Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC,

princeton, N. d., last June, was SEN
fenced to twenty years at hard labor
in the state prison.
CHARLES M. WEBB has declined the
appointment of associate justice of the
supreme court of Wisconsin.
The city waterworl<s at Ironton. o.
were burned, the loss being 500, 900.
A NATIONAL association of wire goods
manufacturers was formed at Cincin-
natl with Fred j. Meyers, of Hamilton,
o., as president.
THE third annual convention of the
United States League of Building and
Loan associations convened in Cleve-
land
RAINS have put an effectual check to
forest fires in Michigan.
Ten cars and an engine we're smashed
in a freight wreck at New Florence,
Pa, and Fireman Peter Cover was in
stantly killed.
GRAFTON G. WILLIAMS, paper dealer
in Philadelphia, failed for 100000.
DAIsIE aged 13, daughter of Charles
Klaus, of Columbus; May, aged II,
and Hulda, aged Z, daughters of George
Klaus, were drowned in the Platte
river near OO.u .ulnDuS, NcD.
WILLIAM TAYLOR, negro, aged 2l
years, was executed at Columbus, O.,
for killing Farmer Yoakum to rob him.
By a decision of Judge Johnston all
cigar stores in Columbus, o., will be
closed on Sunday.
ALABAMA populists and free silver
republicans will hold joint silver
convention in Birmingham in Novem-
Der.
ROBERT E. RIVERS, principal owner
of the Pickwick and Royal hotels in
New Orleans and of half dozen sugar
plantations, failed for $3.50, 1000.
EMELINE G. CIGRAND and her hus-
band, Robert E. Phelps, and young
girl whose name the police refused to
divulge were the latest to be num-
bered among the supposed victims of
III. Ii. Holmes in Chicago. All three
have been missing more than two
years
FIRE in Melrose, Ia, burned most of
the village.
Two NEGRO murderers, Whit Fer
rand and Anderson Brown, were exc
euted at Salisbury, n. c., in the pres
ence of 5000 people. Each confessed
his guilt.
The Central Labor union of Cleve-
land, o., decided to boycott all grocers
and dealers who sell nonunion bread.
ADvIcEs from Wyoming say. that
fifty-nine white people were killed by
the Bannock Indians near Jackson's
Hole.
AS result of duel at Brandenburg,
KY, Col. George Robinson, a county
official, was dead, and Maj. Blood
Schacklett, county commissioner,
was fatally injured.
THE commissioner of internal reve-
nue. in his annual report for the fiscal
year ended June 80 says the total re-
ceipts from all sources for the year
were Sl43, PAS, ,977, decrease of SO, 922,-
AL as compared with 1894.
PHILLIP NORMAN NICHOLAS was
hanged at Richmond, Va, for murder,
ing William j. Wilkerson and James
Mills by drowning them
Tom JOHNSON, a negro who murdered
Mrs. fairfield and her daughter at
Meridian, Miss, and assaulted another
daughter, was burned to the stake by
a mob
THE secretary of the treasury direct
ed that the money paid into the treas
ury on account of the income tax be
refunded to the persons and corpora
tions respectively entitled thereto upon
the filing of the refunding claims.
The national prohibition camp-meet-
ing commenced at Decatur, Ill.
TUDOR Brown, Willie Cook, Sim
EcEols and John Armstrong, negro
desperadoes who broke Jail at Fernan-
diLa, Fla, We're driven into the ocean
by bloodhounds and all were drowned.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
26,665, 760, against 1,030, ,O30,049 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 2o.2
JOSEPH NoLTE, Arthur Walter and
Miss Tillie Helm were drowned in the
Mississippi river at Burlington, Ia, by
the capsizing of a boat.
S. LoFTIN, q negro, charged with as
saulting white woman in Lexington,
Tex, was taken from the officers by
mob and lynched.
A BILL was introduced in the Illinois
legislature for tax of per cent. upon
the gross receipts of all games of ball
and to prohibit the game on Sunday.
PROSPECTS for an enormous crop of
corn and other products throughout
the west and northwest were never
more promising.
IL developed that the negro Bob
who was lynched at Ford.
KY, charged with having outraged
Miss Elkin, was innocent of the crime
THERE were 202 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 256 the week
previous and 24o in the corresponding
time in 1894
JOSEPH A. BEAM was hanged at the
United States Jail at Washington for
the murder of his stepdaughter, Mrs
Annie Leahy, last December.
SECRETARY MORTON has abolished the
seed division of the agricultural de-
ma rtmant In LVacbinr rto, tn tolxa affaot