Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-20
The News Condensed.
Important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

THE State Investment & Insurance
company of California has failed; caus-
ing loss to many persons. .'
The levce near Lakeport, Ark, gave
way, flooding thousands of acres of cot
ton land and causing heavy losses to
planters.
WARREN G. BUTTERwoRTH, aged 20,
committed suicide at Warren, Mass,
by shooting himself through the head
His daughter Emma, who was trying
to prevent the shooting. received the
bullet in her brain after it had passed.
through her fathers head and she died
also.
The steamer Danube left Portland,
Ore, for China with 400 Chinese on
board who had been refused admission
to the United States.
A FREIGHT train on the Ohio River
railroad went off the tracks at Walkers,
w. Va, falling 35 feet, and three men
were killed.
FIRE destroyed two business build,
ings at Pittsburgh, Pa, causing loss
of s150,Oo0 and the fatal injury of two
firemen.
THE seventy-seventh annual meeting
of the American Bible society was held
in New York and the reports showed
the total cash receipts for the year ended
March 81 to be s5Ts, $3.50 and the disburse-
ments s526,53
THE Columbia national bank in Chi
cago suspended with liabilities of over
s1,0O0,000. The principal business of
the bank was with country banks and
they will be the chief sufferers.
r. r. ROBINSON & Co., bankers and
brokers at Wilmington, Del, failed for
S300,000. I
The Capital national bank at In
dianapolis closed its doors with liabili-
ties of $1,000, 900.
A GRANITE monument to the memory
of James Barren Hope, known as the
poet laureate of Virginia, was unveiled
at Norfolk.
The Scotch-Irish congress of Amer
lea convened at Springfield, o.
THE house of John Mahin and two
other houses at Muscatine, Ia, We're
destroyed by dynamite. Mr.. Mahin is
editor of the Muscatine journal, post
master, and an ardent prohibitionist;
and the residences destroyed were those
of prominent citizens, who have been
active in prosecuting saloon cases.
Mrs. ANNA HARRIs,s of Tonawanda,
N. Y, charged with starving her O.
year-old stepdaughter to death, was
convicted of manslaughter in the sec
ond degree and sentenced TO eleven
years imprisonment. This is the first
case in the history of American, juris-
prudence where person was convicted
of manslaughter in the second degree.
THE Sioux City Qa.) engine works
failed for 5000 600. 80.
ONE-HALF of Spring Lake, Mich: was.
destroyed by fire and fifty families were
homeless. Total Loss, S175 ZOO.
THE power house and carhouse of the
Grand View Beach railroad near Char
lotte, n. Y, were burned, the loss. be-
ing 100000. ~: =. =.
DURING the week ended on the 18th
the leading clearing houses in the
United States reported exchanges
amounting to S1,37O, 1854, 100, against
s1,37S,6Ss, 1856 the previous week: AS
compared with the corresponding week
of S192 the increase was lilo. ~ I'D,
JOHN u. Carlisle and Charles Luttrell
We're hanged at Sherman. Tex. for the
murder of w. T. Sherman at Denison
on April 2S, 1892.
THERE were 257 business failures re-
ported in the United States during the
seven days ended on the 18th. In the
week preceding there We're 2l6,, and
during the corresponding, time. in 1892
the number was 209.
K. j. HoRINCK, conductor of general
store and private bank at Grand Ridge,
ILL.,, failed for sS0o,OOO, and scores of
farmers are ruined by the disaster.
FOREST fires burned hundreds of
acres of oak, pine and cedar timber,
many valuable cranberry bogs and
three houses in Berkeley township n. j.
The twenty-five ringleaders of the
mob that toollfrom jail at Chattanooga,
Tenn, Alfred Blount, negro assaulter,
and hanged him, have ,been, indicted for
murder 3. ~ ,..n 49, :, III. 81.
THE Hygeian leo company at 'Tren-
ton, n. j.. failed for $3.50, 900. ,i
SEVERAL farms east of Pinelsney,
Mich, We're swept by a cyclone and
buildings were wrecked and several
persons We're hurt, but not seriously,
though many horses and sheep We're
killed. .: -.
HE cOlldpSe Oh Ule SOluIp Ola naIhODal
bank in Chicago caused the failure of
banks at Rusiaville, Greentown, Ok
ford. Morristewn, Arcadia, Spiceland,
Orleans, Hebron, Brookston, Dunkirk;
Geneva, Boswell Knox, West Labanon
and Greenwood in Indiana, the Rich
land, Edwardsburg, Lawton, Rockford
and CharlevoiN banks IN Michigan, the
bank of Oregon in Wisconsin, the bank
of Casey in Illinois and the bank at
Clearmount in Ohio. 't'''
MEMBERS of the local worlds fair dii
rectory passed Il resolution that the'faiF
should be open Sundays on and:after
May u, the admission to the grounds
to be twenty-five cents. and the big eY7
hibit buildings TO be, closed. This ac.
ton may be annqalled by the national
commission. '''">7 =
JOE BRANNoN, aged 10, wasrhanged
at Charleston, S. c., for the murder of
Stephen Kearneyon the tSlsTof August
last. ,. L..