Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-12-21

throws out of office large number of
men.
George Rubright, weak-minded
young man, while in church at Evans
Vile. Ind, suddenly attacked Miss Car
rie Daum and stabbed her fatally.
There were 3ss business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 324 the week
previous and $40 in the corresponding
time of 1894.
Max Goodrich, aged 35, in a fit of jeal-
GUS rage fatally shot his young wife,
Bertha, at their home in Philadelphia
and then sent bullet through his own
brain.
The secret service officials in WASH
ington discovered new counterfeit $40
United States note of the series of 1850,
with the portrait of Hamilton poorly
engraved.
BY n premature explosion of powder
and dynamite four men were killed at
La Folette, Tenn, and four other men
were missing.
The American Red Cross society has
decided to accept the duty of distrib-
uting relief funds for the Armenian
sufferers.
Steamers arriving in New York re-
reported terrible weather at sea.
Jim Nichols, (colored) was hanged
at Fayette, w. Va, for the murder of
Henry Carr during a game of craps at
Eagle, w. Va, August 81.
Oliver Hammond, his wife and three
children were instantly killed at
crossing on the Dayton &c Union rail
road seven miles from Greenville. o.
Almost the entire wholesale district
of Council Bluffs, To-, was destroyed by
fire, the loss being estimated at $780,
GOO.
Abe Taylor was hanged at Carson
City, Col, for the murder of City Mar
shall Emerson, of Alamosa, about two
years ago, while the latter was trying
to arrest him for theft.
Thirty-one buildings at Titusville,
Fla, were destroyed by fire, the total
loss being 100000.
The National Civil Service Reform
league in session in Washington re-
elected Carl Schurz, of New York, as
president.
A National Federation of Colored Men
was organized at Detroit, Mich, the
object being to assert opposition to
every species of injustice perpetrated
upon the race.
James b. Pace, president of the Plant
ers' national bank at Richmond, Va,
failed for $1,000,000.
A boulder fell upon five workmen at
Big Stone Gap, Va, killing them all.
Miss Helen Culver, of Chicago, gave
81 100000 to the University of Chicago
for the advancement of the science of
biology.
The state salt inspector of Michigan
reports that 3,G75,751 barrels were pro-
duced during the year, gain of 190,323
barrels over 1894.
The American Federation of Labor in
session in New York elected Samuel
Gompers, of New York, as president.
Secretary Carlisle estimates that it
will cost $41s s,O91, ,073.17 to run this gov
ernment during the next fiscal year.
The appropriations for the present
year made by the last congress amount
10 SAP ,753, ,264.S1.
While playing on the ice at Indianap-
oils John Horhamer, aged ten, and Otto
Greenwaldt, aged seven, cousins, were
drowned.
AL Stinson and William Davis, white
cap leaders at Anderson, Ind, were SEN
fenced to six years in the penitentiary.
At Syracuse, N. Y, Clearwater won
the pool championship of the world, de-
feating Keogh, of Binghamton.
The principal business portion Of
Bethel, n. c., was destroyed by fire.
Figures on the racing season of 1895
in the United States show that $685.
TAO was earned by horses placed in the
1862 events decided during the year.
Secretary Carlisle's annual report
shows that the revenues of the govern
ment from all sources during the last
fiscal year amounted to $390,373,203.
The expenditures during the same
period aggregated $433, ,426, leaving
deficit for the year of $42 ,S05,223. The
revenues for the current fiscal year are
estimated upon the basis of existing
laws at $431 ,90T, ,407, and the eXpendi-
lures at $44s, s,907, ,4O7, which will leave a
deficit of 100000. The burden of the
report is plea for the retirement of
the greenbacks.
A fast express train on the Erie rail-
road went down an embankment near
Coshocton, N. Y, and five persons were
seriously injured.
| An express train on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton &c Dayton road was wrecked
at Milton, o., and 81 persons were in
jured.
Fitzsimmons signed articles of agree
ment to fight Peter Maher for the
worlds championship ON February IA
near FL Paso, Tex.
Over $4,000 tailors in New York,
Brooklyn and Jersey City were locked
out by their employers.
The marriage of Miss Clara Hazel
Busch, daughter of Adolphus Busch,
the millionaire brewer, and Herr Paul
Won Gontard, prominent citizen OF
Germany, took place in St. Louis.
The German national bank at Lin