Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-25
TnE total collections from internal

VI bht SbA Nhi hOOu uP Rl~OsOo~yOti
an increase over 1894 of 81, ,51l, ,724.
THE grape crop in southeastern Iowa
was almost completely ruined by the
recent frosts.
IKE KING was hanged at Helenwood.
Tenn, for numbering w. A. Beck. 1t
was the first legal hanging in the his
tory OF Scott county.
The barkentine Josephine, Capt.
Mclean, from Rio Janeiro with $780,
600 cargo of coffee for Baltimore, went
ashore IS miles south of Cape Henry,
and the cargo was lost.
IT was reported that Chief Justice
Fuller had completed writing n de-
cision which upsets the income tax law
entirely and wipes it off the statute
books. The justices voting against the
tax we're said to be Fuller, Shiras,
Field, Gray and Brewer.
A RICH mica lead was discovered in
Clay county, Ala, in the foothills of
Talladega mountain.
The Vanderbilts completed deal of
gigantic proportions by the purchase
of majority of the stock of the Phila-
delphia & Reading railroad.
HEpercentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 18th were: Pittsburgh,
.6so; Cincinnati, .667; Boston, .632; Chi
cago, .615; Cleveland, .545; Philadel-
phia, .526; New York 800; Baltimore,
40; st. Louis, 400; Brooklyn, $50;
Washington, 800; Louisville, .250.
THE Wisconsin paper and pulp mill
was destroyed by fire at Stevens
Point, Wis, the loss being $500, 600.
THeRE men lost their lives in fire
at Gate City, Ala.
A FIRE swept st. Albans, VT, de
stroying dwellings, business blocks
public buildings and large amount OF
other property. The loss was $3.50, ,O0O
JAMES c. CoRBETT, Charles Williams
and George Allen We're arrested at
Denver, Col, charged with counter
feiting.
PRESIDENT WILLIAM II. THOMPSON, of
the Bank of Commerce in st. Louis, is
sued an order forbidding any and every
employee of the bank from attending
horse races under penalty of dismissal.
JERIDE SHIvERs (colored), who as
saulted young white girl near Mont
gomery, Ala, was taken to the river
by mob and drowned.
KILLING frosts were reported in fif-
teen different states of the west and
northwest.
DURING the week ended on the 18th
fires in the United States caused a
total loss of 81, ,43S, sos, against S3,O32,-
055 for the preceding week.
CHARLES, Andrew and Robert Smith,
brothers, at work in a coal mine in
Winfield, w. Va, were caught under a
fall of slate and killed.
IT was stated at the department of
justice in Washington that nothing
could be done to keep the United States
courts going as congress failed to make
An adequate appropriation.
FARMERS in Porter county, Ind,
claimed that nearly half the wheat
crop had been killed by the Hessian
fly.
SAMUEL EcHoLs, Sim Crowley and
John Brooks (all coloredl were lynched
by mob near Ellaville, Fla, for muir
dering Miss Mamie Armstrong, the
beautiful daughter of a prominent
farmer.
A CYCLONE struck near Luling, Tex,
unroofng several houses and killing
small negro boy. Crops in the track
of the storm were blown out of the
ground.
FOURTEEN mad dogs were killed at
st. Joseph, Mo-, after they had bitten
several persons.
THE Milwaukee Street Railway COM
pany, with bonded indebtedness OF
nearly s12, 200, 900, went into the hands
of receiver.
AN order was issued for the arrest of
all persons who ride bicycles on Sun
day at Babylon, L. l.
THE income tax law, after being
twice heard in the United States SUI
preme court, was finally decided by
that court to be invalid and unconsti.
tutional. The vote in the affirmative
was Harlan, White, Brown and Jack.
son; in the negative, Fuller, Field,
Shiras, Gray and Brewer.
MRS WARWICK, living near Oska'
loosa. Ia. poisoned her three children
and then committed suicide. Two OF
the children would die.
THE botanist of the agricultural de.
partment in Washington says that the
uCCICdSS III VIC value VI AZ luls
country due to weeds amounts to tens
of millions of dollars year.
HARRY HAYWARD, convicted of incit
ing and planning the murder of Cath
crime Cling in Minneapolis, will be exc
cuted on June 2l.
CRAWFORD e. VALENTINE, a stock
brokerage firm in Chicago, made ar
assignment with liabilities of 500, 900
CHARLES AIEsTER, a teamster a
Grants Pass, Ore, threw his wife into
pool of water and held her heaC
under until she was drowned.
The thirtieth anniversary of tn,
establishment in Lexington, KY, o
the first colored school south of tn,
Mason and Dixon line was celebrated
JOHN q. CARLISLE, secretary of the
United States treasury, opened the
discussion of the silver question a
Covington, KY, speaking against fret
coinage.
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