Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-02
DOMESTIC.


DOMESTIC.
Smith &5 Nixon, piano dealers in Gin
cinnati, made an assignment with as
sets of 100000 and liabilities of
$SOO,0O0.
The New York legislature passed the
greater New York bill over the veto
of the mayors of New York and Brook
lyn.
In dispute over portion of the Will
son tariff bill Congressman Hall, of
Missouri, and Congressman Money, of
Mississippi, fought with fists and ink
stands in Washington and both men
were injured.
Three hundred distinguished men
met in Washington for conference
to promote the propaganda for inter.
national arbitration.
The Mason " Davis company, one of
the oldest and largest manufacturers of
stoves and ranges in Chicago, failed
for 100000.
Near Meadville Pa, Edward Karles-
kind shot his wife and then cut,his own
throat. Both are dead. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
Ii. Gordon, lumber dealer at Hunting-
ton, w. Va, failed for 100000.
AT the final session III Washington
of the conference for international ar
bitration permanent organization was
effected At mass meeting in the even
ing President Eliot, of Harvard univer-
sity, severely arraigned the foreign
policy of President Cleveland and Sec
retary Olney.
Edna Varncy and Emma Cunning
ham, aged 16 and Is years, respectively,
committed suicide by drowning in the
mill pond at townsville, Wis.
The wife of Herman Scharnitzka, of
Cleveland, o., and her two young chill
dren, were fatally burned by a coal oil
explosion.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, says that over 5O0,-
coo men will make a demand for a
shorter day on May l.
The proposition to admit women as
lay delegates to the general confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church
has been defeated.
Charles Pustolka and Louis p. Her.
man, wife murderers, were electrocuted
in the penitentiary at Sing Sing, N. Y.
Moses Lindheim, u wholesale dealer
in leaf tobacco in New York, failed for
$l5O,00O.
There were 23S business failures in
ended on the Gath, against 223 the weei;
previous and ESQ in the corresponding
period of 1895.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the Gath aggregated
$1,O12, ,353, 200, against $7S+ +,33s, ,764 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week i'll
1895, was 1T.
Dispatches from points in Iowa, Min
nesota and Ohio tell of the general OBJ
servance of Arbor day throughout those
states.
Mrs. Joseph Cooking and Miss Daisy
Miller, her niece, were robbed and MUIR
dered at Top Hill, Nd, and Mr.. Cooking
was fatally injured.
AT Union City, Pa, Simon Hassel-
bach, aged nearly 10, fatally shot his
son William, aged 35, in quarrel, and
then shot himself fatally.
Marshall Anderson (colored) was
hanged at Malvern, Ark. He Killed
Tom Hanson, his wife's brother, near
Malvern last September.
John Love, living 80 miles south OF
Huntington, W. Va, shot aid killed hls
wife, fatally shot his father-in-l law,
Mazee, and then fatally shot himself.
No cause was known.
Martin Bernaud, a merchant of Scott,
La, was murdered and robbed of 81,
600. The autopsy showed that there
were SO stiletto wounds about his neck
and breast.
Ezra Beamon Newton, aged 101 years,
the oldest Shaker in the country, died at
Harvard, Mass. He deserted his wife
and children in 1S4S to embrace the
Shaker faith.
A cyclone at Salem, Va, blew down
many houses and barns and killed Mrs.
Jane Harris and her little boy.
Starfish have caused immense dam
age among the Connecticut oyster beds
this season.
Alexander Rhimes. who has been di-
yorced from seven wives, was seeking
divorce from the eighth at La Porte,
Ind.
The Grand Forks national hank OF
Grand Forks, n. D., closed its doors
with liabilities of $310 ,oOoi assets, $685.
900.