Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-09-15

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clubs in the national league tor the
week ended on the sth were: Balti-
more, .670; New York, .052; Boston,
$40; Philadelphia, .570; Brooklyn,
$40; Cleveland, BIS; Pittsburgh, .4s7;
| Chicago, .439, Cincinnati, Ar; st.
Louis, 400; Washington, .34s; Louis
vile. .2s9.
BEN WHITE, who died in Campbell
| county, was the tallest man ever
known to live in Tennessee. He was
s feet 6 inches high.
DURING a cloudburst at Bethlehem,
Pa, the water reached second-story
windows on four of the streets.
THE entire business portion of Malta,
H., was wiped out by fire.
| w. A. BRADY, representing Corbett,
signed articles in New York for fight
with jackson before the Sioux City
| Qa.) club.
| ASTRONOMER LOUIS GATHMAN, of Chi
cago, claims to have discovered vege-
tation on the moon with the telescope
which he recently completed
| The steamship S. S. Curry arrived at
| South Chicago with 5,117 net tons of
iron ore, the largest cargo ever carried
on the great lakes.
! MUsCoDA, Il town in Wisconsin which
was nearly destroyed by forest fires u
week ago, was still further devastated
by u cyclone.
| BY rear-end collision in the Hoosac
tunnel near North Adams, Mass, two
men were killed and two injured.
| NEAR Darlington, Ill, Il passenger
train on the Northwestern road was
wrecked and Fireman McNlahon was
| killed and five other persons were in
jured.
A SEVERE electric storm swept north
ern Illinois and many buildings were
blown down and horses and cattle
We're killed.
| WHILE he was sleeping in hotel
4 chair in Chicago thieves robbed Pugi-
list Peter jackson of his watch and
chain.
A DECISION of the Oklahoma supreme
court nulities all divorces granted by
probate judges during the last year.
| Many Divorces having since remar-
ried, the decision makes them biga-
mists.
| LINK WAGGoNER, a noted outlaw and
murderer, was shot to death in the Jail
at Minden, La, by 4 mob.
In an interview at Buffalo, n. Y,
General Master WorlSmen Sovereign,
of the Knights of Labor, said that
strikes were illegal and that strikers
We're criminals.
RICHARD SMITH, the well-known type
founder of Philadelphia, died in Paris,
aged rs years.
DURING thunderstorm lightning
struck the porch OF house at Jean
nette, Pa, fatally injuring Mrs. Ma
honey, her daughter Maggie and Mrs.
Krept, visitor.
TWENTY acres in the heart of the
village of Dalton, o., were devastated
by an incendiary fire. Over fifty houses
were destroyed, the loss being $500, 600.
j. A. RAwLINs and wife, of Ravens
wood, H., failed to shut off the gas
completely when they retired, and
were asphyXiated.
THE September government crop re-
port places the condition OF corn at
6S.4. Twenty per cent of the area
planted has been cut up for fodder OF
abandoned.
WHILE fixing the electric lights in
the tower of the city hall at Detroit
Mich, T. j. French was made raving
maniac by q shock.
ONE-HALF of the town of Oakview
Tex, the county seat of Live Oak
county, was wiped out by fire.
MIssIssTPPI's governor, auditor and
treasurer We're arrested on the charge
of issuing warrants in imitation o1
United States currency.
On his fifth trial William G. French
was convicted of murder at Ashland
Wis, and sentenced to sixteen years
, imprisonment.
The New York constitutional con
vention adopted a resolation changing
the term of governor and lieutenan
governor from three years, as at pres
ent to two years.
THE fortyfourth anniversary of the
admission of California to statehood
was celebrated at San Jose.
w. +. CoLLNER & Co., general store
keepers at st. Petersburg, Pa, were
robbed of $40, 600 in bonds, notes ant
cash.
A GERMAN lodge of indianapolis ha
withdrawn from the Knights OF Pythia
because of the action on the ritua
; question.
!, The 'twenty-eighth national encamp
ment of the Grand Army of the Re
public and its different organization
was inaugurated at Pittsburgh by
: parade of naval veterans.
A RECEIVER was appointed for tn
Citizens bank of Plattsmouth, Neb.
) MARY FISHER, 13 years old, of New
York, who had been deaf and dunn
for eight years, recovered speech ant
hearing after having been stunned b,
lightning.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
; men met in biennial convention a
. Harrisburg, Pa
The annual report of the comptrol
;, Ter of the currency at Washingto
= shows that the total number of az
counts, claims and cases settled dui
| ;nf HSna1 nd 1ae