Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-25
DOMESTIC.

The National league baseball season
Of 1896 opened on the 10th, the result
by percentages being as follows: Brock
lyn, 1000; st. Louis, 1000; Washing
ton, 1000; Pittsburgh, 1000; Boston,
1000; Chicago, 1000; New York, 900;
Baltimore, 900; Cleveland, 900; LOUIS
vile, 900; Cincinnati, 900; Philadel-
phia, 900.
The president issued his annual
Behring sea proclamation warning
sealers from plying their vocation dur
ing the closed season, from May to
August 1.
The colored population of Washing
ton celebrated the 34th anniversary of
emancipation.
Harry Schaffer, aged 90, Harry Brown,
aged 10, Stanley Early, aged %, and d.
NJ. Cafe, aged 10, were drowned in the
river at Pittsburgh, Pa.
A fire at Chandler, the county seat of
Lincoln county, o. T., burned the post
office and nearly all the business portion
Of the town.
George d. Wetherill & Co., manufac-
turers of paints and dealers in window
glass in Philadelphia, failed for S175, 1000.
The New York Legislature adopted
resolution to adjourn finally on April
80.
Business was reported as quiet
throughout the country.
There were 223 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against $50 'he week
previous and 241 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the nth aggregated
1874, S,764, against 26,220,255 the
previous week. The increase, conf
pared with the corresponding week in
1895, was Sc.
1t has been decided to change the
place of burial of Secretary Gresham
from Oaliwoods cemetery III Chicago to
Arlington at the national capital.
rainstorm in Vernon county, Wis,
swept away many barns and granaries
and large number of cattle, hogs and
sheep were drowned. The entire vii
lage of Odanah was under water and
great damage was done.
part of California was severely dam
aged by frost.
Joseph Daugherty shot his wife, aged
20 years, and then shot himself at Litz.
Pa. No reason was known.
Josephine and Edward Courmatine.
Lena and Annie Dubois and Rosie Bon
MEN (all children) were burned to
death in a tenement-house fire at Tur-
ner Falls, Mass.
Andrew Olson and his wife were fa-
tally injured by lightning at Wallace,
Mich, and their two little children were
killed.
James H. Eckels, comptroller of the
currency, addressed an audience of
1000 Cincinnati business men on the
financial question from the gold stand
ard point of view.
A counterfeit ten-cent silver piece
was discovered at the treasury in Wasn-
ington.
Four men working in the slope of the
Eddy Creek colliery near Olyphant, Pa,
were instantly killed by the ground cav
ing in.
Two firemen were killed and several
olhSiS sciiously ihJuiSu ny hiS "hiS'
destroyed the old depot of the Penn
sylvania Railroad company in Philadel-
phia. Loss, 100000.
Starting Savage was taken from his
bed at Irving College, Tenn, by mob
of "moonshiners" and hanged. He was
suspected of being a "spotter" for the
United States revenue officers.
Cloudbursts in various parts of Wis
consin washed away bridges and cul-
verts, lightning struck many buildings
and heavy damage followed, and is COWS
and four horses were burned to death in
Brighton.
The works of the Dauntless Bicycle
company and Baker Brothers machine
factory were burned at Toledo, o., the
total loss being 100000.
By an explosion in the Broadwater
mine at Niehart, Mont, seven men lost
their lives and six others were seriously