Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-06
DOMESI

A tornado swept over Rush Hill, Mo-,
and in that little town of 600 inha bitants
there was hardly single house left
standing and the number of dead and
dying was large.
st. Louis, East st. Louis and immedi-
ate vicinity We're swept by death-deal-
ing cyclone. The loss of life was esti-
mated at from 500 to 1,OOO The injured
list will include hundreds, if not thou
sands. Hotels aud business buildings
were wrecked, the east end of the great
Eads bridge was destroyed, the roof of
the republican convention hall taken off,
and steamers on the river were sunk
with all on board. At Drake, ILL.,, n
schoolhouse was said to have been de-
molshed and so pupils killed.
Col. Il. p. McGlincy and wife; their
daughter, Mrs. James Dunham; James
Wells, son of Mrs. McGlincy; hired
woman, Minnie Schesler, and n hired
man, James Briscoe, were killed at
Campbell, Cal, by James Dunham, a
son-in-law of Col. McGlincy, who made
his escape. Family trouble was said to
be the cause.
Fully 10000 acres of land in ST. Clair
county, ILL.,, were overtiowed by high
water i'll the Mississippi river, the fences
washed away and the crops ruined
The third biennial meeting of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs
convened at Louisville, Ky.
Ten persons were killed in tornado
which struck the village of Labaddie,
Mo.
The Bank of New England at Man
chester. n. H.. closed its doors.
The schooner Lincoln, of San Fran
cisco, was reported lost in Alaskan
waters with her crew of 30 persons.
All the rye whisky distilleries in the
eastern states will suspend operations
on September ! next, throwing 1000
workmen out of employment.
Gildemeister & Kroeger, plano manu-
facturers in New York, failed for $780,
600.
Weather bureau officials in Washing
ton say the st. Louis tornado was the
most fatally destructive in the history
of the Office.
The Northup, Eraslan, Goodwin COM
pany, dealers in seeds in Chicago,
failed for 100000.
Latest reports from the storm that
swept over st. Louis, East St. Louis and
towns in the vicinity place the loss of
life at +63 and the number injured at
7lS. The property loss was estimated
at between $4,000,O00 and $5,O00,0OO.
The total number of families who were
without homes and whose every article
Of household effects was swept away by
the storm was variously estimated at
from 500 to 800.
Nineteen dwellings were wrecked and
numerous outbuildings and trees were
torn to pieces by tornado at Mount
Vernon, Ind.
1t was estimated that 80 lives were
lost in Clinton, Washington and Jeffer-
son counties, ILL.,, in the recent cyclone
and vast amount of farm property
was destroyed.
The National Junior Prohibition
League of America held its first annual
convention in Pittsburgh, Pa, and
elected q. w. Hopkins, of New York,
as president.
AT the closing session in Asbury Park,
n. j., of the Baptist anniversaries a
resolution was adopted that petition
to the czar OF Russia, just crowned, be
forwarded, asking the eXertion of his
kind offices in behalf of suffering Chris
tians in Armenia.
The protest made by Secretary olney
against Gen Weyler's prohibition OF
tobacco exports from Havana was sue
| cessful.
The Ohio supreme court rendered a
decision 10 the effect that an election
wager cannot be legally enforced,
Fire at Brillon, Wis, destroyed tho
opera house, a lumber yard, the North
western hotel, n brick business block
ard several residences, the total loss be-
ing $l50,o00.