Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-11-09
Central New York reported heavy

of currency between New York, Boston,
Philadelphia and Chicago.
Theodore Durrant was found guilty
of the murder of Blanche Lamont on
April 3 last in the Emanuel Baptist
church in San Francisco. His attor-
neys would take an appeal to the SUI
| premc court.
Ada Potter, aged ten years, and Net
tie Vague, aged nine years, were
drowned in the Des Moines river at
Jackson, Mimi, by breaking through
the ice.
w. z. Bentley, a prominent lawyer,
and A. b. Higknight fought a duel at
London Depot, KY, over politics, and
both were killed.
In a street fight at Warrior, Ala,
George Farley, aged II, fatally shot his
| father and man named Strickland.
The New York State Mutual Fire In
surance company, with headquarters in
New York city, went into the hands OF
a receiver.
Surgeon General Tyron, in his annual
report, calls attention to the number of
| casualties at the Naval academy result
| ing from the present method of playing
football, and recommends that unless
| the rules be materially modified rival
| games be prohibited.
Charles Shabel, of Rochester, N. Y,
lowered the worlds bicycle road record
| for 200 miles from IL: 1:5S:30 to IL: 46 5S.
August \. Hanson, of Minneapolis,
in C. 24hour bicycle ride made 375 miles,
the best previous record being 367 miles,
held by Hueblin.
The Dickinson Hardware company,
one of the largest business concerns in
Little Rock, Ark, failed for $150,000.
Upon assurances that Corbett and
| Fitzsimmons would leave Arkansas the
peace warrant cases against them were
dismissed.
The stable at the Dorrance mine near
| Wilkesbarre, Pa, was burned, and Is
mules were cremated.
Marsh fires that have burned for six
weeks underground in Jefferson and
Waukcsha counties, Wis, have de-
stroyed the fertility of hundreds of
acres of valuable land for half century
| to come.
Henry IL. Holmes was convicted in
Philadelphia of murder in the first de-
gree for killing Benjamin +. Pitzel. a
motion for a new trial will be made on
the 18th inst.
The village of Arcadia, Ia, with the
exception OF one store, was destroyed
by fire.
Marsh fires broke out in several places
in Porter county, Ind, and hundreds OF
acres of land were burned over.
~ passenger train on the Southern
Pacific road went from New Orleans TO
san Francisco in three days, two hours
and As minutes, the fastest time ever
made in the history of railroads over al
equal distance.
a sweat-shop building in New York
was burned and four persons perished
in the flames.
An express train on the Baltimore &,
Ohio road was ditched at ELM Grove, w.
Va, and two persons were killed and 35
were injured.
The town of Walcott, Mimi, was near
iy destroyed by fire, the loss being $780,
600.
Two passenger trains collided al
Edgeworth, Mass, and John Flaherty
was killed and 70 other persons were in
jured and large amount OF property
destroyed.
At the Crow Creek reservation neal
Huron, s. D., the ST. Stevens Indian
mission was burned.
John d. Rockefeller gave $3,Oo0,0oO
more to the University of Chicago,
making the total sum of his gifts to the
university $7,425,OO0,
The fifteenth annual convention OF
the American Federation of Labor will
commence in New York city Decem
ber 9.
The treasury circulation statement
shows net decrease of money in the
treasury during October of $12 ,973, $40
The total circulation in the country
was $l,59s, $50 ,316,or $22.72 per capita
based on 7O,37s,0oO population.
The president issued proclamation
naning Thursday, November 2s, al
Thanksgiving day.
Flames swept away nearly the entir,
business portion of Anchor, LII.
~ motion at Danville, Ind, for new
trial for Hev. William l.. Hinshaw, con
victed of wife murder, was overruled.
Lieuts. ID. l.. Wilson, N. j. Halpine
Houston Eldredge and Chief Enginee
Il. y. Magee were placed on the retiret
list OF the navy.
Simpsons cotton mill at Morristown
Pa, erected Us years ago and owned b,
Dean d. Mitchell, was destroyed by fire
Loss, 100000.
President Cleveland appointed james
b. Angel, of Michigan; John l.. Russell
OF Massachusetts,, and Lyman L. Cooley
of Illinois, as commissioners to make in
quiry and report upon the feasibility o
IA deep water canal between the grea
lakes and the Atlantic ocean.
A fire that broke out in the Power
grand opera house destroyed an entir
block in the business center of Decatur
, ILL.,, the total loss being 100000.
The visible supply of grain in tn
, United States on the 4th was: Wheat
90 $50, 900 bushels; corn, 4S5i. 900 bush