Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-01-14
DOMESTIC,

DOMESTIC.
THIRTY-oNE men were burned and
injured by repeated explosions of nat
ural gas in the vaults of the Donohue
& Heneberry building in Chicago and
the damage to property was heavy
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
has decided that the old blue law, en-
acted in 1894 and relating to the follow
ing of worldly pursuits on The Sabbath
day, is still in force.
A FIRE that started in E. f. Hallacll's
paint works in Denver spread to ad-
joining buildings, the total loss being
S3OG, 600.
The final estimates of the agricul-
tural department for the year 1892 gave
crop productions as follows: Wheat,
o,949, 900 bushels, value 1922, ,Ss1;
corn, 1,62S, 464, 600 bushels. value S642,-
146, 630; oats, 66l, ,035, 900 bushels, value
sos, 3,611.
FIRE destroyed the principal portion
of the village of Macon, Ill.
FLAMES in the four-story brick build
ing of the Omaha (Neb) Printing COM
pany caused loss of S1OO, 900.
| The four leaders of gang of rob-
| bers who have stolen merchandise val
ued at over S100. 200 from freight cars
| were arrested in Buffalo, n. Y.
GEORGE TACKER died at Lima, O.,
from accidental injuries. and his wife
| lost her reason from grief and killed
herself.
LITTLE ANTON and Henry Stone, of
Providence, R. l., dropped lighted
match in keg of powder and they
were blown to pieces.
FIRE destroyed three business build
ings in Pittsburgh, Pa, causing loss
of over S4OO, 00O
CorToN valued at over $780, 900 was
destroyed by fire at Anderson, S. C.
C. w. DRIps and Mrs. Albin were
asphyxiated by coal gas at Wymore.
Neb.
WILLIAM RIDDLE shot and killed S.
E. Shelton near Marshall, Madison
county, n. C. This made the thirteenth
murder in that county in six months.
THE iron product for 1892 in the
eight iron producing states of the
south is placed at 1866, 4S5 tons.
Two men wrenched the lock off a
United States mail box at Salt Lake
City and appropriated an armful of let
ters, among them being some contain
ing drafts and checks amounting to
$4,000, mailed by the Consolidated
Implement company to eastern firms.
| PRESIDENT HARRISON has extended
by an amendment to postal rule
the classification of the postal service
SO as to include all free delivery Of
fees. of which there arc understood to
be Sol, under civil service rules.
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stroyed hotel and other property, the
total loss being 100000.
In the United States during the seven
days ended on the 9th the business
failures numbered $40. against 1856 the
previous week and 295 for the aorre-
spending time last year.
AT New Cambria, Mo-, Samuel Reed,
while examining u gun, shot and in
stantly killed his ll-vear-old daughter.
AN ice gorge in the Ohio river at
Cincinnati caused property loss of
500, 900.
THE Leeds Land and Improvement
company at Sioux City, Ia, failed with
liabilities of $500, 600 and assets OF less
than 81, 900, 900.
BARNEY HIVES, George Regel and
Andy Fritz were killed by the cars at
Cincinnati.
The Kentucky hotel at Hot Springs,
Ark, was totally destroyed by fire and
nearly all the guests lost all their per.
sonal effects.
THE mayor, auditors and aldermen OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, have been indicted for
misappropriating funds.
COLD weather formed an immense
ice bridge at Niagara falls, and Mag
ara river below the whirlpool, clear to
its mouth at Youngstown, was frozen
over, a condition which had net existed
before in ten years.
THE assessed valuation of New York
city property this year is nearly So, 900,
600. 600, an increase of about $50, 900, 0O(
over last year.
THE explosion of lamp set on fire
the Elkland furniture works at Elk
land, Pa, and loss of 100000 re
suited.
JOHN WooDLEY. of Cleveland, o.,
shiftless fellow. after domestic quar-
rel cut his wife's threat with a razo
and then killed himself with the same
weapon.
Il FRANK Is. WARNER and Harry H
Rowland, of Philadelphia, were fatal,
hurt by falling icicles at Niagara Falls
n. Y.
The National American Woman
Suffrage association will commence Il.
twenty fifth annual convention /,
Washington January Is.