Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-03-11
An engine on the Leh,gh Valley road

the engineer; Perry Refenburg, the fire.
man, and John Schott. brakeman.
In the United States during the seven
days ended on the Sd the business fail
ures numbered 251, against 230 the pre-
vious week and 27O for the respond
ing time last year
FOREST fires near Austin, Tex, de.
stroyed much valuable property.
"BoB" SIMS, aged 20, was hanged at
Birmingham, Ala, for the murder of
Gabriel, an Indian, was executed at
San Quentin, Cal, for the murder of
Mr.. and Mrs Geiser, an old couple.
REV. HENRY LAURENs HAMMOND.
aged rs, one of the oldest Congrega-
tional ministers in Chicago, dropped
dead from heart disease.
WILLIAM COY was hanged at Pitts
field, Mass, for the murder of John
Whalen in August, 1891.
FIVE children named Bernstein were
suffocated by smoke in room in
which they were locked by their
parents in New York. A bursting
lamp caused the accident.
PETER CARBON, a wealthy lumberman
of Chippewa Falls, Wis, was robbed of
SIS. 600 while sleeping in chair in the
Union depot in st. Paul.
In the family of w. s. Hammaker, of
Findlay, o., five children died within
four weeks of malignant form of
diphtheria.
A CYCLONE at Marion, Miss, de-
stroyed large amount of property,
killed Mrs. Meader and her daughter
and fatally injured Mr.. and Mrs. w. ].
Harrison and severely injured several
other persons.
GOULD CoeswELL, a wealthy farmer
living near Havana, n. Y, shot and
killed his invalid daughter and then
hanged himself Loss of money was
the cause.
LoRENz ZEIs and his three children
died near Mascoutah, Ill, from the eff
fects of eating apple butter cooked in a
copper kettle.
PRESIDENT HARRISON approved the
car-coupling bill and the pen with
which he signed it was presented to e.
A. Mosely, secretary of the interstate
commerce commission.
Mrs MARY PUsHMAN, aged IS, was
found guilty of manslaughter at Butte,
Mont, for the murder of her baby.
She tortured the little one to death
with pins.
BREWSTER & DENIKE, commission
merchants at Loredo, Tex, failed for
S172, 800.
DICK Bic BIRD and Solomon Blue,
two Red Lake Indians, who had fre-
quently been witnesses in Indian
liquor cases, were tarred and feath-
cred by citizens of Fosston, Mimi, and
made to run the gauntlet of 100 men,
receiving kicks and bruises at every
step.
FLAMES at Covington, KY, destroyed
hardware factory, tobacco houses
and other buildings, the total loss
being $3.50. 900.
The men convicted of poisoning non
union workmen at Homestead, Pa,
were sentenced as follows: Hugh
Dempsey, master workman Knights of
Labor, seven years in prison; Robert
Beatty, seven years; Patrick Gallagher,
five years and ]. d. Davidson three
years.
LATER news from the cyclone in
Georgia says that two persons were
killed at Piedmont. fourteen at Bar
nett, six at Odessa, five at Miner,
three at Woodbury. and three at Barnes
vile. A large number of persons were
also badly injured.
AS THE result of feud between the
Ross and Morrison families at White
hall, Tenn, one of the former and two
of the latter family were killed.
FURTHER advices say that the cyclone
at Marion, Miss, destroyed nearly
every building in the place, killed
| seven persons and injured eight others.
THE total immigration from Europe
| to the United States during the year
| 1892 was 54S, 4S7, against $50, 500 IN 1891.
| For the six months ended December
| 81 the immigration was 1S9, ,526, agains,
265, $50 in the same months of 1891.
IN a smash-up in the Little Miam
railway yards in Cincinnati JOSEPH
| Lee Charles Walker and Patrick Don
nelly were fatally injured.
JOHN MALCOLM, respectable farme,
living near Milan, Tenn, who wa.
charged with stealing cattle, wa.
bound to a tree by masked men ant
given fifty lashes.
The works of the Kirlsham Art Tile
g. Pottery company at Barberton, o.
were destroyed by fire. Loss, S24O, 600
insurance, S165,0
The fire loss in the United States ant
Canada for February amounts to SO,
s19, 900, being about $4,000, 900 less thar
the total for February, 1892.
FRANK Eek, of Wichita, Kan, mur
dered his wife and then cut his throa
from ear to ear in a hotel in Chicago
jealousy was the cause.
JAMES BAILEY, aged 81, well-to-d
farmer of Durham, Conn.,, was killc'
and his daughter fatally injured by th
cars at railway a crossing.
OVER 800 families We're rendere
homeless and destitute in two district
of Lauderdale county, Miss, by tn
recent cyclone.
Ex-PREsIDENr HARRISON was ten
dered a grand reception upon his al
rival home in Indianapolis.
HARRY TEMPLE, president of the Firs
national bank at Lexington, Neb