Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-20
DOMESTIC.

DUNES IL.
The town of Wyeth City, Ala, con-
tanning 200 inhabitants. was swept away
by a cyclone and two persons were killed
and Is wounded, six of the latter
fatally.
Seventy-three young men graduated
from the military academy at West
Point, N. Y.
The 11th annual national convention
of state boards of health met in Chicago.
John Wolter shot and fatally wound
ed his two young stepdnughters in
Chicago because they refused to buy
beer for him.
lage of Topac, Mexico, and 13 persons
were killed and many others were in
jured.
Sylvester Ryan, 2s years of age, his
brother Albert. aged "a, and Patrick
Schigh, aged 40 years, were drowned at
Logan's Ferry, Pa.
Thomas White fatally shot his sweet
heart. Bertha McKelvey, at Chillicothe,
O.. and then killed himself. Jealousy
was the cause.
Being charged with forgery C. NJ.
Benson, judge of probate of Polk coun-
ty, committed suicide at Grand Forks,
n. ID.
On the race track in ST. Louis Free
Advice clipped half a second off the
worlds record for seven and one-half
furlongs, making the distance in 33h.
The r. Douglas Crockery company ut
ST. Joseph, Mo-, failed for 100000.
Frank Jahrenski, aged nine years;
Reuben S. Woodwork, aged four, and
Max Zerag, aged 12, were drowned iii
Milwaukee while boating.
Fire destroyed the building of the
American horse exchange in New York
and over 125 horses were burned to
death, the loss being 100000.
On July all the whisky distilleries in
Kentucky will close until January 1,
1898.
TIE woman city government at
Ellis, Kan, was at war with illegal
liquor vendors, and all but two vio-
lntcrs had been sent to jail.
John A. Thompson's bank, one of tine
oldest banking institutions in Johnson
county, closed it's doors at Edinburg,
Ind. the liabilities being $4,000.
George Edmunds and Gus Verdery
tWp CloLShS VI lIillS L oS-
Office, Ga, were murdered by burglars.
| Tie First national bank of Larned,
Kan, closed its doors.
Tine total appropriations of the Fifty
fourth congress. including permanent
uarual appropriations, We're $5l5.759,-
s2o.49, against $3.50, ,.33, ,205 made by the
| Fifty-third congress.
The Austrian representative in Wash
ington will henceforth be an ambassa
dor instead OF a minister.
The boiler of the Michigan salt works
near Marine City, Mich, exploded, kill
ing William Mowbray, foreman, and
John F. Haley.
George Delopg, berry picker at Ben
tor harbor, Mich, has fallen heir to
fortune OF $l5o,000 by the death of ali
uncle in The ST. Louis tornado.
The special senate committee, of
which Nh. aarris, of Tennessee, is chair
man, appointed to investigate the re-
cent sales of govei nment bonds, began
its inquiry in Washington.
The exchanges al the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
$1S7, ,SS6,5 against $957,21s,07s the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
WAS b.5.
There were 2S4 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the i2rh. against 249 the week
previous and 252 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Fifty houges were damaged by fire at
Newport, H., and the tobacco ware
house of j. NJ. Armstrong, with its con-
cents. was totally destroyed.
The bank of Palmer, Kan, was broken
into, the safe blown open and entirely
destroyed ana the cash-oox robbed OF
$I,l0O.
Leading commercial agencies in New
York repol ted trade us being very dull
throughout the country.
A fire in tenement-house in Pitts
burgh, Pa, caused the death of Mrs. u.
Garbics and her seyeAr-old son, ana
her daughter, aged 12 years, was fatally
burned.
/ Tie steamship Bermuda left Philadel-
phia with another cargo of arms and
ammunition foI the Cuban insurgents