Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27


$685.. Philadelphia, ,5ss; Brooklyn, 5ss;
Pittsburgh, .5ss; Boston, .526; Cincin-
natl, 476; Washington, .474; Baltimore,
.421; New York, .421; Chicago, .26s;
Louisville. .166.
ALLEN CAUsIUs, a noted colored des-
perado, while drunk shot and killed his
wife and mortally wounded his father
in-law at Knoxville, Tenn.
w. b. STRONG, of Fort Atkinson, and
d. d. Smith, of Whitewater, students
in the Wisconsin State university at
Madison, were drowned in Lake Men
dota by the upsetting of sailboat.
THE Empire State express on the
New York Central road made the run
of 146 miles from Syracuse to East Buff
falo in 14l minutes. At one point
speed of 100 miles an hour was reached.
THE barn of d. j. Gallery in Chicago
was burned and twenty-eight horses
were cremated.
REV. JAMES MACKEY, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Lam
pasas, Tex, while delivering his SER
mon dropped dead in the pulpit. The
| breaking of a blood vessel in his head
| was the cause.
THE stable of the Crum Livery COM
| pany in st. Louis was destroyed by fire
and 100 horses were burned to death
and Eddie Quinn, a 7-year-old boy, lost
| his life in the flames The total loss
was 5000, COO.
IN an interview Attorney General
| Olney said that the worlds fair could
not be opened on Sunday, and that if
the local directory should decide to
| open it the United States courts would
interfere immediately by injunction.
The Archer II Pancoast Manufacture
ing company of New York, probably
the largest concern engaged in the
manufacture of gas and electric light
| fixtures in the United States. failed for
| 81, 200, 900.
AT the meeting of the National Edit
orial association in Chicago Walter
| Williams. of Columbia, Mo-, was elected
| president for the ensuing year.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, and vicinity was
visited by violent hailstorm that did
damage estimated at $500, 200.
A FIRE destroyed Needs sawmill.
planning mill, boarding house and thirty
or forty residences in the south part of
Amigo, Wis, the loss being 100000.
THE AK polishing and finishing de-
partments of the American AK & Tool
company at Douglas, Mass, was
burned, causing a loss OF 500, 600.
JOHN DowNEY's cottage in Buffalo,
n. Y, was burned and three children
perished in the flames.
FOREST fires raging in Michigan
reached Louis Sands lumber camp near
Lake City and resulted in burning TO
death eleven men.
| GEORGE LANKFoRD shot and instantly
killed his wife at Marietta, O., and then
shot and killed himself. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
The Woman's Worlds Fair Auxiliary
congress came to an end with a concert
of sacred music. No less than twenty
six nations and 110 womens organiza-
tions were represented in the congress
and every line of woman's work, from
household economy to woman in ma
tional politics was discussed,
A FIRE that broke out in the mill
property of Sample & Cump in Saginaw,
Mich. burned district mile in length
and four or five blocks wide, destroying
275 buildings and other property, the
total loss being $780, 900; insurance,
100000. Robert Turner, aged SO, lost
his life, and several other persons were
injured.
THE town OF Bryant, Wis, was wiped
out by forest fire, not single house
of any description being left to mark
the town site. No lives We're lost.
LOADED with more than 100 women a
section of the flooring in the Art insti
tute in Chicago gave way, falling dis
tance of 10 feet, and ten women were
severely injured and many others were
slightly bruised.
FIRE destroyed the American Tubing
and Webbing companys works at Prov
idcnce, r. l., the loss being S250000.
FIVE large distilleries withdrew from
the whisky trust and the monopoly
was said to be on the verge of dissolu
tion. The headquarters are at Peoria
III
FRANK FERGUSON, of Corning, O.
murdered his wife. lie had just beer
discharged from an insane asylum.
THE visible supply of grain in th'
United States on the ed was: Wheat
1896, 900 bushels; corn, 6.046, 600 bush
els; oats, 3,1S4, 900 bushels; rye, $40, ,00t
bushels; barley, 509. 900 bushels.
THE list of foreign nations repre-
sented at Washington has been in
creased by the establishment of ;
Siamese legation.
THE Baptist national anniversarie:
commenced in Denver, Col.
JOHN S. PRINCE, the worlds cham
pion bicyclist raced 80 miles at Hous
ton. Tex, against two horses, the hors
relaying every mile, and each hors
having a jockey to save time in relay
ing. Prince won by 60 feet in fifty-tw'
minutes.
A TORNADO that swept through La
fayette county, Wis, destroyed severa
farm houses and many barns, lsille,
Mrs. James Bailey at Willow Spring
and injured several other persons
THE Calumet e Hecla Mining com
pany has divided $500 among tn
widows and children of the ten me
killed in the recent mine disaster q