Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-09-21

delegates.
The eighth International conference
of Young Mems Christian associations
of the United States and Canada opened
at Clifton Forge, Va.
FOREST fires were again raging in the
vicinity of Atlantic City, n. j., consum-
| ing everything in their course. A vast
amount of valuable timber and game
land was being swept by the flames
For the second time in two yeays the
Kearney (Neb.) national bank closed
it's doors, with liza bilities of SOC, 600.
Col. ROBERT ALDRIcH introduced a
complete constitution in the conven-
tion at Columbia. Its most novel fea-
ture was a provision that no negro
shall hold Office in South Carolina.
FRANK MEYERS, veteran of the late
war, was notified at st. Joseph, Mich.
that he had been granted pension of
$40 month and when he heard the
news he fell dead
DANDY jim in trot at Huntington,
Ind, went the last heat in 2:1l9z, MAX
ing new worlds trotting race record
on half-mile track.
The Columbia liberty bell left Chi
The twenty ninth encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic closed
at Louisville with a grand barbecue.
The Woman's Relief Corps elected Mrs.
Elizabeth Turner, of Boston, as presi-
dent, the Daughters of Veterans select
ed Mrs. Ellen NJ. Walker, of Worcester,
Mass, as their president, and the Ma
tional Association of ex-Prisoners of
War elected as president George w.
Grant, of Minnesota.
The percentages of the basel ball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 18th were: Balti-
more, ,664; Cleveland. Gal; Philadel-
phia, .60s; Brooklyn, .542; Boston, .542;
Pittsburgh, $40; Chicago, .542; New
York, 529; Cincinnati, .517; Washing
ton, .322; st. Louis, .305; Louisville
.250.
Boiler IL RoBINsoN's grain elevator
and a large stock of grain which it
contained was burned at Brooklyn, n.
y, Loss, 500, 100.
MELVILLE SCRANTON and Paul
Schmitt, of East Saginaw, Mich, were
drowned in Tupper lake, near Malone,
n. Y.
LoTE LAsHAw was killed and An
drew Hospander fatally wounded at
Hazleton, Pa, by discharged Italian
miners,
GRAssHoPPERs by the million ap-
peared in southeastern Kansas.
WALLACE Bros, OF Statesville. n. c.,
the largest dealers in medical herbs in
the world, failed for 100000.
FRED a. WEAGE and Hector Mac
Gagan, of Chicago broke the 10O-mile
tandem century record. making the
run in hours % minutes, twenty
minutes below the best previous record.
The entire business portion of Len
oXdale, Mass, was destroyed by fire.
PROF. CHARLES V. RILEY, aged 4s, the
entomologist of the department of
agriculture in Washington, died from
the effects of being thrown from a
bicycle.
The candle factory in Cincinnati
owned by the Jacob Weller company
was burned, the loss being Sl95,OOo
AT Tower City. Pa, Joseph Wolf,
Joseph Bowers. Ray Spittle, Albert
Weiss and Aaron Schneibley were IA
tally burned by an explosion in a mine.
THE immigration to the United
States during the month of August
numbered %, 199 and for the year to
date 2l5, 733, as opposed to l7,44s and
lG6, 5Sl during 1884.
THREE tramps were killed in a freight
wreck on the Baltimore tS Ohio at
Matz, w. Va.
JOHN HALL and wife, daughter
Maude, Is years of age, their son John
and DR.. Gillian, of Cross, o. T., were
drowned in fording the Arkansas
river 10 miles northwest of their
home.
GOLD to the value of SIG, CO.., ,261 was
exported during August, making S55,-
756,217 for the eight months of the
year.
A MAN and two children, names I'M
known, were swept away while at
tempting to cross the Verdigris river
near Tallelah, l. r., and several SINH
lar deaths were reported near Coffey-
vile, Kan.
PRAIRIE fires between the North and
South Loup rivers in Nebraska did
thousands of dollars worth of damage.
The Order of Chosen Friends will
erect a monument at Baltimore to the
memory of Francis Scott Key, the au-
thor of The Spangled Banner"
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
3s,033, 900 bushels; corn, 4.934O 900 bush
els; oats, 2,4s1, 600 bushels; rye, $780,
600 bushels; barley, 4s6,O bushels
THE ninth annual national encamp-
ment of the Sons of Veterans met at
Knoxville, Tenn.
JOSEPH CALLAHAN and his wife and
hree children and another woman
We're killed by the cars at crossing
near Rustburg, Va.
MRS, JULIA A. LEONARD secured a
divorce at Wichita, Kan, in just ten
minutes and two seconds in the dis
trict court, the quickest time on record
in a divorce case.
IT was announced that, owing to un-
Rvoidable delays, the Columbian
worlds fair diplomas would not be