Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-09-08


,549; Cleveland, .524; Pittsburgh, .491;
Chicago .40S, Cincinnati, .435; st.
Louis, Alb; Washington, .345; Louis
vile, .296.
FOREST fires wiped out the towns of
Hinckley, Mission Creek, Milaca and
Sandstone in Minnesota, Bashaw,
Barronett, Benoit, Cartwright, Fifield,
Granite Lake, Grantsburg, Glidden,
Marengo, Muscado, Shell Lake and
South Range in Wisconsin, and Sid
nav, Even and Trout Creek in Michi-
gan. The total loss of life as far as
known was placed at 466 and the loss
to property at S12, 100000.
S. BARON d Co.. knit goods manu-
facturers of New York, were forced to
assign through the speculating of a
junior partner. Liabilities, $150,000.
Four masked men robbed the bank
at Tescott, Kan, of 81 900, and fatally
wounded a citizen who attempted to
interfere.
HENRY LoEsCHE- -ShetfhiS wife four
times at st. LOIS and then cutlhjs own
throat.
NEW counterfeit two-dollar bank
note was discovered by the redemption
agency of the Vreasury Resentment on
the Commercial nHtfoRaf bank of Prov
idence, X. /.
Mrs. THOMAS MCEMERY and her child
were run down on bridge and killed
by train near Fulton, Ill.
POLISH Catholics at Omaha were
swindled out of 1000 by their priest
and locked ont of church by the bishop.
MASKED robbers tortured an aged
couple near Warren, o., and secured
seventy cents. The old people would
probably die of their injuries
THE first ocean cable ever laid in
New York bay was put down by the
Commercial Cable company.
JOHN Kaufman, a wealthy brewer
in Cincinnati, o., was fatally wounded
by his wife, whom he had left.
SMOKE from forest fires became so
dense in the city of Boston that arti-
fetal light was necessary at noon.
HEAVY wind and transforms wrecked
several buildings at Indianapolis and
destroyed hundreds of shade trees.
ACCORDING to the treasury statement
the public debt decreased 81, ,654
during August.
SIX negroes who had been arrested
on a charge of barn-burning were shot
to death by mob while being taken
to the jail at Millington, Tenn.
JAN HIS, the first Bohemian Meth
odist church in the world. was dedi-
Gated in Chicago with interesting GER
emonies.
CLAIMING that the increase was ille-
gal, whisky men will refuse to pay the
new tax and appeal to the supreme
court.
LATER reports from the fre-swept
district of northeastern Minnesota and
northwestern Wisconsin indicate that
the loss of life and destruction of
property have not been exaggerated.
While it is not possible to ascertain
the exact number of lives lost it is GER
tain that between 400 and 500 persons
perished. The property loss will not
fall short of $40, 100000
AT Burbank, O.. the Methodist
church, twelve dwelling-houses and
five barns were destroyed by fire.
BURGLARS entered the Wabash ticket
office at Springfield, ILL.,, at the noon
hour and robbed the safe of $1,000.
w. NJ. GRANGER, manager at Pitts
burgh of the Guarantee Company of
North America, has disappeared, after
issuing $S00,000 worth of bogus poll
cies.
Mrs. JOHN CARTER and John Wem-
met were murdered at Burr Oak, Ia.
The woman's husband was arrested on
suspicion.
FOREST fires were raging in Penn
sylvania, and trenches were being dug
to protect the oil and gas plants.
SMOKE from forest fires made naviga-
tion dangerous on Lakes Superior and
Michigan.
THE national irrigation convention
opened at Denver with about 200 dele
gates in attendance. Several foreign
countries were represented.
HEAVY rains averted further danger
from forest fires at many points in
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
MRS. j. MCPHEE, her two children
and Miss Mabel Hill were caught IN a
waterspout near Perry. o. t., and
drowned.
AT the bicycle tournamentin in Palmer,
Mass, Allen Atkins, IL years old,
broke the world record for riding
backwards, making half mile in
2:1S9I.
THE first national labor holiday was
generally observed throughout the
country.
AT Seneca Falls, N. Y, three young
men were arrested charged with hav-
ing destroyed property worth 100000
by fire.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
JOHN G. GAULT, veteran railroad
man, died in Chicago from paralysis,
aged 65y years.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES celebrated
his S5th birthday at Beverly Farms,
near Boston.
The following congressional NOM
nations were reported: Iowa, Seventh
district, j. r. Bancroft (dem.). Illi-
noiS Siyth district James i Tinalan