Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24
DOMESTIC.

in Kansas City, Mo-, the total loss being
100000.
The river continued to rise slowly at
Vicksburg and all points south and the
situation along the Louisiana system of
levees was acute.
Sylvester Sanders and his wife and
five children were drowned near Helena,
Ark, by the upsetting of a boat.
Joseph Bloodworth, Jock Gooden and
Sarah Evanson, children who were Bit
ten by mad dog in Gordon, Ca, died of
hydrophobia.
John Formella shot and instantly
killed his stepson, Matthias Dostert, in
Chicago while in rage and then killed
himself.
Jesse Evans, negro charged with ac-
costing two lHtlewhite girls, was riddled
with bullets at Edwards, Miss, by a
mob.
Two-thirds of the winter wheat crop
of Illinois is said to have been winter
killed.
South of Council Bluffs, Ia, the water
has inundated farms for a distance of
three or four miles and much stock
has been drowned.
Edward Reynolds and his wife and
daughter were murdered near Sweet
hill, r. l., and the house set on fire,
presumably to cover the crime. Mar
tin Mowry, the hired man, was under
arrest.
A snowslide near Ketcham, Idaho,
buried man named White, Fred Tul-
ford and his siX-year-old stepson so feet
deep.
The Long Mead Iron company and
the Conshohockcn Tube company at
Conshohocken, Pa, failed for 100000.
A passenger train on the Wabash rail
road struck buggy near West Point,
Ind, and James Holton, Plymouth
ored) were killed.
Ten thousand acres of the best land
in the Quincy Qll.) district were sub
merged under from four to ten feet of
water.
Near Dekoven, Ky, James Green and
William Green, deputy constable,
were shot dead, and Constable William
Beset fatally wounded by William Cody
and Thomas Hite, post office thieves.
largest firms of morocco manufacturers
at Lynn, Mass, failed for S150,o00.
The Moresque building in New Or
leans, occupied by business firms, was
burned, the loss being 100000.
The funeral of ex-senator Daniel w.
Voorhees, took place from ST. Stephens
Episcopal church in Terre Haute, Ind,
Rev. John E. Sulger, the rector, Of
ficiating.
Fire destroyed the business portion
OF the village of Lindsey, o.
The new laws passed by the last legis-
lature went into force in Indiana by
the governors proclamation.
Army officers detailed to distribute
supplies in the flooded districts in the
south say that over nine-tenths of Wash
ington, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunfowel
and considerable of Yazoo and Warner
counties in Mississippi are overfoweC
and that 10000 persons need food.
Judge James j. Storrow, aged 60, ,
well-known Boston lawyer, dropped
dead while at the congressional library
in Washington.
Il Services commemorative of the dcatl
, of Abraham Lincoln, 80 years ago, were
held in Representatives hall in Spring
field, Ill.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during tn,
week ended on the 10th aggregated
$056,2G4,17o, against $1,o16,093, ,321 tn,
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week of 1s0
9 was 80.
Mrs. WILDER Crouch, divorced won
an, and Miss May Daily were killed n
Sacket's Harbor, N. Y. and Georg
1 Allen was fatally wounded. The hus
3 band of Mrs. Crouch was in Jail charges
r with the crime.
: The National Bank of the Republi
in ST. Louis has been absorbed by tn
8 Merchants Laclede national bank.
; President Mckinley announced tn
! appointment of Senator Wolcott, of Co
orado; C. j. Paine, of Boston, and eS
Vice President Stevenson, of Illinoi:
il. as commissioners to an internationa
n monetary conference.
!. Theworlo ofunsealing the steel caslke
in the temporary tomb of Gen. Gran
i. was finished in New York and every
: thing is in readiness for the removal {
n the body to the crypt of the new tom
h on the 27th inst.
d The president has decided to rec
y ommend to congress an appropriate
$ as indemnity for the killing by mo
e of lynchers of three italian citizens O
's Hahnville, La, August last.
u The wife of Commander Bootl
d Tucker, of the Salvation Army, CAV
birth to a Gen in New York.