Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-10

The Woodrough & Hapchett com
pany, one of the largest wholesale
hardware houses in Chicago, failed for
$50, 900.
THREE tramps were killed in freight
train wreck near Canton, o.
THE United States cruiser Columbia
broke all records for warships by MAX
irg the run from Southampton to New
York in 6 days % hours and 40 minutes
The special session of the Illinois
legislature adjourned sine die.
PHILLIP RouNDTREE, wife murderer,
was hanged at Hayneville, Ala.
FRANK A. MAGowAN, Trenton On.
j. millionaire, and president of several
big corporations, failed for $5O0,Oo0
NEARLY the entire business portion
of Crystal Lake, Mich, was burned.
WILLIAM p. and George Taylor were
found guilty at Carrollton, Mo-, of
numbering a man named Meeks, his
wife and two children on the night of
MAY 10 last
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the Sd were: Cleve-
land, 800; Pittsburgh, .595; Balti-
more, 500; Chicago, 500; Boston, .557;
Cincinnati. .543; Brooklyn, .543; Phila-
delphia, .53S; New York, .513; Wash
ington, .36o; ST. Louis, .321; Louis
Vile, .262
A SETTLEMENT of 200 negroes near
Spring Valley, ILL.,, was attacked by
500 white miners, many shots were
fired, and forty of the negroes were
wounded, some fatally.
SIX acres were burned over at Ber-
lin, Md. The total number of houses
burned was seventy-fve, and the loss
was 100000.
DURING a tornado along the New
Jersey coast houses were wrecked and
five persons were drowned by the cap
sizing of boats.
PROF. ELLIOTT and Mary Peak, of
Jackson, Mich. were probably fatally
injured by falling from balloon at
Vandercooll's lake resort
A TELEGRAM from Chaflevoix, Mich,
says the report that Beaver island had
been devastated by fire was hoax.
MAJ. j. I. EsTEEs, of Rutledge, Ca,
who was pursuing his eloping daugh-
ter, was killed by her lover. The
couple then proceeded to magistrate
and were married.
The Northern Pacific railroad was
the heaviest loser by fire at Sprague,
Wash, which swept over 800 acres of
territory and destroyed property val
ued at over 81. .0OO, 600
THOMAS BUT.ER and Timothy Swee-
ney were caught in a storm on Niagara
river and were carried over the falls.
CHARLES DUNLAP, general superin
tendent of the Chicago Rock Island &
Pacific railroad, died at his home in
Chicago from injuries received at the
"chutes" accident.
IN a trial of speed at Decatur, H.,
Effie Powers and Pestora Wilkes paced
a mile as team in 2:15 fiat. This
beats the worlds record one and one
half seconds.
THE Methodist church at Quaker
town, n. j., was struck by lightning
during services and a score of people
were injured, several of them probably
fatally.
ADvICEs from San Francisco expose
an alleged plot to restore Queen Liliuo-
kalani and loot Honolulu. Rudolph
Sprecllels, the youngest son of Claus
Spreckels, was said to be backing the
scheme.
THOUSANDS of persons from Ohio and
adjoining states met at Greenville, O.,
to celebrate the centennial of Gen. An
thony Waynes treaty of peace with
the Indians.
AN express train on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad collided with freight
near GAINESVILLE, O., and Fireman Will
liam Bolin was killed and Engineer
May fatally injured.
EUGENE TAYLOR, of Denver, who re-
Gently broke the worlds record in
agate composition, has now made a
new record of 10000 ems minion in
eight hours on a linotype machine
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 5th was: Wheat,
3s,517, 900 bushels; corn, 4,65I, 900 bush
els; oats, 3,754,o 900 bushels; rye, 1884,
600 bushels; barley, %, 600 bushels.
JOSEPH BINGHAM and Oliver Benway
were killed by poisonous gases while
digging a well at South Perry, o.
The levee in Cincinnati was visited
by $500, 900 fire in which one half of
the Laidley river steam boat line was
destroyed.
JOHN NJ. TRENDLEY, of st. Louis, ar
rived at Denver, Col, after an adven-
turous journey of 1900 miles on a
bicycle.
THE Citizens state bank at South
Sioux City, Neb., failed with liabilities
of $40, 900 and assets of 5000.
j. NJ. CURTIS, Kansas City horse
man, was relieved of pocketbook con-
tanning 1900 by piclpockets in Cleve-
land, o.
RICHARD LEACH was electrocuted at
Sing Sing, N. Y, for the murder of his
wife, Mary S. Leach, on December IL,
1894
HUERFANo COUNTY, Col, was attract
ing attention on account of important
discoveries of tin ore.
r. ID. MARSHALL, of Chippewa Falls,
was appointed judge of the supreme
court of Wisconsin.
A NEW counterfeit $40 national bank
note on the First national bank of De-