Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01
DOMESTIC.

lull, * years Oiu, VI ostoEld, W, WAS
mourning the loss of $4,000. as result
of the work of two bunko workers.
A locomotive boiler exploded at South
Charleston. o., killing Engineer Trim
BILE and Fireman Waters and injuring
II other persons.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
American Red Cross society, and five
companions sailed from New York on
the American line steamship New York
for Constantinople, where she will seek
permission to enter Armenia to ad
minister assistance to the needy and
afflicted of that country.
An advance of six cents per 100
pounds On all grades OF refined sugars
was oraered by the American Sugar
Refining company. The war in Cuba
and the advance in German raw sugars
was given as the cause.
The may ors of Peru and La Sale
and the presidents of the villages of
Utica and Kangley, in Illinois, and all
the saloonkeepers in the four places
were indicted for allowing saloons to
remain open on Sunday.
Rev. Augusta Chaplin, d. D., pastor
of the First Un;versalist church IN
Omaha, and the only woman doctor of
divinity in the world, resigned her pas
torate
Jamas T. Gray, tobacconist ct Rich
mond, Va, failed for 100000.
The 2Sth annual convention of the
National American Woman Suffrage
assocla ion began in Washington, and
Miss Susan b. Anthony delivered the
address
The National Centennial Phrenolo-
gists' association will hold it's annual
convention in Chicago next May to
celebrate the Tooth anniversary of the
birth o. phrenology.
The '- eceipts from internal revenue
for tho six months of the current fiscal
year aggregate SIG, 6,sO7, ,522, decrease,
as compared with the corresponding
period of 1S94-95, of S5,O40.19S
In fire 1T the Herr's Island stock
yards ncar Pittsburgh, Fa., many cattle
were crcnatcd.
The Saratoga IN. W Racing asso-
citation decided to abandon the idea of
holding meeting this season.
President and Mrs. Cleveland gave
their annual reception to congress and
the judiciary.
In mutiny off the Andrew islands
on board the American trading schoon-
CT Maria, Capt. Brown, Mate Herman
1lohlmann and a passenger were muir
dered by the crew.
At the convention in Chicago of the
National Association of Manufacturers
Theodore G.. Search, of Philadelphia,
was elected president.
Harvey Davidson, of st. Paul, skated
two miles in 1854. lowering the worlds
championship time held by Joe DON
oghue, of Newburg, n. Y, 0 1-5 seconds.
In the lower Mississippi valley farms
and plantations were inundated by
heavy rains, fences destroyed, bridges
swept away, and the damage to proper
ty was heavy.
William Foster, Jr., engaged in New
York in the business of mining and
manufacturing. made an assignment
with liabilities of 100000.
There were 373 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
Sllueu Oh the ~f'h, dBHiHsC flS the week
previous and 363 in the corresponding
period of 1925.
Henry G. Foster, a negro, 23 years
old. was hanged in Chicago for the
murder of George w. Wells on October
A. 1895.
The National Editorial association
in session at St. Augustine, Fla, elected
X. II. Thomas, of Mechanicsburg, Pa.
as president.
W. A. Bullock lost 81 900 in bills out of
his vest pocket in Milwaukee. lie had
taken the money out of II savings bank
in 1853 SO that he would be sure oil hay
ing it.
The 18th annual meeting of the Amer.
lean FORESTRY association opened in
Washington. The object is to secure
protection for the 17,564,SO0 acres OF
forests on public lands.
John X. Cowen. of Baltimore, repre-.
sentative in congress from the Fourth
Maryland district. was elected presi
dent of the Baltimore g. Ohio railroad.
In the circuit court in Chicago Her
bert B. Gehr was awarded $40,0 900 dam
ages against the Mexican Central Rail
Toad company for false Imprisonment