Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-02-23
ApANcHER named August Renn shot

died in New York, aged 10 years. She
weighed but eight and half pounds
and was only II inches tall.
The Bank of Lexington at Richmond,
Va, closed it's doors with liabilities of
S71 900.
THE Westchester temporary home
for children near White Plains, n. Y,
was burned, the 200 inmates escaping
in scant attire.
A BOILER exploded in sawmill near
Towanda, Pa, killing Theodore Pencil,
fireman, and John Mack, teamsser.
A LOCOMOTIVE went into the river at
Rhinecliff, N. Y, and Engineer j. ID.
Donohue and Fireman Reed were
killed.
The Waters-Pierce Oil companys'
warehouse, containing 100000 gallons
of oil, was burned at Dallas, Tex.
Ex-MAYoR GILRoY and other city of
ficials were indicted by the grand jury
in New York.
THE grand jury in Brooklyn, n. Y,
returned twenty-seven indictments
against strikers for rioting, throwing
bricks at cars, cutting wires and for
other acts of violence.
DIR. WILLIAM e. DYAs, aged 81, for
thirty years a leading practitioner of
Chicago, stepped in front of an engine
on leaving a suburban train and was
killed
ID. II. CHAPMAN, democratic chal-
lenger, was found guilty of conspiring
to keep voters from the polls in Chica-
go and sentenced to one year and six
months in prison.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, of Duluth,
Mimi, owner of large tracts of mining
and timber lands, failed for 5000, 900.
WHILE Eli Seymour and wife, of
Lewiston, Mich, were at dance their
house took fire and their three chill
dren were burned to death.
A LONE highwayman, armed with a
shotgun, held up stage near Oroville,
Cal. The treasure box was taken and
the passengers relieved of their val
uables.
A. b. NEwsoN, a member of the Ten
nessee senate, resigned, assigning the
extravaganza of the Legislature as
reason.
The Smith Point lighthouse at the
mouth of the Potomac river was car:
ried away by the ice.
JAMES FRAZIER and A. b. McQuis-
ton, of Roxford, Pa, were killed by
the explosion of boiler at an oil
well.
CYRUS BROWN. for the murder of his
wife in August, 1893, was convicted at
Columbus, Ind, and sent to prison for
life.
THREE mass meetings, attended by
at least $4,000 persons, were addressed
in Boston by Gen. Booth, of the Saliva
tion Army.
The Hebrew cemetery at Indianapo-
lis was invaded by ghouls who opened
several graves and carried off three
bodies.
ROBERT NEwBURY, of Tottenham.
Ont, shot his wife dead, wounded his
niece and then killed himself.
MADGE YoRKE, comic opera singer,
was killed by james P. Gentry, a
comedian, in her room in Philadel-
phia hotel.
KLINE w. CAMERON, IS years old,
fatally shot his wife, aged II, at st.
Louis hospital and then tried to kill
himself. Poverty was the cause.
A FIRE that caused damage estimated
at S375.000 occurred in the old Johnson
building on Broadway, in New York.
PETER OsTLUND. the skating cham
pion of Europe, defeated John S. John
son in n hotly contested 800 meter
race at Minneapolis.
SEWING MACHINE men met in Cleve-
land and decided to organize trust
with capital of 10,000,OO0
A'MoB broke into the Jail at Kingston,
Mo-, and seeking the cell of George
Tracy (colored), fired seventeen bullets
into his body.
Music HALL, the property of the Ger
man Young Mems Christian associa-
ton. was burned at Buffalo, n. Y, the
loss being 100000.
WORD from buckingham, o., and
other points in the Hooking valley
stated that the destitution was such
that the sufferers were becoming des
perate.
Phil DAWSON killed his father at
Birmingham, Ala, when the latter
was reprimanding his daughter.
CHARLES LAFALLET, arrested at the
instance of his grandfather on the
charge of theft, died from grief in the
Jail at Shelbyville, Ind.
Mrs. JANE CoURTRIGHT died suddenly
at Port Jervis, n. Y. making seven un-
expected deaths in the family in three
years.
TIE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
S0,374, COO bushels; corn, l., ,G5l, 900 bush
els; oats, 6,353, 900 bushels; rye, $4,000
bushels; barley, l,665, 600 bushels.
THE third Wyoming Legislature fin
ished its work and adjourned.
CHRISTOPHER SPEARLING, an engi-
neer at HobolSen, n. j., cut his wife's
throat with razor after u protracted
quarrel.
BY an explosion OF gas in mine at
Pottsville, Pa, six men were killed and
five injured, four fatally.
FIRE consumed the large breaker OF
William Connell & Co, at Connellton,
! Pa, the loss being 100000 Six hun.
dred persons were thrown out of EN-