Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-07-27

as the place of meeting next year and
Brooklyn in 1897.
A TORNADO swept over Findlay, O.. A.,
and vicinity, unroofing buildings and
doing great damage.
The sloop Restless was reported lost
off Santa Cruz island, Cal, with six
teen young persons on board.
A TORNADO at st. Clair, Mich,
wrecked a dozen buildings, unroofed
as many more, and killed the infant
daughter of Edgar Black.
JAMES L. TRAvERs, negro, was
hanged at Washington, d. c., for the
murder of Lena Gross November 10
last.
INTENSE excitement prevailed around
Hefin, Cleburne county, Ala, over rich
finds of gold.
THE three children of Fred Whitney,
of Bankers, Mich, were fata lily pois
oned by eating apples that were
sprinkled with paris green.
The triple funeral of DR.. John E.
Hogan, his wife and little son, who
were drowned at Lake Geneva two
weeks ago, was held at Elgin, Ill.
AT the ninth annual convention in
Denver, Col, of the American agricul-
tural college and experimental sta
tions S, w. johnson, of Connecticut,
was elected president.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the Goth were: Baltimore
.597; Cleveland, 500; Pittsburgh, .5s3;
Boston, .574; Cincinnati, .562; Chicago,
.544; Philadelphia, $50; New York, .535;
Brooklyn, .529; Washington, .37o; st.
Louis, $50; Louisville, .197.
Mrs. GRAHAM, of Buffalo, fell 11o
feet into the rocks below Niagara falls
but broke no bones.
A TORNADO wrecked camp meeting
tent near Roseville, o., killing Mrs.
Clement Wilson and Patrick Deselm
and injuring several others.
FRED and Frank Sunbeim and Mrs.
Fred Sunbeim and two other persons
were drowned by the capsizing of a
sail boat at Brooklyn, n. Y.
CASHIER JOHN l.. WALDEN, OF the
Dime savings bank at Willimantic,
Conn, was said to have disappeared
with $780, 900 of the bank funds.
ONE of the mills of the National Lin
seed Oil company in Chicago was
burned, the loss being S750,0oo.
JAMES LOWER and his son John t.
were instantly killed at Philadelphia
by coming in contact with an electric
light wire.
GEORGE R DAVIS completed his re-
port as director general of the Worlds
Columbian exposition, and it fills twen-
ty volumes, besides the catalogue of
exhibits, consisting of nearly 400 oc-
tavo pages.
R. S. STRAHAN, eX-judge of the Ore
gon supreme court, fell dead in a pub
lie building at Portland.
JOHN MCCoLLUM and his three sons,
on their way from Wisconsin to Okla
homa to seek home, perished in a
cloudburst in Missouri.
THE village of Deer Creek, Mimi,
was swept away by cyclone and two
women were fatally injured.
On the Terre Haute plantation in st.
Johns parish in Louisiana Joe Naska
shot and killed the wife of Rosario
Giordano and two other persons and
fatally wounded three others.
SEDGwICK SAUNDERS and Henry Clark
We're instantly killed at grade cross
ing of the West Jersey road at Vine
land, n. j.
The house of Mrs. Abe Phillips (col-
ored) was burned by some persons un-
known at Mart, Tex, and five negroes
perished.
DURING the year ended June 30 ,349
immigrants entered the port of San
Francisco, possessing about $50 apiece.
THE annual meeting in Baltimore of
the Baptist Young Peoples union came
to an end with services in los churches
in that city.
NELSON TRUDEAU, Peter Roche, Louis
Tatro and Oliver Dudley were killed by
an engine at a railway crossing near
Williamstown, Mass.
The wealthy friends of Mrs. Kate
Chase Sprague in New York and other
cities have raised a sum sufficient to
maintain her in comfort for the rest OF
her life.
The opera house, two livery barns
and three our four business houses in
Little York, ILL.,, were burned, and
twenty horses perished in the flames
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 22d was: Wheat
40, ,4s3, 600 bushels; corn, 5,94l, 900 bush
els; oats, 5,l37,0O bushels; rye, 14s,.
600 bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels
SEVENTEEN Indians We're killed a,
Jackson Hole, Wyo., by officers. The
red men were charged with breaking
the game laws, had been made pris.
oners, and We're trying to escape when
killed.
LOUIS SCHMIDT, JR., local pugilist
received blow in fight in Milwau'
! wauke with Frank Klein from which
he died.
Mrs. MARY b. CHAPPELL, a widow 6.
years of age, was shot and killed al
Delavan, Wis, by her son Charles, who
mistook her for Il burglar.
IN runaway near Monroe, Ind.
William Elzey and his wife and Mrs
Thomas Elzey and Miss Myers were
fatally injured.