Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-03-24
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ton was taken on any item.
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THE Western Baseball league mag
mates met at Milwaukee and adopted
schedule. The season will begin on
April 25.
FRED HILL shot and killed p. H.
Geelan, postmaster at Big Springs,
Kan, because he would not resign his
position.
Nuns who taught in the Riverside
school at Pittsburgh, Pa, have with
drawn because of the stopping of their
salaries
PROF. MILTON WHITNEY has been
made chief of new division of the
weather bureau in Washington which
will study agricultural soils.
INDIAN CREEK reservoir in Idaho
burst its banks and fifty houses in
Nampa were ruined and two lives were
lost
mains of Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Thomas
were found in the embers of their home.
A PASSENGER tram on the Oregon
Short line was ditched near Mountain
Home, Idaho, resulting in the death OF
the fireman, mail clerk and three
tramps.
SIXTEEN houses were wrecked and
large number of barns and other build
ings were destroyed by a cyclone on
the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma
FREDERIC GERHARD, of New York,
whose wealth and admiration for Mrs.
Langtry brought him prominently be-
fore the public some years ago, was
united in marriage with Miss Louise FL.
Morris, celebrated belle and heiress
of Baltimore, Md
THE barn of Isaac Catanch at Rush
vile, Wis, was burned, and he and
twenty-five cows and two horses per-
ished in the flames.
RICHARD PURYEAR (colored), who
murdered Christian Ehler at Strouds-
burg, Pa, escaped from Jail, but was
chased by mob, caught and hanged.
Gov. WAITE with body of state
troop attempted to forcibly install his
new appointee on the fire and police
board in Denver. He was met by an
armed force of police and deputy sher-
ifs, and bloody affray was barely
averted by the arrival of federal troops
and the intervention of prominent citi
Zens.
CHARLES GooDE celebrated his Tooth
birthday at Platteville, Ill
FRANK JUC, lacking railroad fare,
walked 125 miles to answer a summons
as witness in a liquor case in the fed
eral court in Chicago.
NEARLY 100000 bushels of grain,
loaded in vessels, are held in Chicago
because insurance cannot be secured
unit, April
FIRE in the old Atheneum building
in Chicago drove the audience from the
Schiller theater and did damage
amounting to S13o,000.
THREE bandits, supposed to be Mex
leans, robbed the stage coach running
between Sherwood and Ozena, Tex.
MULLINS & MCCLAIN's cold storage
warehouse at Omaha was burned, the
loss being 500. 600.
CHING MING LEE was under arrest in
Chicago for importing Chinese actors
and embezZling s55, 900 from the theater
in Midway plaisance during the worlds
fair.
THE interior of the Pickwick club
building, the handsomest in the south,
was destroyed by fire at New Orleans,
the loss being $4,000.
The census bulletin on manufactures
| in the United States shows the total
number of manufacturing establish
,, ments to be 855, ,401, against 253, $50 in
/ 1880. The capital was 90, 124, 475, 3o6;
miscellaneous expenses, $3.50, 944, 05s;
, aggregate of the average number of
employments, 4,77l, ,S12; wages, $2,2S2,-
1928, ,265; cost of materials used, S5, 49,
s6s, 1853; value of products, so, $40, ! 1o7, ,624.
THERE were 264 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 24s the week
previous and 100 in the corresponding
| time in 1898.
| THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 10th aggregated
1886, ,OOl, 93+, against s786, s59, s64 the pre-
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1898,
was 30.7.
Mrs. AGNES FURY, of Baltimore, Nd. e.
was scared TO death by small fire In
her residence.
| BECAUSE he refused to allow them TO
ride, revengeful tramps fatally shot "a
railway conductor at Taopi, MINI.
JOHN HART was hanged at Rockford,
Ill.,, for the murder of his two sisters,
Mary and Nellie, on September 5 last.
He protested his Innocence to the last
CASHIER CRAWFORD, OF the American
national bank of Springfield, Mo-, was
arrested on charge of embezzling
$4,000.