Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-06-09
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James d. Cooke, of Michigan, chief
clerk of the weather bureau.
ARTHUR DAVIS and Guy Gilbert, two
jockeys, were killed in hurdle race
at Phenixville, Pa.
THREE men were killed and one seri-
ously injured in freight wreck at
Sharon, Mass.
AT Village Springs, Ala, Thomas
Early, miner, shot and killed Wash
Bailey and his wife and then fled, pur-
sued by an officer. who shot and killed
Early.
DoYLEs bronze statue of Horace
Greeley was unveiled in Greeley
square in New York.
THE large brick livery stable of J. T.
Roberts at Galesburg, ILL.,, was burned
!. Il. BURGIs, negro preacher
charged with d vile conspiracy against
white women, was lynched by a mob
near Palatka, Fla.
Ex-JUsTICE SUTHERLAND must suffer
imprisonment for two years and eight
months for connection with the Graves
end IN. " election frauds.
The railway telegraphers at their
annual meeting in Wichita, Kan, elect
ed w. V. POWELL of that city, as grand
chief.
NEARLY 800 war department clerks
in Washington were dismissed by Sec
rotary Lamont in compliance with the
provisions of the appropriation bill.
A CYCLONE 200 feet wide passed over
the northern portion of Sedgwick
county, Kan, destroying church and
several other buildings and damaging
crops.
In a fit of jealousy Michael Jansen
fatally shot his wife at Butte, Mont,
to whom he had been married thirty
years, and then shot himself
GREAT excitement prevailed over the
discovery of rich gold fields near Boise,
Idaho.
FIRE at Arlington, Mass, destroyed
four large icehouses and other prop
erty valued at S125,OOO.
THE bank at Enterprise, Kan, closed
its doors with liabilities of $4,000.
CoXEYITEs in Wisconsin took posses
sion of passenger cars on the st. Paul
road and rode to Avoca.
PUEBLO, Col, was visited by the
worst flood in it's history. Several
thousand people were rendered home
less, property was damaged to the
amount of 500, 600 and some lives were
lost.
AN official treasury statement shows
that the expenditures of the govern
ment for the eleven months of the cur
rent fiscal year have exceeded the re.
ceipts by $72,000,000, the aggregate
standing in round numbers: Receipts,
$26s, 100000; expenditures, $34O, 900, 600.
The boiler at sawmill near Adelphi,
o., exploded, instantly killing Engi-
neer Joseph Shewler, Theodore Saw
yer and Sherman Waite.
OFFICERS dispersed strikers who were
terrorzing miners at work at Pana,
ILL.,, and many arrests were made.
FIRE destroyed the greater portion
of the business part of Maysville, Mo.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK, son oi
Prince Bismarck, and family were pas
sengers on the Normania which ar
rived in New York.
CoRBETT has declined to fight Jack
son in Europe and has accepted the of
fer Of the Jacksonville (Fla.) club.
The Central Trust Company of St
Louis failed for 500,
The four-story building at Omaha
occupied by the Manger Printing com
| pany and the Columbia Clothing com
pany was burned, the loss being $500,
600.
| CoNcoNULLY, a village in Washing
ton, was swept away by flood ant
Mrs. Almira Keith was drowned.
| The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 1st aggregated
$7ll,06O,979, against $s54, $685. 9O2 thu
previous week. The decrease, com
pared with the corresponding week il
1893, was 21.1.
THERE were 1888 business failures II
the United States in the seven day
ended on the LIST, against 287 the weel
previous and 23s in the corresponding
time in 1898.
A MEETING in Springfield of Illinois
coal operators to attempt to end th'
great strike ended in a failure.