Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-11-14

WnIUeS were SIOt, lhItG VI lhG hGB TUGS
being fatally wounded.
President Cleveland issued procla-
nation naming Thursday, November
26, as Thangsgiving day.
The Gem theater in st. Louis was
destroyed by fire and William Gray, the
stage manager, was fatally injured by
jumping from third-story window.
The Carter-Crume company's wood
en- dish factory in Saginaw, Mich, was
destroyed by fire.
w. White & Co., one of the largest and
oldest cotton-buying firms in Texas,
failed in Dallas for 100000.
The Chicago stock exchange opened
for business after being closed for six
months.
During a storm on Lake Erie several
sailboats were capsized and Henry Mayo
and Jacob and George Vergt were
drowned.
John H. Inman, head of the cotton
house of Inman, Swan G. Co., and bust
ness man of national reputation, died
in New York of heart failure, aged SO
years.
William Mann (white) and Abe Goss
(colored) were killed by the explosion
of locomotive boiler at Atlanta. Ga.
Arthur l.. Shook, brakeman, shot and
killed his wife in Kansas City, Mo-, and
then killed himself. No cause is known.
A receiver was asked for for the
Marine national bank of Duluth, MINI.
The liabilities are $27O.0O0.
Stanley Barrows achieved the feat in
Denver of riding the fastest mile ever
mn ada yrhaa1 onl thot iS
any pacing, his time being 5S seconds.
All the pork butchers at the packing
houses in Chicago struck because of the
failure to advance their wages.
Rev. E. S. Nicholson, of Kokomo, Ind,
father of the temperance law, has been
reelected to the legislature, with 500
votes to spare.
The Golden Scepter Mining company
at Quigley, Mont, has assigned with
debts of $2s5,O0o.
Conrad Eichhorn deliberately put his
13-year-old son to death in Toledo, o.,
and then committed suicide. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
The Manhattan Clothing G. Shoe COM
pany at Dayton, o., assigned with liza
bilities of 100000.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 9th aggregated
1901, ,552.065, against $96s,7s1,55s the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is 1875.
Gaines Murphy, who was put on the
ticket as a joke, was elected sheriff of
Gibson county, Ind.
Mrs. j. Mccarthy, of Scranton, Pa,
and her two granddaughters, May and
Margaret Clinch, fell from bridge into
the river and were drowned.
Heavy rains in the mining regions in
eastern Pennsylvania flooded many
mines, throwing $4,000 persons out of
work.
There were 230 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 27O the week
previous and 2s0 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
After 46 years of dilgent search
Charles Thompson, of LenoN, N. j., has
been united with his brothers and sis
ters, from whom he was separated
when only II years of age.
The Volunteers of America, the Bal
lington Booth section of the Salvation
Army, were incorporated with the sec
retary of state at Albany. N. Y.
Louis A. Brown and Hartman Shepers
were fatally injured in mine in Grip
pie Creek, COL. by n premature explo-
sion.
Capt. Hatfield, the noted outlaw of
West Virginia. who has murdered II
men in the past 20 years and has never
yet entered a courtroom, was placed in
Jail at Huntington.
The famous steam tug and alleged
Cuban tilibuster Three Friends was
seized at Jacksonville, Fla, on advices
from the treasury department. charged
with violation of the neutrality laws.
Two men and boy who were steal
ing a ride on an Erie freight train were
instantly killed near Wellsville, N. Y.
The plant of the Boston Bridge com
pany, situated in Cambridgeport, Mass,
was burned, the loss being 100000.
Inspector Gen. Breckinridge, of the
army, in his annual report shows that
accounts of disbursing officers aggre-
eating over $72,0Oo.000 have been en-
amined during the year.
The annual report of Frank H. Jones,
the first assistant postmaster-general
shows that the total number of presi-
dental Offices July last was 1861. For
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898. the
report asks for appropriations of about
| $4S,O00.000.
In fierce storm the threc-nasted
schooner Waukesha went to pieces off
Muskegon, Mich. and Capt Corbett and
six sailors were drowned.
The Iowa Legislature will meet in ex-
ira session at Des Moines January 10
| naxt.
p. w. Strader has been appointed re-
ceiver Of the Bennett national bank OF
New Whatcomb. Wash.
William II. Treworgy, lumber dealer
In Boston, failed for 100000.