Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11

LIGHTNING killed the following per-
sons in Wisconsin: Joseph Anderla at
Kellnerville, Jasper Chlup at Lodi,
John Kitchenmeister at Seymour, and
Mrs Joseph Sutherland at York.
GEORGE MILLS was hanged In the
courthouse yard at Raleigh, n. c., for
the murder last June of his niece, lana
Wimberlcy.
POWDER mills blew up at South
Acton, Mass, killing five men.
EDWARD BURRoUGH, state road COM
missioner of New Jersey, fell dead
while delivering a speech at the re-
union of the Twenty-third New Jersey
regiment at Philadelphia.
BY the death of Mrs Richard Smith
Philadelphia receives legacy of over
81 200, 900 to erect statues in Paramount
park
THE percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 4th were: Pittsburgh,
.750; Boston, .667; Cleveland, .667;
Brooklyn, .555; Baltimore, 1885, Chi
cago, 500; New York 800; Cincin-
natl, .462; Philadelphia, 400; Louis
vile, 1888; Washington, .S33; st. Louis,
1907.
A FOREST fire destroyed Delivers
large sawmill, located near Ketner,
Pa, together with 1o,o00,O00 feet of
lumber, an engine house, sixteen cars
of lumber and coal. eight dwellings, an
oil well and several thousand acres of
tim Der land.
WILLIAM H. WADDLE, of Atlanta,
Tex, gave deadly poison to his three
children, aged from 6 to 10 years, and
then took u dose himself. Sorrow over
the death of hls wife caused the deed.
DURING tornado at st. Charles, Ill,
Mrs. Hattie E. Church, c. II. Thomp-
son, Charles Anderson and his sister
were killed.
MARY j. STANLEY, Sc years old, died
in Philadelphia from elephantiosis the
disease having caused her weight to
increase from $50 to 600 pounds.
A TERRIFIC wind and rain storm
swept over the southern portion of
Cullom county, Ala, demolishing
buildings and laying waste farms in
the path of the storm, which was half
mile wide.
three Carsrude children We're drowned
at Fort Collins. Col, by the capsizing
| of boat.
DURING a quarrel James Swats, n
passenger engineer, was fatally shot at
Stevenson, Ala, by Andy Hames, who
was pursued by posse of citizens and
riddled with bullets
AT Minneapolis Claus A. BliXt, the
self-confessed murderer of Catharine
Cling, was sentenced to prison for life.
A GENERAL demand for higher wages
all over the Pittsburgh district was
made by the ironworkers.
ADvlCEs from southern Ohio, south
eastern Indiana and dnortheastern Ken
tucky report phenomenal waterspouts
that did great damage to property.
PRIMITIVE METHoDIsTs in state con-
ference at Avoca, Pa, adopted a reso-
luton that hereafter any minister who
smokes, chews or snutfs tobacco will
not be recognized by the conference.
IT was said that the reappraisement
of the decorated china and cut and
decorated glassware shipped to Phila.
deIphia by A. B. Daniel & Sons OF
London showed that Uncle Sam had
been cheated out of $780, 900 in the
last few years.
j. II. BRINo and wife, of Williams
burg, Col, were killed in runaway
near Hoclsvale.
The lumber firm of n. P. Clarke &
Co. at Minneapolis, Mimi, failed fol
$7OO, 900.
The state bank at Orion, ILL.,, was
robbed by three experts of $4,000 il
gold and bills.
The great California wheat belt wa
suffering from aphis, an insect belong
ing to the henliptera family.
GEORGE BAUGH and his wife ant
Frank Connolly and Edward Moriarit'
were drowned in the river at Detroit
Mich.
: THE king Of Pennsylvania farmers
Col. James Young, died at Middletowl
, from the effects of a runaway, aged 7
: years
i DR.. SAMUEL P. ScHwING killed DIR
Emile Heriat at New Orleans. The al
: legged infidelity of Mrs. Schwing led t.
the tragedy.
The visible supply of grain in tn
United States on the 9th was: Wheat
; 62, 1876, 600 bushels; corn, 9,354, 900 bush
( els; oats, 5,s16,0oo bushels; rye, 127, ,oo
bushels; barley, 4O2, 600 bushels.
/. The village of Greenwood, Mich
: was said to have been wiped out by
4 forest fire.
4 YELLOW SPRINGS, village of 1000 ir
e habitants in Ohio, was fire swept
X nearly all the principal business place
4 being burned.
2 JAMES HERBERT, clerk, killed HI
t wife in New York by cutting her throa
with razor and then drowned hin
n self. jealousy was the cause.
S IN a discussion over textbooks in
e school house near Como, Col, Benji
= min Ratcliffe shot and killed Samu,
f. Taylor, L. f. McCurdy and Georg
Il d. Wyatt, constituting the schot
l. board.
n NEARLY 10000 worllmen were idle
II St. Louis on account of the combine
Ii strike of the hod-carriers and bricl
vs. yard employees.
Tr,Jv COLI, l,ia Stroy papar comma