Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-12-12
The town of Flippen, Ky., was almost

on WuS VtJsuuO,OOO, lGuNluH
domain still vacant estimated at over
oo,ooo,ooo, not including the district
of Alaska, with an area of over 9,0o0,-
COO acres.
Supervising Inspector General Du-
mont, of the steamboat inspection
service, in his annual report says that
GOn, ,UOO,0OU passengers were carried on
steam vessels during the year and that
221 lives were lost, decrease from the
previous year of 173.
Arthur Palmer, of Montezuma, o.,
and Il. l.. Godfrey, of Emlenton, Pa,
both oil men, were drowned at st.
Mary's, o.
Fred Behme was executed in Nc
Leansboro, ILL.,, for the murder of his
wife and child on Easter Sunday last.
The battle ship Texas, which cost
the government $4,125,0 900, is said to be
u complete failure.
w. L. Dupree, dealer in hardware and
agricultural implements at Waco, Tex,
failed for $25o,ooo.
An international six-day bicycle race
with 2s starters began in Madison
Square garden, New York.
LWChty -olC otolC hNC
dwellings, were burned at Shaw, Miss,
entailing loss of 100000.
The secretary of the navy, Hilary A.
Herbert, in his annual report warns the
country of the insufficiency of it's navy
for the requirements of war. There are
42 vessels in commission, and S,l65 en-
listed men and 1878 apprentices in the
navy. The department eNpending dur
ing the year $13,O02,625.
The lumber schooner Nathan F. Cobb,
of Rockland, Me-, was wrecked on the
Florida coast and three men were
drowned.
An earthquake shock was distinctly
felt at Smith Lake, MINI.
A head-end collision between two
freights on the Southern Pacific road
near Waelder, Tex, resulted in the
death of two engineers, two tiremen
md brakeman.
In navigating the great lakes during
the season now closing SO lives were
lost. Compared with previous years
this list is much below the average.
AT Hartford, Conn, William Bourke,
z years old; Josie Bourke, IL years old;
Daniel Ryan, years old, and Martin
Burns, 10 years old, were drowned while
skating.
y mob of farmers broke into the coun-
ty Jail at Lexington, Mo-, secured Jesse
Winner and James Nelson, held for the
murder of Mrs. Winner and her two
babies, and lynched them.
Blanche Bishop and Ella and John
Alpha were drowned at Hawley, Pa,
while skating.
Mrs. A. +. Gleisner, wife of glass
blower at Newark, O., shot her infant
child in the head and then shot herself.
She was thought to have been insane.
The new gunboats Vicksburg and
Newport were launched from the yards
at Bath, Me. They cost 1929, 400 each.
Mrs. Sarah Lawrence and her daugh-
ter Sophie, aged nine, and boarder
named Sawyer were suffocated by gas
in Boston.
Fire destroyed the wholesale grocery
house of B. H. Flaspoller & Sons in New
Orleans, the loss being 100000.
A mob tore down six tollgates in
Mercer county, KY, making over 300
destroyed in the state in the last three
months.
The Baxter bank at Baxter Springs,
Kan. closed it's doors.
A negro named Davis while out hunt
ing with the two young sons of his en-
ployer, Joe Williams, near Pine Bluff,
Ark, killed both the boys and escaped.
The Henry county bank at Clinton,
nlncnl SIC 1nnrc with li.a hilitiac Of
$125,00O.
The German government has lodged
an energetic protest with the state de-
partment in Washington against the
action of the president in imposing ton
mage duties on German ships entering
American ports.
The total receipts of the government
during the past year were $50, ,499, ,20s.4
and the total expenditures were $780,
62G,2o6.s4 an increase of receipts over
the previous year of $3.50, ,0S0.21, and
an increase of expenditures of $780,
124.O2.
Henry Owen O'Connor, witness in
the famous Cronin murder trial and the
39th of the persons connected with the
case to meet death, killed himself at his
home in Chicago.
Three persons were killed and ten
others more or less seriously injured in
collision on the Baltimore & Ohio
railway near Storrs Station, o.
The Union National bank of New Or
leans, which suspended payment Sep.
tember 0, 1896, has resumed business.
In his message to congress President
Cleveland, in referring TO affairs IN
Cuba, says that in spite of Spain's de-
termination to put down the rebellion
the Cubans have gained strength in
arms and men, and says it cannot rea'
scnably be expected that the present at
titude of the United States will be in.
definitely maintained.
Frederick Loveland, aged 70, the old
est and best-known guide in the Adiron
dacks, was killed by falling tree.
George Deacon, aged n years, living
near Argos, Ind, killed his wife, agec
76, and took his own life by drowning