Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-22

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| Three worlSmen were killed and three
fatally wounded by boiler explosion
in mill near Ashboro, N. g.
p. A. Higgins and his wife and son
and daughter all died with the measles
within few days of each other at
Brights, Ala.
Gov. Morton signed the bill passed
by the New York Legislature transfer
ring the Palisades to the national gov
ernment for national park.
A negro, or white man with his face
blackened, while robbing the residence
| of jefferson Smith at Dallas, Tex,
fatally stabbed Smith and killed his
wife with an AK.
AT Centerville, Ia, George Jones shot
and killed his sweetheart, Leah Mar
tin, her mother, Mrs w. j. Martin, and
then put bullet into his own head.
Mrs. Martins objections to the young
mans attentions to her daughter was
the cause.
The first annual show of the Ma
tional Poultry association opened in
Central Market hall III Washington.
A skip jumped the track in mine
at Republic, Mich, killing William Nc
Graw, James Dodge, Adolph Boitel and
Matthias Tegelberg.
Robert Williams, the negro who
killed Police Officer Suggs, was lynched
by mob near Montgomery, Ala.
Barbara kossel, Il pretty German
girl 10 years old, shot and killed JOHN
Rohlfing, her lover, at st. Louis, and
then fired bullet into her own brain
n,,I 1ia6 lnnSu tb.a
cause.
The Buckeye glass works of Martin S
Ferry, w. Va, were destroyed by fire,
the loss being $15o,0O0.
Emile Davis was hanged at Linn,
Mo-, for the murder of Frank Hender-
son, his sisters sweetheart. whom he
poisoned.
Eight ships will be added to Uncle
Sans navy and be ready for commits
sion before the first of next July.
May Rankin, aged 81, who had been on
exhibition as fat woman with various
circuses and dime museums through
out the country, died in Chicago. She
weighed $50 pounds.
Joe Donoghue, the champion skater,
broke the tive-mile skating record N
Washington, making the distance in
IA minutes 4j seconds.
The big soap, lye, and coffee essence
mandatory of z. e. Thompson & Co.,
and three dwelling houses in Philadel
phia were burned, the total loss being
$425 900.
The prize fight between Fitzsin-
mons and Maher announced to tal:c
place at IL Paso, Tex, on the 14th was
| postponed to the 21st.
The annual meeting of the depart
ment of superintendent of the Nation
al Educational association began ut
Jacksonville, Fla.
The McCague savings bank at Omaha
went into the hands of receiver.
Fountain Martin was taken from Jail
and hanged by mob near Steubenville,
KY, for burning barn.
The visible supply Of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
5,927 900 bushels; corn, II 100000 bush
els; oats, 6,356 900 bushels rye, 1863
900 bushels; barley, 2,@95,o00 bushels.
\ fire at Stettheiiner S5 Co.'S shirt
waist factory In Troy, N. l., resulted
in a panic among $50 girls ard women,
and it was feared that 20 lives were lost.
Over 80 persons were injured, some
fatally, and the property loss was val
ued at $3OO,000.
Charles L. Spaldin2, stauoner, who
died in Chicago at the age OF 5s years,
had during the past year buried ten
sons, and only one son and. his widow
survive MN.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, the House
man block was burned, the loss being
100000.
All the large clothing manufacturers
N Chicago declared their independence
of the labor union rule in their estab-
lishments.
Joseph Champion and his daughter
Sallie, living near Tallulah, Ga, wer,
shot and killed by unknown assassins
Robert Laughlin, who reported his
house at Augusta, KY, burned by muir
derers. and whose wife and niece were
burned in the building, confessed thai
he was the murderer.
Judge Johnson, in the district court
at Denver, approved an order requiring
ladies' to remove their hats at theaters
Half of the business portion of the
town of Greenville, n. c., was destroyed
by fire, the loss being 100000.