Joe Green. Goodrich was knocke,
down. and the fall broke his neck.
THE total money circulation of tn
country on the lst was placed at 81,
607, 95s, 430, or per capita of s24. 2S
against 81, 6O3, s55, 1913 at the same tim
in 1899.
The national live stock exchang
opened its annual session in Omaha
THE commissioners of the provisiona
government of Hawaii who are charge
with the duty of presenting to the gov
ernment of the United States tn
proposition of annexing the islands t
this country have reached Washington