Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

mas Deen ASo,Ooo,OuU IN consequence CT
the rise in the price of that staple.
viii Settle, cashier of the United
States Building and Loan association
IN Louisville, Ky, is said to be default.
er for $4,000.
Judge Henry w. Scott, of Oklahoma
City, o. r., has resigned the associate
,usticeship Of the supreme court OF that
territory to become member of the
New York bar.
The steamer T. p. feathers, loaded
with 1,7oO bales of cotton and 5000
sacks of cotton seed, sprung a leak and
sunk three miles above Nachez, Miss.
The loss is over 100000.
The wife and five children of A. j
Spute were drowned in Smiths lare
near Denver, Col, by the upsetting of
boat.
Two passenger trains came together
in Big Bend cut, Is miles west of st.
Louis, and eight persons were killed
and not less than so injured, some ia
tally.
Fire at Ladonia, Tex, destroyed every
business house on the east side of the
public square, including the First ma
tional bank, the loss being 100000.
Mobs destroyed all the toll gates on
the Louisville and Lawrenceburg turn
pixies in Kentucky.
The Third Unitarian church, a Chi
cago landmark, was destroyed by fire.
Arthur L. Smith, of Chicago, reduced
the 24-hour American bicycle road rec
ord, making 205A miles in that time,
thereby breaking the former record of
277 miles.
Fire destroyed large warehouse and
$500 bales of cotton at Galveston, Tex,
causing loss of $140,OOO.
Fire in lumber piles on the premises
of the Central Lumber company at Zil
wau<ee, Mich, caused loss of $175, 900.
\The steamer Algoa sailed from Gal
weston, Ten, for Liverpool with the
largest cargo ever taken from an AmeIi-
can port, consisting of 1890 bales of
cotton, 100000 bushels of grain and GAO
tons of other freight, all valued at ST.
100000.
Gustave Pabst was divorced from
Margaret Mather, the actress, in secret
In the circuit court in Milwaukee.
The Washington mills, which form
one of the largest cotton dress goods
manufacturing plants in Lawrence,
Mass, was damaged by fire to the eX-
lent of 100000.
The statement of 1873 railroads from
January / 10 August 81 shows gross
earnings of S41S, ,7O6,541, a decrease of
S1O.476,s74, and net earnings Sl2o,G2s,-
$50, q decrease of Sc, 2,4S9039
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
els: oats, 10,9Ol.OO0 bushels; rye, 2,5O5,
300 bushels; barley, 4.416.0OO bushels.
Two huge grain elevators belonging
to the Chicago & Pacific Elevator COM
pany. together with their entire con-
tents, were destroyed by fire in Chica-
go, the loss being $l,2OO.0OO. w. H. Har-
per apd c. b. Farwell were the losers.
Patrick lyman, the alleged dyunmiter
who was recently released from n
French prison at Boulogne-sur-Mer, de-
spite the efforts of the British authori.
ties to have him extradited to England,
arrived at his home in New York.
The next annual meeting of the Farm
ers' National congress will convene in
indianapolis, Ind, November 10.
1t was discovered that Carieton f.
Wells, who was supposed to have died
Of heart disease at Juneau, Ore, was
buried alive.
Brown Brothers department dry
goods store at Houston, Tex, failed for
100000.
Isaac H. Lionberger, of ST. Louis, has
| ;.to -
eral of the United States for the interior
| department.
Two men were killed and five persons
injured, three seriously, by an explosion
Of nitroglycerine near Hutton. Pa.
Jimmy" Michael rode ten miles in
1885 1-5 at Nashville, Genn., which low
ers the American bicycle record made
| l'y him at Chicago of 21:+lA.
The United States battle ship Massa
chusetts, just returned from her fna
trial trip, has no superior in the world
Four masked robbers fatally beat anc
stole $4,000 from Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony
Monhagan in the mining village of Rap
pahannock. Pa.
Auburn township, in Sangamon coun
| ty, has been selected by Frank III. Jones
first assistant postmaster-general, IA
the place for testing the rural free de
livery service in Illinois.
The Sac and Fox Indian agency, G.
miles southeast of Guthrie, o. T., wa'
held up and looted by gang of bandits
In quarrel over a small matter Ed
ward Day shot and killed his brother
near Cassville, Wis.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Hon. Charles F. Baldwin. editor an
owner of the Mount Vernon (O.) Repub
lican, died at the age of 60 years.
Rev. DR.. n. A. Reed, widely-kuowI
Baptist minister, died at the residenc,
| of his snn-in-lnu Dew L Il Mnrch In