Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-04-28

to District Of Columbia business. The bill al
lowing racing and pool selling in the district
was defeated.
DOMESTIC.
THE New York publishing firm of
Charles L. Webster s. Co., of which
Mark Twain is member, made an as
slgnment, with liabilities of about
$3.50, 900.
ANDREW SPENCE, aged rs, and wife
Hannah, aged so, were found dead in
bed at their home in Boston, having
been sutfocated by gas.
Mrs. MARY HARNINe, 95 years old,
was killed by falling off foot bridge
while walking In her sleep at MARI
boro, O..
AT Nashville, Tenn, Saloonkeeper
Tom Ramsey shot and killed Riley
Forman and Tom Fagin, who had as
saulted his bartender.
For paying too much attention to
woman not his wife George Keim, of
Deshler, o., was nearly hanged by a
mob while the obnoxious female was
drenched with water and driven out of
town.
Mrs. MARY CLEARY, a widow, and
her sister, Mrs. William Doyle, of Me-
nominee, Mich, started a fire with
kerosene and were burned to death.
A RECEIVER was appointed for the
West Superior Iron & Steel company of
Milwaukee. The company's authorized
capital was 50, 100000.
a MATCH falling into keg of pow
der caused an explosion which wrecked
country store near Sullivan, Ind, and
injured three persons.
THE opening games of the national
league ball clubs resulted as follows:
Baltimore 8, New York 3; Boston 13,
Brooklyn 2; st. Louis II, Pittsburgh 8;
Washington 4, Philadelphia 2.
PATRIOTS day, created to commem-
crate the battle of Lexington, was en-
Enthusiastically celebrated in Massachu.
setts towns.
Dock BISHOP and Frank Latham were
lynched by the settlers living near
Watonga, o. T., for horse stealing.
ROBERT MITCHELL, a wealthy farmer
of Mahaska county, Ia, was bunkoed
out of $4,000 by three-card monte men.
In cyclone which swept over Sum
merville, Tex, V. M. Keels house was
blown down and his wife and three
children were killed.
A DECISION which practically annuls
the South Carolina dispensary law was
rendered by the supreme court of the
state.
The bill to abolish days of grace on
notes was passed by the New York
legislature,
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Society of Sons of the Revolution
commenced at Annapolis, Md, in the
senate chamber where Gen. Washing
ton resigned his commission as general
of the army and delivered his farewell
address.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggre-
gated 5000, $50, S15, against $500, 769, or
the previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1898. was 26.9.
OTTO SHANNON and Thomas Powell
were killed at North Industry, o., by a
caving brickyard wall.
THERE were 2l9 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 21s the week
previous and 1S6 in the corresponding
time in 1898.
RICHARD HUERT, a miner, met hor-
rible death at Mountain View mine
near Butte, Mont He fell 1000 feet
down the shaft
AT Glassboro n. j., Hannah Chard
celebrated her 1o5th birthday. Among
the guests was one lady who will be 1902
years old this summer. Mrs Chard's
Oldest daughter, aged 80, was also
present.
EVERY liquor dispensary in South
Carolina has received orders to close
Immediately as the result of the gov
ernor's acquiescence in the supreme
court decision that the law is uncon-
stitutional.
PATRICK j. SULLIVAN was hanged at
San Quentin, CAL, for wife murder.
JOHN MASON and j. j. Morgan, mer-
chants of Harris, Ark, whose business
rivalry led to personal enmity, settled
their difficulties in a street battle with
revolvers in which both We're killed
DISPATCHES from ingalls,, o. T., con-
firm the reported battle between the
Daltons and officers. Three of the
former were fatally wounded and two
officers were killed.
The works of the Crown Linseed Oil
company at st. Louis were destroyed
by fire, entailing loss of S150,00o.
Mrs. EMMA REDPATH, of Wisconsin,
revealed a plot whereby an innocent
man was sent to prison for life for
murder.
HENRY WoRLEY, Murray county
(Ga. farmer, was shot dead in his field
by whitecaps. He was formerly q
member of the gang but had left them.