Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-05-19
DOMESTIC.

A STORM of unprecedented severity
swept over Saltwater, Mimi, and side
walks and street pavings were torn up
and number of houses were under.
mined.
The general federation of women's
clubs met in biennial convention al
Philadelphia.
THE report on mineral resources in
the United States for 1898 shows an ag.
gregate valuation for the product ot
5000, $50, ,0S3, decline of over Sl75, 900,
600 from the previous year.
THE twenty-three members of Gal
wins commonweal army who We're ar
rested for attempting to capture a
freight train were sentenced at Pitts,
burgh to twenty days in Jail each.
A CARELESS man sitting on an oil
barrel and smoking pipe caused the
destruction of $4,000 worth of prop
eriy on a dock in New York
JOHN PORTER, an lizard county ARK.
farmer, tried to ford Strawberry river
with a wagon and his wife and three
children were drowned.
PASSENGER and freight trains collidec
at Menomonie Junction, Wis, and En-
gineer James Jetfreys was killed anG
four other men badly injured.
BUSINESS houses and residences il
Indianapolis were unroofed by vio
lent storm, and child of S. ]. Hunts
man was killed by flying debris
SANDERS and his band of train steal
ing Coxeyites surrendered to United
States marshals at Scott City, Kan.
RICHARD CROKER has withdrawn from
the leadership of Tammany hall in
New York.
Ex-CoUNTY RECoRpER j. P. NJ. GOOD
MAN died at Ashland, o., after having
lived thirty-nine days without eating
anything.
PATRIOTIC women unveiled mono
lith to the memory of Mary Washing.
ton at fredericksburg, Va. President
Cleveland made an address.
CoMMoNwEALERs at Elkhart, Ind.
seized Lake Shore train and started
east
CHEF HAzEN, of the secret service
will wage active war on firms counter
feiting worlds fair medals and di
plomas for advertising purposes.
OFFICIAL figures show that nearly
one-fourth of the old corn crop of Hi
nois is yet in the hands of the pro
ducers.
E. B. WHITE, painter at Houston
Tex. killed his wife and himself
SEVEN men armed with Winchester.
robbed the bank in South vest City, Mo.
of 81, 900, and shot four citizens.
MAJ. j. w. POWELL, at the head o
the government geological survey, ha'
resigned, owing to failing health.
THE total number of Chinese that
registered throughout the country un-
DER the exclusion act was 105,312 Tht
total Chinese population by the census
of 1890 was 1914
THE freight depot of the Pennsyl
vania Railway company at Columbus
o., was burned, the loss being 500, 900
WOMEN of the Ashland district il
Kentucky have determined to petition
BreckinridRe to withdraw from tn
congressional race.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States durin,
the week ended on the 11th aggre
gated 1908, a25, 545, against s955, 2l9 As
the previous week. The decrease, com
pared with the corresponding week Il
1893. was 34.2
THERE were 2o6 business failures i
the United States in the seven day
ended on the 11th, against 2S3 the wee
previous and 257 in the corresponding
| time in 1898.
"IIP," the ferocious elephant in Ger
tral park, New York, who has dc
stroyed eight men, was killed by pc
son by the authorities.
In accordance with a resolutic
adopted by the general grievance com
nittee $500 operators st the Pullma
car works in Chicago went on strike
GEORGE DUNLAP, crazy from alcoho'
ism and confined in the bridewell i
Chicago, beat his cellmate, Jane
j Maher, tc death with bucket