Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

ing of John and Monroe Evans in Gull
lum, Ala, in 1901, were arrested.
AT the annual session in New York
of the National Baseball league N. f..
Young was reelected president for a
term of three years.
HENRY BINDER, n retired business
man of Ann Arbor, Mich, was burned
to death in his barn by the explosion
of lantern.
AT Plymouth, Pa, fire destroyed a
breaker and its outhouses with all
machinery, the loss being $1,000
AT the industrial conciliation and
arbitration congress in Chicago many
important papers were read and the
different phases of the arbitration
question were discussed.
JOE PATcHEN paced mile over n
half-mile track at San Antonio, Tex.
in 2:0s breaking the worlds record.
TWENTY students of the Bible col
lege of Kentucky university at Lex
ington were seriously i'll with typhoid
fever, caused by drinking impure
water, and three had died.
SEVEN men were under arrest at
Ridgway, Pa, for attempting to de-
stroy the family of miner who would
not strike.
The schooner Antelope, of Chicago,
capsized at Grand Haven, Mich, and
the three men comprising her crew
were drowned.
A FOREST fire that started from
sawmill west of the mining camp of
Ward, Col, had done fully $1,000, coo
damage and was still spreading
SHEFFIELD. an Iowa town of 200 in
habitants, was almost entirely wiped
out by fire.
THREE children of jeff Raynor, left
alone in the house at Oakland, Tenn,
We're burned to death and the building
destroyed.
UNKNOWN persons made two attempts
to wreck the midnight passenger train
over the Chicago & Alton road at
Joliet, Ill.
GOVERNMENT officials unearthed gi-
gantic frauds perpetrated at the OPEN
ing of the Cherokee strip to settle
ment.
For the ten months ended with Oc-
tober the exports of merchandise from
the United States were 5000, 1876, e4s
against $500, ,9s7, 1854 for the correspond
ing period of 1893 The imports were
1858, ,271, ,Oi6. against s677, 900, 694 in 1898.
JAY HICKS, who murdered Ranch
man Meyers in South Dakota and near
ly killed the sheriff, was hanged at
Stnrgis.
The annual report of R. A. Maxwell,
fourth assistant postmaster general,
shows that the total number of post
offices in operation in the United
States on June 80 last was 69sO OF
these 66,377 were fourth-class offices
and 3,49S presidential During the
year S,186 post offices were established
and 1,734 discontinued. The total num-
Der of appointments during the year
was 23. 1856.
EDITH ELDER killed Frank Quinn,
well-known young man at Stockton,
Cal, because he refused to marry her.
OPERATORS drilled in an oil we'll near
Gibsonburg, o., which yielded 1000
barrels of oil daily.
IN his address before the knights of
Labor at New Orleans General Master
Workman Sovereign urged the abo.
lition of state militia and decrease
of the army.
IRON NATION, the head chief of the
Lower Brule Sioux, die1 in the reser-
vation in South Dakota of pneumonia,
aged 80 years.
BY the cracking of mud drum al
muck bar mill in Muncie, Ind, five
men were dangerously scalded. Three
may die.
FIVE HUNDRED inmates of the In
diana home for feeble minded children
were exposed to scarlet fever and ten
cases had developed. u%. 81
PAYMAsTER SMITH in his report to
the secretary of war opposes withhold
ing part of the wages of soldiers.
AT the annual meeting in Washing
ton of the Association of American
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment
Stations H. E. Alvord, of Oklahoma,
was elected president.
DETECTIVES at West Superior, Wis.
captured man and woman engaged
in counterfeiting, together with their
outfit.
REV. RICHARD CARROLL, aged so, a
prominent Baptist preacher for sixty
five years, committed suicide by hang
ing at Maynardsville, Tenn.
STORMS extinguished the forest fires
in Colorado mining districts. The
damage to property was estims ted at
S1,000,0O and several hundred people
were made homeless.
THERE were 270 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on tine 10th, against 201 the week
previous and 232 in the correspond
ing time in 1893.
The firm of i. II, Douglass & Sons,
confectioners at New Haven, Conn,
failed for 500, 900
MARTIN V. STRAIT, flour and feed
dealer at Elmira, N. Y, shot his wife
and her sister, Mrs. William Whitford,
and himself Domestic trouble was the
cause.
DUN's weekly review of trade says
gradual improvement is noticeable in
nearly all branches of business.
DURING boxing match at Syracuse.