Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-22

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failed for $125,000 and the Consolidated
Iron and Steel company failed for
$125,000.
| A terrific rain and windstorm in
eastern Iowa did immense damage to
| buildings and crops.
While bathing in Dog river, near
Mobile, Ala, Viola French, Margaret
| Curry and Arthur Walker were
| drowned.
In a quarrel at Little Sandy, Ky.,
two Harrison brothers and two Whit
brothers were killed.
During the week ended on the 18th
there were 651 deaths from sunstroke
in New York city.
Fire in the business district of Rock
ford, ILL.,, destroyed property valued
at 100000.
Alois Dinkleman, aged so, shot and
| killed his wife in New York, and then
committed suicide. He was demented
over the loss of property.
Fifteen persons were killed and ten
| injured by cyclone which swept over
Augustine, Ala.
Two men were shot and killed and an
other man was mortal1y wounded at
the annual convention of the national
party in the Cherokee nation, near Tah-
lequah, /. T.
The Farmers Loan & Trust company
of New York has filed suit in the
United States circuit court at San Fran
cisco to foreclose a $4,000, 900 mortgage
executed in its favor in 1889 by the Ore
gon Improvement company.
Frank Jacobs, an aeronaut, lost his
life at Quincy, ILL.,, while making an
ascent, his balloon bursting when about
| $50 feet from the ground.
Lightning struck the state university
building at Quincy, ILL.,, setting it On fire,
and destroyed property valued at many
thousand dollars.
BY the collision of a trolly car and fire
engine at Buffalo, n. Y, one fireman
was killed and six others seriously in
jured.
A sea turtle weighing 1880 pounds
was captured off Cape Cod by the crew
of the mackerel fishing schooner Min
nehaha, of Swampscott.
At Troy, S. c., the boiler of Taft's
sawmill exploded, killing five men and
injuring four.
During severe storm which swept
over central Virginia many fatalities
from lightning were reported and much
valuable property destroyed.
While 25 workmen were engaged in
tearing down Music hall, four-story
structure at Eau Claire, Wis, the build
ing collapsed, killing three men and in
| juring Is others, some of whom will die.
Three men were killed, ten or more in
iured and several buildings demolished
by the explosion of 25 pounds of dyna-
mite at New Holland, Pa.
BY the death of a farmer known as
Marion Elston. who had lived near st.
Joseph, Mo-, for 25 years, it was dis
covered that the deceased was a woman.
The recent dry, hot weather has cut
the cotton crop in Georgia off at least
one-third.
Four weeks ago there was not q
house or inhabitant at Mena. Ark To
day, on the commencement of second
month, there are over 5000 people, 20
business houses completed and many
residences finished.
Frank Horey's barn was burned at
ST. Paul, Mimi, and "a horses were Gre
mated.
Emig's Grove camp meeting ground
near York, Pa, was visited by fire and
the five double cottages, large taber-
nacle and dining hall were destroyed.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
45,S76, 900 bushels; corn, 1880, 900 bush
els; oats, 7,279O00 bushels; rye, 1896
600 bushels; barley, 612,oOO bushels.
Carl Schmidt, a pioneer citizen OF
Atchison, Kan, blew his head off with
n shotgun because the Missouri river de-
stroyed his farm.
From official information received by
the treasury department from 81 coun.
tries the coinage of silver during the
calendar year 1895 amounted in the ag
gregate to $l13,672 200.
The president will receive Ii Hung
Chang August 81. Ii will not go tc
Gray Gables, nor will the reception take
place in Washington. 1t is probable
that it will occur in New York.
While bathing in the st. Joseph river
at Niles, Mich, George Goddling, aged /:
years, and Martin Flanagan, aged 16
were drowned.