Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-11
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pOmeS IL.
Five villages, with population of
10000 were annexed to Cincinnati, Civ
ing that city population of $4,000.
Five men were burned, three of them
fatally, by an explosion of gas in the
Girard mine at Shamokin. Pa.
Gideon Hauser, tramp, shot four
men at Avilla, Ind, and then killed
himself.
For the first time in the history of
Colorado the gold output for 1895 ex-
ceeded in value that OF silver. The fig
ures are: Gold, SIT, ,34O, ,405; silver, $14,-
s59,049.
Andrew Brown, negro cattle thief,
was hanged by q mob near Westvilje,
Miss.
The Philadelphia bourse, the first
general exchange building erected in
this country, was formally dedicated.
The public debt statement issued on
the I'd showed that the debt decreased
$1,179,349 during the month of Decem-
ber. The cash balance in the treasury
was SITS, 200. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to $947,29s,262.
Montana produced in metals about
$47, 900 during the year 1898.
Mrs. John Brumer and her two girls
went down an embankment in wagon
near Akron, o., and were fatally in
jured.
The monthly statement of the di-
rector of the mint shows coinage exc
cuted at the mints of the United States
during December, 1895, to have been as
follows: Gold. $S,O97,145; silver, $751;
592; minor coins, S107,S36; total, $S.-
2S0.573.
Anthony Huber, William Penn and
John Strong were fatally crushed while
working in box car near Cincinnati.
The -four output at Minneapolis for
1895 was 10,5s1 900 barrels, the largest
ever made by 100000 barrels.
+. NJ. Vanden S Co., wholesale dealers
in liquors and tobacco at Jackson,
Tenn, failed for 100000.
Gov. Greenhalge, of Massachusetts,
was inaugurated at the capitol in Bos-
ton.
Albert Woodley, who murdered his
intended wife, Jennie Buchanan, on
May z, 1894. was hanged in the yard of
the county Jail at Pittsburgh, Pa.
In fire that destroyed the residence
of John III. Hibbard at Columbus, O., he
aid his wife and two children and Miss
Fay Hubbard and Mrs. Grace Hibbard
Lee, his two sisters, were burned to
death.
Peter Schertz. in the banking and
lumber business at Metnmora, Ill.,,
failed for 100000.
Fire swept over ten square miles of
valuable territory in Boulder county,
Col, causing loss of over 100000.
In anticipation of the expected bond
issue there was considerable business
in gold in New York at ~ per cent.
premium.
The president gave his first state din,
ner of the season, thus inaugurating
the social gaieties of the winter in
Washington.
Four persons were killed, one fatally
injured, four more were missing and 81
received injuries more or less serious
as the result of an explosion in build
ing in ST. Louis. The money loss was
100000.
The statement of the receipts and ex-
penditures of the United States shows
that during the month of December
the receipts aggregated $26,2Ss, ,037 and
the expenditures amounted to $25,S14,-
317, leaving a surplus for the month of
$474,62O.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
Ing the week ended on the Sd aggre-
gated $1,000, ,042,4 400, against 81, ,144, $685.
202 the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1895. was IA.
The burning of the Thornton Buggy
company's house ut Des Moines. Ia.,
caused loss of 100000.
There were 403 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sd, against 316 the week
previous and 273 in the corresponding
period OF 1895.
At Millidgeville, KY, boy named
Walters. while playing, secured u re,
volver and fatally shot his two little
cousins, two girls, aged four and eight
and then sent ball through his own
head.
A fire that originated in the basement
cf Horton Donilson's furniture store In
Creston, Ia. caused "a loss of $150,0O0.
Singer d. Wheeler. wholesale dealers
in drugs at Peoria. ILL.,, failed for $780,
oco.
Fire destroyed the hammer shop of
the American bridge works in Chicago,
the loss being 100000. Two men were
fatally burned.
The bodies of two more men were
found in the ruins of the explosion in
st. Louis, making total OF six lives
lost.