Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-03-14
DOMESTIC.

fire among business buildings at
Johnstown, Pa, caused a loss of $780,
600.
At Fort Smith, Ark, sentence of death
for murder was passed upon George
Pearce, Webster Isaacs, John Pearce,
Berry Foreman and Mollie King, and
their execution set for April 25.
With the subsidence of the waters
which overwhelmed the greater part
cf New England figures of losses show
total damages of over $2,000,000. Six
lives were lost.
The 1O3d anniversary of Washing
toms second Inauguration as president
ot the United States was observed in
Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania So
ciety of Colonial Danes of America.
Throughout eastern Berls county,
Pa, for distance of ten miles, dis
tinct shock of earthquake was felt and
houses were shaken, windows ratified
and glass broken.
The Ohio Legislature has passed a
bill making Lincoln's birthday legal
holiday.
Capt. Simon Baker, Larry Seaman
William Anderson and NJ. Moguat were
drowned by the wrecking of the
schooner Willie Ann off the Florida
coast.
The National Wholesale Lumber
Dealers association in session at Sag
inaw, Mich, elected Charles Nj. Belts,
of Philadelphia, as president.
The Northwestern Normal school,
with an enrolment of 400 students
from almost every state in the union,
was burned at Stanberry, Mo.
1t was runored that President Cleve-
land would send a military commission
to Cuba to report on the condition of
affairs there.
Mcdonald & Watt, wholesale gro
GERS at Fort Wayne, Ind, made an as
signment with liabilities of 100000.
IL. c. Wllmouth pleaded guilty to
bigamy at Kansas City, Kan, and said
that in the last nine years he had mar
ried nine different women, all of whom
are living.
Students at Princeton IN. J.) college
burned i'll etfigy the king of Spain and
destroyed Spanish flag.
The date for the execution of II. FL.
Holmes, the convicted murderer of Ben
jamin Il. Pietzel and alleged murderer
OF 21 others, was fixed by Gov. Hast
ings, of Pennsylvania, who named
May Z.
Gov. Bushnell, of Ohio, pardoned JEFF
ferson Moorehead, who was convicted
27 years ago of murder and sent to state
prison for life. 1t is now thought that
he is innocent of the crime.
Daniel Talmagc's Sons, rice mer-
chants in New York, with branches at
Charleston and New Orleans, assigned
with liabilities of 100000.
In fit of Observation-Disclosures Mrs.
Bert Mcconnell, of Seville, o., thrust
$4,000 in money, notes and securities
into the fire.
o. b. MacKnight, private banker at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, failed with liabilities
of 100000; assets, $4,000.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 9th aggregated ST.
061 ,S4G,007, against 1913, 1922, ,465 the
previous week. The decrease, com
pared with the corresponding week in
1895, was 60.
There were 2S5 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 27s the week
previous and 234 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
The Bank of Frankfort, Mich, closed
its doors with Liabilities of $4,000 and
assets of 100000.
The private bank of Malachi Maynard
at Apple River, ILL.,, failed with liabili-
ties of $37, 900 and assets of $4,000.
The Wayne county (W. Va.) court
house was destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
coo. All the records were saved.
Thirty buildings were destroyed by
fire at Snow Hill, Md.