Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-02

president.
Sam Foster, the negro who waylaid
in ST. Louis and murdered Bertram A.
Atwater, the Chicago artist, was found
guilty of murder.
William and Victor Hills were taken
from the Jail at McMinville, Tenn, by
II mob and hanged for the murder of
Carroll Martin in 1894.
Nine persons were killed outright,
three were fatally and II more or less
injured, and great destruction of prop
erty was wrought by II cyclone which
passed over Clay county, Kan.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the Goth were as follows:
Philadelphia, .s57; Pittsburgh, .714;
Washington, .571; Cleveland, .571; Chi
cago, $50; st. Louis, 500; Cincinnati,
.556; Baltimore, 500; Boston, 500;
Brooklyn, .429; New York, .143; Louis
vile, iii.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Cullen were
burned to death in their home near
Chester, n. Y.
The battle ship Massachusetts, aver
aged 1915 knots on her trial and her
builders win a bonus of 100000.
Peter Egbert, u carpenter at Rockville,
Ind, % years old, without apparent
cause or provocation shot and instantly
killed Mrs. Herman Easchke and two
children and Sheriff w. NJ. Null and
Deputy Sheriff William Sweem and then
killed himself.
A bronze equestrian statue of Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant, presented by the
Union League club of Brooklyn to that
city, was unveiled in the presence of
10000 people by Master Ulysses S.
Grant, a grandson of the general.
The residence of A. S. Marehand was
burned at Delta, o., and his two sons
perished in the flames.
A boiler exploded in a sawmill at
Flinton, Pa, killing Matthew McGough,
sawyer; S. S. Gates, IL helper, and j. b.
Burgoon, proprietor of the mill.
A fire that started in dancehouse at
Cripple Creek, Col, swept away $50
buildings and entailing a loss of upward
of $1,0O0,0OO, with only $25o,O00 in
surance. The fire was the work of an
incendiary.
A shipping stable at Galloway, o., be-
longing to Ed. Courtwright was de-
stroyed by fire and AZ horses, some of
them quite valuable, were burned to
death.
Washington advices say that the treas
ury deficit for the fiscal year ending
June 90, 1896, will be, approximately
$25,00O,O00.
Walter Dygert, of Greenwood, II!
arrived at Tampa, Fla, from Cub,
where he had just been released from
prison.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 27th was: Wheat,
s., ,O3O. 900 bushels; corn, 5,156,0o0 bush
els; oats, 9,737 900 bushels; rye, 1,5l0,-
900 bushels; barley 1920 900 bushels.
Charles Kuhn, real estate dealer vi
st. Louis who was missing, was said TO
be short 100000, which is due persons
with whom he had real estate dealings.
Sam Brumley, aged 10, insarely jeal-
Gus of his step-slster, shot Ida Clark, a
friend of the girl. 16 years old, in Louis
Vile, Ky, and cut his own throat.
Karl Feigenbaum, alias Anton Lain,
who murdered Mrs. Johanna HotfmaLE
IN New York September l, 1894, was eN-
ecuted by elect city in the peritentiary
at Sing Sing, n. Y. He was said To
have been the London Jack the Rip
per-"
Eugene Camburn, a farmer living near
Upton, Mich. was shot and fatally
wounded by Harry Luce, who then
shot himself dead. Luce had been
paying attentions to Gamburn's daugh
ter against the fathers wishes.
The 74th anniversary of the birthday
of Gen. Grant was appropriat tely cele-
brated at his old home in GaIena, Ill.
and also in sarious other cities and
towns throughout the country.
james BivazJ and Frank Daley, two
young farmers, We're drowned near
Fort Wayne, Ind, while fishing.
The fishing schooner j. w. Campbell.
of Gloucester, Mass, went down in n
squall and nine sailors were drowned.
The 72d general assembly of Ohio ad-
journed sine die.
n cyclone near Sanborn, n. d.,
wrecked houses and barns and did
other damage, but no lives were lost.
The large elevators at Manley, Ply
mouth and Rock Falls, in Iowa, We're
moved from their foundations by a
tornado and outbuildings were over
turned and number Of bridges dam
aged.
Laden with arms and ammunition for
the insurgents and carrying nearly 400
men, the steamship Bermuda left Jack
sonville, Fla, for Cuba.
Further advices say that II persons
lost their lives in the recent cyclone
in Clay county, Kan.
Pemberton Bros, dealers in sheep
skins in Boston, failed for 100000.
Navigation on the st. Lawrence river
was resumed.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
At the Maryland republican conven-