Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-11-04
TIE exchanges at the leading clear


with the corresponding week in 1892,
was 20.3
PRESIDENT PALMER has selected the
committee of national commissioners
to write the history of the worlds fair.
THE explosion of a barrel of whisky
in the warehouse of the Chautauqua
Lake Ice company at Pittsburgh, Pa,
caused the destruction of over $500, 900
worth of property and serious injury to
eight persons.
CowED when given the oath of his
own country, Jun Jeck Lin confessed
in Chicago to the murder of Jung Din
Kok.
DIR. f. o. VINCENT a wife murderer,
was hanged at Fresno, Cal, Ike Will
liams (colored) was executed at Mad
ison, Ga, for the murder of Harriet
Williams, and Marshall B. Taylor was
hanged at Wise Court House, Va, for
killing Ira Mullins and his wife and
daughter and his brother, John Mullins
CAPT. AARON KINGSTON with party
of ten left Pittsburgh, Pa, in three
boats on voyage to the Antarctic
and Arctic seas.
A NUDE wild man was caught in the
woods near Logansport, Ind. The en-
tire neighborhood turned out in the
hunt.
MARSHALL FIELD has promised ST.
600, 900 toward Il fund to assure for Chi
cago Columbian museum.
Miss DAISY GARLAND, aged 81, daugh-
ter of the ex-attorney-general, shot
herself through the heart with a re-
volver at her home in Washington. No
cause was known.
JOSEPH MILLER while drunk at Con-
tinental, o., shot and killed George Nc
Donald and fatally wounded Andy
Hamilton.
The Georgia house of representatives
passed bill prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes in the state.
j. V. MITCHELL, clerk of Faulkner
county, Ark, has disappeared and SO
has $40, 1000 intrusted to his care.
The post mortem on a supposed baby
found in the Battle Creek (Mich.) rail-
way wreck showed the find was a
bologna sausage.
BUSINESS failures to the number of
352 occurred in the United States in the
seven days ended on the 27th. During
the week previous the failures num-
bered $40, against 1877 in the correspnd-
ing time in 1892.
A THIRTEENfoot vein of natural stove
polish was found near Fort Dodge, Ia.
1t is zinc sulphate.
FIVE persons were seriously and
thirtyfive otherwise hurt in Il riot
by Boston Italians, who sought an Off
GERS life.
THE proposed fight between Jim Cor
bett and Charley Mitchell for the cham
pionship of the world before the Coney
Island Athletic association in Decem.
Der has been officially declared off.
CARTER II. HARRISON, mayor of Chi
cago, was shot and killed at his home
at about s o'clock on the evening OF
the 2Sth by Patrick e. Prendergast, a
newspaper carrier, who was thought To
be insane. Mr.. Harrison was 6S years
of age, and was serving his fifth term
as mayor of Chicago He was a wild
over and leaves four children. He was
to have been married November 16 tc
Miss Annie Howard. of New Orleans
The paper mill at Salina, Kan, was
manufacturing paper from wild sun
flowers. Several tons of the weeds
were made into paper which was fal
superior to straw paper.
OFFICIAL delegations from fifty-foul
American cities and towns assisted al
the reunion of American cities of the
nation at the worlds fair.
A COMMITTEE appointed by conven
tion of negro lawyers recently held il
Chattanooga, Tenn, arrived in Wash
ington to urge upon congress the
| recommendation of the convention, il
case the government does not protec
the negro, that 81, 1000, 600. 900 be appro
| priated with which the colored peopl,
| of this country may be colonized They
seem to favor some part of South o.
| Central America.
EFFIE SMITH, quartered in the female
section of the Peoria Qll. } bridewell TO
vagrancy, turned out to be a man.
HUGH GORDON was frightfully burned
by acid placed upon his blowpipe by
union glassblower at Wellsburg, w
| Va.
| REV. n. S. HOLMES, of Columbus, o.
created stir by declaring in his pulpi
that foreigners control the labor union
of this country.
BENJAMIN SANFORD, correspondence
clerk of the New York Continenta
bank, is accused of stealing over $50,
600 from the firm.
SALooNKEEPERs at Eureka, S. ID.
angered because they were bIackballed
set fire to the masonic and pythial
lodge rooms.
PHILADELPHIA celebrated the gilt
anniversary of the landing of william
Penn.
LEVI H. Ross, of West Lebanon, O.
two weeks ago advertised for wife t
share with him fortune of $40, 900 an
up to date he had received 100 offers.
THE paid admissions to the world
fair during the week ended October 2
were 1,554, 572; total since May 1, 81, ,322
422.
S. E. NORTH, of Carbondale, Ill
claims to have discovered the secret fo
welding copper. He says the discover
is worth millions.