Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-06-09

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Coal operators in six states notified
| the leaders of the strikers that they
proposed to open the mines by force.
ADvIcEs from Portland, Ore, say
| that the flood in the Columbia river
| continued to increase, and the fertile
bottom lands along the river from the
Rocky mountains to the sea, a distance
of 600 miles, were all inundated, crops
were all ruined, houses washed away
and stock drowned. Thousands of per-
sons were homeless.
MRS EIIzABETH WILLIAMS, aged 80,
of Greenville, Pa, was chloroformed
and robbed of 81, 100, every cent she
possessed.
Washington Representative Warner,
of New York, testified that he had been
approached by agents of the sugar
trust.
MORGAN WHITE was executed at Co
lumbia, s. c., for murder.
FRANK BULLARD, a negro, was lynched
at jackson, Tenn, for attempting to
murder Miss Thomas, white girl.
By the capsizing of sailing boat at
Buffalo, Ia, Mrs. H. Hoppens and her
two children were drowned.
BRADsTREETs financial review says
uncertain tariff Legislation and strikes
have caused general stagnation on
Wall street, New York.
BY the explosion of a keg of powder
at a mine near Jermyn, Pa, seven
men were burned, some of them
fatally.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed that the debt decreased
S64O,s79 during the month of May.
The cash balance in the treasury was
Sit, 1856. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to Ss95, ,O62, ,225.
WHEAT dropped on the Chicago board
of trade under any price heretofore
made, July getting to 549lc and June
to 5316c.
THE government receipts from all
sources during May aggregated $685.
066, 1904, about S500,000 more than dur
ing the preceding month of April,
and nearly Ss,0O0,O 900 less than in May
a year ago.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
In the national league for the week
ended on the I'd were: Baltimore
.e79; Cleveland, .e67; Philadelphia,
1857; Pittsburgh, 1907; Boston, 1886;
Brooklyn, .531; New York, .4s5; St.
Louis, All; Cincinnati, 1857; Louis
vile, 1923; Chicago, .313; Washington,
1885.
ALEXANDER MCCURDY, who terribly
mutilated his stepbrother, Charles
Berry, was taken from the Golden
(Col.) Jail and lynched after being SUBJ
jected to horrible brutalities.
Two BROTHERS named Donath while
digging well at st. Cloud, Mimi,
struck gas at depth Of As feet, and
dead.
FIVE blocks of dwellings and busi-
ness houses in Ottumwa, Ia, were de-
stroyed by fire, causing loss of $685.
600. A boy was burned to death.
A FURTHER postponement of the in
sanity trial at Chicago of Prendergast,
the murderer of Carter Harrison, until
the fall term of the criminal court was
agreed upon.
IN an address before the Interna-
tional Temperance congress in New
York Neal Dow denied that prohibition
had been failure in Maine.
FLOODS continued to do great dam
age throughout Colorado and Oregon.
The farm and we'll machinery plant
of R. R. Howell & Co. at Minneapolis
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
$3.50, 900.
JEFF CRAWFORD, the negro murderer
of W. P. Blackburn, of Bethesda town
ship, S. c., was lynched by mob.
ANDY JOHNSON, who killed five peo-
pie at Pineville, KY, in one day, was
killed by Jim Horn, whom he tried to
| arrest at dance. Horn was also
killed.
j. L. BELL, second assistant post
master general, resigned to become
traffic manager Of the Jersey Central
railroad.
THE'Winters Lithographing company
at Springfield, o., failed for $751;
HARRY GILL (colored) was taken
from the Jail at West Lancaster, S. c.,
by mob and lynched, and Hill and
Parker, in Jail for murder at Colfax,
Wash, met like fate.
In the United States district court
at Owensboro, KY, Judge Barr handed
down an opinion declaring the sep.
arate coach law for whites and blacks
| unconstitutional.
The visible supply of grain in the
| United States on the 4th was: Wheat,
| 59,395, 900 bushels; corn, 7,496, 600 bush.
els; oats, 100000 bushels; rye, 252.-
600 bushels; barley, 100000 bushels.
CYCLONES swept over Tacoma. Wash,
and Fort Scott, Kan, and a number OF
| persons were killed and great damage
to property was done.
UNITED STATES deputy marshals were
guarding the Santa Fe road from
strikers under orders from Judge
| Grosscup
STRIKERS fred upon Powellton (W
Va.) miners and killed four of theii
number.
| STEELE & WALKER, wholesale gro
GERS at ST. Joseph, Mo-, assigned, with
liabilities estimated at $70O,000,
| IEnNApn w MARsu of Kancac Citv