Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-10-19

was so severe that farmers were COM
pelled to haul water for stock from q
to 10 miles, Water was selling at from
twenty-five to forty cents barrel
EX-PosTMAsrER GENERAL WANA-
MAKER, of Philadelphia, was elected
president of the American Sabbath
School association in session at Will
Transport Pa
A CALL was issued for a national
convention of colored men to meet in
Detroit, Mich, December 70 to delib-
crate upon principles and measures
important to their welfare.
IN attempting to step across the
track in front of an incoming train at
Mount Meigs, Ala, Miss Matte Muir
dock was struck by the engine and in
stantly killed.
MAzEPPA, the famous champion trick
horse of the world, valued at $40, 900,
was instantly killed in train wreck
near Waterbury, Conn, and George w.
Lusgoe, his groom, was fatally injured.
JAMES HUNTER, William Reynolds,
Harry Steiner and Charles VollSman
were drowned near Baltimore by the
capsizing of boat.
In n fight at political meeting in
Knott county, Ky, Tom Howard and
Henry Patton (democrats) and Josiah
Combs (republican) were killed.
HEAVY earthquake shocks were felt
in the central portion of the Black
Hills in South Dakota.
AN electric car in Pittsburgh leaped
from the track and went down an en-
banl1ment 10 feet high, killing four
persons and injuring twelve others.
The Masonic temple block in Du-
luth, Mimi, was burned, the loss be-
ing 100000.
j. B. BREWSTER 65 Co., manufacturers
of carriages in New York, failed for
$4,000.
AT meeting of the Massachusetts
Reform club in Boston Secretary Car
Isle spoke on finances, declaring that
the free siver coinage idea was waning
THE State bank at Everest, Kan,
closed its doors
ALBERT PETERSON, Alexander East
man, Inc Ingeson and George Payne
were suffocated in u coal mine near
Story City, la.
THE Commercial bank of Springfield,
Mo-, closed its doors with liza bilities of
$4,000.
THE farmers national congress
adopted resolution at Atlanta, Ga,
favoring reciprocity between the
United States and the South and Cen
trail American countries
Col. GEORGE MENDELL, the second
ranking officer of the engineer corps of
the army, was placed on the retired
CT Of
In the United States court of appeals
at San Francisco Mrs. Leland Stanford
won the suit against her to recover
S15, ,337, 900, alleged to be due the gov
ernment from her husbands estate on
account of Central Pacific bonds.
WILLIAM p DoNNELLY left Paw
tucket, r. l., to walk and trundle
wheelbarrow to Sacramento, Cal, a
distance of 1900 miles, in eighty-two
days on wager of 81 ZOO.
In the national conference at SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, of Congregationalists the
doctrine of the church on temperance
was declared to be total abstinence
FRANKLIN L. POPE, aged 65 years, one
of the most noted electricians in the
country, was killed by shock in the
cellar of his home at Great Barring
ton, Mass.
LEBBINs B. KING, of Lockport, n Y,
aged 53, committed suicide by jumping
over the American falls at Niagara
Falls.
THE treasury department discovered
counterfeit $40 silver certificate of
the series of 1891, check letter ID, bear
ing the portrait of Thomas A. Hen
bricks
THE Farmers National congress in
session at Atlanta, Ga, refused by
vote of 25l to 104 to adopt resolution
favoring the free coinage of silver at
ratio of 16 to l.
JOHN l.. THOMAS, assistant attorney
general for the post office department,
in his annual report to the postmaster
general says the mails are virtually
closed to all lottery concerns.
THREE bridge carpenters were
knocked from the top of a high trestle
by falling timber near Butte, Mont,
and killed.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the I4th was:
Wheat 44,lso,ooo bushels; corn, 5,37a,-
WV buohSAot NbSoi fiN~eSNNN bNohCtoj iyCb
760, 900 bushels; barley, 3,O27, 900 bush
els.
N. B. FALcoNER, leading dry goods
merchant at Omaha, Neb., failed for
Sl50,O0O.
The two pacing mares, Miss Rita and
Josie b., went mile double in 2:l216
at Lexington, KY, making a new
worlds record.
The schooner Nellie Duff sank off
Lorain, o., and Capt. Peterson and two
sailors were drowned.
REPORTS to the agricultural depart
ment in Washington show decline in
the condition of all the principal crops
except oats, rye and barley.
JACK CREWS was hanged at Denton
Tex, for the murder of the Merrill
family in 1868. He killed father,
mother and children. The hanging
was public, the crowd being estimated
at 10000.