Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-12-12

fore help came.
The clerk of the house of representa-
lives has issued list of members of
the house of the Fifty-6fth congress,
showing that it will be composed of
2O4 republicans, 1874 democrats, 13 fu-
gionists, 12 populists and silverites,
and that there is one vacancy, from the
first Missouri district.
A Russian family consisting of man,
his wife and three children perished in
blizzard at Williamsport, N. d.
The Third Avenue Methodist Episco-
pal church in Columbus. o., was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $4,000.
Three distinct earthquake shocks
we're felt at Pittsfeld, ILL.,, and many
people ran from their houses.
Casper Hartlein was hanged at Weth-
ersfeld, Coun., for the murder of Louise
Marie Treble at South Manchester Feb
ruary 20 last.
The New Jersey court of appeals has
declared the divorce law of the state un-
constitutional.
A heavy snowfall in Virginia and
North Carolina blocked all railway
trains.
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York city and Hayti is completed, and
has been opened to the public for the
transmission of messages to Hayti and
other places in the West Indies.
The National Council of Women of
The United States met in Boston in an
nual convention. Mrs. Mary Low Dick
inson, the president, occupied the chair.
The administration building of the
New Jersey state institution for feeble
minded children at Vineland was de-
Btroyed by fire.
Mrs. Eliza II. Cummings, a wealthy
woman of Hillsborc, O., committed sui
eide by jumping from the sixth story
of hotel in New York. She was de-
mented.
Arthur Gardiner, of Chicago, estab-
lished two new bicycle records in Den
yer, riding q quarter of a mile in 26 is
seconds, and half mile in one minute
fat.
George Nungesser, we'll .o-dc farmer
aged 6s years, was frozen to death Eear
Bucyrus. ..
The latest effort to establish new
morning paper in Cincinnati came to an
end after only II issues.
The Imperial Grand Opera company,
under the charge of Col. Mapleson, was
stranded in Boston for lack of funds.
President Cleveland issued procla-
nation reimposing tonnage and light
house duties upon German ships enter
ing the United States because of fruit
less effort to induce Germany to no
longer impose such taxes upon Amcri-
can ships, and the action is in the nature
of retaliation.
| Charles Witter, of Winthrop. Mimi,
while undergoing the ceremony of ini-
tiation into the Mystic Shrine at the
Masonic temple in Minneapolis. fell
dead.
Passengers who arrived in Key West,
Fla, from Havana reported that Wey-
ler's campaign in Pinar del Rio so far
had been a complete failure.
The National w. C. r. U. sent letter
to President-elect Mckinley asking him
to Danish wine from the white house.
The exchanges at the leading clear
the week ended on the 4th aggregated
$1,2s5, ,4s5,s04, against $035,053,113 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1905
is 40.
The Cunard steamer Servia broke the
record from Europe to Boston, making
the run from Daunt's Rock in days,
IA hours and s minutes.
There were 37O business failures in
the United States in The seven days
ended on the 4th, against 900 the week
previous and 324 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
East Corinth, town of 500 popula-
tion in Vermont, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire.
A fire that began in the Baptist
church at Weston, Mo-, destroyed the
best portion of the village.
Dynamite Dick, the notorious Okla.
homa outlaw over whose head hangs
reward of $4,000, was killed in fight
with deputy sheriffs near Newkirk.
One hundred families, numbering be
tween 500 and 600 persons, were pois
oned in Milwaukee by eating bread il
which arsenic had been mixed and {
large number of the cases were con
sidered serious.
The report of II. i. Preston, directo
of the mint, shows that during the
fiscal year the total coinage was
1872 = states that the silver 70
ar HH ounterfeited, exactly sil
to tl uine in size, weight an ga
vi iome cannot be distingu t
fr n a enuine, even by experts.