Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-10-28
DOMESTIC,

DOMESTIC.
By a collision between two freight
trains on bridge over the Delaware at
Yardley and Trenton junction, n. j.,
five tramps were killed.
THREE New York park policemen
were asphyxiated while asleep by gas
in cottage adjoining Central park,
New York city, and it was said that Il
| fourth one could not recover.
A DENVER (Col.) dispatch was to the
effect that DR.. Graves, the famous
poisoner, who was supposed to have
| committed suicide in iaiL was not dead.
1t was maintained that pine log oc-
| cupied the coffin instead of body.
Two LABoRERs We're killed and sew
eral severely injured by the caving in
of trench they were digging at Home
stead, Pa.
M. NJ. WHITE, president of the Fourth
national bank of Cincinnati, was elected
president of the American Bankers as
sociation in session at Chicago.
a MONUMENT was unveiled at Tren-
ton. n. j., in honor of the victory of
Washington over the British in 1776.
Six governors from as many states took
part in the ceremonies.
THREE workmen lost their lives by
the collapse of a building at Hopkins
vile, KY, undergoing repairs.
MAYOR BooDY, of Brooklyn, has de-
cided that the Corbett- Mitchell prize
fight shall not take place at Coney ISL
and.
c. w. WELLS, Saginaw Mich capt
talist was drowned from a canoe
while hunting near Duluth, MINI.
FIERCE prairie fires were raging in
the vicinity of Faulll county. S. d., and
it was said that many farm houses had
been destroyed
WILLIAM PETIT, the Indiana minis
ter convicted of poisoning his wife.
has been granted new trial by the
supreme court.
MAY MARSHALL paced mile in 2:OS14
at Nashville, Tenn, which was a new
record for pacing mares
JAMES HARsHMAN was killed and Gus
Mills was fatally hurt in runaway ac-
cident near Huntington, Ind.
IT was said that 1000 families of
Louisiana were arranging to establish
great colony in the state of Colorado.
MANY children were badly hurt in
Washington Cd. g. school panic by
some person starting the cry of hre.
PATRICK KANALEY died at SYRIA
cuse On. " hospital, being choled to
death by sponge which he sucked
into his windpipe during an operation.
AN east-bound special train from Chi
cago collided with the Pacific Express
going west in the yards of the Chicago
e Grand Trunk railway near Battle
Creek, Mich, and twenty persons were
killed and burned and two score in
jured, many of whom will die. After
the accident happened the cars took
| fire and the imprisoned passengers
We're burned with the wreckage, while
| scores of people stood about unable to
| lend any assistance. Most of the bodies
recovered were formless cinders Four
cars were burned up and the two en-
| gines badly wrecked.
The Bank of Silverton at Silverton,
Col. which closed its doors July last,
| has resumed business.
Mrs CHARLEs SMITH shot and in
stantly killed Oscar Walton at Walton,
Ind, as the result of dispute over the
possession of property.
AT the session of the National Wom-
ems Christian Temperance union in
session at Chicago, Miss Frances Z.
Willard was reelected president.
WILLIAM MAENGGI, carpenter at
st. Paul. Mimi. brutally murdered his
wife after she had retired for the night
by shooting her, The murdered wom-
an was the mother of sixteen children.
GENERAL SCHoFIELD, in his annual
report to the secretary of war, recon-
mended reduction of the term of en-
listment to three years.
The exchanges at the leading clear
| ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the goth aggregated
1884, 1856, 636, against s9OS, $40, ,297 the pre-
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1892,
was $40.
WILLIAM b. HATHAWAY committed
suicide at Cincinnati because he could
not get work. He had been disinherit-
| ed by his father, a retired millionaire
of Meriden, Conn.
HENRY STARR, the notorious outlaw,
has been found guilty of murder by
jury at Fort Smith, Ark, and sentenced
! to be hanged.
THE grand jury of Baxter county,
Ark, returned indictments against
sixty men for swearing, there being q
law against profanity in that state.