Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-10-05

Buffalo, N Y, n steeple climber, fell
100 feet to his death.
BY Are in the Cincinnati Leaf To-
bacco company's storage warehouse
2,775 hogsheads of tobacco were de-
stroyed, entailing loss of $500, 1000.
AT Salyersville, Ky, Judge William
May, while hiving bees, was stung to
death.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY HERBERT
has awarded TO the Herreshoff Manu-
featuring company the contract for
building two of the new torpedo boats
authorized by the act of the last con-
gress, the price being Sl44 900.
A CONSTITUTIONAL convention was
held at Najasa at which Bartolome
Masso was elected president of the
Cuban republic.
CUBAN insurgents were said to be
within rs miles of Havana.
SEVEN persons were drowned in the
lake near Geneva, Switzerland. by the
sinking of boat.
CAPT. ARMIES, of the regular army
(retired), was arrested by column of
soldiers at Washington and taken to
the barracks by order of Gen. Scho-
field, the cause of the arrest being a
personal insult to Gen. Schofield
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the Goth were: Baltimore.
.667; Cleveland, GAG; Philadelphia, .592;
Chicago, .554; Brooklyn, $40; Boston,
543; Pittsburgh, .53S; New York, sos;
Cincinnati, sos; Washington, 1893; st.
| Louis, .295; Louisville, .267.
THE elevator of the Daisy -four mill
at Superior, Wis, was burned, causing
a loss of S1S0,000.
Two HUNDRED steers died in western
Kansas because they dieted on second
growth sorghum.
A RICH vein of gold ore was discov-
cred on Spring creek, in the vicinity
of the Storm Hill group of mines near
Rapid City, s. d.
Mrs. NELLIE w. HAGEL, of Illinois,
fell from balloon at Monrovia, Cal. =,
distance of 1000 feet, and was in
stantly killed.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians
on the reservation west of Hennessy,
o. T., were + ,lding war dances and
disregarding the agents orders to keep
on the reservation.
| IOISGS, InO
best drivers in Great Falls, Mont, with
all carriages and hacks, were burned,
and Hostler Marshal Nevins was roast
ed to death.
TYPHOID FEVER, due to impure
water and impure milk, was epidemic
IN Chicago.
THE Farmers and Citizens bank of
Pawnee, o. T., closed it's doors with
liabilities of S5o,OOO
The big plant of the River Spinning
company at Woonsocket, R. l., was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $135, 900.
FIRE losses in the United States for
the week ended on the 2sth amounted
to S3,Os4, 76O, as compared with S3, 375,-
$40 for the preceding week and So, 4l3,- =
O3o for the week ended September IA.
THREE inches of snow fell at Summit
and other portions of northern Michi-
gan.
DESTRUCTIVE gales swept lakes Michi-
gan, Superior and Huron, doing great
damage to shipping.
In his annual report Director of the
! Mint Preston estimates the total stock
of gold and silver coin in the United
States January l, 1898, at 81, 7OG, PIG, 251,
of which the gold goin is placed at
S577, lS2, 792. This shows net loss in
! gold coin for the year 1894 of $3.50, 1922
792 and only $3.50, Sal of silver. The
world production of gold for 1894 was
| Sl79, ,s65, 600, an increase OF S22, ,66s, 900,
while the 1894 figures for silver were
S1O5, 757 300.
EDWIN w. MCHENRY, of st. Paul,
chief engineer of the Northern Pacific.
and Frank c. Bigelow, a Milwaukee
banker, were appointed receivers of
the Northern Pacific railway.
THE Wabash Qnd.) Church and
School Furniture company failed with
liabilities of 100000.
FIRE almost totally destroyed the
town of Big Stone Gap, Va.
AT the close of the twentieth season
of the National Baseball league the
clubs stood in the following order: Bal
timore, 500; Cleveland, GAG; Philadel-
phia, 595; Chicago, .554; Boston, .542;
Brooklyn, $40; Pittsburgh, .53s; Gin
cinnati, sos; New York, .5O4; WASH
ington. 1886; st. Louis, .295; Louisville,
267
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States oa the 30th ult was:
Wheat 4o,76s, 900 bushels; corn, 5,451, =
600 bushels; oats, 2, 725, 900 bushels; rye,
537, 900 bushels; barley, 1,916,Ooo bush
els.
SIX lives were crushed out at quar-
ry near Independence, Mo-, by the
premature explosion of blast.
AN immense mass meeting was held
in Chicago, presided over by Mayor
Swift, to protest against Spanish
tyranny in Cuba. Speeches were made
and resolutions were adopted asking
the United States government to recog-
nize the Cuban insurgents as bellig-
erents.
Hon. j. p. BOYD, the eminent lawyer
politician and recently minister of the
Gospel, was found dead in his bed at
the Boyd mansion in Cincinnati from
heart disease.
AT Rockford, H., Leonard Preston,
bank clerk, and George Ashbrook, of
| JaneSyille Wis were drowned nv the