Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-12-28
DOMESTIC

Nine of the crew of the new Ameri-
can line steamship St. Paul were killed
by the bursting of steampipe in the
starboard engine-room in New York.
President Mayer, of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad company, rendered his
resignation and it was accepted.
All the 1000 coal miners in the Indian
territory went on u strike.
In the United States circuit court at
New Orleans Judge Pardee declared
that the sugar bounty law was consti-
| tutional.
John Hunter made 90 balls in contin-
uous pool ut the Plaza club in Chicago.
This beats the worlds record by eight
points.
John E. Kitzmiller, one of the best
known horsemen in eastern Ohio,
failed at Canton for 100000.
a bicycle that goes mile minute
is the invention of j. A. Ferguson, a
Cincinnati machinist.
Experiments at Duluth, Mimi, demon
strated that potatoes could be treated
and preserved in much the sume manner
as apples.
The legislature of Virginia refused to
give the governor enlarged powers to
order out troops to prevent lynching.
Rensselaer, Trip, aged 73, farmer
living near Cortland, N. Y, shot and
killed his neighbor, George Calpin, aged
45, and then shot himself.
High water did great damage in Fo;t
Scott and other portions OF Kansas.
where rain had been falling for 4u
hours.
Fire in New York caused loss of
$25O,ooo to clothing, art and plate glass
manufacturers.
a cyclone swept over the country
four miles north of Sherman, Tex.
doing immense damage.
The National Editorial association is
to meet in st. Augustine, Fla, jan
uary IA.
A locomotive with train attached
ran away near Mount Carmel, Pa, end
four men were fatally injured and nrle
others were badly hurt.
A family named Bergman, residing
in Dubuque, Ia, were notified that tney
were heirs to an estate in Australi,r
worth $1.O0O.O0o.
The ante-mortem statement of Harry
I. Hayward, hanged recently in Minnc-
apolis for the murder of Catherine
Cling, says that he took the lives of four
other persons before that of Miss Cling,
and that he never got into trouble until
he began to gamble.
Mrs. Gen. Grant celebrated the open
ing of her new home recently pur-
chased in Washington.
The heaviest rainstorm in the his
tory of Chicago flooded streets in tho
city, electric car tracks were under
water, people in the suburbs were
driven to the upper floors of their
dwellings, and the furnace fires of
hotels, residences and big manufac-
tories were extinguished by the waters.
Theodore Lambert (colored) was
hanged in the Jail at Camden, Pa, lor
the murder of William q. Kaiver on De-
cember 4. 1898.
Erastus Wiman, of New York, serv-
ing term of five years In prison OH the
charge made by II. G. Dun g. Co. of
forgery, was liberated by the court OF
appeals.
Arrests made by secret service Off
GERS in Kansas City, st. Louis and Paola,
NAH, ISsullcu III tne Seizure OF SJl,UUU
in counterfeit $40 silver certificates and
the breaking up of gang of counter
feiters.
In Washington Mgr. Satolli, apos-
tolic delegate 10 the United States, be-
came Cardinal Satoili, a member of the
sacred college of cardinals and prince
of the Roman Catholic church.
William p. Harrison. of Chicago, ar
rived in San Francisco from an extend
ed trip of the antipodes. During his
stay OH the Samoan islands he states
that 25 individuals were devoured by
the cannibals and that he narrowly es-
capped like fate.
While playing on the ice mt Indianap-
oils John Horhamer, aged ten, and Otto
Greenwaldt, aged seven, cousins. were
drowned.
American commerce celebrated the
centennial of its liberty in New York
by banquet at Delmonico's.
Collections of internal revenue for
the five months of the current fiscal
year aggregate $64.423.41s, a decrease
of $S.l24,2S as compared witk the cor
responding period Of 1894.