Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-06

A hurricane in Indiana did immense
damage at Elwood, Lapel, Alexandria,
Middletown, Muncie, Franlkton, Lin
wood and Yorkton.
Three hundred feet Of the roadway OF
The Northern Pacific railway sunk in
Bumars lake near Aitlsin, MINI.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
In the National league for the week
ended on the 3oth ult. were ms follows:
Cleveland, Gas; Baltimore, .629; Cincin.
natl GIL; Philadelphia, Gil; Boston,
.5ss; Pittsburgh, .563; Chicago, .4S6;
Washington, All; Brooklyn, All; New
York, 400; st. Louis, .314; Louisville
.229
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 30th ult. aggregated
S017, ,269, 1858, against $o91 500 ,o29 the pre-
vious week. The increase, compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
was 1910.
There were 239 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 3oth ult., against 227 the
week previous and 215 in the correspond
ing period of 1895.
Fire destroyed H. j. Bohman's livery
stable in New York and 40 horses were
cremated.
Decoration day was generally OBJ
served throughout the country.
Kate Niernay, Mabel Walter and Liz
zie McKeon were drowned in the Hap-
lem river at New York by the upsetting
of boat.
BY the premature explosion of powder
at Waterloo, Ia, Fred Burmester and
julius Burmeister We're fatally injured.
The emigration from German ports
to the United States has been heavier
during the past fiscal year than for
years past, especially from Russia and
Hungary.
In dispute over mineral claim at
Browns Park, Utah, Matt Warner shot
and killed four men.
The government customs receipts for
the month of May We're S10.049,9T3,
against $12,474,55s in May, 1895. The
deficiency for the year was $26, ,s7o.4
j. Z. Jenner & Co., dealers in whole
sale millinery in Milwaukee, failed for
$150,OOO.
At Chelsea, Mich, Emma Morelsel
was shot and killed by her fiance, Fred
Hydloff, who then shot himself, but not
fatally. jealousy was the cause.
Many buildings were wrecked at
Seneca, Mo-, by cioudburst and 25 per-
sons were drowned.
The Garfield statue, the gift of the
Fairmount Park Art association, was
unveiled in Philadelphia by Harry Gar
field, son of the martyred president.
Three principal real estate dealers
state that they have figured that the
actual real estate loss in st. Louis by
the cyclone will not exceed $12 ,OOO,O 900.
The United Elevator company of ST.
Louis was placed in the hands of re-
ceiver with liabilities of $2.0OO.OO0.
George Mock killed his wife at Marys-
vile, Kan, and then took his own life.
quarrel was the cause.
A sloop capsized near Norfolk, W.,
and six colored persons were drowned.
The coinage executed al the United
States mints during May aggregated
S4,6s3, 500, as follows: Gold, $2,s57 200;
silver, $1,S26.4oO. of which $1,5Oo,oco
was in standard silver dollars.
A treasury statement shows govern
ment receipts for the IL months of the
fiscal year were $2o9, ,So4, ,S06; eSpendi-
lures. $326, $50; deficit, S26,9S1, ,S74.
Floods throughout southeast Kansas
destroyed thousands of acres of crops.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed that the debt increased
S5,1ss,73O during the month of May.
The cash balance in the treasury was
SS65, ,0O2, JOG. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to 81 ,22O 500, ,61O.
Tennessee, the third state added 10
the original 13, celebrated her 100 years
of statehood on the exposition grounds
at Nashville.
The people of Johnstown, Pa, OBJ.
served the seventh anniversary of the
great flood in that city in which $500
persons perished.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 1st was: Wheat,
5O,34O, 900 bushels; corn, S,950,000 BUSH
els; oats, s,3O3.0OO bushels; rye, 1885,.
600 bushels; barley, s57, 900 bushels.
The wholesale dry goods house Of
Wolff G. Sharp at Macon, Ca, failed fol
S25O,000.
Five miners were fatally roasted by
an explosion of gas at the Buck Ridgl
colliery near Shamokin, Pa.
At Columbus, Ga, Jesse Slayton an6
| William Miles, both colored were hanged
by mob for assaulting white women.
In the recent cyclone 16 persons los
their lives in Missouri towns adjoining
st. Louis and 46 in Illinois towns, {
total of 62, and property valued at So,
| 100000 was destroyed.
Thomas Allen, a wealthy stock dealer
and Wallace Riley, prominent citizen
| engaged in a duel in front of the post of
flee at Lebanon, Ind, and Riley was in
stantly killed. The runaway marriage
of Aliens son and Riley's daughter wa
| the cause.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Vermont democrats in convention a
Montpelier nominated j. Henry Jack
son, of Barre, for governor. The plat
| form ip6nrcas preci1npt r1ayolan6 a m,