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

SS"GS iSs
Gov. WAITE has called u convention
of wool growers to meet in Denver on
February 5 to consider the Wilson tariff
bill.
NEGRO workmen in a turpentine dis
tillery near Valdesta, Ga, were at
tackled by an armed party and nine
were wounded.
IN fight between post office robbers
and police at Danville, Pa, Officer Van
Gilger was killed and two of the out
laws were wounded.
JOHN BuCHNER, negro, who had
been recently released from the state
peniLentiary, was lynched by mob at
Valley Park, Mo-, for assaulting two
women.
A LARGE meteor hung over Chesapeake
bay, brilliantly illuminating the steam
ers in Baltimore harbor and down the
bay.
FIVE masked men held up train
near st. Joseph, Mo-, and escaped after
looting the express car.
ALEX. Ross, cashier of the First Ma
tional bank of Lead City, S. D.. was
found to be defaulter to the amount
of S24, ,s93. 49,
WHILE en- route 10 Washington Min
lister Thurston, of Hawaii, was inter-
viewed at Omaha, and said that there
was no possibility of the queen being
restored; that matter was settled for
good.
FIFTY negro families in Monroe coun-
ty, Ark, have arranged with the Amer
lean Colonization society OF Washing
ton, ID. G., for transportation to Liberia.
The national bank note circulation
throughout the country, which reached
s2o9,5O0,o0O during the money strin-
gency, has declined to s2O4, 500, 900.
THE crusier Olympia, built in San
Francisco, made 2l.89 knots an hour
and earned 100000 in premiums for its
builder.
DURING the year 1898 there were l, S7S
fires in Philadelphia, the losses incurred
being 81, oSO, $50.
COMPULSORY education, after a fair
trial, is reported failure in Chicago
by committee of the board of educa-
tion.
The National Farmers Alliance in
session in Chicago denounced j. Ster-
ling Morton, the secretary of agricul-
utre, and called upon him to resign.
WHILE drinking water from brook
a boy at Muncie, Ind, swallowed an
insect, which devoured his heart, caus-
ing death.
THREE men who robbed a train at
Centralia, ILL.,, pleaded guilty and were
sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment.
AT Princeton, w. Va, Sheriff Hall
attempted to arrest the Mullen brothers
and the sheriff and both desperadoes
were killed.
The Colawash Indians, of Washing
ton, have asked government permission
to burn one of their mecicine men at
the stake
IT was said that the two recent train
robberies in Missouri netted the bfsudits
500, 900.
MILTON BOND and Charles Colt, broth
ers-in-law, fought a duel at Sullivan,
ILL.,. as the result of long-standing
family troubles, and both were fatally
shot.
AT the annual meeting in New York
of the American Protective Tariff
league Cornelius n. Bliss was elected
president.
FRIENDS of Irvey Harp, of Malvern,
Ark, for joke placed powder in a
cigarette and gave it to him, and in the
explosion that followed both of Harp's
eyes were put out.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 10th aggregated
1924, 925,52 against 81, ,0O6, ISL, ,45l the
previous week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
was 36.S
The city council has annexed all
suburbs, including five towns, thus add
ing 10000 to Louisville's population.
lT cost the government sl3s, 5s6 to
pay the bounty on sugar during the
fiscal year of 1892.
THOMAS BENNETT (colored) was sem
fenced at Mascoutah, H., to six years
In prison for stealing two cigars.
THERESA JONES, IL, and Martha Hart
ford, l6, both mill girls, were drowned
while skating on the river at Nit
tineague, Mass
The Yankton Sioux Indians in South
Dakota have agreed to sell their lands
to the government, and they may be
thrown open to settlement