Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-01-05
The News Cor 3egsed.
important intelligence Fto7 4II'Fats.
DOMESTIC.

braska to the Atlantic coast.
EDWARD r. CARTER, for twenty-nine
years clerk in the National bank of
commerce of New York, confessed to
embezzling $4,000
WILLIAM S. WHITMAN, of Winoosli,
VT, shot and killed his wife and two
boys and then committed suicide. Do
mestic trouble was the cause.
A. w. ALTON, of New Jerusalem,
Tex, when arrested in New Orleans
upon the charge of insanity said he
was on the way to Washington to kill
the president.
EIGHTEEN persons were seriously in
jured in collision between passenger
trains ut Waxahachie, Tex.
ALIX failed in an effort to lower her
record at Los Angeles, trotting mile
in 2:O516. The 2-year-old Directly
paced mile in 2:Os.
The largest single mail ever brought
across the Atlantic arrived in New
York on the steamer Majestic. 1t was
in 1872 bags.
ANNIE FREEZE, a 15-year-old girl, was
abducted from the home of her grand
father near Hicksville, o., by unknown
persons.
Ex-CAPT. STEPHENSON, of New York
the first of the police officials convicted
as a result of the LeXow investigation,
was sentenced to three years and nine
months imprisonment and fined $1,000.
A MAIL pouch destined for Hartford
and containing COO letters was stolen
from the depot platform at New Haven,
Conn.
DAN MCDONALD and Will Carter (col-
cred were lynched by a mob near
Meridian, Miss, for killing Jacob
Copp, aged IS years.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
S9,O7l 900 bushels; corn, S,s3s, 900 BUSH
els oats, 1900, 900 bushels; rye, 452, 900
bushels: barley, $780, 600 bushels
FIVE white boys were fatally burned
in a suburb of Richmond, Va, by an
explosion of gunpowder.
WILLIAM BLAKEsLEY, of Sacramento,
CAL, supposed by his. parents to be
dead for thirty years, gladdened their
hearts at Trenton, n. j., by letting
them know he is alive.
MADELINE PoLLARD's attorneys pro-
pose to follow Breckenridge on his lee
ture tour and attach the receipts.
STATE teachers associations of llli-
nois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, In
diana, Nebraska, South Dakota and
Kansas held their annual meetings.
A PRAIRIE fire swept over large
area in the southern part of IN" coun-
ty, o. T., and a number of farmers lost
everything they owned and barely es-
capped with their families.
The old capitol building at Atlanta,
Ga, was burned, the loss being 500, 900.
ALEX WILLIAMSON and Will Perry,
two young men living at Coalburg,
Ala, fought for the hand of Mamie
Bell and both were killed
The worst blizzard in years swept
over the western and eastern states.
Along the Massachusetts coast many
ships were wrecked, causing great loss
of life, and in the cities of Boston and
New York much damage was done by
the storm.
BURGLARS broke into the home OF
Henry Fecker, at PiGua, o., and car.
ried off his savings amounting to $4,
750.
JOHN w. FOSTER ex-secretary ot
state, has consented to go to Japan to
aid the Chinese representatives in
bringing about peace.
FARMERS and robbers engaged in q
desperate fight near Salem, o., and
two of the former were shot and one
of the latter,
THE bank at SomonauS, ILL.,, was en-
tered by burglars, who robbed the safe
of SS, 100 and large amount of valua
bles
JOSEPH BIDwELL and William Find.
ley, farmers of Union county, were
killed near Columbus, o., by Pan
Handle train.
COLLEGE presidents of Indiana and
Iowa decided to forbid intercollegiate te
football games.
AUGUST PERMoNTIR shot and fatally
wounded Miss Meister, the daughter
of his landlady at New Castle, Pa, and
Robert Charles, another boarder, and
then blew out his own brains. He was
insane.
Iowa attorneys met in Des Moines
and organized state bar association
A. j. McCreary, of Keokuk, was elected
president
SIX horses and two mules were killed
in Philadelphia by coming in contact
with electric light wires blown down
by storm.
The Illinois Teachers association
will urge the Legislature to erect an
other normal school in the northern
part of the state.
The women's council of the Nine
teenth Century club of Memphis
Tenn, voted to boycott Congressman
Breclsinridge's lecture.
THERE were $50 business failures il
the United States in the seven days
ended on tine 2sth, against $40 til,
week previous and 511 in the CORE
spending time in 1898.
NEARLY 1000, 600 feet of lumber anG
twenty loaded railway cars We're de
stroyed by fire at Burlington, VT, the
loss being S150,000.
MANY farmers and merchants were
financially ruined by the failure of the
Citizens stock bank and Slater savings
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