Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-09-22
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


Mich, and then rolled him down
steep hill.
JOSEPH BEcHTELHEIMER and his wife
received probably fatal injuries in a
runaway accident near Young Amer
lea, Ind.
The directors of the Western Union
Telegraph company have declared the
regular quarterly dividend of N per
cent. payable October 1.
On the Terre Haute Qnd. track Alix
trotted a mile in 2:04, equaling the
worlds record of Nancy Hanks. Car
Donate lowered the 2-year-old record
to 2:10.
The drought has left an epidemic of
typhoid fever through all the Upper
Miami valley in Ohio. AT Piqua in
one day eleven corpses were awaiting
burial.
BUCK HARLAN, a notorious counter
feiter, was captured by secret service
men near Shelbyville, Ind.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, Fantasy low
cred the record for 4-year-old mares,
trotting the mile in 2:0e, beating her
own time one second.
WILLIAM ENoCHs, of Martinsville,
Ind, was driven from his home by
white caps for alleged cruelty to his
wife.
The Norwegian steamship Fortuna,
from Java, landed in Philadelphia
Arthur Vincent, New York boy, who
had circled the globe without Il cent of
money. He left New York two years
ago ao the age of Ii.
KANSAS farmers were selling their
hogs for transportation charges to
market, having nothing to feed them.
THE taking of testimony was COM
pleted in the trial at Chicago of Presi-
dent Debs and other officers of the
American Railway union. The argu-
ments will be made on September 25.
UNITED STATES engineers were con-
sidering the plan of connecting Lake
Superior with the Mississippi river by
a canal
SIX bicycle records were broken at
Springfield, Mass Titus rode 26 miles
against time, making twenty new
| marks.
Col. THOMAS G. LAwLER, of Rock
ford, ILL.,, was elected commander in
chief of the g. A. r. at the Pittsburgh
encampment. The Daughters of Vet
Grams elected Mrs. Ellen NJ. Walker,
of Worcester, Mass, as president, and
the Woman's Relief Corps selected as
president Mrs. Emma r. Wallace, of
Chicago.
In suit at Bloomington, ILL.,, Judge
| Upton ruled that druggists, dry goods
| and grocery dealers were not COM
| PEELED to sell to colored people.
Mr.. AND Mrs. j. c. FETTERs were
killed at Edon, o., by Wabash train
an hour after their wedding.
OVER thirty buildings We're con-
sumed by fire in San Francisco, the
| loss being 100000.
THE custom of publishing in news
papers the list of unclaimed letters at
postoffices has been abandoned con-
appropriation for the purpose.
III. b. MORGAN, postmaster at Peoria,
| ILL.,, refused to deliver out-of-town
newspapers not bearing postage of a
cent copy.
| OFFICIAL returns of the Arkansas
state election held September 8 show
that over one-half of the counties in
the state voted against liquor license.
STATISTICS compiled by the bureau OF
statistics show that during August the
exports OF breadstuffs amounted tc
S1O,s51, ,336, against S22,630,34S yeal
ago. and for the eight months ending
| August last to $S5, 5,S4S,714, against
| $129, 1861, ,1O2 for the corresponding peri
cd of 1893
BERNARD ToKER was shot and killed
at Connellsvville, Pa, and his wife
Mary fatally wounded by Franz Nor
ris, 13-year-old boy that they hat
befriended. The lad stole $13 and es
capped.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggre
gated 1858, 263, 145, against $104, 1882, So
the previous week. The decrease, com
pared with the corresponding week il
1898. was rs.
SAM JOHNSON, 91-year-old negro
sold himself to Col. Stark Oliver a
Selma, Ala, for $50.
II THERE were 2O7 business failures il
the United States in the. seven day
ended on tine 14th, againsS2l5 the weel
previous and 314 in the correspond
| ing time in 1893
The forest fires in Wisconsin wer
extinguished by the first heavy raj
/ that has fallen since June.
JAMES BARRETT was hanged at Eddy
N. NJ. for the murder of John Holiha
at Seven Rivers.
} ENoCH DAVE, who killed his wife
was shot at Lehi, Utah, he havin
chosen that mode of execution i
preference to hanging.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, Robert
paced a mile in 2:01H, breaking n
records. Carbonate put the 2-year-ol
mark at 2:09, and John r. Gentry CT
the stallion record to 2:03M in race
IN accordance with recently ell
acted law Judge Lippincott, of Jerse
City, refused to receive plea of guilt
: made by murderer.
THOMAS TAYLOR, 3S years of ag
), killed his wife, who was 20 years oil
. in Washington by shooting her ar
e than shot himself JealouSy was IL