Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-06-02


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REPRESENTATIVE DAVIS (Kan.) has
made careful estimate of the differ
ent bands of Coxeyites on the way to
Washington and claims that there are
5000 men tramping or riding on boats
and borrowed trains toward the cap
ital.
JOHN DEwRIGHT, a well-to-do farmer,
died at Kalamazoo, Mich, aged 70.
years. Nothing but water passed his
lips for forty-six days before death.
He was determined to starve himself
to death and succeeded.
TROOPS were ordered to La Sale and
Centralia, Ill, to suppress striking
miners, who defied the local authori-
ties.
FIVE strikers were shot to death and
dozen wounded in fight with dep
uty sheriffs at Sickle Hollow, Pa, and
three deputies were injured.
THE j. X. Gill company, wholesale
dealers in books and stationery at Port
land, Ore, failed for S130,000.
MICHAEL BASH and wife, an aged
couple, started from Clinton, Ia, in a
roadcart drawn by mule for an over
land trip to New York city.
The Edgar Thomson steel works at
Braddock, Pa, closed down in all de-
partments, throwing over $500 men
out of work.
MIsTAKING his 17-year-old niece for a
burglar, Ephraim Bills, of Fairbury,
H., shot her, probably fatally.
Gov. FLOWER vetoed the bill to pre-
vent display of foreign flags on New
York public buildings.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 25th aggregated
SS54 500, 902, against Sss7, ,677,573 the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1898, was 1879.
THERE were 237 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 25th, against 220 the week
previous and $50 in the corresponding
time in 1898.
STRIKERS at Kangley, ILL.,, drove out
| the miners near that place and wrecked
the mine by filling it up with debris.
SUIT for $780, damages, caused by
| fire in the Manufactures building jan
uary s, has been commenced in Chi
| cago by the republic of France against
the Columbian Exposition company.
| AN organization to be known as the
| American Congress of Liberal Re-
| ligious societies was effected in Chi
| cago with Rev. III. w. Thomas as presi-
| dent.
THE grand court of the United Com
mercial Travellers of America began
its annual session at Cleveland, O.
II was said the discovery had been
made that congressman had been draw
ing salaries for employees who do not
exist and pocl1eting the proceeds.
ADoLPH BRENNER, a Chicago anar-
chist, attempted to kill a family in
New York and then shot himself.
| INVESTIGATION shows that farmers of
the northwest have abandoned wheat
as their only crop. The decrease this
year will be 25 per cent.
CHARLES w. BUTTz was found guilty
by the Investigating committee in
Washington of attempting to bribe
senators.
BRADsTREET's trade review says that
the unfavorable conditions prevailing
in commercial and industrial circles
throughout the country, together with
the prospect for no material improve
ment during the summer, mark the
present season as probably the eullest
relatively for twenty years.
STRIKERS visited coal mine near
Ottawa, ILL.,, burned the tools and de-
stroyed the mine by removing the
props.
STRIKING miners blew up gold mine
at Cripple Creek, Col, killing eleven
men who were at work in the mine.
The giant Cunard steamer Lucania
made the trip from Liverpool to New
York in five days twelve hours and
fifty-seven minutes, beating all rec.
ords.
AUSTIN BROWN (colored) was hanged
at San Antonio, Tex, for the murder
of Anderson Harris, an ex-police officer
JOSEPH GUILEs, alias John ID. May
was hanged at Kansas City, Tex, fol-
the killing of Fireman Frank Martin
while attempting to rob train.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the national league for the week
ended on the Goth were: Cleveland
.72O; Philadelphia, $780,; Baltimore
.667; Pittsburgh, .667 Boston, .607; New
York, 900; Brooklyn, .4o2; CINCINNATI
.45s; st. Louis, .429; Louisville, .891
Chicago, .36s; Washington, Ill.
Two NEGROES were lynched near Clin
ton, Miss, for burglary.
THE New Jersey legislature ad
journed sine die.
THE Presbyterian general assembly
in session at Saratoga refused to en-
tertain the appeal of DIR. Henry P
Smith from suspension for heretica
teachings.
The fire losses in the United States
during the week ended on the 26tt
were estimated at 80, 492, ,0O0
MRS. RILEY YATES gave birth to he
twenty-ffth child at Springfield, o
She is 40 and her husband 81.
The city council at Ell Paso, Tex.
passed an ordinance that no woman
shall be allowed on the streets wear
ing what is known as the divided skirt