Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-03-14

oiNt Nis', was buIuSu ny u lump eNplO-
sion, and he and his wife and five chill
dren pcrished in the flames.
Attacked by mob of white caps in
Peru, Fla, Bowen Sykes shot four men
fatally and six others were dangerous
ly wounded.
The Brockway counterfeiting gang
was sentenced by Judge Green at Tren-
ton, n. j. Brockway, the aged leader,
was given ten years in the state peniten-
tiary.
William j. Dix, member of the BerrS
private detective agency, was convicted
in Chicago of the murder of Frank
White and given life sentence in the
penitentiary. Five other members of
the same agency were convicted of man
slaughter, but the sentences were not
fixed.
In the ladies' bicycle race in Chicago
Tillie Anderson was the winner, going
1853 miles and 6 laps in IS hours. Helen
Baldwin and Lizzie CLAW tied for sec
ond place, the score being 353 miles and
s laps.
The will of e. w. Nye (Bill Nye)
leaves an estate valued at $75 1000 to his
wife.
Three children of John Hahn, n
prosperous farmer of the Choctaw-
Hatchee valley, Geneva county, Ala,
were burned to death.
A fire in warehouse No. of the
Union Warehouse company at Louis
vile, KY, caused loss of 100000.
The inaugural step made by Balling-
ton Booth, the deposed commander of
the Salvation Army in America, in a
rival organization ON lines similar to
the one from whose command he has
been relieved, met with success in New
York city.
After session lasting 81 days the
South Carolina legislature adjourned
sine die.
Edward Hack, n young barber at Oak
land, Cal, shot and killed Diana Pacheco
and then killed himself. Objections to
their getting married was the cause.
The shovel factory of Hubbard & Co.
at Pittsburgh, Pa, was damaged by fire
to the extent of 100000.
Two cars of the Kirkwood electric
railroad collided near st. Louis, and so
persons were injured, four fatally.
II. lSICS, CdSuler Ol DOl
d Co.'s poolrooms in Covington, Ky,
was said to be missing with $11, 900 be-
longing to the firm.
The Glen knitting mills at Cohoes, n.
V, were burned, the loss being 100000.
Margaret Henry was sent to Jail at
Camden, n. j., for three months, having
been convicted of the charge of being IA
common scold.
The Albion Paper company at Holyole,
Mass, made an assignment with liabili-
ties of $5OO,OO0.
Ground was broken for the first build
ing of the American university in Wash
ington.
The Sherman county bank at Good
land, Kan, closed its DOORS Assets were
placed at 100000; liabilities, 100000.
Henry Irwin, collector at Presque Isle,
Me-, was reported missing, and his ac-
counts were said to be short several
Thousand dollars.
: By powder explosion in the convict
coal mines at Durham junction, Ga,
Warren Crawford, Frank Ecl1les and
John Morris, all convicts, lost their
lives.
The Bloomfield (Neb.) State bank
was ", sslcs closed and the Bank examiner was
United States officers arrested FL
wood Anderson at Wheeling, w. Va,
on charge of raising old three-cent
pieces to dimes.
T; The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 9th was: Wheat,
62,536,000 bushels; corn, 14,O5O,O0O
bushels; oats, 7,227,OOO bushels; rye,
1,4S7,OO0 bushels; barley, 100000
bushels.
The Commercial and savings bank
at San Jose, Cal, closed it's doors with
liabilities of 100000 and assets of ST.
100000.
"Owney," the world renowned post
office dog, landed in Albany, n. Y, his
native city. after tour of the world.
Ballington Booth opened headquar-
ters in New York for his new religious
movement on similar lines to the Saliva
ton Army.