Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-11-28

lumbus, u, OF Nallse containing So,-
600 worth of gold watches.
The experimental test made by Buff
falo (N. W street railway company on
two of it's lines of the electric power
from the Niagara Power company has
proved a success.
The whaling steamer Beluga arrived
in San Francisco with the largest catch
of the season. She had 23 whales, $1,000
pounds of bone and 730 barrels of oil.
United States Deputy Marshal Nc
Glinchy had fight with Black Jnck's
bandits near Separ, n. NJ, killing the
notorious Bob Hayes and fatally wound
ing George Musgrave.
The Alabama Legislature has been
asked to call convention of the peo-
pie of the state to remedy the election
laws so as to require an educationa
qualification for voters.
Rev. DIR. Thomas j. Conaty, of Wor-
cester, Mass, has been appointed by the
pope as rector of the Catholic university
at Washington, to succeed Bishop John
}. Keane, resigned.
A train on the Chesapeake Ss Ohio
railroad caught buggy at street
crossing in Concord, KY, and instantly
killed Al Pollok, young lawyer, and
Misses Lulu and Lizzie Lind. daughters
of the proprietor of the Lind hotel.
Continued improvement in CONNER
cial and industrial circles wac reported
throughout the country.
Wild animals are more numerous in
northern Wisconsin than they have ever
been before.
A violent earthquake shock was felt
at Wilmington, Del, Woodbury., N. j.,
and at other places in Delaware and
New Jersey.
Il. B. Armour, postmaster at Memphis,
Tenn, is said to be $4,000 short in his
accounts.
Tirl in the building at Cleveland, o.,
occupied by H. w. Luetkemeyer & Co.,
wholesale and retail hardware and
paint dealers, caused loss of $3.50, ,OOO
There were 344 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 25s the week
previous and 320 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Earl a. Moore was taken to the peni-
tentiary from Springfield, o.. to serve
one year lot prize ISnllnB.
A man and a woman who registered ut
a hotel in Valley City. n. D.. as Thomas
Owens and wife, were found dead,
clasped in each others arms. Prussic
acid had been taken.
Corbett has accepted an offer made
by the New York Atheletic club of a
purse of $4,000 for a glove contest with
Fitzsimmons in that city on January IA.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregate
S1.235. 1872. i'll, against S1.19l, l,l17.147 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
;s 9.3.
j. ]. Crowley, supervising special
agent of the treasury, in his annual re-
port states that the number of arrests
made during the year for violations of
the customs laws was 5S; number of
seizures, 1856. The receipts for the
year exceeded those of the preceding
year by $s,O5s.1ss.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton in
his fourth annual report says that 72
per cent. of the farms in the United
States occupied by their owners are alb
solutely free from mortgages or other
membranes, and he refutes the idea
prevailing that the farmers are almost
universally in debt, despondent and suf-
fering. During the last fiscal year the
exported products of American farms
aggregated S570, 100000. an increase OF
81 100000 over the preceding year.
Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather
bureau, says in his annual report that
likely to cause injury to shipping We're
sent to all maritime stations and re-
suited in almost incalculable benefit
The average percentage of verification
of the bureaus forecasts during the
year was S2.4 per cent, an improvement
of "a per cent. over that of last year.
In riot during dance at the home
| of Charles Johnson, east of Lebanon
| Ind. Jack" Dowden and Jeffrey Gull
| don were fatally hurt.
The collier steamer San Benito. bound
from Tacoma to San Francisco, went
ashore seven miles north of Point Arena
Cal. and six of the crew were drowned
An electric locomotive that will rur
| 200 miles an hour has Just been com
| pleted at the Baldwin locomotive works
in Philadelphia.
A caboose attached to a work trair
on the Licking Valley railroad jumped
the track and rolled down 40-foot EN-
bankment near Ashland, KY. and 30 per
sons were injured, some fatally.
An unknown man and woman wht
registered as George Wilson and wifi
were found dead in their bed in a room
at the Standard hotel in New York
having been sufrocated by illuminating
gas.
AS result of the food in the Skagit
river the town of Hamilton, Wash. i
complete wreck.
Willy Haas. who cut the throat of Mrs
Emma Brader, his employers wife. a
Covedale, o.. was convicted of mur
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