Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-10-26

THE pay-car on the Grand Rapids &
| Indiana railroad was wrecked near
Ceylon, Ind, and William Brown,
James ellison and John Matott were
killed and several others were injured.
A. j. MILLER, ex-mayor, and Henry
Clay, prominent business man, were
| drowned in the river near Canton, Mo.
FIRE in mine at Franklin, Wash,
caused the death of John II. Clover, S.
w. Smalley, John Adams and James
| Stafford.
THE battleship Indiana made her
official speed trial run over the gov
ernment ocean course at Cape Ann
and showed an average speed of 1851
knots per hour.
THE National Society of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution met at
Atlanta, Ga.
Three men, Fred Awe, Sr., Fred
Awe, Jr., and John Schmidt, while
digging a well in Milwaukee were suf-
focated by gas.
A GREAT prairie fire swept along the
Minnesota river near Rothsay, Mimi,
destroying thousands of tons of hay,
several houses, barns and granaries.
MORRIS ScHoENHoLZ, a noted fire-bug,
was sentenced in New York to forty
eight years in states prison.
DURING row at colored cake walk
near Moorestown, n. j., james Hag
gerty, negro, fatally shot Charles Nc
Kim, Mrs. Silas Vessels, George Whit
talSer and Charles Wiman. Some one
then shot Haggerty fatally.
JOHN CARR and his wife and two sons
l-.1 1,l W.
a tree falling upon them.
BY an explosion of gas at colliery
in PottSville, Pa, three persons were
fatally and six others seriously injured.
CHRIS KRAMER and his wife, an aged
couple, were found murdered in their
home at West Hancock, Mich. Robbery
was the motive.
THE mining village of Stockton, Pa,
was practically wiped out by fire.
The First national banl. of Puyallup,
Wash, made run on its depositors,
probably the first time such a thing
was ever done in the history of bank
ing.
The plant of the Northwestern Fer
tilizing company in Chicago was
burned, the loss being 100000.
TlN r. hCdL INCNduICC w 49,
lost their dwellings and barns in
prairie fire.
THE village of Riverside, Mich, was
completely wiped out by fire.
ALBERT CABLE and James Brett were
killed at Bolivar, Pa, by p. Kingsland,
a wealthy farmer, who claimed that
the young men insulted his wife.
The annual report of the commits
sary general of the army shows re-
sources amounting to 81, ,557, ,147 and ex-
penditures of 81, ,365 ,O65, leaving a bal
ance of S192, ,0s2.
AT st Louis Maud Lewis, the woman
who killed State Senator Morrissey
last winter, was found guilty of muir
der and sentenced to fifteen years in
the penitentiary.
REPORTS received at the weather bu-
reau in Washington say the present
drought in many portions of the coun-
try is one of the severest and most
prolonged known in the United States
since the bureaus organization.
SCHUYLER C. HAUGHEY was acquitted
at Indianapolis on a charge of assisting
his father in wrecl<ing the Indianapolis
national bank, which failed in 1898.
THE Corbett habeas corpus case ter
minated at Hot Springs, Ark, in Chan
cellor Leatherman granting the writ
and releasing the prisoner.
THAT portion of the city of New Or
leans known as Algiers was almost
wiped out by flames, causing loss of
from $3.50, 900 to 100000 and rendering
1000 persons homeless.
Lo
States navy were launched at Newport
News, Va. They were christened the
Nashville and Wilmington.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 21st was: Wheat,
46, 109, 900 bushels. corn, 6,479, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 1850, 900 bushels; rye, 979, 900
bushels; barley, 3,7S1, 900 bushels.
A TRAIN ran into wagon at Miller's
Station, o., killing Samuel Cogan, Sr.,
Samuel Cogan, Jr., Edward Cogan and
John Campbell.
Snow fell to the depth of % inches
at Oswego and other portions of west
ern New York.
THE sixteenth annual session of the
national conference of Unitarian and
other Christian churches convened in
NdSnluB IOn.
The presidential party left Washing
ton to attend the exposition at Atlanta,
Ga.
The session of the national conven-
tion of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union at Baltimore was devoted
almost entirely to memorial services
for twenty prominent workers who
died during the year.
The Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight was
declared off by the Florida Athletic
club. Corbett was willing to postpone
the fight to November IL, but Fitzsim-
mons would not agree to it.
FRANK LOTUS, of the Green Bay
(Wis) Athletic association, started to
walk to New Orleans in forty days on
stills nearly feet high on wager of
| 81, 800.
AT Philadelphia United States Judge
Butler held it is crime to send dun