Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-08-04

THE three children OF James W.
Canton accidentally locked themselves
in the closet of caboose at Hartford,
Conn, and were not found until dead.
Miss MARY LONDONDERRY, who pur-
poses encircling the globe on bicycle
in eighteen months, started from New
York.
THREE men were killed and another
seriously injured as the result of
boiler explosion at mine near Ash
land. Pa.
AT Cleveland, o., Onliue paced a
mile in 2:06A, cutting two seconds
from the record for 4-year-olds.
BousER's oil tank and novelty works
at Fort Wayne, Ind, were destroyed
by fire, the loss being 100000. One
man was killed
A sIx-sToRY building on Fulton
street. New York, occupied by num-
Der of firms, was Quilted by fire, the
loss being S150,000.
Loss OF property approximating S3,-
0O0, 900 and heavy loss of life, the ex-
tent not yet known, though at least
fifteen persons met death at Phillips,
is the record of the forest fires which
swept northern Wisconsin for two
days.
II. b. BURLEIGH, aged rs years, drove
from his farm in South Dakota to his
old home in Buffalo, n. Y, distance
of 1851 miles, in thirty-three days.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 30th was: Wheat,
81, 144, 900 bushels; corn, 3,97s, 900 bush
els; oats, 1,247,000 bushels; rye, 2O1,-
900 bushels; barley, 81, 900 bushels.
A CYCLONE at Watonga, o.. l., de-
stroyed many buildings and crops and
injured great many persons.
The whale back Pathfinder ran down
the schooner Glad Tidings in the De-
troit river and her crew of four were
drowned.
The production of bituminous coal
in Pennsylvania last year was 43, 421,-
sos tons, and anthracite 47,179,553 TONS
The number of men employed was
1e0,5s9.
SEVEN deaths from the heat oc-
Cured in New York city, four in
Brooklyn and seven in Philadelphia.
LIVE stock was being hurried to
market because of the scarcity of feed
Chicago receipts on the 30th were 106,-
600 head, the largest in the history of
the yards.
THOMAS EVANS, negro, killed his
wife and himself at Louisville, Ky.
A CYCLONE which followed drop of
25 degrees in the temperature at Lake
Massabesic, \. H., wrecked score of
summer houses and did other damage
The smile bicycle record in compe-
| tition was lowered to 1920 As by f. j.
Titus in race at Lafayette, Ind.
CORNELIUS MEEs killed his wife with
a hatchet at Portland, Ore, IL fit of
| jealousy and then hung himself.
MAYO college, the leading educa-
| tional institution of north Texas, at
Cooper, was destroyed by fire, the loss
| being 100000.
FIRE at Livermore Falls, N. j., caused
a loss of 100000.
JOSEPH WILSON, said to have been the
| leader in the tarriug and feathering OF
| Adjutant General Tarsney, of Color
ado, was captured at Nevada, Mo.
HALF million loss was inflicted on
Minneapolis by fire in the lumber
district originated by spark.
| FRIGHTENED by a gun being pointed
at him, Joseph Stakeman, of Terre
Haute, Ind, went into trance from
which he did not recover for week.
AYAcHT capsized in The Hudson op
! posite Hastings and Thomas Pickett
aged 45, his son Edward, aged Is, and
James Martin, aged %, were drowned
| The iron miners strike in Michigan
J peninsula was declared off and the
/ troops were ordered home.
CLAIMS for $40, 800 for damages in
ficted by the caisson explosion in Chi
! cago have been forwarded to the wal
department at Washington.
Mrs. ANNA E. JONES, of Chester, Pa
| blinded her husband with red pepper
when he complied with herrequest fol
kiss before they parted forever.
The San Francisco market was 81
glutted with fruit that peaches were
selling for ten cents basket.
SEyENTY-FIvE cans of opium were
found by custom house officers on the
coasting steamer City of Pueblo a
Tacoma, Wash.