Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-03-27

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IN. On..eu St2.ea yc4tAl- bureau
says that 500 square miles of the state
of Arkansas is under water. Thou
sands of people are homeless and de-
pendent on charity and many have been
drowned.
The Mail and Express newspaper in
New York has been sold by the estate
of Elliot F. Shepard to Robert C. Alex
andcr and Robert E. A. Dorr.
Washington Hesing, candidate for
mayor, sent in his resignation as post
master of Chicago to President Nc
Kinley.
The Indiana wheat crop will be 30
per cent short of the average for nor
NAL years.
Cash wheat smashed all records for
the last six years in st. Louis by reach
ing the dollar mark.
In the prize fight at Carson City, New,
between Corbett and Fitzsimmons for
the worlds championship and purse
of $4,000 the latter won in the four.
tcenth round.
In Philadelphia Frederick Franks
shot and killed his son William, aged
nine years, shot and fatally wounded
his daughter Amelia, five years old, and
then killed himself.
Wholesale charges of legislative cor
raption caused Speaker Byers, of the
Iowa house, to resign until an investi-
gatioL could be made.
Five toll gates were destroyed in Gar
rard county, Ky, by mob of masked
raiders.
james Lane celebrated his 1o1st birth
day at his home in Chicago.
John Hull, an employe of the Erie
railway at Servia, Ind, shot his wife
and then killed himself. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
j. z. Crosby & Co., of Danvers, Mass,
boot and shoe manufacturers, failed for
100000.
President Mckinley sent to the senate
the following nominations: Powell
Clayton, of Arkansas, to be minister Of
the United States to Mexico; William NJ
Osborne, of Massachusetts,, consul-gen-
eral at London; John K. Gowdy, of In
diana, consul-general at Paris; Joseph
H. Brigham, of Ohio, to be assistant sec
retary of agriculture, and Perry S.
Heath, of Indiana, to be first assistant
postmaster-general.
Near Marion, Ark, Eta LiX and her
four children were drowned in a flood.
William Fees, farmer living near
Wamego, Kan, fatally shot his wife and
his mother-in-law, Mrs. S. II. johnson,
and her daughter, and then killed him
self. Domestic trouble was the cause.
FitZsimmons has decided to retire
permanently from the ring and settle
down in New York.
The floods in the Mississippi valley
were growing worse and the situation
in many towns was appalling.
Dave Pennington, a worthless charac-
Ter at Odebolt, Ia, shot and killed
Luther Traver, fatally wounded Mrs.
Frank Stoll, seriously wounded Mrs.
Hiram johnson and then killed him
self.
The passing of mutilated or defaced
coins and the mutilation and deface-
ment of coins has been made a. crimi-
nal offense by congress, punishable by
Imprisonment not to exceed five years
and fine not to exceed $4,000.
The levec so miles below Caruthers-
vile, Mo-, broke and II persons were
drowned.
The gunboats Marietta and Wheel
ing, twin screw boats of 1000 tons each
were launched at San Francisco.
The Turkish minister has declared
vacant the Office of consul of the Otto
man empire at Boston, Mass, held by
Joseph Iasigi, who is under arrest on
charges of embezzlement.
The towns of Leeds, Lynn, James
Hinton and Merrill in Iowa were flood
! ed, and several drownings were re
ported.
The Michigan supreme court decided
unanimously that Gov. Pingree canno'
hold the Office of mayor of Detroit an6
chief executive of the state at the same
time.
John Smith, negro preacher, was
shot to death by a mob ut Scottsboro
Ala. Smith was charged with outrag
ing the wife of white farmer.
Dispatches from the Mississippi, Ohio
and Missouri valleys tell story o
widespread damage and loss of life a
result of floods caused by heavy rains