Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-01-28

were sunk and three negroes were
drowned.
CHARLES q. SINCLAIR, charged with
embezzling $4,000 from the Armour
Packing company at their New York
market was captured in Chicago.
WHILE engaged in clearing out
large vault built by the government in
connection with the army hospital at
the fort in Fort Scott, Kan, during the
war the workmen found large amount
of money in dimes.
THE new Northwestern college at
Albany, Mo-, which was just being
completed, was destroyed by fire.
A CASE of genuine leprosy was dis
covered at Napoleon, o. 1t is that of
Lee Lung, Chineset man who had
lived there two years.
A TRAIN on the Big Four road ran
into an oil train near Alton, Ill. A
large number of persons gathered at
the scene of the wreck when an ex-
plosion occurred, killing sixteen per-
sons and injuring over fifty others,
seventeen fatally.
ALL places of amusement in Denver,
Col, were closed Sunday night by order
of the police board, and the proprietors
and employees were arrested and placed
in Jail.
Mrs. KATE RosLER and George Ros-
Ter, her nephew, aged 6 years, were
burned to death in fire which de-
stroyed their house in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Capitol national bank of Lin
coin, Neb., was closed by the national
bank examiner. The deposits amount
ed to S625, ,00O of which the state had
$3.50, 900.
Nor in the history of the present
generation has Lake Erie been frozen
as it is now. There is an unbroken
field of ice from Detroit river to Put
in-Bay.
A BUILDING occupied by mapufactur-
ing firms in Rochester, n. ", was
burned, causing loss of $3.50, 900 and
the death of S. w. Burns, fireman.
THE Tise block at Raleigh, n. c., in
which was several business firms. was
destroyed by fire, the loss being $780,
900.
THE Carondolet elevator at South St.
Louis, containing 1,250,o0 bushels of
wheat, was destroyed by fire. causing
loss of 81, 500. 900.
A MOB took Robert Landry and Pick
George (negroes) from the Jail at Con-
vent. La, and hanged them. One was
charged with murder and the other
with robbery.
TwENTY-THREE men under arrest on
charges of murder in the rustlers' war
in Johnson county, Wyo., have been ac-
quilted for lack of money to carry on
the prosecution.
In a rear-end collision on the Penn
sylvania road at Docklow, Pa, eight
persons were badly injured.
OVER a block of business and dwell
ing houses were destroyed by fire at
Tyrone, Pa, the loss being estimated
at S15O,00O
The McBeth lamp fiue works at
Elwood, Ind, the largest of the kind
in the world, were burned, the loss be-
ing S1OO, 900.
In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the esd was: Wheat,
81, ,252, 900 bushels; corn, 12, 176, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 5,617, 900 bushels; rye, 1,029,-
900 bushels; barley, 2,O54, 900 bushels.
Two DREDGERs who reached Norfolk,
Va, from Tangier island reported the
inhabitants of the island on the point
of starvation.
GEORGE FELLOWS, aged "A. and his
son William, aged SS, died at Co.
lumbus, Ind, within fifteen minutes of
each other from lung fever Three
days before Mrs Fellows, aged II
years, died suddenly.
AUGUSTUS CRoNKHITE, OF Williams
port, Ind, treasurer of Warren county,
was discovered to be a defaulter to the
extent of $50, 600. He had fled.
Two CHILDREN of Albert Glass, living
near Hollidaysburg, Pa, were burned
to death in fire following a lamp ex-
plosion.
FIVE more deaths We're reported.
making twenty-one thus far, as the
result of the explosion near Alton, ILL.,,
and twenty-five more were in a dam
gerous condition, many of them with
out hope of recovery.
FATHER J. T. CULLEToN, a Catholic
priest at Raywick, KY, was excom-
mupicated for marrying his cousin.
NEAR Marietta, o., Nicholas Haas, a
farmer, rs years old, killed his wife,
aged 63, and then took his own life.
Trouble over money matters was the
cause.
COIN Bros, of Salt Lake City, one of
the oldest and largest dry-goods firms
in Utah territory failed for Sl1O, OOU.
CRAcKsMEN blew open the safe of the
First national bank at tGreenville, Tex,
and secured $3.50.
FRANK WOODRUFF, alias Black, who
was one of those who won notoriety in
connection with the Cronin murder case
in Chicago, died in the penitentiary at
Lansing. Kan.
A CALI has been issued for worlds
congress in Chicago of representative
women, which, it is exprntAd. will
open the series of world congresses to
be held during the Columbian exposi-
| ton.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
JULES EIcHBERe, the famous COM
poser and musical director, who for a
generation had been a notable person
ality in Boston. died of pneumonia.
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