Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-04-21
DOMESTIC.


was ordered by the United Mine Work
ers of America in convention at Colum-
bus, O. The strike will involve over
100000 men and will cover the whole
territory between eastern pennsylvania
and Colorado.
THE condition of winter wheat as re-
ported by the statistician of the depart
ment of agriculture averages s6.7 per
cent. for the entire country, against
77.4 last year
TWENTY society people at Platte
City, Mo-, were indicted by the grand
jury for playing progressive euchre.
WHILE pouring molten metal in
steel mill at Middleport, O., ten men
were horribly burned four fatally, by
the hydraulic apparatus giving way.
ONE man was killed and two fatally
injured in freight wreck near Hart
ford City, Ind.
GREAT damage was done by storm
along the Atlantic coast from Boston
to Baltimore and many vessels were
wrecked and more than a score of lives
were lost.
A MOB of Hupgarians attacked the
FriclS works at Youngstown, Pa, and
compelled the guards to surrender fifty
employees,
MRS. LOUIS LARSON and her 1-year-
old baby were burned to death in fire
at their home in Wild Rice, N. d.
THE sight of Ollie Roberts, of Sedalia,
Mo-, aged IL, was ruined by the explo-
sion of cigarette loaded with powder
by another boy.
w. G. LIvINGsToN's stable and stor-
age warehouse in Chicago was burned
and twenty-five horses were suffocated.
The incendiary who has been causing
SO many fires in Springfield, O., turns
out to be an unknown man who parades
in womans attire.
POSTMASTER GENERAL BIssELL has is
sued an order providing that hereafter
only names of one word shall be ac-
cepted for newly established post
Offices.
Col. BRECKENRIDGE announces that
he will run for congress regardless of
the result of his present trial.
The old guard house in the United
States Jail yard at Fort Smith. Ark,
was destroyed by fire. The building
was noted as having held many famous
union and confederate prisoners dur
ing the late war.
A SNEAK thief stole $500 from the
Wallace exchange bank at Beaver
Falls, Pa,
AN explosion of natural gas at Nc
Keesport. Pa, wrecked a house and
fatally hurt Mrs William Malseed and
her 12-year-old daughter.
JACK REDDING and David Harper,
owners of the celebrated Dos Cabazos
mine in Old Mexico, shot and killed
each other in quarrel at Deming N M.
DAVID G. ACKERMAN, superintendent
of a jewelry factory in Newark, N. j.,
was accused of robbing his firm of
s25, 900 in gold.
LONG distance telephone communi-
cation between Washington and the
Chicago post Office has been established.
The plant of the American Glucose
| company burned at Buffalo, N. Y, the
, loss being about 81, 100000.
RICHARD b. GIRARD, a discarded
lover, fatally shot Miss Laura B. Mar
| tin on train at Charlottesville, Va.
| and then shot himself.
CALIFORNIA commonwealers, 1900
strong, seized train of twenty Union
Pacific coal cars at Uinta and were
coming east
FRANK CREWS, a farm hand near Co
linsburg, Tex, killed his employer,
Thomas Murrell, Mrs. Murrell and 6
son in quarrel over wages.
TIE total number of hogs packed ir
the west the past winter was 1854, 600
an increase of $50, 600 compared with
last year.
EDWARD WRIGHT and John Miller
aged respectively Is and l3, of Nc
MILAN, quarreled at Guthrie, o. T., ant
the Miller boy plunged a pocketknifs
into Wright, killing him.
| AT Chadron, Neb., bandit stol'
81, 500 from bank and locked the pres
ident of the institution in the vault.
| WILLIAM Buck, manufacturer of 1t
Porte, Ind. was killed by train while
crossing the Lake Shore tracks.
THERE were 2ls business failures il
the United States in the seven day
ended on the 1Ath, against 2SS thu
week previous and 1877 in the CORE
! spending time in 1893.