Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-15

LEE HARRIS and Ben Mitchell, col
ored highway robbers and murderers,
were hanged at Birmingham, Ala, for
killing Pleasant Merriwether, n gro
ceryman.
PERCENTAGES of the baseball clubs in
the National league for the week ended
on the sth were: Pittsburgh, $50; Bos-
ton, GOO; Chicago, .5s5; Cleveland, $40;
Baltimore, $40; Cincinnati, .53S; New
York, .5i4 philadelphia, 800; Brook
lyn, .472; Washington, .432; st. Louis,
1875; Louisville, .167.
WHITELAw REID was a passenger on
the steamer New York which arrived
in New York from Southampton and
soon after he received n telegram an
nouncing the death of his mother,
aged 81, at her home near CEDAR
vile, o.
ONE HUNDRED persons were rendered
homeless and S125, 200 went up in smoke
in fire at Baltimore, Md.
RALPH SwINBURN, the Oldest railroad
engineer in the world, died at Charles
ton, w. Va, aged 90 years. He was
associated with Stephenson on the first
locomotive engine built.
Mrs. LENA BRIDENBAUGH, of Glib
raltar, Pa, has eaten nothing in seven
weeks When she first refused food
she weighed $50 pounds. She now
weighs scarcely 20 pounds.
The steam yacht Gilama capsized on
Lake Ontario and Capt. John Black
burn, Engineer Henderson and man
named Donnelly were drowned.
FIRE in the center of the lumber and
tannery district in Milwaukee did
$3.50, 900 damage.
AN incendiary fire burned 5000, 900
feet of choice lumber in the Cloquet
(Minn.) Lumber company's yards.
Loss, S15o,00o
AT Northampton, Mass, the John
NJ. Learned silk mills were destroyed
by fire, the loss being 100000
A TERRIFIC rainstorm throughout the
southern half of Minnesota did great
damage, washing out crops and rail
way tacks.
EMMET SWEENEY, Patrick Morris and
Michael Sheridan, aged II, 12 and IL
years, respectively, were drowned in
the lake at Cleveland while bathing
Four men were suffocated by foul
gas in a tunnel near Denver, Col.
q. ID. MOORE, postmaster at Keavy,
KY, and Upton Steern, assistant post
master, fought with pistols and both
were instantly killed. Jealousy was
the cause.
BARNEY FREEMAN and Will McGill,
of Constantine, Mich, each Is years
old, were drowned in mill pond while
bathing.
REV. GRANLEAF LEE, pastor of the
colored Baptist church at Double
Springs, Ala, died suddenly in his pull
pit while preaching.
BILL COLLINS (colored) was lynched
by mob in a swamp near Mayo, Fla,
for attempted assault on jeanette
Allen, young white woman.
SADIE and Dora Anthony, Sarah
Booth and 2osa Rimer were drowned
while bathing in Stump creek near
Dubois, Pa.
FIRE destroyed the lumber yards,
! planning mill and sash, door and blind
factory of Dewing & Sons at Kalama'
zoo, Mich, besides seven brick and
frame stores, the total loss being $780,.
0O0
SOME sixty settlers on government
land in Gregory county, 5. D., have
been dispossessed of their claims by a
recent survey.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat
40, ,675, 900 bushels; corn, II, $50, 900 bush
els oats, s,749,000 bushels; rye, 1877,
900 bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels.
LIZZIE COLEMAN, the 14-year-olG
daughter of William Coleman, of Oster
vile, Mass, was shot and killed 10y
Henry Ledetke, who then killed him
self. Jealousy was the cause.
The consolidation of the Laclede anC
Merchants national banks of st. Louis
was reported.
WHILE the funeral procession of Mary
McElligott was going to the church a
Mattoon, ILL.,. her mother, Mrs. james
McElligott, tainted and died in twenty
minutes.
EVERY saloon in Des Moines, Ia, wa
closed by order of Judge Spurrier, wh'
said that the provisions of the mule
law had not been complied with.
THREE tramps, Ed Evans, of Pitts
burgh, Steve Goddinger and an un
known man were killed in a wreck OF
the Big Four road at Sidney, o., ant
George Brown, of Latonia, was fatal,
injured.
THE coal miners of Ohio, by a vote o
5,O91 to 4,351, decided to accept the OF
fer of the operators to go to work TO
fifty-one cents per ton.
The safe in the store of James Z
Hutchings at Lowell, Me-, was opene,
and cash, stocks, bonds and securitie
to the amount of $4,000 were stolen.
A TORNADO 20 miles east of Perry, G
T., blew down twenty houses and sev
eral persons We're hurt.
SECRETARY HERBERT issued orders t
the Raleigh to proceed at once to Ke
West, Fla, to watch for filibusters an
see that no more expeditions leave fo
Cuba with contrabands or men for tn
insurgents.
The Santa Fe round-house and re
pair shops in Arkansas City, Kan, wit
all their contents, were burned, tn
loss bainu 500 ono