Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-29

JAMES MAHAN, abig lumber dealer
of Hancock county, Tenn, murdered
Loudon Collins. his best friend, be-
cause the latter asked to marry his
sister.
ANTHONY JOHNSON (colored) was
hanged at Dumas Ark. He killed How
ard, another negro jealousy was the
cause.
NEAR Tunneltou, w. Va, lightning
struck dynamite magazine and an
explosion followed by which several
persons were killed and much property
was damaged.
WILLIAM MEAsHINTUB was riding in
q wagon with his wife near Talihina,
o. r., when his brother jackson came
up behind, shot and killed him and
then drove off with the wife.
ACCORDING to treasury statement
the excess of expenditures over re-
ceipts for the current fiscal year up to
date has been S4s, ,42o, 42s, and the
deficit will undoubtedly exceed $780,
600, 600 by the end of this month, which
finishes the fiscal year.
PERCENTAGES of the baseball clubs in
the National league for the week ended
on the 23d were: Boston, $3.50; Pitts
burgh, .620 Baltimore, .59l; Cleveland,
500; Chicago, .566; Brooklyn, .542; New
York, .53l; Cincinnati, .52l; Philadel-
phia, $50; Washington, .426; st. Louis,
.337; Louisville, .149.
THE boiler in the sawmill of A. II.
Crocker, near Byron Center, Mich,
exploded, killing Arthur Barney and
Martin Skinner and fatally injuring
Avery Crocker.
In n quarrel over division of prop
erty at Webster Grove, Mo-, DIR. Frank
Settle shot and killed Mrs. Jane Peter
son, his sister-in-law, Mrs. Peterson's
sister, Mrs. Horish, and then killed
himself
JOHN w. FOSTER, ex-secretary of
state, who went to China last Decem-
ber as legal adviser to China in the
peace negotiations with Japan, re-
ceived from China a fee of S250,00o.
IN an experiment with electricity as
a motive power on the Nantasket Beach
(Mass-) road speed of 80 miles an hour
was attained.
BY the explosion of n steam-valve in
the whaleback steamer Christopher Co
lumbus off Waukegan, ILL.,, two men
We're killed and twelve Others were in
jured.
A FIRE that started in II. T. Clarke's
wholesale drug house at Lincoln, Neb.,
caused a loss of S15O0O0.
ALI. the saloons in New York city
were closed on Sunday by order of
President Roosevelt, of the police
board.
Il +
named Brent were killed by an explo-
sion of a boiler in Moses sawmill at
Spring Hill, Ark.
Two THOUSAND kegs of giant powder
stored in Fishers mills at Krebbs Sta
ton, Pa, exploded, destroying several
buildings, some mile distant.
By the breaking of a wheel on a
Dartmouth and Westport (Mass.) street
railway car thirty persons were badly
injured.
CLAUDE D. SANFORD rode 62 miles on
his bicycle ut Northport, L. l., gGd
then dropped dead.
HARVEY Ii. NOBLE and Fred Joslin
were drowned in the Illinois river op-
posite Peoria, Ill, by the capsizing of e
boat.
ARTHUR ZIMMERMAN made new
worlds bicycle record at Pittsburgh,
Pa, by covering mile in two minutes
on quarter-mile track.
PRIVATE ALFRED MATTHEY, of the
United States army, bearing dispatches
from Gen. Miles at Fort hamilton, n.
Y, to Gen. Wesley Merritt at Chicago,
arrived in the latter city, having made
the trip of over 1900 miles by bicycle
in 13 days, hours and 45 minutes.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the cath was: Wheat,
els; oats, 100000 bushels; rye, 137,-
600 bushels: barley, 10000 bushels.
JOHN OSBORN, Son & Co., dealers in
wines in New York, failed for 81 $780,
600.
SPEcKER Bros. & Co., wholesale dry
goods dealers at Cincinnati, failed for
$5OO,OOO.
A CYCLONE near Owensboro, KY, de.
stroyed trees, crops and houses in a
path nearly a mile wide.
A DRY lake bed at Red Lake, S. D.,
containing $500 acres, was filed with
water to the depth of 8 inches by a
cloudburst.
ANTON METzeAR, aged 81, a reputed
anarchist at Allegheny, Pa, com
mitted suicide by placing bomb in
his ear andtouching it off. The whole
side of his head was blown off.
IN the 4-mile college boat race at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Columbia de-
feated Cornell and Pennsylvania, max,
| ing the distance in 81 minutes and %
seconds.
A NUMBER of barns were wrecked
and horses killed by tornado near
Albert Lea, Minn.
SEYMOUR KEENER killed his two cous
ins, Lille and Laura Moore, near Tai
lulah Falls, Ga. Keener was rejected
by Lille and he said he would Kill
both his cousins.
The five children of William Cas-.
died of diphtheria within week a
their home in Grinnell, Ia.
The family of Gustav Kunz, of Arens