Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-01-06

tempted to kill Gov. Renfrow, OF Okla
homa, because he was not given an Of
fetal position.
CLASSIFIED returns show that in 1903
there were in the United States 1926
manufacturing failures, with liabilities
of Sl64, 707, 449; l0,6s3 failures in legiti-
mate trade, with liabilities of $50, 527,-
s96, and 302 other failures, including
brokers and spectators with liabili-
ties of $50, 662, 735.
The total duties collected at the New
York custom house for 1893 amounted
to s115, 37l, 72S. 60 on merchandise valued
at S2ls, $50, ,234. In 1892 the total from
duties was Si2s, 744, 1887 on merchan-
disc valued at $247, $50, SAG.
FAILURES and suspensions of all
kinds in Louisville, KY, for the year
1898 aggregate 140, resulting in actual
liabilities of S4,O27, 35854.
AT Broadway, Va, a negro named
Edward Williams was publicly given
100 lashed.
CHARLES BANKS (colored) was exc
cuted at Warrensburg, Mo, for the
murder of Isaac Palmer, another negro,
on August 30, 1892.
r. G. DUN's weekly review of trade
says: Starting with the largest trade
ever known, mills crowded with work
and all business stimulated by high
hopes, the year 1898 has proved, in sud
den shrinkage of trade, in commercial
disasters and depression of industries,
the worst for fifty years. The year
closes with the prices of many prod
uets the lowest ever known, with mil
lions of workers seeking in vain for
work. and with charity laboring to
keep back suffering and starvation in
our cities"
DURING the absence of their grand
mother Lena West and Landon Bailey
were burned to death at Sedalia, Mo.
THE minority members of the foreign
affairs committee in the house bitterly
attacked Mr.. Blount's Hawaiian policy
in their report.
In 1898 the number of persons who
committed suicide in the United States
was 4,496, against 8, $50 in the previous
year.
THE biggest trust ever organized mas
been almost perfected by the organiza-
tion of the saloonkeepers of Ohio.
ST. LOUIS officers caught two coun-
terfeiters with complete outfit for the
manufacture of bogus money.
SIX dead bodies were recovered from
the ruins by fire of Buffalo On. W
boarding-house.
The value of the three principal
metals produced in Idaho during 1893
| was: Gold, 81, Gas, 600: silver, 81, h02, 900;
lead, S775, 900; total, IS. 922, 600; against
! n total Of O. neg OnO in 1900
ALBERT SCHoCK, of Chicago, won the
six-day bicycle race in New York, beat
ing all records with 1,6OO miles.
IN the United States S3S, 319, S66 were
given to charity, education and popular
entertainment during the year 1898.
j. w. BURKE & Co., publishers at
Macon, Ga, failed for 500, 600.
THE receipts of the government for
the first six months of the fiscal year
were s155, 4S1 ,314 and the expenditures
S1s9, 500, O32, deficiency of receipts
over expenditures of sS4, ,06S, us.
THE body of Lucy Stone, the philan-
thropist, world-renowned thinker and
defender of the rights of woman,
whose death occurred at Boston Octo-
ber IS last, was cremated in Boston.
j. X. EDMsToN was arrested on the
charge of embezzling $4,000 from the
suspended Walla Walla (Wash.) Saw
ings bank, of which he was president
CRAZY from drink John Cummings
locked himself and family in burning
Omaha house and four perished.
The total number of post offices in
operation in the United States is 6S,-
SOC.
DURING the year 1898 rs. s39, ,233 pieces
of money were coined at Philadelphia
A NEGRO and his three sons were
whipped with hickory switches by
masked men at Waco, Tex, for main.
ing live stock.
A DYNAMITE petard was exploded
outside the parliament house at Athens
Greece, doing great damage to prop
erty.
AFTER twenty three years of rilence
caused by terror, Mrs, Kuerts, living
near Valparaiso, Ind, recov' red hel
speech.
The total number of murders com
mitted in the United States in 1898 wa'
e,6l5, against 6,T9l in 1892, The mum
ber of legal executions in 1898 was 126
against 1O7 in 1892, and the lynching
numbered 200.
The output of iron ore in the LAX
Superior region in 1898 was 6,135, O0(
tons, against 9,074.293 tons the pre-
yious year.
So FAR as reported 6,OS5 lives wer
lost on the ocean and 2l5 on the lake
and rivers of this country in 1893
against 8 3.346 in 1892.
THE loss of life by railroad disaster
in the United States in 1893 was 4.6OS
against 4,42S in 1892.
THE losses by fire in the United State
for the year 1898 aggregated $lss, 1856
$40, showing a large increase as com
pared with the losses of 1892
THE Globe theater and several othe
buildings in Boston were burned, tn
loss being $500, 900.
WHILE Mrs. Phoebe johnson an
John Cleaver were standing up to b
married in Paterson, n. j., the woma
died of heart disease.
DEPcONAI AND pol ITINAI