Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-17
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deed.
Mrs. Henry Grundy, n rich widow aged
| so, died at Youngstown, o., as the re-
suit of starvation. Her husband re-
= Gently died and she afterward refused
all food.
The Jasper county Jail at Paulding,
Miss, was burned and two prisoners,
e. A. Strickland and Mollie Daniels, a
negro woman. were cremated.
George Sanders fatally assaulted
with club piano tuner named Fisher
at La Grange, Ind, and then hanged
himself to rafter in deserted house.
Corning, Ia, was visited by n fire
which destroyed one-third of the busi-
ness houses, the loss being 100000.
DIR. Andrew j. Purdy, aged so, pas
tor of the Asbury Methodist church in
Buffalo, dropped dead on the street at
Corning, N. Y.
For splitting in his sons face Temple
Houston shot and fatally wounded J.
b. jenkins at Woodward, o, Il.
Fred Pratt, the companion of John
ID. Sair in the bank robbery and double
murder at Sherburne, Mimi, was ar
| rested at Albert Lea, in that state.
James Anderson and Henry Cyat,
both colored, were shot to death by a
mob near Taylors Ferry, Ala. They
were accused of having murdered and
robbed Randolph Falls. farmer.
A hurricane caused immense damage
to property on the New England coast
| and the loss of several lives.
AT Garfield park, Chicago, James Mi
chael, the Welchman, clipped IS seconds
off the American five-mile bicycle rec
ord. His time for the distance was
9:20.
Mrs. G. Walsdorfer, of Leo, O., was
playing with her baby. when the child
struck its mother in the eyes with its
finger nails, rendering her hopelessly
| blind.
The Security Trust company. a
banking concern at Nashua, n. H., failed
for S3OO.0OO.
Charles Hadworth and Henry Welsh
were executed at Wewoka, o. T., for
murder.
The exports of specie from the port
of New York for the week ended on the
10th amounted to $1,000 in gold and
Ss73,740 in silver. The imports were:
Gold, $2,213, ,296; silver, $57,9O7.
Prof. j. A. Blaisdell, aged 90 years.
of Beloit college, committed suicide at
Kenosha, Wis. Sickness was the cause.
Snow fell in portions of Nebraska
with temperature OF only ten degrees
above zero.
After four mcnths' recess the United
States supreme court reconvened in
Washington for the October term. The
court docket contains 615 cases, against
ISL at the beginning of last years Oc-
tober term.
An unknown man jumped into the
water at Prospect point, Niagara Falls,
and was Immediately swept over the
American falls.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
80, 434 900 bushels; corn, IA, ,46S, 900 bush
els; oats, 0,533,0O0 bushels; rye, 2,O32,-
600 bushels; barley, 100000 bushels.
The effect of the political agitation
upon business throughout the country
is indicated by the falling off in postal
receipts of $4,000 for the quarter end
| ing September 80.
The forty-third session of the Inter-
national Typographical union convened
at colorado Springs. Col.
The First national bank of Eddy, n.
NJ, closed it's doors with liabilities of
$75 900.
BY the assignment of Printer E. F.
Bigelow, of Portland, Conn, the follow
ing papers, which were printed in his
establishment, are compelled to sus-
pend: The Middletown Tribune. the
Middletown County Record, the Wes-
leyan College Argus and the Colchester
Advocate.
Col. J. r. McLain, a large lumber
dealer of Putnam county, w. Va, as
signed with liabilities of 100000.
Because his sweetheart, Miss Tillie
DietZman, would not consent to marry
him, Philip thinner shot and fatally
wounded the girl in ST. Louis and then
killed himself.
Epping, N. H.. was visited by fire
that destroyed six of its principal busi-
ness houses and caused a loss of $780,
coo.
| While Preserved Grant was com
pounding patent medicine at Chardon,
o., the mixture exploded and Mrs.
Perry and her child were fatally in.
jured.
The Atlantic coast in both directions
from New York was strewn with
wrecks of lighthouses, piers and yachts,
the result of high tide which broke
ali records. At many resorts summer
hotels were plucked from their moor
ings and foated out to sea.
Fire destroyed business buildings al
| Great Darlington, Mass, valued ut
| $20O00O
Butford Overton was executed at Har-
Ian, KY, for the murder, June 81, 1895,
of Gustave and Julia Loeb, two Jewish
peddlers.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
w. Y. Atkinson was reelected COVER
nor of Georgia by the democrats by a
majority of not less than $4,000.
Gen. George A. Sheridan, OF Louis