Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-04-07
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DOMESTIC.
The town of Sutherland, Neb., was
totally destroyed by fire.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
railway and the Cincinnati, New Or
leans & Texas Pacific railway have
been consolidated.
A REVIVAL reached such a stage in
Bloomington, ILL.,, that business houses
| and saloons closed during the day ap-
| pointed for general prayer.
KENTUCKY women were signing Pc
| tition asking congress to impeach Col.
| breckenridge.
THREE families, comprising fourteen
| persons were buried in snowslide at
Canyon Creek, Wash.
Miss SARAH BILLINGS and her sister
Linda, aged 80 and 40 years respective
| ly, took their own lives with poison at
Winchester, o., because they were
about to be separated by marriage.
JIM GoDsEY, sentenced to Ave years
at Terre Haute, Ind, for forgery, said
his father had trained him in crime
from childhood.
| AT Amigo, Wis, William Nome
macher pleaded guilty to numbering his
wife and three children and was given
| life sentence
AT indianapolis seven members of a
family were poisoned by eating sausage
containing trichina.
Col. BREcKINRlDGE took the stand in
his own defense in Washington and
| told of his intrigue with Madeline Pol
lard
THOMAS HOLLOWAY, populist farmer,
| while watching Coxey's army in Co
lum biana, O., dropped dead from apo
plexy.
HOWARD S. LONG, an installment
goods agent at Springfield, o., met Miss
Lydia Brown, of Urbana, for the first
time and in half an hour they were
married.
RECEIVER FAURoT, of the Lima 70. }
National bank, which closed two years
| ago, claims shortage of 500, 900 for
which he can get no explanation.
CHEROKEE, Ia, has been selected as
| the location for new insane asylum
| to accommodate 1000 patients and cost
more than Sl,000,000.
JOHN Wits residence at McKendree,
| w. Va, was burned and his eight little
| children and Miss Moliie Hettrick per-
| ished in the flames.
A COLD norther did millions of dollars
of damage in Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas. killing almost everything green.
OLIVER JACKSON (colored), one of the
| Grant murderers, while en- route to
Montgomery, Ala, was taken by
| masked men from two depuii and shot
| to death.
A GENERAL strike of the 10000 coke
| workers and miners of the Connells-
vile pa region was ordered.
Gov. TILIMAN called on the militia to
assist in enforcing the dispensary law
in South Carolina.
The California supreme court holds
that the act of the last Legislature in
removing the capital from Sacramento
to San Jose was illegal.
b. McMANUs, of Livingston, Mont,
shot and killed his wife and then cut
his own throat Domestic trouble was
| the cause.
| PROF. JOHN NJ. ELLIS, of Oberlin col
lege at Oberlin, o., died on Santa Fe
train as it entered Chicago from Cali
| fornia-
| THEATERs, cards and dancing have
been tabooed as vices by the Epworth
league of Michigan.
SENATOR VOORHEES, declined to allow
the factory girls of New England to
appear before the senate finance com.
mittee in opposition TO the tariff bill.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 30th ult aggre
gated $741, 40l, ,750, against 1856, ,00l, ,93f
the previous week. The decrease, com
pared with the corresponding week il
1898, was 29.2.
EXECUTIONS took place as follows
Israel Johnson (colored) at Unior
Springs, Ala, for the murder of Wasl
Roberts (colored) January Is last; a
Paris, Tex. Il. r. Gonsales, for thu
murder of John Daniels May 10. 1893
Manning Davis for the murder of JohI
Roden December 20, 1891, and Jim Up
kins for the murder September 6, 1893
OF his 6-year-old step-daughter.
THERE were 23S business failures II
the United States in the seven day
ended on the SOth ult., against 244 tn
week previous and 1855 in the CORE
spending time in 1893.
THREE worlSmen We're killed and tiv
seriously injured by the falling of al
old bridge at Radford, Va