Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-11
DOMESTIC.

Easter and Allie Anderson and their
three children, together with two
horses, were drowned by freshet in
Powell's river IN Lee county, Va.
From smelter returns for the first
quarter it was predicted that the gold
production of Colorado for 1896 would
reach $3O.00O,O00.
The two boilers of the Planters oil
mill at Greenville, Miss, exploded,
wrecking the mill property and killing
five men.
The president has signed the act re-
pealing the statute prohibiting the APP
pointment to the army and navy of per-
sons who held confederate commissions.
The west-bound express train on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad fell into the
hands of gang of train robbers just
east of Garrett, Ind, but they were
driven away without securing much
hooty.
The monthly statement of the comp
troller of the currency shows the total
circulation of national bank notes to be
1921 ,227, sos, an increase for the year OF
S13,777.661.
Reports from every county In Ohio
indicate the smallest wheat crop ever
produced in the state.
During February 1882 immigrants
arrived in New York, an increase of
about 65 per cent. over the arrivals dur
ing February, 1895.
Ten persons perished by suffocation
in a Brooklyn IN. " tenement house
fire.
Reports from northern Wisconsin
told of a complete snow blockade on
many railroads. The drifts were from
ten to twenty feet deep.
Jose Ramon Del Vale, prominent
Spaniard who resided in Matanzas,
Cuba, arrived with his family in Key
West, Fla, and said it was impossible
10 longer endure the outrages commit
ted by the Spanish troops. He told of
many brutal deeds, and declared that
peaceful, unarmed people were ruth
lessly slaughtered and the murders
were called victories.
An express on the West Pennsylvania
railway was wrecked near Freeport,
Pa, and five persons were seriously in
jured.
Nine men were injured, three of them
ny thC VI q iiip aC Il iiiiiS
near Pottsville. Pa.
President Cleveland has approved
the joint resolution authorizing Benja-
min Harrison to accept medals from
Spain and Brazil.
Thomas Brannigan, a well-known
business man at Corning, o., shot his
wife fatally and then killed himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
April "a has been fixed as the date
for Arbor day in Ohio.
A fire in Brunswick, Ca, destroyed
wharves, warehouses and business
blocks valued at 100000.
Rudolph Sprecl<les, president of the
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar COM
pany, in his annual report states that
the worlds product of sugar this year
will probably be 100000 tons short of
The supply of several years past.
The Iowa Legislature defeated bill
to legalize the manufacture of liquor in
the state.
Thomas Wharton, Sunday editor of
the Philadelphia Times, fell from a
fourth-story window of the house in
which he lived and was instantly
killed.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended OH the 3D. aggregated
51,97O.7sS, against $s06,s59,15s the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week IN
1895, was GO.
Edward Pollen, an Illinois Central
employe at Clinton, H., shot and in
stantly killed his wife, Myrtle Pollen,
and his wife's mother, Mrs. William
McMullen, and then jumped in front of
moving train but was not fatally in
jured. Family troubles were the cause
Maxey Cobb, treasurer of Lancaster
county, Neb., charged with embezzling
$4,000, committed suicide at Lincoln.
Continued restriction of distribution
of staple merchandise, and unsatisfac-
tory mercantile collections continued
to be the Leading characteristics of gem
eral trade in the United States.