Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-09-01


babe unhurt.
| DAVID FRRRAN, aged 90, a deaf mute
living at Curtisville, Ind, was run
over by a switch engine and his body
ground to fragments.
A CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL.
freight train was held up at Deerfield.
ILL.,, by two men, who killed detect
i've who was on the train and robbed
the conductor.
Mrs. L. b. CHRIST, together with her
two children, was burned to death as
result of a gasoline explosion at For.
est City, Mo.
A New YORK syndicate has furnished
the whisky trust $5, 900, 600 to take its
spirits out of bond, the Illinois trust
and savings bank of Chicago to act as
trustee.
HUGH LYON, who killed peddler on
Sanary island, was hanged at New
Westminster, b. c.
GEORGE l.. McCAHAN, of Baltimore,
was elected grand high chief of the
Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch Ma
sons at the convention in Topeka.
| THE percentages of the base ball clubs
in the national league for the week
ended or the 25th were: Boston, 900:
Baltimore, ,64O New York, .6S5: Phil
adelphia, .571; Cleveland, .540 Brook
lyn, .525; Pittsburgh, 800; Chicago,
.456; Cincinnati, .4S6; ST. Louis, .4O4;
| Washington, $3.50; Louisville. .311.
G. E. WILLIAMS won the bicycle road
| race from Buffalo to Pittsburgh, trav-
ersing the 234 miles in 20 hours and 81
| minutes.
THE town of Guerneville, Cal, was
destroyed by fire.
II. f. GRIswoLD and William Lake,
who held up St Paul train at Deer
field, ILL.,, and killed Special Officer
| Owens, were captured after a running
| fight in which they shot an officer and
both were wounded.
LIGHTNING from an almost cloudless
sky killed William Carr, aged 20. who
was bathing at Atlantic City, n. j.
TWENTY persons We're badly injured
by the falling of bridge in Fairmount
park at Kansas City.
The steamer New York made the
passage from Southampton to New
York in six days eight hours and thirty
eight minutes, breaking all previous
records.
AT Washington park, Chicago, Di
rectly paced mile in 2:10s4, lowering
the worlds record for two-year-olds a
quarter of second
ADAM A. PARRoTT, his wife and two
of their three children were drowned
while attempting to ford the Scioto
river in wagon near Portsmouth, o.
AN incendiary fire in the yards of
the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber company
in Chicago destroyed $3.50 worth
of property, including twenty-seven
horses.
BEN KERsHAw and his brother John
and Robert Thomas were drowned at
Waltham, Mass, by the overturning
of their canoe.
ABE BUZZARD the notorious Penn
sylvania outlaw, was sentenced to
eleven years imprisonment for bur-
glary.
THOMAS W. HEATHCoTE, chairman of
the Pullman strikers committee, de-
clared the strike at an end.
MIsTAKING party of young men for
burglars, Stephen Albright, of Allen
town, Pa, fred at them, wounding
six.
The new democratic tariff bill passed
by the Fifty-third congress became
law without the signature of President
Cleveland. In letter to Representa-
tive Catchings, of Mississippi, the
president gave reasons why he did not
sign the measure.
The Diamond Drill company of
Reading. Pa, failed for Sl15, 600
GERONIMO and his band of Apaches
are to be removed to Oklahoma from
Alabama, the climate of which has
greatly reduced their numbers.
CHARLIE BENNETT, the manned base
ball player, is s6, 900 richer as a result
of benefit game played in Boston.
The expense to the state of Illinois
caused by the calling out of the mill
tia during the late strike is placed by
the adjutant general at $3.50. 900.
CoEJAREE, Seminole Indian, was
executed at Wewo, o. T., by being shot
to death. His crime was murder.
AT Springfield, Mass, Harry Tyler
lowered the bicycle record for an un-
paced mile to 2:07 2-5, cut of 2 3-5
seconds.
Miss MARY DEsHA, sister of Breck-
inridge's first wife, in an open letter
calls on the men and women of Ken
lucky to defeat the congressman.
AFTER pastorate of forty years
Rev. Thomas X. Beecher, brother of
Henry Ward Beecher, has retired from
the pastorate of the Park church at
Elmira, n. Y.
THE national encampmento of Knights
of PythiaS commenced in Washington.
Mrs. CHARLES NULL wrecked the
windows and fixtures of saloon 1T
Delaware, o., whose proprietor had
sold her husband liquor.
FOREST fires invaded the settlement
in Michigan known as Finland and
completely wiped it out of existence.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CoNGREssIoEAL nominations were
made as foi'ows on the 22d: Massa-
chusetts, Sixth district, John S. Will
liams (dcm Missouri, Third district.
A. NJ UocfrIy i3efG) Texas. Twelfth