Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-03-24

which for two days kept Denver in a
fever of excitement.
JERRY HARLBEoK was hanged at
Charleston, S. c., for the murder of
Constable Hazel.
LIANKAUF &c STRAUs' wholesale dry
goods store at Mobile, Ala, was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being 5000, 600.
BRooDINe over the elopement of a
young daughter Mrs. Bender, of Bluff
ton, Ind, has become a raving maniac.
THE boot and shoe manufacturing
firm of Isaac Prouty g. Co. of Spencer,
Mass, one of the biggest concerns of
its kind in the country, made an assign
ment, throwing 1000 persons out of
work.
AT Beattyville, KY, John Burns and
Joseph Donerel were killed by Grant
Cecil at the wedding of the latter at the
home of Miss Rhoda Mays, the bride.
Cecil escaped.
ACCORDING to bill introduced in the
New York legislature only the Ameri-
can flag may fly from public buildings
in The state.
Four highwaymen held up two po-
| licemen, shot a citizen and robbed a
store in Chicago.
PUGILIsT CoRBETT in an interview
says he will quit the arena after his
fight with Peter jackson.
AT BROOKLYN, n. Y. the tinware
manufactory of Ilsley & Co., was de-
stroyed by fire, causing loss of $780,
900.
The Poorman lead mine in the Cnur
d'Alene district in Idaho has been
bought by English capitalists for half
a million dollars.
ELIJAH HARRISON, nonunion potter
| of East Liverpool, o., frightened by
threats of strikers, appealed to the
British ambassador for protection.
In sermon at st. Paul Archbishop
Ireland said foreign nationalism should
| give place in church and state to Amer
| icanism.
AT Fontanelle, Ia, Isaac Clayman
shot his sweetheart, killed her object
| ing father and tried to end his own life.
Told by companion in jesting way
to kill himself, Fritz Gighnaer, of st.
Joseph, Mo-, blew out his brains.
| LIGHTNING destroyed barn belong
ing to John Koop at Owensboro. KY,
and nine fine trotting horses perished
| in the flames
STANLEY's brewery at Lawrence,
Mass, was burned to the ground, the
loss being Sl25, ,O00
TROOPS were sent to Altman, Col, to
aid the sheriff in maintaining order
among the striking miners
MANY farmers lost everything by a
| prairie fire in the Cheyenne country in
Oklahoma.
FIRE in the business part of Glouces-
ter, Mass, caused loss of 100000
JOHN BRADY killed his wife and blew
out his own brains in Roman Catho-
lie church at Oakland, Cal. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
MRS MoLLIE MARTIN and daughter
and Miss Nellie Mccarthy were
drowned in San Francisco bay by the
capsizing of a yacht.
BILL Nye announces that his present
lecturing tour, ending in Galveston,
Tex, in four weeks, is the last one lie
will undertake.
EIGHTEEN persons were killed, five in
one family, three fatally hurt and many
others seriously injured by a cyclone in
tine vicinity of Santa Anna, Tex.
HEAVY rains in western Tennessee
and Arkansas washed away the grow
ing crops and wrecked number of
houses.
WHILE sitting at the supper table
Mrs John johnson and her son, of
Lawrenceville, Ca, were killed by
lightning.
The senate finance committee de-
cided to restore the old tax on cigars
in response to the protest of workmen
In the vicinity of Spencer, /. T., four
lives were lost by cyclone.
The Union depot at Denver, COL, one
of the finest in the country, was
burned the loss being 100000.
EASTERN roads have announced a
rate of a cent a mile for the Grand
Army encampment in Pittsburgh in
September.
TWENTY persons lost their lives in
the storm which swept Texas while 100
others were injured.
EDWARD I'll. BENNETT and Charles p.
Spencer, two students at East Green
wich, r. l., were drowned in the bay
while duck hunting.
NEARLY inches of rain fell at Mem
phis, Tenn, in thirty-siX hours, and
much damage was done by floods.
A YACHTING association was formed
at Cleveland which will include in its
mem bership all the important clubs on
Lake Erie and Detroit river.
MINISTERS at Kansas City, Kan, have
started a crusade against the numerous
lottery concerns which flourish through
out the state.
FIRE destroyed Frederick Rumpe &
Brothers big mill property in Phila-
delphia the loss being S242, ,0OO
In the chapel at St Joseph's academy
at St Louis twenty-five young ladies
took the vows which separate them
from the world
A PoPULIsr paper at Wichita, Kan,
says if Secretary Carlisle issues more
bonds a million armed men should
march on Washington.
ESTHER JACOBS was awarded $50 00O
damages in breach of promise suit in
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