Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04

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The secretary of the treasury sent to
congress estimates of the general de-
ficiency in departmental appropria-
tions for the year ending June 80,
1896, amounting to $4,326,672.
Hiram II. Ely, boy of Is, and his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Jane ID. Ely, widow
30 years old and the mother of four,
children, were married at Richmond,
Ky.
A progressive euchre party for the
cause of Cuban freedom at Philadelphia
realized $1,000. &aaa.
The date of opening the Red Lake In
dian reservation in Minnesota has been
changed from May to May Is next.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Parkinson, Wind
sor, Wis, were asphyXiated by gas from
a coal stove.
Fire destroyed the Sunday Leader
Office at Springfield, o.
Fred Gorrell, molder at West Co.
lumbus, o., aged 81, shot his wife, aged
IL, and then cut his throat with razor.
Jealousy was the cause.
Melvin o. Dennis, of Denver, Col,
rode mile unpaced on the Montclair
straightway course in 1:11 3-5. IL was
the fastest time ever made on wheel.
Jim and Frank Tilman and Lucy Law
were instantly killed by rock falling
from ledge and crushing through the
house where they were sleeping at Echo,
w. Va.
Conrad Becker, aged II, was mur-
dered by his stepson, William Becker,
aged AZ, near Arenzville, ILL.,, in quar-
rel over farm.
A coal breaker at Priceburg, Pa,
owned by o. S. Johnson and others,
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
100000.
Fire destroyed the yards of the City
Lumber & Coal company at Waterbury,
Conn, and all the lumber and II horses
were burned. Loss, 100000.
Fourteen hundred men employed in
the ship-yard of Wheeler & Co. at Bay
City, Mich, went on strike against the
check system of payment.
Two of the leading banks in ST. Louis,
the Commercial and the st. Louis ma.
tlonal, consolidated.
In the presence of 10000 people the
largest vessel of the United States navy
was launched at the Cramp shipyards
in Philadelphia and named Iowa. Miss
Mary Lord Drake, daughter OF the gov
ernor of Iowa, christened the vessel.
y windstorm did great damage in a
dozen towns in Kansas.
Lightning destroyed the house of
Jacob Reihl, farmer at Spring Valley,
Mimi, killing his wife and two sons and
the hired man.
The Glenmore worsted mills in Phila-
delphia were burned, the loss being
$13O,000.
A windstorm blew down the house of
Fl. A. Vaughn in Cleveland and Mrs.
Sarah Bradford and Miss Emma Deit-
rich, who were in bed asleep, were
crushed 20 death.
Pulaski Duckworth, a prominent
farmernear rBentonville, Ark, while in
sane killed his wife and child with an
AK and then cut mis- own throat.
The entire business portion of Wes-
ton, W. Va, was burned, the loss being
over $150,000.
Alvin N. Stone, wealthy farmer,
aged 6s; his wife, Serena, aged 62,
were murdered by some one unknown al
their home near Tallmadge, o., and Ira
Stillson, the hired man, was fatally
and two daughters, Emma, aged 20,
and Hattie, aged 30, seriously injured
Two warehouses of the Pleasure
Ridge Park Distillery company at
Louisville were destroyed with all their
contents, including over 10000 barrels
of whisky, the loss being $425,ooO.
~ sharp earthquake shock was felt
at Rawiins, Wyo., houses being swayed,
but no serious damage was done.
Rogge g. Koch, toy importers at Bal
timore, Md, failed for $500
Levinew, Berger d. Co., wholesale
clothiers in Louisville, KY, failed for
100000.
Ice gorges in Tonawanda, n. Y, and
vicinity did damage estimated at $500,
| 900.
Newberger, Frankel G. Co., wholesale
furnishings and notion dealers in Louis.
Vile, KY, failed for 100000.
The First national bank of Morris,
Mimi, closed it's doors with liabilities
of 100000.
Bills raised from two dollars to ten
dollars by altering the figures and the
last two letters of the two" were in cir
culation in Muncie, Ind.
The North Indiana Methodist confer
ence in session at Richmond cast T.
unanimous vote in favor of the eadmis-
sion of women as delegates to the gen
eral conference.
John Mcguire, of Butte, Mont, has
| discovered records that lead him to be-
lieve that the Chinese knew how to use
cathode rays centuries ago.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 3Oth ult. was:
| Wheat, 81 ,02S,0OO bushels; corn, 16,17f,-
| 600 bushels; oats, s,631 900 bushels;
rye, 1,48s,oOO bushels; barley, 1,105,OOO
| bushels.
Many Assyrians at Quincy, H., were
becoming citizens of the United States
in order to escape military duty in
Turkey.
At Kansas City, Mo-, Harry Hill aged
2S, shot and killed his wife, aged 21, in