Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-22
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


c. L. WOODBRIDGE &c Co.. importers
of dress trimmings, buttons, ETC., in
New York, failed with liabilities of
5000, 900.
THE Milford savings bank at Nashua,
n. H., closed its doors. > -
A WASHINGTON dispatch says that
the exports of breadstpffs during May
amounted to S11 ,so9, ,697, a gain of ST.
Ooo,o over May last year. For the
last eleven months, however, there has
been falling off of over S52, 800, 900.
The chief of police of Youngstown,
O., issued orders for the closing of all
places of business hereafter on Sunday.
JAMES Brock, aged 92. and his wife,
aged 90, passed through Pineville, KY.
on foot, en- route from Harlan to Jack
son county, tramp of 100 miles. They
have been married seventy-two years.
LEE HARRIS and Ben Mitchell, col
ored highway robbers and murderers,
were hanged at Birmingham, Ala, for
killing Pleasant Merriwether, a gro
ceryman.
AT Mankato, Mimi, the Cassidy
Packing company made an assignment
with lia bilities of 100000.
SEVERE hailstorms swept the central
and northern parts of Iowa, doing
great damage to crops.
THE silver convention completed its
labors at Memphis, Tenn, by the
adoption of series of free-coinage
resolutions and providing for ma
tional campaign of education"
GEORGE ANDREWS, n negro wife MUIR
derer, was hanged at Belvidere, n. ].
THE United States cruiser Raleigh
left New York for Key West, Fla, to
take up patrol duty on the Florida and
gulf coasts in the endeavor to prevent
Cuban filibustering expeditions.
The Distilling & Cattle Feeding
company, known throughout the
length of the land as the whisky trust,
was declared by the Illinois supreme
court to be illegal.
ROBERT McCALLUM, aged 10, left New
York for Queenstown in 19-foot boat,
with dog for his only companion.
He will receive s., 900 if he gets across
In forty-fve days,
JOHN LAWSON, the Terrible Swede,"
broke the worlds bicycle record for
miles, going the distance in Chicago
in 11:33 2-5.
ONE DOLLAR was paid for cash wheat
In the st. Louis market. 1t consisted
of q carload of the new wheat of the
1896 crop, raised in Missouri
THE formal transfer of the island of
Formosa to Japan was announced in q
cablegram from the Japanese foreign
Office to the legation in Washington.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND signed an or
der prepared by the civil service COM
mission whereby 1000 positions in the
government printing Office are put
within the classified service.
THE Western Manufacturing COM
pany at Lincoln, Neb., failed for $780,
600.
A TRUST was formed in New York
having for its object the entire control
of the wood pulp papermaking indus
try of the United States.
HAL POINTER (2:O41f) and Mascot
Goa will pace two races, best three
heats in five, at the grand circuit
meeting in Buffalo, n. Y, in August.
/. ID. HANCOCK, who killed his wife at
Fort Valley, Ga, cremated himself in
his own house.
THE National Brewers association in
session at Milwaukee elected Leo
Ebert, OF Irontoh, o., as president.
A. S. MOORE, former employe of In
man, Swan 81 Co., of New York, was
said to be defaulter to the amount of
100000 .
OVER forty houses and barns were
blown down by a cyclone near Carney,
o. T., and Alfred Dodge, farmer, was
killed.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 14th aggregated
81, o33, ,OlO, 496, against 81, ,13l, 6s5, ,552 the
previous week. The increase, com
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 2l.S.
THERE were PAL business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the l4th, against 195 the week
previous and 232 in the corresponding
time in 1894.
LIGHT OF THE WEST, an imported stall
lion valued at $4,000, owned by Bur-
CESS Bros, died ut Lacon. III. The
horse took first premium at the Worlds
Columbian exposition.
BY the explosion of the boiler in
Henry j. Langley's loom and harness
factory at Fail River, Mass, four per.
sons were killed and two fatally hurt
PHILLIP GOODWIN (colored) was
hanged at Mobile, Ala, for the murder
of John Poole.
W. II. JOHNSON, the defaulting ex'
auditor Of Muscatine county, Ia, who
absconded after robbing the county
funds of 1000, has been located al
Honolulu, Hawaii.
The director Of the mint, r. e. Pres
ton, estimates the worlds production
of gold for the calendar year 1894 al
$1sl, 100000, against $15s, $4,000 fol
1s93 showing an increase during the
year of $22, ,B74,O00. s"f
NEARLY all the timber on the Craw'
ford, Hart and Harrison tracts neaI
Elkins, w. Va, was destroyed by for
est fires, the loss being over 100000.
OWING IN a lack of commercial bu ST