Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-03-18
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gress by S3S 404, $50.
The governor has signed the bill pro
hibiting prize fights in California.
THE immense gorge in the Susoue
hanna river near Willkesbarre, Pa.
broke, and several villages wer,
flooded
FIVE fishing schooners from Glou
cester, Mass, were given up for los
with sixty lives. They were supposed
to have foundered in recent storm.
CHAIRMAN ALLISON of the United
States senate appropriation committee
says that for some years to come the
aggregate appropriations for euch con
gress will be in round numbers not les,
than 81, 900, 900, 900.
1T was announced that enough mon
ey by popular subscription had beer
received by the trustees to pay Gov
McKinley's debts, and that by April
every cent of the sos, 900 liabilities
would be wiped out. The fund was
raised by nearly 1000 contributors, in
sums ranging from 81 to drafts for S..
600, and the money came from nearly
every section of the country.
HIGH water in the Susquehanna river
flooded many houses at Port Deposit,
Md, and many poor families lost every
thing.
OFFICERS of the National Board of
Health association met in Cincinnati
and expressed the opinion that cholera
will be prevalent abroad all summer,
and that only the most careful and
strenuous efforts will keep it out of
America.
Mrs. MOSES MILLER 6s years old,
and Mrs. Ann Julian, 60 years old,
well-to-do sisters living at White
Plains, N. Y, were suffocated by coal
gas.
A DOZEN steamships arrived in port
at New York and ITO immigrants,
mostly Italians, were landed at Ellis
island.
OFFICIAL denial of an intended strike
among the switchmen on the roads en-
tering Chicago was made at meeting
of grievance committees of the Switch
m ems Mutual Aid ASSOCIATION.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN and company were
arrested at Cincinnati, O., for violating
the Sunday laws.
NEGROES at Rolling Fork, Miss, took
Lee Walton (colored) from Jail and
hanged him. He had murdered Rufus
Haywood, a negro, without cause.
AUGUST DoHLINa, aged 1s, an inmate
OF the poorhouse at Hastings, Minn,,
fell into comatose state six weeks
ago and since then has slept continu-
ously except when being fed
The California legislature has passed
a resolution to submit to the people a
constitutional amendment removing
the capital to San Jose.
JOSEPH MASSEY fatally shot Mary v.
Lafave at Quincy, Mass, because she
refused to marry him and then shot
himself.
u. F. KErEs, of Chicago, while in a
drunken frenzy shot Mrs. Weir.
neighbor, his sick wife and then him
self None Of the shots were thought
to be fatal.
JOEL X. WooLLEY, a patrolman at
tached to life saving station between
Long Branch and Asbury Park, found
a pociietbook on the beach containing
$4,000. 1t was washed ashore by the
waves.
FRED LAIsURE and his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Hattie Sullivan, were drowned
near Midland, Mich, while attempting
to cross road which was covered with
water
BY an explosion in the Whitsett
mine near Perryopolis, Pa, ten men
were injured, five of them fatally.
HIGH water in the Mohawk river at
Schenectady, n. Y, flooded the works
OF the Edison Electric company, and
the exhibits which the company was
preparing for the worlds fair were de-
The loss was placed at $780,
600.
THREE men entered the home of
Thomas Bryant at Burksville, KY, and
compelled Bryant to tell where his
money was hidden by holding his feet
in the fire until they were burned to
crisp.
FREsHET in the Hudson river was
the highest since 1883, and the lower
part of the city of Albany was under
water.
A TERRIFIC blizzard ragged over all
northern Wisconsin, with snow . feet
deep in some places George Coleman
was frozen to death near Bayfield, and
two men met like fate at Washburn.
A RAILWAY engine exploded at st.
Elmo, N. y, killing George A. Shu-
field, fireman, and Horace Lambert,
The visible supply of grain in tho
United States on the 18th was:
Wheat, 10, 100000 bushels; corn. 49,
DOS, 600 bushels; oats, 1888, 900 bushels;
rye. 9l4,OOo bushels; barley. 1870, 900
bushels.
IT was reported that high water had
carried away dams at Howlandsville,
Plainwell and Otsego, Mich, and that
thousands of acres of land were inun-
dated and many lives and much prop
erty lost.
The Kansas Trust & Banking COM
pany at Atchison closed its doors with
liabilities of $500, 900; assets, $500, 900.
THE Denison (Tex.) compress was
burned with about 900 bales of cotton
and twenty box cars. Loss, Sl25, 900
THE Atkinson HouSa Eprp;cL;n, .,