Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-16
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts,
DOMESTIC.

I1IE Locust valley coal mine near
Milan, Mo-, was burned with the build
ings and machinery, entailing loss of
Sl00,O00
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of Flora, n village in Indiana.
PEOPLE of Seattle, Wash, were hor-
rifed by the discovery of dead human
bodies in the city's main water reser-
voir.
The First national bank of Tex
arkana, Tex, closed it's doors through
inability to meet its obligations.
TIE Wingate Mercantile company at
Kansas City, Mo-, went into a receivers
hands with liabilities of $4,000
Mrs. ELIZA CowEN and three chill
dren. of Northfeld. o., were lying at
the point of death, poisoned by dried
beef.
A PASSENGER train on the Indianapo-
lis & Vincenncs railroad was wrecked
near Sanborn, Ind, and six persons
were injured.
Two BANDITS raided bank at Adel.
Ia, wounding the cashier and six
captured the other and recovered the
stolen money.
THE East Pennsylvania conference
of the United Evangelical church
adopted resolutions scoring congress
for continuing in session on Sunday.
A GENERAL strike among Pennsyl-
vania coal miners was ordered for an
increase in wages. Twenty thousand
men were involved.
THE late Fred Douglass left an es-
tate valued at 100000.
CHARLES A. DANA and William NJ.
Laffan, editor and publisher respective
ly of the New York Sun, were indicted
for criminal libel upon Frank b. Noyes,
business manager of the Washington
Evening Star.
WORRIED by his daughters marriage
troubles, John Townsend, prominent
resident of Lynchburgh, o., committed
suicide by drowning.
THREE members of the Detroit fire
department while responding to an
alarm were run down and injured by
train.
HENRY A. Wing, for thirty-eight
national bank, killed himself by shoot
ing.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw is having built
theater ear, in which a miniature per-
formance will be given on night trains
between New York and Buffalo.
THE Scatterfeld white cap gang of
Anderson, Ind, burned the barn and
stock of Isaac Goodman, against whom
they had spite.
SIX masked robbers visited the home
of George Wagner, of Exeter borough,
Pa, and burned him in an effort to ex-
tort money.
THREE hundred negroes started from
Mississippi and Arkansas to found
colony in Liberia.
THE supreme court at Washington
took up the income tax cases. Appel
lants will attempt to prove the new
law unconstitutional.
In a speech at Canton, o., Senator
PETER predicted that the populists
would be absorbed by new anti
monopoly party.
THE Missouri legislature passed bill
prohibiting pool selling and bookmak-
racing season.
Mrs. MICAH DYER, Jr., a society lead
er in Boston and member of twenty
women's clubs, flied voluntary petit
ton in insolvency. Her liabilities were
500, 1000.
JOHN l.. CLARK, of Muskegon, Mich,
wanted at Sacramento, Cal. for big
amy, was found to have at least four
wives.
JOEL MALLORY, so years of age, his
son-in-law, John Williamson, and Reu-
ben Mcbride, were killed by the cars
at crossing near st. Joseph, Mo.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Sth aggregated
81, 002, S52,773, against $770, 1O0,6s3 the
previous week. The increase. COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 6.S.
EDITOR CHARLES A. DANA, of the New
York Sun, indicted for criminal libel,
surrendered to the authorities and was
released on his own recognizance.
THERE were ga business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sth, against $50 the
week previous and 24S in the corre-
spending time in 1894.
THE Illinois legislature adopted a
resolution providing for hoisting the
national flag over the state house every
day of the year.
HARRY HAYWARD was found guilty
of the murder of Catherine Glng at
Minneapolis.
VESSELS arriving at San Francisco
reported having encountered a terrific
earthquake at sea the morning of
March 10.
THE cordage works of William Wall
g. Sons in Williamsburg, n. Y, were
permanently closed, throwing 1000
men out of work.
ACCORDING to the March report of
the secretary of state the Michigan
wheat crop for 1894 is already ex-
hausted.
THOMAS WATKINS was hanged at Lit
tie Rock, Ark, for the murder of a
man named O'Bannon. Watkins de-
clared his innocence to the last.