Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-09

There were 23s business failures in
the United Stnes in the seven days
ended on the 1st, against 23s the week
previous and 231 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
j. G. Sommers, banker Mt Keoluk,
Ia, said to be worth 81 ,000, 900, wns run
down by train in Burlington and
killed.
A cloudburst near ClarksviIle, Va.
washed away many farm buildings and
hundreds of cattle were drowned.
Judge Horton decided in Chicago that
the bucket-shops were as legitimate as
the board of trade.
The new fremont temple, the most
beautifully furnished and costly free
church in America, was dedicated in
Boston with services of an unusually
elaborate character.
William Bendy, who killed three per-
sons and wounded four others at Beau
mont, Tex, was hanged by n mob.
a treasury statement gives all the
kinds of money in circulation in the
United States at S1,54O, ,0O7 ,0S2, or $780,
100000 less than May /, 1895.
A difficulty near Austin, Tex, be-
tween two hrothers-in-law, Dempsey
Brown and Jim Nixon, resulted in the
death of the former and the fatal
wounding of the latter.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the Sd were as follows:
Pittsburgh, SIS; Philadelphia, .6e7;
Boston, .667; Chicago, SIS; Washing
800; Cleveland, 800; st. Louis, 1862;
Baltimore, All; New York, .167; Louis
vile, or.
The Moulton Leather company, hav-
ing factories at Lynn, Mass, failed for
$135,oOO.
Two trays of diamond rings, valued
at $1,000, were stolen from the store of
NJ. G. Cohen in Pittsburgh, Pa.
After three years litigation over the
estate of the late Senator Stanford, Mrs.
Stanford has Eeen enabled to pay the
bequest of $2,500,0OO which the senator
left to Leland Stanford university, San
Francisco.
The national electrical exposition
under the auspices of the National
Electric Light association was opened
in New York by Gov. Morton, who
pressed a golden key which sent out an
electric current that discharged can
non in San Francisco, New Orleans, st.
Paul, Augusta, Me-, and London, Eng
land.
Flames that started in the Goodyear
Rubber company's store in Buffalo,
n. Y, caused loss of 100000.
Edwin Plant, of Clayton, Mass, shot
and killed his wife, Ada, and their two
weeks-old child, and then killed him
self. Domestic trouble was the cause.
Fire destroyed the Adirondack hotel,
Emerson bank, the music hall and sew
eral residences and stores at Warrens-
burg, n. Y, the total loss being $1OO, 900.
Near Sturgeon Bay, Wis.,, Mrs. L. y.
Sailer, aged rs, drowned her two chill
6ren, aged four and two years, and then
drowned herself. Family trouble was
the cause.
The business portion of Pike Grove,
Col, was destroyed by fire.
The Investment Trust company of
America, doing business in Topeka,
Kan, went into the hands of receivers
with liabilities of So, 100000.
At Camden, n. j., Thomas ]. Potter,
a painter, and his wife were killed by
the cars.
Three women delegates to the Metho-
dist conference in Cleveland withdrew
their claims in order to avoid strife.
Thomas Brennan, engineer, and
Douglas Wilcox, conductor, were killed
in freight train wreck near Liberty,
Neb.
All the street car lines in Milwau-
kee were tied up by strike of employees
for an increase of wages.
A five-story building was blown up in
Cincinnati by an explosion and six per-
sons We're killed and many others were
injured, some fatally.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 4th was: Wheat,
55,519, 900 bushels; corn, IL ,3ly,0 900 bush
els; oats, S,24O,OOO bushels; rye, 4,414,-
600 bushels; barley, 1,139,OOO bushels.
The annual report of John S. Sey-
mour, commissioner of patents, says
that during the year 21,99S patents and
designs were issued. The aggregate
receipts were $1,245,247; expenditures,
$1,0S4, 496.
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada during the month of April
were $12,010,600, about $l,000,000 more
than the total for the month in 1895.
An investigation of the trust funds
collected by the state department. in
Washington shows a shortage of $780,
600.
The firm of L. e. G.. Friend & Co.,
wholesale dealers in leaf tobacco in New
York, failed for 100000.
The dwelling of William Harris in
Albermarle county, Va, was burned,
and his four children were cremated.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
AT Montpelier, VT, the republican
state convention adopted resolution
expressing preference for Maj. Nc
Kinley as a presidential candidate. The
platform opposes silver agitation and |