Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-10-12
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts,
DOMESTIC.

The whole business portion of Cam
bridge, o., was destroyed by fire with
n loss of over 100000.
MANY orchard trees in North CO.
Iona. Mich, have been forced into
blossom by the heat from the forest
fires that have been burning in that
vicinity during the past few weeks.
STRATHBERRY broke the worlds rec
ord for mile on half-mile track,
making it in 2:07X at 0skaloosa, Ia.
THE inaugural baseball game for the
Temple cup was played at Cleveland
between the Cleveland and Baltimore
clubs, and was won by the former by a
score of 3 to 4.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
was launched at Cramps shipyard in
Philadelphia.
The wife of Patrick Carroll.a Chi
cago laborer, gave birth to four chill
dren-two boys and two girls.
Gov. CALEB WEST, of Utah, submit
ted his last annual report to the secre-
tary of the interior. Before another
report can be made the territory will
become a state. The population, ac-
cording to the census of 1895, is 247,-
1924; property valuation, S97, ,942, 15l.
JOHN CZECH was executed at Jersey
City, N j., for the murder of his wife.
STANLEY BRAINE and Mabel Olds,
prominent young people, were drowned
in Mad river at Springfield, o., while
boating.
FLAMES at Warren, r. l., destroyed
three large cotton mills, two ware
houses, small sheds, freight cars and
other property, causing loss of over
81, 900, 900.
The second baseball game for the
Temple cup was played at Cleveland
between the Cleveland and Baltimore
clubs, and was won by the former by a
score of Z to 9.
AT the Kendallville Qnd.) fair five
incendiary fires were started simulta-
neously among the fancy stock pad
docks and James jackson and an un-
known woman were burned to death.
The constitutional convention at
Columbia, S. c., adopted clause for
bidding the intermarriage of white
person with any person who contains
any negro blood in his or her veins.
The Farmers and Merchants bank
at Creighton, Mo-, made an assign
ment with liabilities of 100000
Col. R. Z. A. CRoFToN, commander
of the Fifteenth infantry at Fort Sher-
idan, Ill, was shot at by Lieut.. Pague,
who was temporarily insane, and mar
rowly escaped death.
II was said that Secretary Oiney had
sent dispatch to Minister Bayard in
London declaring in the most positive
language that the United States would
never consent to British occupation of
the disputed territory in Venezuela un-
less that nations right thereto was
first determined by arbitration.
JOSEPH TIERNAN, of st. Louis, who
died September J, has been discovered
to- have been short $4,000 in his ac-
counts with the Security Building and
Loan association.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 4th aggregated
S1,137, ,Os9, TIT, against So97, 1924, 422 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1876
The sash and door factory of Rufus
r. Thomas & Co. in Philadelphia was
destroyed by fire, causing a loss of
500. 900.
THERE were 207 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 4th, against 216 the week
previous and 219 in the corresponding
time in 1894
N CT
6,546 applications for divorce in Ohio
and 2,597 were granted.
S. w. LAMoREUX, commissioner OF
the general land office, in his annual
report says the total area of vacant
public land in the United States in
acres is as follows: Surveyed, 3l3, ,s37,-
sss; unsurveyed, 2s5, ,245, 7O7
ANOTHER big haul of Italian counter
feiters was made by the agents of the
governments secret service in New
York.
GEORGE WHITECoTToN, of Anderson,
Ind, found his daughter who was kid
naped twelve years ago.
AT a meeting in New York of promi.
nent paper manufacturers trust was
formed with capital of $a5, ,ooo,oo
Mr. PRESTON, the director of the
mint, is of the opinion that the gold
product during 1895 will show an in.
crease over last year of from 5000, O0(
to 81, 200, 900.
CHARLES BLoSBERG. eldest son OF
August Blomberg, prominent banker
in Rockford, H., left New York on q
wager of $1,000 that he can walk
around the world in col days.
MAJ, GEN. RUeER assumed command
of the military department of the east
with headquarters at Governors is
land.
MINISTER CASTLE, the new diplomatic
representative of Hawaii to the United
States, arrived in Washington.
THREE men were arrested at Hills
boro, Tex, for participating in glove
fight after the passage of the new law.
AT the Episcopal triennial conven
tion in Minneapolis resolution was
adopted complimenting the governor
and legislature of Texas on the prize.
| fighting question.