Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-08-05


ington, Ind, German-American at Port
Washington, Wis, Scymour's bank at
Chippewa Falls, Wis, C. w. Chopin &
Co.'S bank at Stanton, Mich, and the
Union Banking company at Portland,
Ore.
THE villages of Prentice and Medford,
in Wisconsin, were almost entirely
swept away by forest fires
The exports of wheat from all United
States ports for the week ended on the
2sth show total of 4, 1868, 900 bushels.
against 5,O77, 900 bushels the previous
week.
PATRICK MCVH.LA, sexton of Catho-
lie cemetery at Paterson, n. j., lighted
his pipe and threw the match into the
grass, The fire which ensued swept
tho cemetery and marred the head
stones.
By a wreck on the Pennsylvania road
at Indianapolis six persons were seri-
ously injured.
CARTERs mill at Ludington, Mich.
including a large amount of lumber
and shingles, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, 1925, 900.
WILLIAM WASHINGTON, of York, Pa,
dropped dead while beating his wife.
THE percentages OF the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the Goth were as follows:
Boston, 1858; Philadelphia, .62s; Pitts
burgh, 800; Cleveland, .569; Brooklyn,
.513; New York, .474; Cincinnati, .46S;
St Louis, ,46S; Chicago, .429; Balti-
more, .42S; Washington, .397; Louis
vile, 1869.
WHILE laboring under great excite
ment Emma Lindsay of Jeffersouvillc,
Ind, was suddenly stricken dumb and
later became totally blind
BANK failures were reported as fol-
lows: First national at Kankakee, ILL.,;
Dollar savings bank at Youngstown,
o.; Citizens Savings and Loan associa-
ton at Akron. o.; Commercial national,
Ainsworth national and Portland saw
ings banks at Portland, Ore; CONNER
cial at Eau Claire, Wis; Savings at
Baraboo, Wis; First national at Ash
land, Wis; Exchange at Nunda, Ill,
and the Commercial at Eau Claire, Wis.
CLARK II. BUFoRD. and Miss Fannie
Sudlow, prominent young people of
Rock Island, ILL.,, were drowned while
bathing in the river near Rock Island
FOURTEEN persons We're arrested
charged with the murder on July II of
S. 2. Bradshaw at Kingston. III.
Mrs. LUCILLE RODNEY arrived in Chi
cago from Galveston, Tex, having
walked the entire distance 1,346 miles,
for s5, 900 wager She left Galveston
May 16.
ABRAM PARDON, teller of the First
national bank of Paterson, n. j., con-
fessed that he stole S10,6
The fire which had been burning for
three days through the cranberry bogs
near Egg Harbor, n. j., was checked
by rain. The damage was $780, 900.
THE wholesale drug house of L. H.
Harris in Pittsburgh was destroyed by
fire, entailing a loss of 500, 900.
WILL THOMPSON and Tom Preston.
negro boys, were tortured to death by
mob at CASTOR, S. C. They were
guilty of criminal assault.
THE Waltham Mass watch factory,
second largest of its kind in the world,
closed down for an indefinite time.
A PACIFIC Express wagon was held
up on the streets of Wichita, Kan, by
three negroes and robbed of 81, 500
WALTER SANGER clipped five seconds
from the worlds mile record in a bicycle
race at Milwaukee, covering the ground
in 2:OS 40
IT was claimed that employees of the
Northwestern Pacific Elevator compa-
ny of Minnesota had issued forged du-
plicate grain certificates and victim
lied seventy-three New England banks
to the extent of $1,000, 900.
The Sayles Woolen Mill company at
Killingly, Conn, with capital stock
of $1,000, 900, made an assignment
GEORGE &. THoRNBURG and Charles
Asche have brought suit in the Pitts
burgh courts for divorce from the same
woman.
IN accordance with the order of the
council of administration the gates of
the worlds fair were opened on Sun
day. The attendance proved 20 be the
smallest of any day since the fair be-
gun, but 1857 persons paying for ad
mission.
JAMES and Bud Roche, brothers, were
shot down without warning by un-
known assassins at Groveton, Tex.
NINETEEN white cappers were SEN
fenced at Birmingham, Ala, for
deeds committed in Cherokee and Gle
bourne counties. Some got four and
others six years.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 3lst ult. was
Wheat, 59,350, 600 bushels; corn, S,022,-
900 bushels; oats, 1,702, 600 bushels; rye,
294, 900 bushels; barley, $50, 900 bushels.
BANK failures were reported as fol-
lows: First national at Portland, Ore,
First national at The Dalles, Ore,
Pendleton savings at Pendleton, Ore,
Bellingham Bay national at Whatcom,
Wash, Springfield savings at Spring
field, Mo, Akron savings at Akron, o.,
private bank of A. Daniels 81 Co. at
Cedar Rapids, Ia, private bank Of j.
w. Case at Astoria, Ore, and Park ma
tional at Livingston, Mont.
THE two children of Farmer Ian
grain, living near Olga, n. d., were
burned to death and Langrain and wife
badly injured. Kerosene was used to
start a fire