Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-13

in days hours ana Ia minutes, break /
ing all previous records.
At the national convention in Terre
Haute, Ind, of the Travellers Protective /,
association John A. Lee, of St. LOUIS,
was reelected president.
The Henry Bill Publishing company
at Norwich, Conn, which published
James G.. Blaines Twenty Years in
Congress-" failed for $4,000.
At Shelbyville, Ind, Lee, Edward and
Theodore Skotsli, brothers and we'll
known young men, quarreled during a
drunken spree and Lee killed his two
brothers.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 9th were as follows: Cleve-
land, .639; Baltimore, .634; Cincinnati,
.t19; Philadelphia, .619; Boston, 575;
Washington, .513; Brooklyn, 500; Chi
cago, ASS; Pittsburgh, .474; New York.
.439; st. Louis, .2o3; Louisville, .220.
A terrific hailstorm destroyed thou
sands of acres of fine growing corn in
southern Kansas.
Thousands of cows, mules, horses,
sheep and hogs were dying in northern
Louisiana from the bite of fly.
The house of George Cradens, a farm
er. living near Ramsey, Ind, was de-
stroyed by fire and his wife and son,
aged l3, were cremated.
Steve Shamarian, aged So; his son
Benjamin. aged 10; and daughter,
Kueen, aged 80, were murdered in their
home near Fresno Cal.
Trees were uprooted in the southern
portion of Chicago, cellars flooded and
lawns, gardens and streets damaged by
terrific rain and windstorm.
NJ. ]. Atkinson, of Clear Lake, Yer
non Gait, of Albert Lea, and Roy c.
Slosson, of Northwood, were drowned
at Nora Springs, Ia, while bathing.
They were all members of the senior
class of the Nora Springs seminary.
Sidney j. Farver, a well-known plant
er. and four mules. were struck by light
ming and instantly killed near puscn,
La, and Adam Hoffpauer and another
man were fatally injured.
A storm which swept over south
western Minnesota resulted in the kill
ing of four persons, the drowning of
many hundreds of sheep, cattle and
hogs, and did damage to property to
the extent of over $300,000.
Cullen and Robert Wilson and Carl
Fry, all aged about 12, sons of prom
inent farmers, were drowned near
Marengo. Ia, by the caving in of a
river bank.
Four boys were drowned at Leaven-
worth, Kan. during cloudburst. Two
were sons of Michael Desmond, a con-
tractor, and the other two were sons
| of Dennis Cummings.
While temporary insane Mrs. Hannah
Kock, the wife of bricklayer, drowned
her two-year-old daughter and then
drowned herself in Chicago.
John w. Hay, assistant editor of the
Journal of Commerce in San Francisco,
was shot and killed by Mrs, Nina Mac
dougall, with whom he had been living,
and the woman then killed herself.
While attempting to arrest band OF
whisky peddlers in the Usage nation in
Oklahoma Marshal C. N. Dugger and
Deputy Marshal J. Boyle We're killed.
A tornado struck Mexico, Mo-, causing
destruction to houses, barns. trees and
crops.
William Gay was hanged at Helena,
Mont. for the murder of William Macke
in 1898. He protested his innocence to
the last.
An unknown man, supposed to hail
from Buffalo, lost his life by going over
the falls at Niagara Falls, Ny.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the sth was: Wheat
5o,147 900 bushels; corn, 9,S67,OOO bush
els; oats, s,315,OOO bushels; rye. 1,541,,
600 bushels; barley, 1000 bushels.
The 2Sth national sangcrfest of The
North American Sangcrbund was for
mally opened at Pittsburgh.
Later advices from the recent storm
in Nebraska say that scores of low
lying farms were flooded, thousands o,
dollars worth of live stock, farming
implements, etc, were swept away ant
one of the prettiest and richest valleys
in Nebraska was a scene of destruc
ton and desolation.
An explosion at cement works neal
Kingston, n. V, killed three men ant
fatally injured three other men.
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