Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-12-08
DOMESTIC.

courthouse at Winamac, Ind, was laid
under masonic auspices.
JAMES DYAN, John Jones and Henry
Taylor were fatally injured by an ex-
plosion of gas in the Jack Oak coal
mines near Abba. la.
In his annual report Superintendent
Brooks says the foreign mail service
has attained high degree of perfcc-
tion.
SIX armed men went into faro bank
at Baker City, Ore, and took all the
money on hand, about 81, 100.
The business part of the town of
Athena, Ala, was almost totally de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being S15O,O
THE Shelley hoop and stave factory
at Holgate, o., was burned down by
employees who went on strike.
AMBROSE WOODS, farmer, and his
wife were killed by the cars at Carey, o.
JOHN PENsEYERs rode a straightaway
unpaced mile at Buffalo, n. Y, in
1859 2-5, lowering Johnson's worlds
bicycle record.
SECRETARY HERBERT in his annual
report recommends the construction
of three additional battleships and
twelve torpedo boats. During the
year five ships hare been added to the
naval list, the Marblehead, Columbia,
Olympia, Montgomery and Minncapo-
lis.
THE Bank of Canova, S. D., sus-
pended payment.
SECRETARY GRESHAM asked an ex-
planation of Great Britain as to her
occupancy of the Mosquito reserva-
ton.
OWING to the hard times receipts
from stamps. stamped envelopes and
postal cards fell off over $4,000, 900
during the year
THE Indiana supreme court decided
the fee and salary law unconstitutional
as applied to county treasurers.
DIR. GEORGE II. FoRTINER, of Camden,
n. j., died of bristles from a tooth
brush that lodged in his throat eight
months ago.
THE Missouri Pacific abandoned night
trains in the Indian territory because
of the prevailing terrorism.
THE extensive potteries of the Gallo
way Terra Gotta company were de-
stroyed by fire at Philadelphia, the
loss being 100000
AT San Francisco the James Lick
monument, completed at n cost of
! 500, 900, was unveiled.
GEORGIA representatives refused to
make an appropriation for the state
militia and it may have to disband.
THE annual report of Superintendent
Kimball, of the life saving service,
shows that during the year ended June
80, 1894, there were S94 disasters; value
Of property involved, $40, 200, 42O; prop
erty saved, Ss,76S,2 ,215; property lost,
81, 237, ,205; number of persons involved,
1921; persons lost, IS.
The sugar trust closed its refineries
in Boston, New York and Philadel-
phia, throwing so, 900 men out of EN-.
ment.
COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE
MILLER's annual report shows a fall
ing off in receipts during the year OF
Sl3, $50, $40.
THE business portion of Murdock,
Mimi, was destroyed by fire.
q The Lozier bicycle factory at To-
ledo, o., where $4,000 machines were
being constructed, was destroyed by
fire. the loss being S500,000.
THE schooner Oracle III. Benson was
sunk in a collision in Boston harbor
and six of her crew were drowned.
METAMoRA, a village in Ohio, was
almost obliterated by fire, seven stores
a church and several residences being
destroyed.
ENGINEERS are at work surveying
tor the Atlantic & Pacific railroad
which is to be an air line from New
York to Chicago.
IN his annual report Secretary Nor
ton suggests exporting dressed beet
instead of live cattle, in view of the
prohibition of foreign governments.
FOOTBALL players riding to a game
were struck by train at Southbridge
Mass, and two were killed and sixteer
injured, three of them fatally.
MRS. w. X. WALTERS, of Palarm
Ark, locked her three children in tn,
house and returned to find all of then
burned to death.
The annual report of Secretar.
HolSe Smith, of the interior depart
ment, deals largely with Indian af
fairs The report also shows that TIN
total disbursements to date for tn
eleventh census amount to SO, 365, GIG
The entire number of pensioners upol
the rolls June 80, 1894, was 969, 544
The estimate for the fiscal year 1895
; $l40, 900, 900.
G. N. RICHARDS at Watkins, n. Y
murdered Miss Kittie Quirk and the
committed suicide because jealous.
Mrs. JACOB SCHoPPENHELM and he
two children were burned to death i
: fire at st. Louis.
ABOUT 1,sOO feet of the water from
of Tacoma slipped into Puget sount
killing two persons.
In his annual report Secretary III
mont urges an increase in the army
. 10000, and praises the men for the
= work during the strikes. The e.
penditures for the last fiscal year wen
! 500, ,O39, 900, the appropriations for tn
: current year are $52, ,429,112, and th
3 estimates for the next year are S25
D 3lS, $40.
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