Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-11-27

In a street duel In Waco, Tex, j. w.
Harris, editor of the Times, was fatally
shot and his brother killed by Judge @.
B. Gerald.
For the murder of his paramour,
Vinie Bell, George Weston (colored)
was hanged at Paducah, Ky.
About II per cent. of the railroads of
the country have been equipped with
safety appliances.
Sixty students at Vassar college in
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, were seriously i'll
from eating improperly cooked veal.
Since the present administration came
prisoners have been released in Cuba.
A miners train was wrecked near
Coal Bluff, Ind, and three men were
fatally injured and 20 others hurt.
In the upper peninsula of Michigan
nine men have been mistaken for deer
and killed in rs many days.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
wreck the fast New York and Chicago
express on the Erie railroad at Green
vile, o.
The government has decided to make
as soldiers.
Chinook winds and rains were playing
havoc throughout western Washington.
Martin Bartholemy and George Roehl
were fatally injured and Robert Loren
was severely beaten in an attack of
masked men on miners at the Kolb coal
pit near Mascoutah, Ill.
Frosts in the south have practically
killed out the yellow fever.
The National Grange adjourned at
Harrisburg, Pa, to meet at Concord,
n. H.. in November, 1898.
A fight at Bayou Lacombe, La. be-
tween Arthur and Edward Jolie on one
side and Laurance and Edward Cousin
on the other resulted in the killing of all
four.
Samuel, the 11-year-old son of David
johnson, of Philipsburg, n. j., recov-
cred his speech during a fright after
being dumb three years.
Deputies captured and destroyed six
Illicit stills in Pope and Scott coun-
ties, Ark, and arrested IA moonshiners.
In his first annual report Secretary
Alger urges military protection for
Alaska, commends the work of military
colleges, recommends two additional
regiments of artillery, the revival of the
grade of lieutenant general. more gen.
erous treatment of the national guards,
and his estimates for the next fiscal
year aggregate $96,25s,445
At Watsontown, Pa, the tannery
owned by Langdon & Co., of Boston, was
burned, the loss being $150,0OO.
Two distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt at Randsburg, CAL, and build
ings shook perceptibly.
Mrs. NJ. A. Trigg, aged SO years, and
her 11-year-old daughter Ethel lost
their lives in fire at Topeka, Kan.
The State bank of Holstein, Neb.,
closed its doors with liabilities of S16,-
900.
The wife and five children of Will
liam Meyer, of Elizabeth, n. j., died of
malignant diphtheria within ten days.
new counterfeit ten-dollar national
bank note has been discovered on the
Los Angeles (Cal.) national bank.
Mrs. Margaret Keegan, widow
woman in Chicago, was robbed of $s,O 900.
The money was kept in barrel in a
closet at her home.
Alderman George Durham, of Mime
apolis, convicted of demanding a bribe
of $4,000, was sentenced to six years
in the penitentiary.
Farmers of west Tennessee are plant
ing more wheat this season than was
ever known any previous year in the
history of the country.
Frank Woodward, Jim Hemphill and
Fayette Norton were killed by an eX-
plosion in a mill at Louisville, Miss.
The dikes at Mount Vernon. Wash,
broke, and within an hour the whole
town was under two feet of water. Hun
dreds of head of stock were drowned.
Willie Cornell, aged six, and Lille
Cornell, aged four, were found with
their throats cut at their home in Ocon-
omowoc, Wis. and Ernest Cornell, their
father, was suspected of the crime.
Out of revenge John De Silva set fire
to the stock barn of Fritz Dahler at
Pana, ILL.,, and 30 head of fine registered
mich cows. five calves and five horses
were cremated.