Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-02-23
DOMESTIC.

FLAMES in the Denig & Ferson block
at Columbus, o., caused a loss of $780,
O00
ALFRED KELLEY, a retired real estate
dealer at Columbus, o., failed for $780,
000
MEASURE providing for the construc-
tion of new federal building at Chi
cago was signed by President Cleve-
land.
FIRE in Salt Lake City destroyed
buildings and merchandise to the ex-
tent of 100000.
THE Alabama legislature passed
bill to abandon the convict farm and
return convicts to the mines.
JOINT resolution in the Kansas
Legislature for a constitutional conven-
tion was defeated in the house.
DoHERTY & WADswoRTH's silk mill,
one of the largest in Paterson, n. j.,
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
100000.
AN old negro named Jordan and his
wife perished in a fire at Galveston,
Tex.
BY an explosion of natural gas
George II. Cutler, of Meadville, Pa,
w as hLliSis anu IllS VIE. lO-yc
son. and Katie Stack, domestic. were
probably fatally burned.
A NEW labor organization was formed
at Columbus, o., to be known as the
Independent Order of the knights of
Labor. 1t starts out with 10000 mem
bers.
FIVE men were seriously injured by
the collision of trains in tunnel on
the Castle Shannon road near Pitts
burgh, Pa.
GEORGE b. HARPoLE and Casey Greg
ory, of Fairfield, H., We're asphyxiated
by gas in a hotel at Springfield, Ill.
CHURCH women who began a crusade
by singing and praying in Sioux City
Qa.) saloons were roughly used by the
hangers ON.
MRS. FRANK JONES and two children
were burned to death in their house
near Drennon Springs, Ky.
THE heaviest snowstorms ever known
in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama were
reported.
PHILIP MARTIN, a negro boy of 1S
years, was hanged at Kansas City for
killing Eli Stilwell, Il laborer who
jostled him while drunk on the street
on the night of July4, 1898.
The Black diamond coal mine at Be-
vier, Mo-, was flooded with water, and
the $50 miners narrowly escaped with
their lives.
THOMAS X. GEORGE of Ecllerty. Ind,
died of heart disease. His 6-year-old
daughter died of grief, and both were
buried in the same coffin.
A CAPITOL removal bill was killed in
the South Dakota senate by vote of
20 to 10.
BEN WARD (colored) was sentenced at
Newark, o., to twenty years impris-
onment for criminal assault ON "a
woman.
CHARLES ANDREWS, aged 12 years, was
so worried over failing to pass the eX-
aminations in a Cincinnati school that
he took paris green and died.
TENNESSEE, Alabama, Mississippi and
Arkansas were experiencing the most
severe and protracted season of cold
weather ever known in that part of
the country.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
$S24, ,416, 4s0, against S970, ,305, ,0i0 the
previous week. The increase, compared
with the corresponding week in 1894,
was 81.
The Minnesota house has adopted a
resolution looking to the removal OF
the state capital from st. Paul to Min
neapolis.
THERE were 270 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 2Sl the
week previous and 393 in the CORE
spending time in 1894.
The navy department was advised
that the war ships Charleston and York
town were rescuing American mission
aries at Che Foo.
THOUSANDS of cattle and sheep have
been frozen to death on the Montana
ranges and it was feared that many
human lives had also been lost.