Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-03
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

rested in Asbury Park, N. D., on the
charge of agreeing to engage in p:'ze
fight. and liberated on $1,000 bail.
The weat crop in three northwestern |
states is estimated at 105, 5,000,0 900 bush |
els.
The assets of the Philadelphia G. |
Reading Railroad and Coal g. Iron COM
panies were sold in Philadelphia to G.
II. Coster. of New York, for $40, 100000.
Three members of the Cotton family,
living near Tiefaw. La, were murdered
by a negro and another member of the
family was seriously wounded.
The twenty-siXth reunion of the So.
ciety of the Army of the Cumberland
was held at Rockford, Ill.
The Cascade Lumber company's mill,
office and lumber yard at Burlington,
Ia, were destroyed by fire, the loss being
$105, 900.
All the prisoners in the Jail at Belle
fontaine, o.. were released for want of
money 10 pay the sheriff for their keep
ing and the entire police force was dis.
charged for the same reason.
Elbridge 6. Blunt, who was intimate.
lv associated with John Brown in con-
Quoting the underground railway in
Kansas, and who was also an active
scout in the civil war, died in Chicago,
aged rs years.
Owing to the high price of hard coal
a great many people in Cherokee, Ia,
and vicinity will burn corn this winter,
DIR. John c. Sackville, aged 50 years,
once a skilled and eminent physician.
was struck by train at Washington,
Pa, and instantly killed.
In New Mexica four murderers were
hanged, Dionicio Saldoval at Albu-
querque, Perfecto Podilla and Rosario
Ring at Tiorra Amarillo and Antonio
Gonzales at Roswell.
Jim Hawkins (colored), charged with
assault and battery on little white boy,
was lynched by mob at Gretna, La.
The Missouri military academy at
Mexico was burned to the ground, caus-
ing loss Of 100000.
In fit of jealousy Grace Clark, aged
IS years, shot and killed Harry NJ. Con-
way, her lover, and then took her own
life in Chicago.
The new clubhouse of the Marion
Cricket club at Haverford, suburb of
Philadelphia, was burned, the loss being
100000.
H. Dumois & Co., shipping and COM
mission merchants in New York, made
an assignment with liabilities of $234,-
500.
| At the twenty-sixth annual reunion
| in Rockford, ILL.,, of the Army of the
! Cumberland Gen. w. S. Rosecrans was
elected president.
The failure of the firm of Darlington,
Quick & Boyden, commission men at the
stock yards in Chicago, caused Fred
erick Boyden, a member of the firm, to
commit suicide.
At the annual meeting n st. Louis
of the American Bankers associa ton
Robert H. Lowry, of Atlanta, Ga, was
elected president.
A firebug destroyed the handsome
bathing pavilion at Narragansett Pier
r. l.. the loss being $25o,ooo.
At Portland, Me-, John r. Gentry
paced the fastest mile ever made in har.
ness and placed the worlds record al
2:00h.
Burpee, Rumsey & Co., shoe manu-.
facturers at Lynn, Mass, failed fol
100000.
A monument on South mountain, g
few miles from Boonsboro, Nd, erected
to the memory of George Washington
in 1927, was struck by lightning ant
badly damaged.
On the farm of Arthur Boyce in Mar
shall county, Ind, an apple tree ha'
borne three crops this season.
Two robbers walked into the Office O.
the Western Foundry company in Chi
cago in broad daylight, held up five mey
who were in the Office, took ST. 600 from
the treasurer's desk and got away.
The entire business portion of Essex
Ia, was destroyed by fire.
McGill university at Montreal, Que.
has issued a notice refusing to accep'
in future any more United States silver
or paper money in payment of scholar
ship fees.
William Callison, a stockman of Yer
sailles, Mo-, was robbed of 81, 900 at Eas
ST. Louis. Ill.
Peter Kamm killed his wife at Buffalo
n. Y, with a hatchet and then cut hi
own throat.
The Argonia (Kan.) state bank close'
its doors.
Snow to the depth of several inche
fell at Deadwood, S. ID.
There were 315 business failures il
the United States in the seven day
/ ended on the 10Th, against 317 the wee
} previous and 216 in the corresponding
! period of 1895.
! The National Council of Women G
the United States will hold its annua
executive meeting in Boston Novembe
2, 3 and 4.
The exchanges at the leading clearin
l houses in the United States during tn
week ended on the 25th aggregate
l $s57, ,lOs,264, against $906,20S,52s TIL
. previous week. The decrease compare
4 with the corresponding week in 1875
, is 14.3.
Albert B. Gibson, young farme
8 near Ava, Mo-, shot and killed his VIII
. and then made an unsuccessful attemI
l upon his own.
, Miss Elizabeth Almy. of New Yor