Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-08-18


SIMON H. ENSIGN, who had been con-
fined in Moro prison, Cuba, for twenty
years, escaped and wandered back to
Indiana.
j. w. RErNHSRT. president and one
of the receivers of the Atchison road
resigned to promote harmony.
THE town of Yerinton, New, on the
Carson & Colorado railroad was COM
pletely destroyed by fire.
ALMOST the entire business portion
of Fithian, ILL.,, town of 800 inhab-
itants, was destroyed by fire.
Four children of William Watts,
from months to AZ years of age,
were burned to death near Williston,
S. D., on ranch.
THE percentages of the baseball clubs
in the national league for the week
ended or the 18th were: Boston, .64s;
baltimore, .640; New York, .6O4 Cleve-
land, .572; Pittsburgh, .548; Philadel-
462; Chicago, .457; st. Louis, .415;
Louisville, 1888: Washington, 300.
By the collision Of mail and express
trains near Gibbs, Mo-, two men We're
killed and ten badly injured.
MRS. MARY SULLIVAN, who was los
years old February last, died at her
home in New York. She was born in
County Kerry, Ireland, in 1856.
JOSEPH BURNETT, aged 73, well known
as the pioneer in the business of man.
ufacturing havoring extracts, was
killed in runaway accident at Marl-
boro, Mass
LUTHER C. CHALLIs, once among the
leading financiers of Wall street and
several times millionaire, died in
poverty in Atchison, Kan.
DAMAGING evidence had been Sc
cured against George w. Davis, the
negro under arrest for wrecking the
Rock Island express near Lincoln,
Neb.
WHILE playing baseball at Cincin-
natl John Tanner was struck by light
ming and instantly killed.
VIRGINIA militia, under orders from
the governor, drove the commonweal-
ers out of camp at Rosslyn and set fire
to the huts,
AT social gathering at her home in
Archibald, Pa, Mrs. John Barry was
placed on horse against her will and
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Mrs. ALICE S. EAvY, Cora Johnson
and Grace Lowell, aged 10, is and II
respectively, were drowned in the
American river, near Auburn, Cal,
while bathing.
HEAVY showers fell overa large area
in Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, benefit
ing late corn and vegetation.
UNDER direction of Mr. Pullman
steps were taken to evict striking ten
ants who were behind in their rent.
Five thousand persons would be af-
fected.
MADELINE POLLARD, who achieved
notoriety through her suit against
Congressman Breckenridge, is to go on
the stage, and will make her debut in
Chicago.
STRONG pressure was being brought
to bear on the Wisconsin board of
health to quarantine Milwaukee be-
cause of smallpox.
SCHEDULES in the assignment of
Goodwin & Swift, of New York, show
nominal assets of Sl,3O7, ,4O4 and actual
assets of but SlO5.
JENNIE FINCH, stolen from Grand
Rapids, Mich, eighteen years ago by
gypsies, has been returned to her sur
viving relatives.
The Washington-Denver bicycle
riders reached Denver thirty-three
hours and twenty minutes ahead of
schedule time.
Ex-Gov. ST. JOHN, of Kansas, de-
clared in an address at Prohibition
Park, L. L., that there was Tammany
ring in every city and hamlet in the
country.
p. L. Cook, Stuartsville, o., saloon
keeper, was beaten to death with an
iron rod by masked robbers.
MAJ. CHARLES WORTH, of the regu-
lar army, will be court-martialed for
compelling private to labor on Sum
day
THREE young men, who had been
wrecked on reef in Long Island
sound. were recued by Grace Marr and
her sister at the peril of their lives.
JULIANA LANDowsKI, a girl of II,
committed saicide by drowning in
Lake Como, Mimi, because her mother
had scolded and whipped her for run
ming away from home.
THREE boys, Frank Burns. William
Slattery and Matthew Slattery, were
drowned while swimming in Bloody
Run, near Norwood, o.
THOMAS GARNER, 101 years old, died
at Oakdale, MINI. He was born in
Ireland and came TO the United States
fifty years ago.
A CYCLONE passed over North Madi-
son, o., devastating forests, orchards,
growing crops, etc.
Four workmep were crushed to
death near Sheridan, Wyo., under fif-
teen or twenty tons of rock which
rolled upon them after blast had
been exploded.
L. w. BRAINARD shot and killed his
wife at Vicksburg, Mich, and then
killed himself Domestic trouble was
said to be the cause
Mrs. MARY j. SHIRK, one of the
wealthiest women in the west, died at
her home in Peru, Ind. She was said