Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-11-30

| Liberty.
The Puget Sound Loan Trust and
Banking company ut New Whatcom.
Wash, failed with liabilities of $50, 900.
Winebrenner Bros, oyster packers in
Baltimore, made an assignment with
liabilities of over 100000.
The new census of Wisconsin shows
! the total percehtage of foreign-bor
| population of the state to be 27.O4.
A jury in the United States court in
| Chicago awarded $4,000 damages in
| favor of Wilbur L. Davidson against the
Illinois Central railroad. Davidson was
| injured for life by freight train.
Thomas Mabe and his two sons were
burned fatally in n fire which destroyed
their brandy distillery near Danbury,
N. c.
The exchanges Mt the leading clear
| ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 22d aggregated
| ,126, ,2a6,63S, against $1,170, 1856, 1854 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
lS04, was 10.1.
Prof. Brooks, director of Smiths OBJ
servatory at Geneva, N. Y, discovered
covered by Prof. Brooks.
The National Hardware association
in session at Pittsburgh, Pa, elected
w. w. Supplee, of Philadelphia, as pres
ident.
George Harris, the original of Uncle
Tom" in Mrs. Stoves novel, is in des-
titute circumstances at his home in
Lexington, ky. He will soon be 81
years old.
ID. n. Morgan, the treasurer of the
United States, in his annual report says
the net ordinary revenues of the govera-
lnent for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1895, were $3l3,300,O75, an increase of
| $15,GsS,055 as compared with the year
before; net ordinury expenditures, $780,
195,29S, decrease of S11, 1,32S,9S1. In
Guiding the public debt, the total re-
ceipts on all accounts were S72O, ,5l6,625
and the expenditure $710,472,l57
Nancy and Fannie Armstrong and
Mollie Whitney (all colored) were
burned to death in a cabin at Stony
Point, Ky.
Judge Reynolds, assistant secretary
of the interior, in his annual report rec
ommends legislation which will define
with more certainty the pensionable
rights of minor children in cases where
the soldier dies leaving no widow sur
viving.
Postmaster-General Wilson in his an
nual report says the receipts of the
post Office department for the year
| ended June 80, 1895, were SIC, III 900 and
the expenditures s6.79o,172. He esti-
mates the revenue for the year ending
June 80, 1922. at $50 7s3, ,12o and the ex
penditures at $94.S17,000.
Fire destroyed the main building of
the St, Louis Shovel company's plant.
the loss being 100000.
Rev. John Henry Barrows, D. D., pas
tor of the First Presbyterian church in
Chicago for the past IA years, resigned
to become a lecturer on Christianity III
India.
The report of James White. superin-
tendent of the railway mail service,
shows that during the past year 497 ac-
cidents occurred to railway post offices,
in which seven clerks were killed and
IT'S injured, an increase over 1894 of 1877
accidents and 81 clerks killed and in
jured. OF the 1o,377, $4,000 pieces dis
tributed and redistributed, but /, ,166,6S2
errors occurred.
The director OF the mint in his annual
report says the value of the gold de-
posted at the mints and assay offices
during the fiscal year was $S7, ,0S2;
value of silver, $l5,714,365. During the
year the gold product wasvalued at $50,
| 100000; silver. $3l APP 900. The coinage
by the mints during the year was:
Gold, $43, ,933.+75: silver dollars. $3.956,-
oil; subsidiary silver coins, SIS, ,l13,460;
minor coins, $712,594, total coinage OF
$53.7l5,549.
| The interstate commerce commission
in it's report on the income and *.
penditures of railways in the United
States for the year ended June 30. 1895.
| includes the returns from $50 roads, or
02 per cent. of the mileage of the United
| States. The gross earnings were ST.
O03,022,S53 and the operating expenses
| were S677 7,677, ,6S5, leaving net earnings
of 1925, ,355,21S, against $500, ,137 $40 for
tie same roads in 1894. Dividends paid
were $53, 3,135,545, leaving deficit from
the operations of the year of $31 ,075 ,030.
In tit of jealousy Hans Allen. a
wealthy Norwegian farmer near Nc
Gregor, Ia, killed William Cross. seri-
ously shot IL girl and then committed
suicide.
The post office at Cambridge, o., was
robbed OF $500 worth of stamps and the
contents of numerous registered let
ters.
Thomas Davis. David Callum and Miss
Nora Work were drowned while cross.
ing the Cumberland river near Nash
Vile, Tenn.
Robbers entered the State bank at
Alpha. H., and secured $4,100.
Prof. Perdue, n white school teacher
GO years old, charged with assaulting
Miss Willie Grady, was lyuched by a
mob at Alley, Ga.
John Richards and Thomas Watts,
negroes who robbed, murdered and then
burned the body of Miss liagwell, near