Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-02-16

was hanged at Birmingham Ala.
MILLIONS of dollars worth of orange
and other fruit trees have been de
stroyed in Florida by the intensely cold
weather.
NORTHERN mud southern men were
said to have combined to press French
spoliation and war claims to the amount
of 81 ,000,O 900.
The residence of Nels Hanson, a set.
tier near Brainerd, Mimi, was burned
during the parents absence and two
children were cremated.
THE steamer Cyclone blew up in the
st. Frances river at Forest City, Ark
and eight persons were killed.
MARGARET Cook, who died at Colum-
bus, o., was aboard Fulton's steamship
Clermont when its initial trip was
made in 1907.
Four men digging out snow-bound
train near Lucknow, Pa, were run down
and killed by belated express train
INTENSELY cold weather still pre-
vailed throughout the country and
many persons in various localities were
frozen to death.
j. X. CUMBERLAND, who killed James
Robertson and his son Jasper, was
hanged at Fort Madison, Ia.
A TIDAL wave swept the North At
lantic coast, carrying away hundreds
of houses and causing great loss of life.
UNITED STATES officers discovered
that Italians had flooded the coke re-
gions of Pennsylvania with bogus
money.
NINE fires in one day in Newark, N.
j., caused a total loss of Sl25, 200.
The Union station at St. Joseph.
Mo-, completed in May, 1882, and which
was used by all the railroads entering
the city, was laid in ruins by fire, the
loss being $4,000
A EULoGY of Isaac NJ. Turner was de-
livered by his widow at the funeral at
Grand Rapids, Mich.
CHARLES PAYNE and Richard Laws.
young business men, were run down by
an express train and killed at rail
way crossing near Brownstown, Ill.
For the first time in thirty years the
Delaware river between Philadelphia
and Camden was frozen solid from
shore to shore.
Two CHILDREN of William Cassidy.
living near Brazil, Ind, were burned
to death, their clothes catching fire at
a CRATE.
DISTRESS in the mining regions of
Ohio was said to be increasing. and
hundreds of men, women and children
We're threatened with starvation.
OVER Sl,2OO,O00 in stakes and purses
will be distributed by western and
southern race tracks during the COM
ing season.
JAMES GRAPHICAL was convicted at
La Porte, Ind, of killing William
Jones and his punishment fixed at
thirteen years imprisonment
Two CoLoRED women, Sarah jackson
and Bette Fishback were convicted of
vagrancy at Georgetown, KY, and sold
into slavery for the period of six
months.
LIFE savers succeeded in rescuing
two of the crew of the schooner Louis
V. Place. ashore at Point of Woods, n.
Y. The other seven were drowned or
frozen to death.
HE Crescent tobacco warehouse and
a woodenware factory were burned at
Louisville, KY, the loss being Sl75. 600.
w. D. EDWARDS rode mile on a BIZ
cycle at Livermore, Cal, in l:3416, a
new worlds record
EX-PoLIcE OFFICERS MORAN AND
HEALY were convicted in Chicago of
the murder of Swan Nelson and their
fixed at fourteen Years
imprisonment,
The schooner Clara +. Friend, of
Mass, was wrecked near
Liverpool n. S., and her crew of ff-
teen men were drowned.
FIFTEEN firms were burned out by
fire in Ottawa, Kan, the losses aggre-
eating 100000.
TWELVE oyster sloops were wrecked
and from twenty to thirty lives lost in
the Chesapeake during blizzard.
AT Dinsmore, Fla, John Thomas
with his wife and two chill
iren, were instantly killed by the fall
ng of log shack in which they were |
sleeping.
JOSEPH COURIER fatally shot his wife |
while she lay asleep in bed at Newark,
\. j., and then committed suicide.
jealousy caused the act.
The doors of the Bank of Superior,
Neb., were closed by the state bank
CYRUS BUssEY, eX-assistant secretary
Of the interior, was run over by a
sleigh in Washington and badly hurt.
The report of the bureau of statistics
on the foreign trade of the United
states for the calendar year 1894 shows
that during that year our commerce
With foreign countries fell below the
mark.
Mrs. WILLIAM SIEFERT, while tenn
porarily insane, drowned her two chill
lren and herself in the Ohio river at
Pa.
Four MILLION acres of Sioux Indian
reservation land in South Dakota were
.hrown open for settlement by pur-
;hase at fifty cents an acre.
GEORGE w. SToUT's wholesale grocery
at Indianapolis was de-
'troyed by fire, the loss being S1l5, 1000.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made
% hold up Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe