Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-03-21

retail urV BOOuS StoTe ol II. d. NuBent,
the loss being $150,000.
j. M. Hall was seriously burned and
his mother, aged 80, was cremated in
fire which destroyed his residence at
Harrisville, w. Va.
At Bantam, o., the residence of Val
entine Mushbacker was burned and his
daughter, aged IS, and veteran SOL
dier named Isler, who lived with the
family, were burned to death.
Miss Katie Wrinkle, prominent
young lady of Feck, Kan, and Mrs.
Meyers, n lady who tried to save her,
were burned to death by the explosion
of an oil can.
To escape arrest for embezzlement of
$4,000 government funds Frank Mapes,
postmaster at Kansas City, Kan, COM
mitted suicide.
Patrick II. Kelly, one of the foremost
men of Minnesota and for n quarter of
n century leading wholesale merchant
in st. Paul, made an assignment, with
liabilities of $l,0o0,000; assets, $1,2Oo,-
600.
-Four men were killed and two fatally
injured by an explosion of giant powder
in the Center Star mine at Rossland,
BIC.
Goods American Volunteers" is the
title by which Ballington Booths new
Salvation Army will be known.
Gov. Bradley, of Kentucky, fearing
bloodshed in the Legislature, placed
troops in the statehouse and declared
the city of Frankfort under martial
law.
South Chicago's post Office was burned
and the mails ready for delivery, to-
gether with all the Office fixtures and
stamps, were destroyed.
Albert Wallace, who murdered his
sister, Mrs. Belle Bowlby, on February
10. 1895, was hanged at Pekin, Ill.
Poolroom keepers all over the United
States were swindled to the extent Of
100000 by false reports sent out of the
result of horse race at New Orleans.
Alexander Nemettly, butcher at
Yonkers, n. Y, murdered his stepdaugh-
ter, aged Is years, with whom he was in
love, and then killed himself.
Father Dominick O'Grady, the Roman
Catholic priest who pursued Mary Gil
martin from Ireland and murdered her
in Cincinnati, has been adjudged in
sane, and will not be tried for his
crime.
Thomas Pelkilton, coachman, shot
Miss Minnie Mansell, domestic, at the
residence of Edward Mynderz in Seneca
Falls, N. Y, because she refused to
marry him, and then killed himself.
Two Italians named Taddeo, father
and son, section hands on the Lake
Shore railroad, were burned to death in
their home at Geneva, o.
The international chess match in New
York between the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland against an
American team was won by the Amer
leans.
Peck Bros. & Co., manufacturers of
plumbers and steamfitters' materials
at New Haven, Conn.,, failed for $780,
600.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
62,123,000 bushels; corn, 14,SS6,000 bush
els; oats, 7,410,000 bushels; rye, ,467,-
0CO bushels; barley, 1,353,OOo bushels.
A fire at Aetna Mills, Cal, burned the
larger portion of the town.
Crawford 81 Crawford, bankers at
Cameron, Tex, filed a deed of assign
ment with assets of about S230,000 and
liabilities of $15O,OO0.
War which seemed so imminent in the
capitol of Kentucky has been avoided
so far. Threats of violence proved mere
threats, the occupation of the state
house by the militia having met with no
resistance.
After Is years absence, during which
time he had become wealthy, George II.
Hatfield returned to Sedalia, Mo-, to
find his wife married to another man.
He quietly went his way without maxi
ing his presence known to her.
The firm of George Jardine & Son,
organ builders in New York, was wiped
out by death in three days.
The senate joint resolution directing
the secretary of agriculture to purchase
and distribute seeds, bulbs, ETC., as has
been done in preceding years, has be-
come law without the presidents sig
nature.
Flames among business houses at
Clinton, Wis.,, caused a loss of 100000.
The Ohio and Pennsylvania branches
of the new Nypano Railway company
were consolidated into one company
with capital stock of $2O,oOO,0O0.
In heated discussion in Washington
over the president Senator Pugh and
Don NJ. Dickinson came to blows.
Robert Conover and James Reef, of
Pasadena, were killed by a man named
Nicholson in fight over mining prop
erty at Banning, Cal.
twenty-five thousand persons were
idle in Chicago because of the clothing
cutters and trimmcrs' strike.
1t was announced that Secretary Car
Isle would seek the democratic nomina-
ton for president.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
In state convention at Des Moines
the Iowa republicans heartily indorsed
the candidacy of William b. Allison
for president and elected as delegates