Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-01-21
DOMESTIC,


DOMESTIC.
| FLAMES at Chateaugay, N. Y, de-
| stroyed almost the entire business por-
ton of the town. Loss, S175,0O0
The wife and daughter of Jacob
Ringger, farmer near Alma, Wis,
| died from eating diseased pork.
| WEALTHY Farmer Judd, of Tyrone,
| Ia, mourns the loss of hired tramp,
| 5000 and a shotgun.
FIRE swept clean one street in the
| business district of Alliance, Neb, in
volving loss of over 500, 600.
CUSHING academy at Ashburnham,
| Mass, a noted educational institution
and preparatory school, was burned,
| the loss being S160,000.
| IT was reported that a gigantic lum-
ber combine had been formed by
Maine and Massachusetts parties which
would practically control the lumber
business of the United States
ADVOCATES of a canal to unite the
| great lakes and the ocean met in Wash
ington. Between seventy-ive and 100
gentlemen were present, representing
the commercial bodies and the lake in
I terests of the country.
THE westbound Maysvi!le accommo.
| dation train collided with freight
train at Dover, KY, killing the en-.
| gineer fireman and six passengers.
The National Bicycle Association of
America was formed in Philadelphia.
1t is allied with baseball and its pur-
! pose is to give regular bicycle meetings
with cash prizes
A FIRE in the heart of the retail dis
| trict of Kansas City, Mo-, caused a loss
of S245, 900.
WILL BROWN, aged IS years. and
Alice Smith, a 15-year-old girl, sur
prised their friends at Springfield, o.,
by eloping and getting married.
| Two NEGROES, Ed and Dick Norman
| (brothers), We're hanged by mob at
CASTOR, KY, for numbering and robbing
farmer.
AN avalanche swept down the noun
tain side in Salzso, Wash, and buried
two miners, James Switzer and Mar
tin Flaherty, under $50 feet of snow.
An ice bridge of frozen foam was
formed at Niagara Falls and frozen so
solid that a number of persons crossed
it. This was the first time in 100 years
thdo liSsc ooiiIhS waters Edu lrOZeH
over.
ALL but one of the $50 rare manu-
scripts presented to Knox library in
New York by Banker John S Kennedy
have been pronounced forgeries by the
British museum experts.
THE trial of Hugh Dempsey, district
master workman of the Knights of
Labor, j. Nj. Davidson and Robert Beat
| ty, charged with poisoning non-union
| worlmen in the Homestead steel mill,
began at Pittsburgh.
| THERE was considerable excitement
| in Jackson over reports of outrages
committed by white caps against
wealthy Jews in southern Mississippi
AT the leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
| $3.50, $685. ,9Sl, against 81, 0G6, $40, 436 the
previous week. The decrease as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1892 was 81.
The Hotel st. Louis, the first large
hotel ever built in Duluth, Mimi. was
destroyed by fire, the loss being $780,
900. William Baudre and Charles Pres
ton, railroad men, perished in the
| flames.
EIGHTEEN persons were badly injured
by the telescoping of "A Chicago & East
! ern Illinois accommodation train by
the Chicago & Erie express at Fifty
| fifth street in Chicago.
THREE more negroes were lynched in
Monroe county, Ark, on account of the
Atkinson murder at Cotton Plant
The four negroes named Charles
Brooks, Frisby Comegys, Fletcher
Williams and Moses Brown were
hanged ut Chestertown, Md, for the
murder of DIR. James II, Hill April 23,
1892. Three of them were 16 and one
1S years of age.
HENRY SARGENT GOODMAN, landscape
artist of the Worlds Columbian expo
sitiop, died suddenly at St Luke's hos
pital in Chicago.
| In railway wreck near Minshall,
Ind, George Stith, engineer, and Will
lam Warren, fireman, were killed.
AN engine with a snow-plow in front
dashed into the rear of Chicago &c
| Northwestern train at Story City, Ia,
injuring twenty-one people, but kill
| ing no one.
| IN the United States during the seven
days ended on the 18th the business
failures numbered 306, against $40 the
previous week and $50 for he corre-
| spending time last year
! The national deep ~ater way con-
vention in Washington effected per-
manent organization arm adjourned.
IRENE FAwcETr, eyed IS, was
drowned in the river ut Pittsburgh,
l D. xybila t,xy;n 10, ha, ~ nlI a
sister Bella, who had fallen through .