Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-02-03
GEORGE H. PAINTER was hanged in

hanged in effigy Mt Duluth, Mimi, be-
| cause of his stand for free iron ore.
NEAR Shannon City, Ia, p. S. Good
ale, an aged farmer, was murdered by
| two youths who were after his money
Gov. WOLFE, of Indian territory, in
| his message to the extra session of the
Chickasaw legislature advices against
| allotment and statehood, and recon-
mends two delegates to attend to all
| the business of the Chickasaw people
at Washington.
A. M. LEACH, lumber dealer and mill
owner at Marysville, Cal, failed for
| 5000, 900.
MIcHIGAN's supreme court has con-
firmed the constitutionalitv of the gen.
| eral banking law of the state.
AT Encinal, Tex, a Mexican named
| Valdena shot and killed Miss Josefa
| Trevino because she would not marry
him and then fatally wounded himself.
A BILL was introduced in the Ohio
senate which provides that a parent
may not disinherit a child.
JUDGE RICKs refused at Toledo, o.,
| to restrain the receiver from reducing
wages of employees of the Toledo, st.
| Louis & Kansas City railroad
UPWARD of fifty families in Sedalia,
| Mo-, were found on the verge of starva-
| ton.
BECAUSE the United States Express
company is not Incorporated in Illinois,
l.. T. Carson, an alleged embezzler,
| was set free.
ILLINOIS roads paid dividends last
year of s2s, ,712,961, against S25,327, ,515
| a. L. ,,~1x ~, he
state number T1,SS4.
A WAVE of anarchy, in the train of
| which followed bloodshed, arson and
the destruction of property, passed
| over the Mansfield tPa.) coal region.
| 1t began at dawn and at dusk it was
| estimated that 100000 worth of prop
erty had been destroyed. The feeling
! was so great at Mansfield that the dis
charge of all foreign miners was de-
| manded.
| CALIFoRN1A's midwinter fair was
formally opened by Mrs. De Young
pressing the electric button which
started the machinery.
| BEN w. HUGHEY, Alonzo Carndall and
| Perry Wilkinson, hunters, were drowned
near Shawneetown. Ill, by their skiff
capsizing.
BAD debt collectors have swindled
residents in twenty-one towns in south
ern Minnesota, securing $50, 600.
ONLY $500 out of 10000 Iowa coal
miners are at work, and they at greatly
reduced wages.
In a jealous rage a man named Haw-
kins fatally shot his wife at Robinson,
Mich, and was himself fatally shot
while resisting arrest.
The interstate commissioners report
on railway earnings for 1898 show net
decrease of three dollars a mile.
THE mills of the American Cereal
company at Akron, o., were destroyed
by fire, the loss being Sl50,OO0
Mrs. ELLA POWERS, of Peoria, Ill.,,
shot and killed her little daughter and
then committed suicide.
| j. II. BEMIs and one of his sons, both
of the lumber firm of j. ii. Bemis Il
Co., of jefferson, Tex, were charged
with swindling banks out of $4,000
A LARGE portion of the business sec
ton of Bath, Me-, was laid in ruins by
fire. Loss, S7OO,O0O
In the report of the agricultural de-
partment at Washington the total value
of the corn crop for 1898 is placed at
s591, ,625, 1928, and although the crop is
only about 5000, 900 bushels less than
that of 1892 its money value on the farm
is $50, 500, 900 less.
THE Western Boot & Shoe Manufac-
turing company and Bernard Gannon's
shoe factory in St. Louis suffered a loss
of 500, 600 by fire.
The worlds record for half mile at
skating was broken on the canal at
Cleveland, o., by John S. Johnston, of
Minneapolis. His time was 1:16 As.
The safe of the Planters bank at
Ellaville, Ga, was blown open and
$500 secured by the thieves.
CHARLES OWENS living near Dieh-
stadt, Mo, murdered his wife and child,
then set fire to the house and escaped.
MINNEsoTA's law directed against
ticket scalpers was declared unconsti-
tutional by Judge Willis at St Paul.
JAMES L. WILLIAMS, president of the
City national bank at Marshalltown,
Ia, dropped dead on his way home to
dinner
FRED j. SHARP shot and fatally
wounded Miss Kittie Klees at Tiffin, o.
and then blew out his brains A lovers
quarrel was the cause.
The Louisiana supreme court re
versed the decision of the lower court
in the Olympic club case, thus ending
prize fighting in the state.
WILLIAM BoTTs, burglar, was sen
fenced at Toledo, o., to imprisonment
in the penitentiary for two years long
er than his natural life by Judge Lem
mon.
RESIDENTS of Topeka, Kan, cele
brated the thirty-third anniversary OF
the states birth.
HIS suit being rejected, Charlsa
Drether shot and killed Mrs Bertha
Hunicke at st. Louis and then fatally
wounded himself
JOHN COSTELLO, an eX-convict, shot
} his wife and 16-year-old daughter al
Pittsburgh, Pa, because they refused
to stay in the house with him.
JOHN b. JOHNSON and his son George
fought with shotguns and revolver'
while drunk at Los Angeles, CAL, anG