Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-11-21

valued at 100000, went ashore while try |
ing to make the latter port. Two sail |
ors were drowned.
Henry Weyler, aged three years, and |
Mary Weyler, aged six months, were |
burned to death in their home nt Buff |
falo, N. Y, during the absence of their |
parents.
Herbert r. Ash, well-to-do farmer,
shot his wife and then hanged himself
at Lyman, N. II. No cause is known.
The exports of domestic merchan-
disc during the ten months ended 0cto-
ber 81 amounted to $762, ,s6S, ,1l3, against
S631 ,513,565 for the same period in 1895.
The imports during the ten months
amounted to $572 ,461, sos, as compared
with $6T6, 1928, ,4S3 for the same period
last year.
The racing stable of Mrs. w. E. d.
Stokes, of New York, was destroyed
by fire near Lexington, Ky, and Josie
B., worlds record pacing mare and six
other valuable horses were burned.
The gold exports for October amount
ed to $343,16s, against $1,s73,s97 for Oc-
tober, 1895. The imports were $27,96l,-
93s, against 81, 1871 ,04o for October, 1895.
The exports of silver amounted to ST.
794,339 For October, 1895, the amount
was $4,5o4,447. The imports aggrc-
gated $sSs,422; for October, 1895, they
were $1,301,s31.
The pulpits of 6s churches in st.
Louis were occupied on the 18th by dele
gates to the w. c. T. U. convention.
The electric power of Niagara falls
e., l,o AoynpI
the confines of the city of Niagara Falls
and direct to Buffalo, distance of some
22 miles, where it will be used to propel
street cars.
The commissioner general of immigra-
tion in his annual report shows that dur
ing the last fiscal year the arrivals of
immigrants in this country aggregated
343, 3,267, of whom 2,790 were sent back.
The arrivals for the fiscal year of 1894
1895 aggregated 25s,536.
The Jennings state bank at Daven-
port, Neb, was robbed by burglars of
81, 700 in cash and about 5000 worth of
jewelry.
The rivers of western Washington
were overflowing, washing out bridges.
sweeping away farmhouses and causing
great damage.
Charles Allen, a negro, was shot 10
death by a band of armed men near Nc
Kenzie, Tenn, for assaulting Bette
Seals, a white girl, aged IA.
At Glenwood Springs, Col. James B.
Spurrier, a printer, shot and fatally
wounded Miss Nina Cornell and wounded
James E. Wilson, her escort, and then
killed himself. Jealousy was the cause.
Returns from the various congression-
al districts throughout the country
show that the next house will probably
have 2o7 republicans. 1877 democrats and
Is populists.
The La Harpe bank at La Harpe, H.,
closed its doors.
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, re-
ceived notice that 100000 had been left
him in the will of j. N. Harris, a wealthy
citizen of New London. Conn.,, to be de-
voted to educational work.
Fire in the wholesale grocery house
| of Allen, Kirkpatrick & Co., in Pitts
burgh, Pa. caused loss of 100000.
SiXty-two horses were burned or suf-
located to death and one man was over
come by smoke in a fire which started
in Ira j. Niix's transfer barns in Chi
cage.
F.Carpenter, one of the largest lum-
Der dealers in Cincinnati, and d. H.
Lyons, a prominent architect, were
killed by the cars while walking on the
track.
Southwestern Michigan is flooded with
counterfeit silver half dollars dated 1885
| opl ofa hin
Andrew j. Shute was arrested in Den
yer on the charge of drowning his wife
and four children in Smiths lake.
High water in the rivers in the state
of Washington was still doing great
damage to property and number OF
persons had lost their lives, among
them being Henry Jones and his wife
and three children near Monroe.
The village of Port Bowkley, Pa, was
swept by fire, and nine families were
left homeless.
The cost of the army during the last
year was $16,074 ,4ss, an increase of $755,
sgt over the previous year, according
| to the report of Paymaster General
Stanton.
The president has appointed William
S. Forman, ex-congressman from Hi
nois, to be commissioner of interna.
revenue to succeed Miller, resigned.
Ed Williams was shot to death by :
party of miners at Carbon, Ind, for as
raulting the young daughter of Mrs
Palm.
William Campbell and Frank Barrett
aged Is years each, were sentenced tc
life imprisonment by Judge Lauder fol
numbering j. A. Brown at Oaks, N. D.
William Terrell shot and killed hi!
wife at New Haven, Conn.,, and theI
killed himself. Domestic trouble wa!
the cause.
In an interview in Washington SenoI
Depuy De LONE, the Spanish minister
admitted the possibility of war be
tween this &ountry and Spatr.
James w. Perdue, wealSt. farmer
and his 22-year-old son John were killet
by the cars at crossing near Sedalia