Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-05-19

of the National Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans at the Omaha meeting.
GUS MEEKs, his wife and two chill
dren were murdered at Browning, Mo-, d,
by men against whom they were to be
called as witnesses.
Mrs KATE BRADFORD who secured
100000 from gullible New York peo-
pie, has disappeared. The money was
lost on Wall street
CHARLES d. WALcoTT, of New York,
has. been appointed to succeed Maj.
Powell as director of the United States
geological survey.
AT the session in Philadelphia of the
general federation of women's clubs
Mrs. Charles Henrotin, of Chicago, was
elected president.
New YORK men have commenced ac-
ton to secure possession of lands in
Lyon county, Ia, valued at $3.50, 200.
INQUIRY into the affairs of the North
ern Pacific railroad at New York shows
that transaction for over IS, 900, 600
was not recorded on the books.
TEN business blocks at Red Jacket,
Mich, were destroyed by fire.
CHARLES WHITTLE, aged 25, son of
Maj Whittle, the evangelist, was killed
by train at Wheaton, Ill. He was
riding bicycle between the rails and
failed to see the train approaching.
JAMES EBERT MOORE, one of the best
known financiers of the northwest,
shot himself dead at his residence in
St Paul because of financial reverses.
JUDGE WoRTHINGToN. in the princi-
pal circuit court at Peoria, ILL.,, granted
twenty-seven DEGREES of divorce in one
day.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the national league for the week
ended on the 10th were: Cleveland, .765;
Baltimore, 1854; Pitts burgh, .667; Phila-
delphia, .632; Boston, .611; New York,
$780, St Louis, AL; Cincinnati, .467;
Brooklyn, $3.50; Louisville, .S13; Chi
cago, .267; Washington, $50.
TALMAeE's Brooklyn tabernacle and
the Hotel Regent were destroyed by
fire and many other buildings were
damaged. The total loss was put at
81, 100000.
CHIEF JUSTICE RANEY, of the Florida
supreme court, has resigned.
SALT LAKE commonwealers stole a
Union Pacific train, but were brought
to stop at Provo. U. T., where their
leader was placed under arrest for de-
laying the mails.
AT Half Moon Bay, Cal, Joseph Can
tano in a fit of jealousy gave strych-
nine to his wife and himself and both
died.
TWENTY THOUSAND persons witnessed
the launching of the torpedo toat
Ericsson at Dubuque, Ia.
ORDERED by the authorities to aban-
don its camp in Washington, Coxey's
army moved to Bladensburg, Md, 8
miles away.
IN the midst of a sermon on the un-
certainty of life in Emanuel Methodist
church in Philadelphia Rev. j. w.
Langley was stricken with paralysis.
A TANK of benzine exploded during a
fire in Bradford, Pa, and at least thirty
persons were burned by the flaming oil
Forty canary birds added to the in
terest of sermon on Spring" deliv-
cred by Pastor Dobbins, of the Lincoln
Park Baptist church of Cincinnati.
NINE CoXeyites who captured the
ferryboat at Zillah, Wash, were
drowned in the Yakima river
GEoRGE ROSE, the murderer of AS
sistant Postmaster Kuhl at Cottonwood
Falls, Kan, was taxed from Jail by a
mob and hanged.
Mrs. HARRIET PAXTON, Mrs. Ellen
Hutchinson and Mrs. Mary A. Reeves
enjoy the distinction of being the first
women elected by vote at the official
polls in Ohio. Mrs. Reeves has the ad-
ditional honor to be the first Ohio
woman to vote. The election was for
trustees of Miami township.
The dam at Lima, Mont, broke and
houses, barns, fences, haystacks and
all kinds of stock were carried away.
MAJ. B. f. WoRRELL, for seventeen
years an employe in the treasury de-
partment in Washington, committed
suicide by shooting himself on the steps
of the treasury building because of his
dismissal from service.
NAVAL veterans of the civil war dec
GRATED Farragut's grave in Woodlawn
cemetery, New York.
WILLIAM HOGAN, leader of the Mon
tana Coxeyites, was sent to prison
for six months for stealing North
ern Pacific train, and the engineer and
forty captains and lieutenants We're
given thirty days each in the county
Jail.
OVER 5000 men employed at the ma
tional tube works in McKeesport, Pa
went on strike for increased wages.
~ MOTION to expel Congressman
Breckinridge from the Union League
club of Chicago was adopted by the
board of managers without dissenting
vote.
j. S. DYGRAFF, a Keoluk ia insur-
ance agent, killed his divorced wife be-
cause she refused to be reunited and
then fatally shot himself.
A NEW gas we'll struck near Fostoria,
o., shot a steady flame $50 feet into the
air.
LucIUs P. WILSON died in the electro
cution chair at the penitentiary in Au-
burn, n. Y, for the murder of Detec'
tive Harvey on July 81, 1898, in Syria.
cuse.