Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-11

failures in the United States shows
4,031, with liabilities of $57,425,135,
against 3,s02 last year, with liabilities
Of $47,s13,6s3.
No. mill of the Lawrence Manufac.
turing company at Lowell, Mass, shut
down, throwing over 1000 operatives
out of work.
The statement that President Cleve-
land had written n letter declining to
bc again a candidate for the presidency
was said to be false.
A young negro about IS years old
was taken from Jail at Tupelo, Miss,
by a mob and lynched for attempting
10 assault u prominent white woman.
Richard Ringer, merchant at
Friend, Neb., committed suicide when
informed by doctors that he was af-
flicted with hydrophobia.
Wade, Davis & Co., of Plainville,
Mass, manufacturing jewelers., failed
for 100000.
The cloudburst on Little Sexton and
Buffalo creeks in Kentucky did more
damage than at first reported. Instead
of four there were Is persons who lost
their lives.
In Montcalm county, Mich, an en-
tire family of eight persons died from
using the milk of cows afflicted with
tuberculosis.
The money order transactions
throughout the United States during
the last quarter of 1895 beat all pre-
vious records in volume, the receipts
aggregating 1o5,755,971.
The Farmers bank, a private insti-
tuition started at Decatur, Ill.,, three
with liabilities of $12S,OOO assets, $751;
900.
. Arthur Bradley and Richard Ingram,
two factory hands at Haverhill, Mass,
engaged in prize fight, and as result
the latter received a blow that killed
him.
Fire in the spring department of the
Washburn & Moen Manufacturing com.
pany's plant at Quinsigamond, Mass,
caused loss of $15O,O00.
AT st. Augustine, Fla, thieves raided
several hotels during the closing days
of the season, securing gems valued in
the aggregate at nearly 100000.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, James Mahoney,
a young man who was hypnotized by
the hypnotist Santanelil, was awak
ened after sleep of five days by the
Eypnotist.
a syndicate of Pennsylvania coal
owners have made a successful expert
ment of shipping coal to Germany.
John Selman, who is credited with
having killed 20 men, was fatally shot
at Ell Faso, Tex, by United States
Deputy Marshal George Scarborough.
William and Alice johnson We're
burned to death in prairie fire near
Rich6eld, Kan.
The stables of the Buffalo (N. W
Driving park were burned and 20 horses
perished, among them being several
valuable animals, especially Ellen s.,
2:11?a, who was valued at $4,000.
At Union Springs, Ala, Charley Bur-
ton and Jordan Brown were hanged
for murder.
Mrs. Curry and her negro servant
were asphyxiated by coal gas at her
home near Lake Mahopac, n. Y.
The fire loss of the United States
and Canada Tor the month of March
shows a total of $14, ,S30, 900, being about
100000 more than in March, 1895.
Guicento and Felice Curcio and Fran
cisco Russo, Italians, We're asphyNiated
in their beds in the Hotel Torchio at
Pittsburgh, Pa, by gas which they had
turned on but failed to light.
Herr Ahlwardt, the anti-Jewish
orator, was badly beaten by mob at
IIoboken, N. j.
At Talbotton, Ga, Miss Sallie Emma
Owen, beautiful and wealthy young
lady, was shot and instantly killed by
DR.. w. l.. Ryder, a dentist, because she
rejected his suit
William Biggerstaff (colored) was
hanged at Helena for the murder of
Richard johnson, champion fighter OF
Montana.
Gov. Drake has signed the anti-cg-
arctic bill, and the sale of paper cigars
in Iowa will hereafter be prohibited.
Angered by religious differences, Ben
Roehmer killed his wife at AfcLeans-
boro, Ill.,, by cutting her throat and
hanged his six-year-old boy to the raft
ers in the stable. He is in Jail.
A cloudburst in Mulberry Gap, Tenn.
drowned Mrs. Urah Anderson, aged &c.
her daughter-in-law, Oily Anderson,
two grandchildren, Charles, aged five
years, and Hattie, aged IS months, and
Mary Fleener, aged 10.
Discoveries were made of paying
quantities of iron and sulphur at and
near Mineral Point, Wis.
Jackson w. Showalter, of New York,
won the chess championship of the
United States and purse of $3.50 by
defeating Emil Kemeny, of Philadel-
phia.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Walter l.. Weaver, of Springfield, o.,
,uac nom ina tod for con nrnSS ON HE 1O9d