Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-24


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The post office at Granville, o., was
entered 10y burglars and 81 900 in stampo
and over 5000 in money taken.
/ Three firemen were killed and six
! badly injured at a fire at the chemical
warehouse of Gilmour & Co. in Montreal,
Can. The property loss was 100000.
There were 32S business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 2o6 the week
previous and 263 in the corresponding
period OF 1895.
MissRita and Josie b., Mrs. w. Il. ID.
Stokes double team, PAGERS, lowered
the worlds record from 2:12h to 2:09La
at Lexington, Ky.
| Harold Cavelle, the matrimonial
swindler, was sent to the penitentiary
| in Cincinnati for II months and heavily
| fined.
Six men were killed and one seriously
hurt by an explosion of dynamite near
| Van Buren,. Ark.
| Wheat has advanced II cents bushcl
since October 1, the closing price in the
| Chicago market on the 10th being 72A
cents.
The business portion of Cherry Creek.
n. Y, was destroyed by an incendiary
fire.
The West Michigan furniture factory
| at Holland, Mich, was burned, the loss
being S3Oo,0O0.
The Merchants bank, one of the old
est financial institutions in Atlanta, Ca,
closed its doors with liabilities of $27a,-
| 900.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated
S0o3. 1926 ,904, against $1,05s, s,l72,453 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is 14.7.
w. l.. Lee, photographer at York,
Neb., is charged with being principal
in a plot to wreck the Burlington flyer
near York in order 10 collect $4,000 ac-
cident policy on the life of A. Bissell,
known TO be on that train.
Freeman, Ives d. Co., produce dealers
| at Little Falls. \. Y, failed for $50, 900.
Northern Wisconsin experienced the
first snow of the season, two inches
having fallen at Hayward.
After paying all Its depositors the
|
closed its doors and went out of busi-
ness.
A fire in Korbel's big wine factory Mt
Eobels Station, CAL, was eXtinguished
by throwing upon it 100000 gallons of
wine.
John Walsh, of Boston, was garrotcd
in indianapolis, Ind, and robbed of ST.,
900. He was badly injured.
Fire in the Fowler paper box factory
in Los Angeles. CAL, caused a loss of
100000.
Twenty-Five freight cars with their
contents were destroyed in a wreck on
the Big Four railroad near Wellington,
o., the loss being 100000.
Secretary Lamont estimates that the
appropriations required by the war de-
partment for the next fiscal year will
amount to 52,s75.63s.
At San Jose. Cal, G. NJ. Smith broke
the worlds bicycle record for five-mile
road time. making the distance in 1920.
Cashier j. ID. Walker, of the Port
Royal Is. c. bank, absconded with
$4,000 in cash. His books show that
he is short in his accounts 100000.
Two sons of Tom Givens, aged Is and
is years, were burned to death and
their sister fatally burned in a fire
which destroyed their home near Louis
vile, KY.
Six unknown desperadoes rode into
Carney, o. T., and held up the whole
town, robbing 12 stores and the post
office.
At Stevens Point, Wis, the Polish St.
Peters church and parsonage were
burned to the ground.
Orrin d. Kinuie, aged 81, killed his
father, Daniel Kinnie, at SomervilIe,
n. Y, and then ended his own life by
hanging.
Merritt Briggs, aged 46. one of vir-
ginia's leading criminal lawyers,
dropped dead while pleading a case in
the circuit court at Suffolk.
A fire in the Hanna Paint Manufac-
turing company's store in Columbus, o..
caused a loss of 100000.
Wheat made the greatest single days
advaQce ir price on the 10Th that it has
in 20 years in Chicago, closing al 773s.
The sealing schooner ST. Lawrence,
which arrived at Seattle, Wash, Mon
day after a nine months cruise, re-
ported the loss of three sailors.
William Huttinger, peddler, shot
and killed Mrs. Mary Kerstinger, his
divorced wife, at ST. Louis, and then
killed himself.
The National Oil company's cotton
oil mill, together with machinery, was
burned at Corsicana, Tex, the loss be-
ing 100000.
The Marion deposit baAk at Marion,
o. closed its doors.
George Tucker and Eugene Burch
were killed at Charlottesville, Va, by
the collapse of a roof.
A car famine exists on all the rail-
road lines centering in Kansas City, Mo-,
one line alone, the Burlington, being
short over 1000 cara.
The jubilee meeting in commemora-
tion of the fiftieth anniversary OF
the American Missionary association.
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