Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-10-21

worlds fair grounds will remain stand.
ing during the winter, and with it may
be retained three or four other build
ings.
WESLEY c. RIPPEY, who shot John w.
Mackay in San Francisco on February
% last, was convicted of assault with
deadly weapon.
j. A. ANDERSON, a prominent physi-
clan of Millington, Tenn, died from
poison communicated to his hand in a
post-mortem examination of negro.
DURING quarrel Edward Sloan beat
John Schreclter to death with large
wrench in a Pittsburgh Pa.) livery
barn.
FIFTEEN, persons lost their lives at
Magnolia Beach, s. c., by a cyclone
from the West Indies.
Mrs. X. r. JONES, of Stockton, Kan,
committed suicide while insane by
near her own home.
FALLING with lighted lamp in his
hand, Cochran Hammond, a resident of
Pittsburgh, Pa, was burned to death
"BoB" FITzsTMNoNs has issued a
challenge to any middleweight in the
world, and is willing to take the place
of either Corbett or Mitchell in the
coming fight.
A. w. MILLER, prominent lawyer of
Memphis, was debarred from practice,
being found guilty of betraying and de-
fraudlng a client.
TwENTY-EIGHT horses were burned to
death in fire which destroyed a livery
barn in Chicago.
Two LABoRING men were struck by a
train at Washington, d. c., while walk
ing along the track and instantly
| killed.
The number of persons who paid ad-
missions to the worlds fair for the week
ended on the 18th was 2,OS3, 74+-the
largest attendance in any one week
since the exposition opened.
RAILROAD men at the worlds fair
| had ride on the John Bull train in
command of William Finlayson, who
was conductor of the first passenger
| train run in America.
MAYOR FISHER, of Tryon, n. c., was
arrested with two others, as a member
of the notorious Barrett gang.
WITH pair of shears as weapon
Capt. w. c. Hale, of Joliet Ill, fatally
stabbed his wife and himself.
CRAZED by separation from his wife,
II. f. Winn, of Springfield, Mass, eut
the throat of his baby boy, then killed
| himself.
The entire chain of lakes was swept
by a northwestern gale whose severity
has not been excelled for the last ten
years Many vessels were wrecked and
a number of lives were reported to have
been lost.
By the sinking of the steamer Dean
Richmond near 'Dunkirk, n. Y,
eighteen lives are believed to have been
| lost
Two NEGRO tramps were killed aud
three railroad men injured in a collision
on the Rock Island road at Paxico, Kan.
THE main building of the state uni.
versity at Vermillion, S. D., was de.
stroyed by fire, entailing loss of $780,
900 or more without insurance.
A HEAVY frost throughout the lower
Mississippi valley did great injury to
cotton and vegetation.
DURING the gale at Owen Sound
Ont, the yacht Enterprise was washed
ashore and her two occupants were
drowned
MAY and Edith Coffroth, of Romnev
w. Va, were drowned in the Cacapor
river near Cumberland, Md, by the
capsizing of boat.
The schooner Minnehaha was driver
on the beach north of Onekama, Mich.
and her crew of six were drowned.
WHILE playing with loaded revolver
at Topeka; Kan, Bert Myers, aged II,
accidentally shot and killed his S-year
old brother.
A FIRE destroyed number of promi
nent business houses at Detroit, Mich
entailing Il loss of S2OO,OO One man
George Barline, was burned to death.
THE worlds conYess of the Woman''
Christian Temperance union. convened
in annual session at the Art palace il
Chicago, fifteen different nations being
represented.
FLAMES destroyed thirty buildings il
the business portion of King City, Mo.
occasioning a loss of S150,000.
PRISONERS in the Jail at BrazilI Ind.
had planned to hang one of their mum
ber,' but the plot was discovered.
FIFTY miles of timber, reaching from
Montgomery county, Tex, to the Sabin
river were in flames. Several town
were in danger
JACOB L. SAWYER, wholesale clothie
of Milwaukee, made an assignment
with liabilities of 100000.
DIR. w. b. SHUMAKER, prominen
citizen of Ackerman, Miss, was killeC
by w. II. Hefin, against whom he hat
preferred charges of keeping gam
bling house.
DIR. j. NJ. PRATT, one of the best
known physicians of Hill county, Tex.
was shot and killed by w. c. Harris,
consta BILE.
WILLIAM WHATEN, confined in tn
} Ohio penitentiary, confessed to tn
warden that he was the author of fiv
mysterious and brutal murders com
mitted near Yellow Springs, Gree
: county, that state.
, By the premature explosion of dynG
mite while charging the village well q
Emington, ILL.,, five men were kille
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