Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-24
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Charles Brown, who on May IA last
murdered Mrs. Colstone, was hanged at
Deadwood, S. ID.
Two large reservoirs in the Fishkill
mountains near Fishlsill, N. Y, burst
their walls and flooded the Duchess val
ley, doing great damage to property
and causing the death of probably q
dozen persons.
r. C. Heydlauff committed suicide at
Ashland, Wis, while on trial for forg-
cry.
Gov. F. NJ. Drake, of Iowa. was quite
seriously injured by fall on the steps
of the capitol in Des Moines.
The prospect for u settlement of the
great miners strike by arbitration was
brighter than at any time since the
struggle began.
The Furniture Dealers National as
sociation at its final session at Grand
Rapids, Mich, elected A. j. Conroy, of
Cincinnati, president.
The Central block, the largest build
ing in Pueblo, Col, was burned, the loss
being S30O,000.
President Mckinley has issued an or
dersuspending the operation of EXPIRES
idcnt CIeveland's order consolidating
the pension agencies of the country
and reducing their number to nine
from 1S.
The Cheyenne Indians were again
making trouble for the white people
near the reservation in Montana.
Leonard j. Crawford, of Newport,
Ky, was elected president of the Ma
tional Republican league at the annual
meeting in Detroit, Mich.
The Nebraska national bank of York,
Neb., closed it's doors with liabilities of
$4,000.
Frank Simard, Joseph Lavoie and
George Terrien were drowned at Man
chester, n. H., by the upsetting of
boat.
John Choun and Robert Hatfield
were killed and six other men were
badly injured in railway wreck near
! West Alton, Ill.
A treasury statement says that the
excess of exports over imports during
the last fiscal year was $2S7, ,613, ,1S6, be-
/ ing 100000 over any previous year.
A new counterfeit ten-dollar silver
! certificate of the series of 1891, check
letter d, has been discovered in Wash
ington.
/ The seventh international convention
of the Baptist Young Peoples Union of
America began in Chattanooga. Tenn.
Anthony Williams (colored) who out
ragged and murdered Miss Rene Will
oil 10 rrirl 6
shot and then burned by a mob at West
Point. Tenn.
Fire in San Francisco destroyed the
manufactory and warehouse of the
Charles NJ. Yates company, the loss be
ing 100000.
A landslide in the mountains neal
Lincoln, VT. ruined several fine farms
The trans-Mississipp congress met a
Salt Lake City, Utah, with delegates
present from every state and territor!
west of the Mississippi river.
Santa Fe railway officials report tha
there will be yield of 100000 bush
els of wheat in Kansas.
A statue of Father Marquette was un
yelled at Marquette, Mich, his name
sake city.
An order has been issued forbddin.
the sale of liquor in the restaurants o
the Maine Central railroad.
There were 263 business failures il
the United States in the seven day
ended on the 10th, against 2O6 the weel
previous and eco in the corresponding
period of 1896.
Major Terrell, negro who assaults
Mrs. Martin Thomas, white woman
near Elba, Ala, and then burned tn
woman and her baby to death, wa
taken from Jail by a mob and hanged.
Kansas farmers are appealing TO
, help TO save their wheat while tn
t state is swarming with tramps who re
fuse to work.
: Y. II. Lewis, the famous bond forge
pleaded guilty at Urbana, o., and wa
sentenced to eight years in the peniteI
tiary.
The number of silver dollars coine
at the United States mints during th
last fiscal year was 21,203,701, on whic
the seigniorage or profits to the govern
= ment amounted to $6,336,104.
. Adam Winebrenner, of Beatrice, Mel
+ was taken from Jail by mob of indil
= nant citizens and tarred and feathere
|. for crually beating his stepdaughter.
: The remains of the late Senate
o Harris were inferred with appropriat
y ceremonies in Glenwood cemetery I
). Memphis, Tenn.
y The city of Oakland, CAL, entertalne
d in most hospitable manner $4,000 de
egates to the Christian Endeayor col
vention.