Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-01-27

time in 1898.
HALF the business portion of Lewis
ton, Ill.,, was destroyed by fire.
A NEGRO named Williams, suspected
of robbing corn crib, was lynched by
mob in West Feliciana parish, La.
MASTER WORKMAN SOVEREIGN, of the
Knights of Labor, will ask an injuc-
tion to restrain the contemplated issue
of bonds by Secretary Carlisle.
THE business portion of Catawba
Island in Lake Erie, 10 miles from San
dusky, O., was destroyed by fire.
Mrs. LOUISA LANCASTER and her q
year. old child were burned to death in
Milwaukee.
The Indiana Associated Press was or
ganized at Indianapolis as branch of
the Associated Press.
EXECUTIONS took place as follows
Ernest Lacore at Joliet, ILL.,, for the
murder of Nellie Byron; John Hardy
at Welch, w. Va, for killing railway
employs; Wills Howard at Lebanon,
Mo-, for the murder of Thomas Nc
Michael, and Albert f. Bomberger at
Cando, n. D., for the murder of six
members of the Kreider family.
THERE never was more distress in the
Hooking valley and other Ohio coal
mining districts than at present.
HUNDREDS of negroes in Kentucky
and Illinois were swindled by Charles
Porter Grove on equities in Montana
mines.
NEVER in the history of the country
was there so much idle money in the
banks as at the present time.
WILLIAM RoDECKER and his wife and
Henry Russell were killed and three
others were hurt in grade crossing
accident at Findlay, o.
l.. LIPsCHUTZ, Waco (TeX.) mer-
chant, was murdered by robbers and
his wife fatally injured.
L. n. ODELL, an @ronaut, dropped
800 feet to his death by the bursting of
his balloon at Washington, n. c,
THREE men were killed and eighteen
injured in private tram road accident
near Camden, Ark.
The terminal and operating rooms of
the Louisville (Ky.) Telephone COM
pany were destroyed by fire, the loss
being 100000
OWING to the election of Mrs. Annie
l.. Austin as mayor of Pleasanton, Kan,
gamblers aud saloonkeepers have fled.
WILLIAM HENRY STEGNER within
three days married one st. Louis wild
swiudled all three.
The international Emigration socie-
ty was incorporated at Birmingham,
Ala, the object being to send negroes
from the southern states to Africa
THE mayor of Cincinnati was author-
lied to expend 100000 from the con-
tingent fund for the benefit of the un-
employed.
The funds of the Worlds Colum bian
exposition were dwindling at the rate
of nearly 100000 month.
REV. 7. De Witt TALMAGE, of
Brooklyn. announced to his congrega-
tion that he would resign on the twen-
ty-tifth anniversary of his pastorate,
which occurs in the spring.
Mrs j. PLUMMER, living near Paw
uska, o. T., drowned her two children
and then killed herself.
MORE than 5000 articles lost at the
worlds fair are still in the service
building at jackson park.
A HURRICANE swept over Oak Cliff
and south and east of Dallas, Tex, de-
stroying property to the extent of $780,
900 and killing boy.
JAMES E. CONNOLLY, Catholic priest
convicted of criminal assault upon a
young girl at Two Harbors, Mimi,
was sentenced to twenty-one years in
prison.
NJ. G. GAMBLE (colored), who Grim
inally assaulted the little daughter of
Bedford France, of Central 'Jellico
Mines, KY, was lynched.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 22d was: Wheat,
so, 3s4, 900 bushels corn. 13, s56, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 4,117, 900 bushels; rye, s57, 900
bushels; barley, 2,194,o00 bushels.
PLEAsANToN, Neb., was almost wiped
out by fire. But one building, bank,
was left in the business district
THE Westview sarings bank made an
assignment at Lou isville, KY, with liza
bilities of 5000
SAMUEL GANAGI, a prominent attor-
ney at Wapakoneta, o., left for parts
unknown with 100000 belonging to
several estates of which he was admin
istrator.
Mrs. ALEX. CLIFTON, at Acme, w
Va, gave birth to four daughters, but
all of them died.
A BIG foreign steamer, the Andes,
bound from Costa Rica to New York
with a cargo of coffee aud fruits, said
to be valued at sl,OOO,OOO, went ashore
off Little Beach life-saving station near
Atlantic City, N. j. The crew was
saved.
The First national bank of Helena,
Mont, which closed its doors last July,
has resumed business.
The new city directory of Indianap-
oils contains 57,59S names, which it is
figured gives that city population of
143, 995, an increase of nearly 1000 over
last year
Iowa miners of the Des Moines dis
trlct, numbering about 600, struck
against a 25 per cent reduction in
wages.
NUNAAY, a Choctaw said to be CEN
tenarian and a miser, was murdered