Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-15

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ceivers: The j. w. Winslow Jones
Packing company, $15o,ooO; the High
land Packing company, 100000; the
patuxent Canning company, $4,000,
and the Riverton Live Stock company,
$25, 700.
The bill to prevent prize fighting in
the District of Columbia and territories
was signed by the president and be-
came n law.
The exchanges ut the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
irg the week ended on the 7th ag-
eregated 5000, ,oo6, 400, against $500, ,oso,.
070 the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1896, was 10.
benjamin Radcliff, the slayer of the
entire school board of jefferson dis
trict, Park county, was hanged ut
Canon City, Col.
Joseph Merrifield, the 13-year-old son
of Frank Merrifeld, of Hedrick, Ia,
shot his eight-year-old brother with a
rifle and then killed himself
L. A. Hendry, who has been in the
mercantile business at Angola, Ind, for
30 years, failed with liabilities of $70,-
900.
A storm in New Brunswick, n. j.,
carried away great quantities of lum-
Der and goods in many stores and fac
tories were damaged, the loss reach
ing fully 100000.
The recent storm and fire at Bound
Brook, N. j., caused loss of $2o0, 900
and the death of one man named Mil
Ter, who perished in the attempt TO aid
people in distress.
The schooners Florida, Allianza anI
Glendon were wrecked OH the Massa
chusetts coast and ten sailors lost their
lives.
Peter L. Atkins and Miss Maud Kelly
while out riding were drowned near
Middletown, n. Y. In the darkness At
kins drove off the road into flooded
meadow.
The packing house of the Tri-City
Packing company at Davenport, Ia,
was burned, the loss being $4,000.
Henry Blake, his wife and children
We're whipped by white caps in Georgia,
who suspected him of illicit dis'illing.
Blake would die.
lOll otlNISCS say lhS
will receive in round figures from the
bond sale about Sill, 100000 in gold.
The Newberry Coal & Coke company
Il, Morgantown, w. Va, failed for $780,
600.
The state factory inspector of Michi-
gan says that the loss from factories
in the state closing or running on short
time last year aggregated $17,0o0.oO0.
On the Chicago, Burlington d Quincy
burg to Mendoza, ILL.,, distance of 50
miles, in 71h minutes.
The Altmyer theater block was
burned at McKeesport, Pa, the loss be-
ing $13o,000.
Rev. Father John NJ. Fitzgerald, con-
victed at Rochester, n. Y, of arson In
the second degree, was sentenced to ten
years confinement in the state prison
at Auburn.
Oscar Barneybea,l shot Mrs. E. Il.
Catlin ON the street at Anaconda, Mont,
and then killed himself. A love affair
was the cause.
Fifteen persons were injured in a
railway wreck near Hannibal, Mo-, one,
Miss Margaret Whitley, of Quincy, ILL.,,
probably fatally.
Conrad Truss, 80 years old, commit
ted suicide by hanging at his home in
Waltz township, Ind. He was wealthy,
but feared poverty.
John Barnett, aged rs, died with
palsy at Paris, KY, and the minute he
died large clock in the room stopped
an6 had sinra rafI,ca6 tn rim
Joseph r. Dunlop, publisher of She
Chicago Dispatch, YVES sentenced to pay
a fine of 50 900 and serve a term of two
years in the Joliet p.nitentiary for the
oIfense of using the United States mails
to circulate obscene advertisements.
w. G. Browne, proprietor of the City
bank at New Philadelphia, O., Jailed for
100000.
Rev. Sandford Hunt, d. D.. of New
York, senior agent of tn" Methodist
hook concern, and treasurer of the
Methodist Missionary society, dropped
dead of apoplexy at the Grand hotel lii
Cincinnati. He was I" years old.
F. w. Curtis, of Douglas. Wyo., sold
his sheep at the stock yards in Chi
cago for $4,000 and two men robbed him
of the money.
The fire loss of the United States and
Canada during January amounted to
$11,040,000. The total for January
1895, was 81 i ,s05,6OO.
The Northern Fire association OF
Columbus, o., went into the hands of a
receiver with liabilities of 100000 anG
assets of $5o.67.
A statement prepared at the treas
ury department shows that the govern.
ment will realize from the new loan
$111, 1878, 1896 07.
Joseph Leeds (colored), who attempt
cd to assault Mrs. A. ID. Prince at Sed,
den, Ala, was taken from the authors.
ties by mob and hanged to a tree.
The will of William II. English, PR.
bated at indianapolis, leaves an estate
said to be worth $3,OOO,OOO almost en-.
tirely to his son and DAUGHTER