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

DUNES 10.
REPORTS from all western states in
dicate the hottest weather ever known.
Great damage to crops would result.
STATISTICS of the recent strike show
that the railroads in Chicago lost
S355, 600 in cars burned by the rioters,
Mrs. JACOB TRADER, an eloping
woman of Calhoun county, w. Va,
ahmpered by her 4-yeur-old daughter,
tied the child to a stake and burned
her to death.
WALLACE BURT, half-breed Indian
who murdered Samuel L. Rightly and
his wife, an aged couple for whom he
worked, was hanged at Dayton, Pa.
THE recent census in Michigan gives
the state a population of 2,239,974, a
gain of 145, 4s5 since 1890.
REVENUE officers unearthed an illicit
distillery in New York having a capac-
ity of 1000 gallons dsily.
THERE were 249 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 27th, against 236 the week
previous and 3s6 in the corresponding
time in 1898.
AT Cleveland Alix trotted mile in
2:Os and Ryland T. in 2:O7%. Twelve
heats were trotted in an average of
2:10.
IN the free-for-all pace at Cleveland,
o., Robert j. made new record, an
| average of five heats being made in
2:0T9s.
NoRTHERN~--W Wisconsin was being
swept by the worst forest fires in the
history of the state. The losses al
ready amounted to millions of dollars
The towns of Phillips, Fifield and Ma
| son had been wiped out, and it was
feared that several lives had been lost.
A DISEASE which baffled the physi-
clans had killed three persons at Min
erva, o., and many others were af-
| flicted.
The business portion of Lucksville,
o., was destroyed by fire, and William
Wilson, owner of a big factory, fell
down an elevator shaft and was killed.
DUN's review of trade says business
! is rendered uncertain by tariff delay
and the blockade of traffic by strikers.
THE supreme court of New York re-
fused a new trial to John Y. McKane,
| the convicted boss of Gravesend, now
in Sing Sing.
The United States revenue cutter
| McLane seized six Spanish vessels off
| Anclote, Fla, that were engaged in
smuggling.
AT Briceton, O., David Kline and his
wife and child were killed, poison hav-
| ing been placed in the we'll from which
they drank.
| HARRISON DUNCAN (colored), who
murdered a policeman in St. Louis Oc-
tober 6, was hanged for the crime at
| Clayton, Mo.
| THE northern districts of Mississippi
were swept by fierce hailstorm, caus-
| ing great destruction of crops.
| A FIRE that broke out in j. III. Dor
sey's woodworking establishment at
Tampa, Fla, caused loss of 100000
FIRE of an incendiary origin swept
away many business houses in Celina,
o., the loss being $4,000
WABASH freight engines collided
near Lafayette, Ind, and Engineer
Clark and Brakeman Donohue were
killed.
DICK GREEN was hanged at Mount
Pleasant, S, c., for the murder of Nan
cy Drayton in April last. Both were
negroes.
BRYANT DAWSON and Joseph Yowell
young business men of Mount Vernon
Ind, were drowned while bathing in
the Ohio river.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 27th aggregated
S77O, 41S,3ss, against 1857, ,S1l ,4s7 the
previous week. The decrease, com
pared with the corresponding week il
, 1898. was 1870.
THE percentages of the baseball clubs
In the national league for the weel
ended or the 2Sth were: Boston, 1858
; Baltimore, .622; New York, .60S; Cleve
. land, .57l; Brooklyn, 300; Philadel
| phia, .527; Pittsburgh, 1913; Cincinnati
} 800; st. Louis, .422; Chicago, .41O
Louisville, 1895: Washington, .29l.
SEVENTEEN buildings in the busines
district of Brooklyn, Ia, were burned
causing loss of $l25,00
FIRE wiped out the business part o
Belle Plaine, Ia, destroying abou
sixty buildings and contents, with
loss of S5O0,O0
WILBUR HUeHEs, of Hopkinsville
KY, secured license to marry tn
daughter of Claude Haddock and wa
kicked to death by the irate father.