Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-07-21
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PUBLISHERS of the city directory for
1894, which was being distributed es-
timated Chicago's population at 1885,
900 persons.
AT Brazil, Ind, four men and boys
were found guilty of numbering En-
gineer Barr and were sentenced to two
years imprisonment each.
AT a meeting of laboring men in
New York Henry George made bitter
attack on President Cleveland for
sending federal troops into Illinois.
WINFRED SMITH, u wealthy young
man, cut the throat of Western B.
Thomas, prominent man of Anderson,
Ind, at Brighton Beach, u resort near
Indianapolis.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, it was said,
would appoint a committee to inquire
into the railway strike and recommend
methods for settling it.
MIKE STAPLEToN, aged 30 years, COM
mitted suicide at Lenoir, n. c., bv
drinking seventeen bottles of Jamaica
ginger.
RAILROAD managers report an un-
usually large corn crop everywhere.
1t will require two years to move it to
market.
AT New Haven, Conn, Frank A.
Dame, a painter, shot Miss Mary G.
Perry because she refused to marry
him and then killed himself.
CHICAGO workmen were slow to re-
spond to the order for general strike,
less than 16, 200 in all having quit work.
ALIEN miners near Uniontown, Pa,
threatened to kill the imported negro
laborers and general uprising was
feared.
AT Asbury Park, n. j., the National
Educational association elected Prof.
Nicholas Murray Butler, professor of
philosophy in Columbia college, as
president.
The cost to the United States of
west was estimated by government
officials at fully S1,OOO,OOO.
l.. ID. ALEXANDER & Co., commission
merchants in New York, failed, with
liabilities of $500, 600 and assets of $780,
900 less.
THIRTY evangelical denominations
were represented in the Christian En-
deavor convention in Cleveland, o.
The attendance was very large
IT was estimated that thousands of
acres of grain in Minnesota and the
Dakotas had been ruined by excessive
heat.
In collision of freight trains near
Chicago two deputy United States mar
shals were killed and two others seri-
ously hurt.
FIRE almost entirely destroyed the
village of Edon, an Ohio town of 500
inhabitants. Eighty buildings were
burned.
THERE were 2S7 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 164 the week
previous and 374 in the corresponding
time in 1898.
The Great Northern Express COM
pany was robbed of $11 900 at Wickes,
Mont.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
SSS5,545, 777, against $s52, ,56G,OS7 the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1898. was III.
The Kentucky state treasury was
announced to be bankrupt and pay
ment was refused on all warrants.
PATRICK EUGENE PRENDERGAsT was
hanged in Chicago for the murder of
Carter III. Harrison on the night of Oc-
tober 2S last; Tom and Calvin Corley,
brothers, who slew Jewish peddler,
were hanged at Louisburg, N. C.. Rich
ard Pierce, wife murderer, paid the
extreme penalty at Cape May, N. j.;
Jim Galloway and Joe Woodley, who
killed Ed Grant, were executed at
Montgomery, Ala; Robert A. Anderson
was hanged at Livingston, Mont, sor
numbering Emanuel Fleming, and ohm
III. Osnes was hanged at Fort Benton,
Mont, for the murder of Ole Lilledall.
HERBERT and Arthur Budd, young
sons of j. j. Budd, were drowned
while swimming in the river at Bur-
lington, la.
MASKED men took a negro named
William Bell, alias Drew, from his
home near Clarksville, Tenn, and rid
died him with bullets for burning
barns.
STRIKING miners ditched Big Four
express train at Fontanet, Ind, where
by two men were killed and four badly
injured.
AN investigation showed that the
auditor of Ottawa county, o., had col
iected S29, 900 in illegal fees within
two years