Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-07-04
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

The Collins Manufacturing company,
makers of all sorts of road vehicles Mt
jackson, Mich, failed for S240,0o0
Rebecca Sutton, housekeeper at Hiff's
hotel at Hampton. N. j., after quarrel
shot and killed Martin Reed, her para
mour. aud then shot herself.
In the four-oared freshman boat race
at Poughkeepsie, n. y, Cornell won,
Harvard second, Pennsylvania third,
Columbia last. Time, 10:0S.
The Security savings bauk at Win
chester, n. H., and the Hinsdale savings
bank at Hinsdale closed their doors.
Miss Anna Putnam. Miss Bessie New
hall and John U. Putnam, all of Mime
apolis, and young man named Shcr-
man, of ST. Paul, were drowned at An
mandate by the upsetting of n sailboat.
The Falls Rivet and Machine COM
puny, the largest and one of the Oldest
manufactures at Cuyahoga Falls, o.,
failed for S37S.0OO.
James J. Corbctt and Thomas Sharltey
have agreed to meet in finish fight for
$4,000 n side within six months.
A wiudstorm at Atlantic, IA, blew
down the 4mphitheater and floral hail
on the Cass county fair grounds and did
great damage to crops in the vicinity.
During cloudburst near Marietta,
o, houses were swept away, stock of all
kinds drowned, and crops were ruined
Oh the Little Muskingum for 20 miles,
cansing a loss of hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
MIS-. Bierner, wife of a farmer near
San Antonio, Tex, drowned herself
and her three children, ugeJ two, four
ard six years. No cause for the act
was known.
Si:, thousand Sioux, the remnant of
the most powerful lighters of the Amer
lean Indians, celebrated at the scene of
the massacre the great event in their
war history-the Goth anniversary Of
the destruction of Clusters command
on the Little Big Horn, June rs, 1876.
At Crestou, Ia, fences chimneys,
dead walls and outbuildings all over the
city were leveled to the ground by
tornado.
The general crop outlook throughout
the west and northwest was said to be
never better or more promising than at
the present time.
During the first six months of this
year 7SS miles of new railroad have been
built in 30 states and territories on 81
lines, an increase of about 20 per cent.
over the first six months of 1895.
John Phillips and Jacob WjeruIe,
miners at Belt, Mont, were killed and
their bodies blown TO atoms by a pre-
mature explosion.
The following executions took place:
AT Canyon City, Col, Thomas Colt. El-
bert Noble and Dominica Romero, who
killed Policeman John Solomon in Trim
idad; mt Washington, Irving L. Ford
(coloredD, for killing Elsie Kreglo; at
Marshfield, Ore, Carl Albrecht, for the
murder of his wife; at Elkton, Nd,
james II. Truss, for killing Thomas
Camp; at Mariana, Ark, Arthur Taylor
(colored), for the murder of his wife.
The Harvard-Cornell-C Columbia Penn
sylvania four-mile straightaway boat
race on the Hudson at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, was won by Cornell's eight in the
record-breaking time of 10 minutes 20
seconds, Harvard second, Pennsylvania
third and Columbia fourth.
1t was said that the Michigan peach
crop would be the largest on record.
In the circuit court at Champaign,
ILL.,, Judge Wright decided that the state
law requiring the national flag to be dis
played over every schoolhouse in the
state during school hours was unconsti-
tutional and void.
Charley and Richard Golden. sons of
Harry Golden. well-to-Go farmer liv-
ing near Kingston, KY, killed each
other in a quarrel.
Mrs. Irene Williamson Leonard, con-
victed of the murder of her husband,
was sentenced at Wichita, Kan, to 30
years in the penitentiary.
In cloudburst near Edwardsville.
H., two young ladies, Mary and Rose
Hurriman, of Marine, while driving
along country road were drowned in
their buggy.
Fire destroyed the two lumber mills
of Carson d Weidler in North Portland,
Ore. the loss being S300.000.
S. r. Dawson. who shot and killed
Walter Scott, his son-in-law of one hour,
last December, was sentenced in Des
Moines, Ia, to ten years in the peni-
tentiary.
There were 217 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 276 the week
previous and 256 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Fire at Point Pleasant, W. Va, de-
stroyed Hoof's opera house and several
stores. shops and dwellings, causing
loss % 100000.
1t was discovered that Stephen Leg
eza, who had served half of n ten-year
sentence for a murder committed in
Jefferson county, Pa, in 1890, was an
innocent man.
The secretary of the interior issued
his requisition for $13.325.00O to be
used in the quarterly payment of pen
sions.
The wool clip of Montana this year
was estimated at 100000 pounds.
which is several million more than ever
before.