Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-07-13
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

of being responsible for the death of
his late sparring partner, Con Riordan,
was acquitted.
The sidewalk on an old bridge SPAN
ming the st. Joseph river fell at Bristol,
Ind, carrying down 100 persons, sew
eral being fatally injured.
MARTIN RATTIaAN, just released from
prison at Shenandoah, Pa, fatally
wounded his wife, her sister and him
self.
was appointed chief of the weather bu-
reau to succeed Prof. Harrington, re-
moved.
BILL PURvIs, Griffin Hubbard and
Grant Wilson, all negroes, were hanged
at Vicksburg, Miss. They murdered
DIR. King, owner of trading boat
PART of the grand stand at the bi-
cycle races in Buffalo, N. Y, fell, in
)uring nineteen persons, three fatally.
WHITE CAPS under indictment burned
the courthouse at Center, Col, the loss
being 100000.
ILLINOIS miners last year lost 81, $685.
910 in wages through strikes and
gained practically nothing.
The village of Reddich, Ill, was near
ly wiped out by fire.
DR. c. ID. SHERWOOD, once lieutenant
governor of Minnesota and later
founder of the town of Sherwood,
Tenn, drowned himself in the lake in
Chicago while Respondent
AUGUSTUS FIELDS, of Meadowville,
Mo-, a prominent business man, muir
dered his wife and child and committed
suicide. No cause was known.
The Arrowhead hotel, one of the
noted tourists resorts of southern CAL
ifornia, was burned to the ground.
DERNBERG, CLICK & HoRNER, pro-
prietors of the Leader, one of the lead
ing department stores in Chicago,
failed for over S225, 200.
FIVE persons dead and thirty-three
injured was the record of accidents of
the Fourth of July In Chicago.
For the first time in five years all
the saloons in Atchison, Kan, were
closed, with no prospects of opening
again.
THE bureau of navigation received
preliminary returns showing that 6S2
steam and sail vessels of 132, ,719 gross
tonnage We're built and documented in
The United States during the last fiscal
year.
FANTASY defeated the great Direc-
tum in n free-for-all trot at Minneapo-
lis, going mile in 2:09.
AT the national convention in Flint,
Mich, of teachers of the deaf w.
O'Connor, of Georgia, was elected pres
ident.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 5th aggregated
S975, 1894, ,944, against S1,O10, 4S2 ,O41 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 14.9.
The Harvard bank at Cartersville,
Ga, closed it's doors with liabilities of
$27, 900.
GEORGE LAWSON while drunk fatally
shot his wife and then himself at
Springfield, Ill.
The American Strawboard works at
Anderson, Ind, the largest controlled
by the great company, were burned
the loss being S1O0,006.
Hope HENRY, young colored preach
er, was lynched by mob near Lake
City, Fla. He was charged with as
saulting a white woman.
AS A result of a riot at picnic given
by German Roman Catholics at ST.
IBERIA, Ind, three persons We're dead,
five fatally wounded and fifty seriously
hurt The riot was started by a gang
of roughs who were drunk.
CAPT. PAUL WEBB, the famous swim
mer, lost his life near Coeur d'Alene,
Idaho, in an attempt to ride down a
300-foot chute into the lake in his bar
rel.
THIRTY-sIx eloping couples from Ken
lucky were married at Jeffersonville
Ind, in as many hours.
HEAVY rains did great damage to
property near Fort Scott, Kan, and
many families were driven from their
| homes.
FOUR more deaths growing out of
Fourth of July accidents were reported
by the Chicago police, bringing the
total number of fatalities up to ten.
The Santa Rita copper and iron mill
at Santa Rita, N. NJ, was burned, the
loss being 100000.
JOHN WILLS was shot and instantly
/ anu IilS SlSIcT
at a celebration at Lincoln Ridge, o.,
by man named Upton.
THERE were 6,657 commercial failures
in the United States in the first half of
1895, with liabilities of $ss, ,s39, 944,
against 7,O39 in the first half of 1894,
with liabilities of SOL. 739, ,3o5. Manu-
featuring failures were 1854, against
1901 last year, and liabilities O,3o1,-
949 against SAL, 376, lO9 last year Bank
ing failures were sixty-three, with liza
bilities of $l6,653,276, against sixty
three last year with liabilities of $l3,-
1S4, ,46l.
JOHN W. CARTER, well-known ink
manufacturer of Boston, was drowned
while bathing at the beach at Har.
wick, Mass
JOHN CUNNINGHAM, an aeronaut, was
instantly killed at Winigan, Mo, His
parachute failed to work and he fell
l,200 feet.
THOMAS NoRvILLE (colored) was