Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-01-25
Elder S. Davis, dealer IN general mer-
chandise at Monroe, La, failed for $780,

ut Louisville, KY, was destroyed by
fire, the loss being 100000.
Sixteen passengers were badly hurt
and ten others received minor injuries
in Midland Terminal railway wreck
at Victor, Col.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 18th aggre-
gated $1,o62, ,701 ,224, against $1,235, ,652,-
555 the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1895, was SIS.
Simon Wolf, chairman of the Cuban
committee at Washington, said in Bos-
tor That congress would recognize the
belligerent rights of tine Cubans before
February 90.
There were 412 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 131 the week
previous and 37S in the corresponding
period of 1895.
The population of Oregon, according
to the census just completed by the
county assessors, is 564,762, an increase
of about 10 per cent. over the govern
ment census of 1890.
The Duluth Provision and Dry Goods
company, capitalized ut 100000, as
signed at Duluth, MINI.
Gov. Esparthecher, of the Creek ma
ton, Yves drowned while trying to cross
the deep fork near Muskogee, l. L.
After 81 days of voluntary fasting
Mrs. Isaac Gephart, of New Carlisle,
o., died. Her fast was the result of
reading book on Christian science.
The burning of fiat buildings in Chi
cago made 20 families homeless and
caused loss of $4,000.
During an earthquake at Craig, Col,
articles were thrown from walls and
shelves and clocks stopped.
twas authoritativcly announced that
the American Red Cross society would
execute its mission of going to Turkey
in behalf of the suffering Armenians.
In a duel over girl near Waldo, Fla,
Wallace Sullivan and Ben Willis were
killed.
y cabin near Almira, Wash, occupied
by Henry Lewis, George Lewis aud
Henry Taylor was destroyed by fire and
the three men were suffocated.
The 2Sth annual convention of the
National Woman Suffrage association
will be held in Washington January %
to IS.
The Crescent City rice mills were
burned at New Orleans, the loss being
100000.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
G7,99S, 900 bushels: corn, Z, 647, 900 BUSH
els; oats, t.615,000 bushels; rye, l.
$4,000 bushels; barley, 3,246,0OO BUSH
els.
Jacob Bruchl, a barber, his wife and
seven-year-old boy were fatally burned
by the explosion of gasoline stove at
Cumminsvile. o.
While Charles Smith, an employe of
4 rolling mill at Terre Haute, Ind, was
angrily talking to lis wife, from whom
he had beer separated for long time,
she fell dead at his feet.
a vein of salt 300 feet thick, the rich
est in the world, discovered under
the town of Little River, Kan.
Timothy Z. Byrnes, of Minneapolis,
was elected sergeant-at-ar,ns of the
national republican convention by the
subcommittee of the national commit
tee in session at st. Louis.
The building and plant of the Ashley
Qnd.) Times, George Strayer, propric
tor, was burned.
Three children of John Shuman and
two children of George Formas were
playing on the ice at Cuba, o.. when 1T
broke and all were drowned.
Miss Helen Gould sent check for
Sc 600 to Vassar college at Poughkeep-
sic, n. Y, to found a scholarship i'll
memory of her mother.
A fat denial was given at the war
in Washington to the re-
port from Florida that the department
had requested the governor of the state
TO put the Florida troops in readiness
to take the field at moments notice.
Stephen Andrews, aged so years, the
biggest man in Rhode Island, tipping
the scales at SIS pounds, dropped dead
at Providence.
The Bank of Commerce closed it's
doors at Grand Island, Neb., with heavy
liabilities.
The little hamlet of Affection has the
distinction of being the only Wisconsin
settlement of any size without a wom-
an resident or inhabitant.
The entire family of l.. FL. Graham,
consisting of himself, wife and four
children, were sentenced at Sioux City,
Ia, to 1S months each in the peniten-
John Gates and his wife, aged re-
spectively 95 and 9S years. celebrated
the nth anniversary of their marriage
at their home near Olive Hill, Ind.
tiary for the robbery of freight cars.
The will of Mrs. Anna IL. Aspinwall,
of Pittsburgh, Pa, who died recently
in Edinburgh, Scotland, leaves her en-
tire fortune, estimated at $3, 100000, to
the Hospital of the Protestant Episco-
pal church in Philadelphia.
Smith & Stoughton, one of the largest
firms in the shoe and leather trade in
the country, failed in Boston for $500,
600.
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