Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-01-20

of $500, 900.
Four negroes entered the home OF
Frederick Benny, a farmer living near
st. Louis, fatally wounded Benny, who
is over 20 years old, and his wife, aged
65. secured $500 and fed.
THE business portion of Davis, Nd,
was destroyed by fire.
FIVE British sailors and ferryman
were drowned in Baltimore harbor by
the swamping of their boat.
Roscoe PARKER, a 16-year-old negro,
was taken from Jail by mob and
lynched at West Union, O., for the mur-
der of Rit Rhine and his wife, an aged
couple.
ED LEWIS. young carpenter in Gin
cinnati, shot and killed his wife and
then took his own life. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
BURGLARS raided CORTLAND Ala.
Every business place was broken into,
wagons being used to carry off the
plumber.
Gov. YATES proposition to make
foreign coins legal tender in Colorado
was rejected by the legislature.
FIRE in the car shops of the Erie
Railroad company at Jersey City, n. j.,
caused loss of $4,000
THE business outlook throughout the
country was said to be improving.
A SECTION of a drawbridge between
Brooklyn and Long Island City gave
way, throwing sixty persons into the
water and seven were known to have
been drowned,
FRENCH exhibitors at the worlds fair
now state their loses by the recent fire
on the grounds will amount to over
$780,
BLEACHED bones of over twenty-eight
Chinese, packed in tin box, hermeti-
ically sealed, were shipped from Chi
cago to the fiowery kingdom.
A MISSOURI Pacific south-bound train
was fred into by robbers near Monett,
Kan, but the engineer did not stop.
THE post Office at Cory, Ind, was
robbed of Sls5 in stamps and a large
sum of money.
CALVERT AND HENNoN FLEMING, two
notorious outlaws for whom the state
of Virginia offered reward of So, 900,
were killed by officers near Cowen
while resisting arrest.
ROBERT LIVINGSTON CUTTING, SR,
a wealthy New York banker and
broker, died in hallway OF apoplexy
while waiting for an ambulance.
WHILE in a drunken frenzy Edward
Hoffman shot and killed his wife at
Sisterville, w. Va, and then took his
own life.
CAPTAINS of Florida militia compa-
MES have been notified to hold their
men in readiness to stop the Corbett-
Mitchell fight announced to take place
on the Goth inst.
The Syndicate block at Minneapolis
was burned for the third time, causing
loss of S113,O
]. q. BURTON, William Gay and his
son, John Gay, We're lynched by mob
at Russell, Kar. The men were sus-
pected of the murder of Fred Dining
last July.
SAN FRANCISCO papers say Queen
Liliuokalani, of Hawaii, will claim dam
ages from the United States.
Two LITTLE girls We're burned to
death at Des Moines, Ia Mrs. Dob
son, the mother. left them alone in the
house
THOMAS I. PRATT, Valparaiso Ind.)
merchant, related the details of dream
of death and the next morning he was
found dead.
JOHN BOYD TEACHER as chief of the
bureau OF awards of the Columbian ex-
position says in his report to the ma
tional commission that there was 65, 422
individual exhibitors, and the judges
made awards to 81, 600 individual ex-
hibiters.
CHARLES ]. FRosr's twin sons, aged
IA, were drowned near Joliet, Ill,
while skating.
The Meadville (Pa) savings bank
closed its doors
The total value of domesuic bread
stuffs exported from the United States
in 1898 was s1s2, 9S9. .9G2, against $685.
305,227 the previous year.
A SNOW slide near Mullan, Idaho,
buried Cornelius McGrevy and John
Bollen, two miners
MANY Santa Fe railway employees
and their families in Colorado were on
the verge of starvation because of nom
payment of wages.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has trans
mitted to congress all correspondence
relating to Hawaii since his last mes
sage.
AN insurance agent in Warren, Pa,
wrote policies amounting to SIS, 900, 600
on the property of the United States
Leather company. This was the largest
amount of insurance ever taken out by
one concern in the history of fire insur-
ance.
In letter to the chairman of the
finance committee of the senate, point
ing out the reduced state of the treas
ury, Secretary Carlisle urges immedi-
ate action in order that government
| obligations may be met He says the
receipts from July to January ~ were
S162 0S0, 1884, and the expenditures We're
s205, ,643, 42S, showing deficiency of
| s43, ,55s,044,
A blaze in the George w. Helme
company's snuff mills at helmetta, n.
j., caused loss of 800, 1000
AT Pikeville, Ind, James Spradlin