Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-13
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

| C., unroofing houses and mills and de-
stroying barns, stables and outhouses.
| A woman was killed and number of
persons were injured.
AUeusT WILMAN, German work.
| man near Wilbur N. Y, committed
suicide by placing n dynamite cartridge
in his mouth and exploding it with his
teeth His head was completely
blown off.
Mrs. w. II. PECK, wife of the depot
agent at Grady, Tenn, and Barton
Warren, farmer, were killed by light
| ming.
A GANG of forty-five moonshiners
were captured by United States officers
in McDermott and Wyoming counties,
West Virginia.
CHARLES l.. GALE, city treasurer of
Laramie, Wyo., left for parts Unknown
with $4,000 belonging to the city.
A CYCLONE struck Oxford, n. c., de-
molished fifteen buildings and killed
one man and injured several other per-
sons.
OWING to a great shrinkage on the
New York stock exchange of the stock
of the Cordage Trust company the firms
of Schuyler Walden, Henry Allen & Co.
and b. l.. Smyth & Co. suspended and
several other equally reputable firms
were trembling on the verge of suspen-
sion.
THE evangelists, Moody and Sanlxey,
have arrived in Chicago to hold meet
ings during the worlds fair.
THE National normal university at
Lebanon, o., made an assignment with
liabilities of 100000. The institution
is an old one, and the first of its kind in
the United States. The failure was
caused by obligations incurred when
new buildings We're erected.
The application of Carlyle w. Har-
ris for executive clemency has been de-
MED by Gov. Flower, of New York, and
the murderer will be electrocuted at
Sing Sing.
A CYCLONE at Bailyville, Kan,
wrecked the st. Joseph e Grand Island
depot, Gregg Bros elevator, the post
the Baptist church and other buildings.
MANY thousand acres of corn and cot
ton in the vicinity of Tuscaloosa, Ala,
were inundated and ruined by an over
flow of the Warrior river.
STATEMENT prepared from the
records of the post Office department
shows that during the first two months
of the present administration the total
number of fourth-class postmasters ap-
pointed was 1884.
A SCHOONER was wrecked at Plum
Island, Mass, and it's crew of four men
We're drowned.
TwENTY-oNE buildings and dwelling
houses were burned at Bonne Terre,
Mo-, the loss being 100000.
DURING April 10,7s6 immigrants ar
rived in New York, against 5,0O6 in
April, 1892, and 4,S32 in April, 1891.
AN explosion in a railway shop at
Chattanooga, Tenn, killed John Quig-
ley and William Teak and injured three
other men.
JOHN S. PRINCE, the champion pro-
fessional bicyclist, ran against two
horses for twenty miles at Houston,
Tex. The horses gave out after the
fourteenth mile, but Prince finished
handily in 5S19 minutes.
GEORGE TAYLOR was convictedk at
Berrien Springs, Mich, of the murder
of Mary Comely at Niles and sentenced
to jackson prison for life.
ACCORDING to report compiled by
Comptroller Eclles there We're organ
lied within the United States during
the year ending April 80 new national
banks to the number of $50 and repre-
senting s14,32 600 capital Thirty-two
states and four territories are repre-
sented by the organizations.
AN attempt was made to wreck the
west-bound express train on the Lake
Erie & Western road near Paxton, ILL.,,
but the distractions We're discovered
before harm was done.
AMOS KERR, butcher, who killed
Frank Gilmore, a gambler, at Green
River, Wyo., was acquitted on paying
fine of s13.
The members of the Evangelical Al
lance of Cincinnati, which comprises
nearly all the Protestant ministers in
the city, sent request to President
Cleveland that the attorney general
prevent by injunction threatened viola
ton of a law of congress against Sun
day opening of the worlds fair.
A MOB took James Collins, horse
thief, from the sheriff at Sherman, KY,
and hanged him.
A FIRE wiped out the village of Six
Lakes, Mich.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has
passed a law prohibiting political or
ganizations from paying the naturali-
zation expenses of foreign born citizens.
The Interstate Oratorical association
in session at Columbus, o., elected
Harry B. Walder, of Missouri, presi-
dent; c, A. Prosser, of Indiana, vice
president and Benjamin Mason, of Iowa,
Secretary-treaSurer.
AT Atwater and GAINESVILLE. small vii
lages in Illinois, several buildings were
blown down during tornado and a
number of others were unroofed and
otherwise damaged.
WILLIAM WANTS THOMAS, custom
house broker, died in New York. He
was the only surviving delegate of
New York to the national convention
that nominated William II. Harrison in
1910.
WITH bursting dam threatening to