Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-01
FOREST fires were raging in all parts

each other with pistols.
THE Fifth national bank of San An
tonic, Tex, went into voluntary liqui-
| dation.
A STEAM yacht named Trilby cap
sized in the Hamburg canal at Buffalo,
| n. Y, and three men were drowned.
THE new Waverly hotel at Hot
Springs, Ark, was destroyed by fire
and William Burke, night porter, was
cremated. All the guests escaped.
EVERY business building ut Galien,
Mich, but two stores and the post Of
fee were destroyed by fire.
WHILE fishing on Maharr lake three
young men of Cambridge township,
Mich, Bert Salisbury, aged go; Will
Doolittle, aged 32, and Nina Patterson,
aged II, were drowned by the upsetting
of their boat.
GRAIN men at st. Paul, Mimi,
thought that the visible supply Of
wheat in this country was millions of
bushels less than appeared by pub
lished statements
DISASTROUS forest fires were raging
in some of the heavy wooded districts
of northern Wisconsin.
A TRUST of the manufacturers of
wire nails throughout the country was
organized at Pittsburgh, Pa
PROF. j. MADISON WATSON. widely
known educational man, being the au-
thor and publisher of series of school
books used throughout the United
States, was sent to an insane asylum
at Elizabeth, n. j.
HENRY MCKINNEY. near Nashville.
Tenn, accidentally killed two sisters.
A rifle discharged prematurely.
The first regular session of the ma
tional conference of charities and cor
rections opened at New Haven, Conn.
The Central Bimetallic league at
Memphis, Tenn, issued call for ma
tional convention to be held in Mem
phis on June l2 and 13 to formulate
some definite plan for future action.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 2sth was: Wheat,
81, ,244, 600 bushels; corn, s,97s, 900 bush
els; oats, 1890, 900 bushels; rye, l37,-
600 bushels; barley, 145,0 900 bushels
A LADY minister baptized thirty-nine
converts in the Okaw river, miles
west of Arcola, Ill.
The supreme court of the United
the Geary Chinese exclusion act.
ABOUT 2 inches of snow fell through
out northern Wisconsin.
The chamber of commerce of New
York city decided to enter upon cru
sade against the free coinage of silver.
WILLIAM SMITH and Charles Earlman
were killed by the cars at Bellaire, O.,
both their heads being cut Off
FUNERAL services over the remains
of ex-Secretary of the Treasury Hugh
iMcCulloch were held at Rock Creek
church in Washington.
JACOB HENSON. who murdered Daniel
IT. Shea, an aged grocer, about three
months ago, was hanged by a mob at
.Ellicott City, Nd. He was under sem
tence to be hanged June Z.
THE forest fires near Saranac Lake,
n. Y, were extinguished after doing
damage to the extent of 100000.
THE Michigan senate killed the anti
treating bill passed by the house.
Hot winds swept Nebraska and ad-
joining states, doing great damage to
the crops. Frost was also reported at
many points in Iowa and Illinois.
THOMAS BYRNEs. chief of police, was
retired by the police board of New
York city.
THE United States supreme court de-
MED the application of Eugene V.
Debs, the strike leader, for writ of
habeas corpus, and he and his seven
associates must serve their sentences
of six months in Jail.
IT was reported that the president
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Fifty-fourth congress early in October
AT Hankinson, n. D., Peter Elmer,
aged 10, killed Edward Pose, aged so,
as the result of quarrel over heifer
The Douglas county bank at West
Superior, Wis, went into voluntary
liquidation.
SIXTY horses belonging to the CHR
cago Carette company were burned to
death by fire in the stables and ten
carettes were also destroyed.
e. II. TAGGERT, wealthy farme-
near Warrensburg, Mo-, was induced
by two men to deposit 800 in a tin
box on an agreement to purchase his
farm and then fed with the money.
A HORSE took fright at the snorting
of an elephant in the parade of a circus
at Fort Wayne, Ind, and dashed into
the midst of a crowd of women aud
children, killing Mrs. Eliza Lemay, fa-
tally injuring Mrs. f. Wehner and her
boy and bruising sixteen other per-
sons.
The Western Interstate Baseball
league has gone to pieces.
A TORNADO blew down the st. Mary
hotel and Catholic church and un-
rooted and damaged forty other houses
at Lockport, Tex, causing loss of
| $10O,00O
FOREST fires were raging through the
region east of Superior, Wis, and
great damage was being done.
INSURANCE losses this season up to
May Is were unprecedentedly heavy
on the lakes. The aggregate was $780,
600, as compared with losses last season
up tothe same date of $4,000.
BURGLARS blew open the vault of the
State bank at Oneida, Kan, securing