Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-09-08
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


caps, beaten almost to insensibility
and then hanged to the limb of tree.
| tramp cut him down in time to save
| his life.
FIRE wiped out the business portion
of Elliston, a railroad and logging
camp near Helena, Mont.
A SLATE quarry at Steinsville, Pa,
caved in, killing David Williams, aged
b5, and Edward Daniels, aged SO
A FIRE originated in the Brooks
Bros. lumber yard in st. Paul, causing
a loss of $4,000.
THE business portion of Burdick,
Ind, was wiped out by fire.
Z. d. McNITT, minus both legs and
one arm, wanted to marry Mrs. Martin,
| who had left her husband in Arkansas.
| She refused and both were found dead
at Bonham, Tex.
A FREIGHT and passenger train col
lided at Tower Hill, ILL.,, doing damage
to the extent of 100000. No one was
| injured.
FIRE destroyed the Brooklyn IN. W
| biscuit works, the loss being over
| S200, 200.
AFTER devoting fourteen days in
Chicago to the investigation of the re-
| cent strike the labor commission ad-
| journed, to meet again in Washington
| September 20.
LORD CLINTON trotted mile at Day
ton, o., In 2:12, breaking the worlds
record for time over a half-mile track
CENSUS Office statistics indicate that
nearly one-half the families in the
United States own their own homes
RICHARD McAvoY and George
Thomas were killed at Hartford, Kan.
in quarrel over some chickens.
MARY HOPKINS, once society leader
in Lawrence, Kan, was in jail at Guth-
rie, o. T., on charge of stealing
| horses.
THREE men were killed and fourth
| injured by the explosion of a thrash
| ing machine boiler at Elbow Lake,
| Mimi.
BY the forest fires in Michigan the
Diamond Match company lost 90, OOO,-
| 600 feet of lumber in the Trout creek
| district, and the Nester estate 20, ,OOO,-
600 feet
DURING drunken brawl among Chill.
| cat Indians at Juneau, in Alaska, six
| were murdered and a large number
seriously wounded.
OVER 10000 Sunday school children
marched in the annual rally day parade
in Detroit, Mich.
AN English syndicate is said to have
purchased thirty-four paper mills in
Wisconsin. The deal involves S14,-
| 600, ,000
FLINT GROVER, a private in the regu-
lar army at Fort Myer, Va, has fallen
heir to n fortune of s5oO,OOO
WALTER B. RICHIE, of Ohio, was
elected supreme chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias at tho Washing
| ton conclave.
PARKE & LACEY, dealers in ma
chinery at5'Pertland, Ore, failed for
S125, 900. @-
Mrs. LIZZIE BENT, of Lynn, Mass,
has recovered her daughter, who was
stolen from her thirteen years ago.
The exchanges at the leading clear.
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 31st ult aggre-
gated S744, 2S0,241 against SslS, 49s, 1881
the previous week. The decrease, COM
| pared with the corresponding week in
| 1898, was 14.6
THERE were 16S business failures in
| the United States in the seven davs
ended on the 31st ult., against 2S4 the
week previous and 500 in the CORE
| spending time in 1s9S
The business portion of the village
of Roberts, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire.
FIVE persons were drowned by a
| cloudburst at Waldo, Tex
| lT is claima1 that th hara ic 6afacf ~,
the sugar schedule of the new tariff
bill admitting adulterated goods
| cheaper than the pure article.
j. l.. BAY, accused of appropria ting
100000 of Arkansas script, and for
whom officers had been searching for
| two years, was arrested at Memphis,
Tenn.
RoREHT j., owned by c. j. Hamlin,
of Buffalo, n. Y, broke the worlds
pacing record on the track at Fort
Wayne, Ind, making mile in 2:ossl.
PROF. ID. Z. CoNANT, instructor in
the gymnasium of the University of
| Chicago, was drowned while bathing
in Silver lake at Akron. o.
| The total receipts from all sources
at the treasury in Washington during
|
the disbursements to S31, 1888, ,sO4, leav-
ing a surplus for the month of SO, 1884,
528.
BY the bursting of an artesian well
basin the town of Uvalde, Tex, was
inundated and it was thought 200 per-
sons were drowned. The property loss
was estimated at $780, 900.
The Montreal express on the Della
ware g. Hudson railroad was thrown
from the track near Port Kent, n. Y,
and more than twenty persons were
injured, none fatally.
BoTH eastward and westward Allan
tic records were broken, the former by
the Campania, which made the trip
from New York to Queenstown in 5
days 10 hours and Al minutes, the lat
ter by the Lucania, which made the
trip from Queenstown to New York in
3 days hours and 8s minutes