Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-17

Forty lives at least have been lost in
the floods in South Dakota, IOWA and
Nebraska.
There were 232 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 212 the week
previous and 225 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
Mrs. Leland Stanford, of San Fran
cisco, signed the contract by which her
life is now insured for $1,0OO,ooo. This
is the largest single policy ever issued.
Great damage was caused by the eS-
plosion of n cart load of fireworks in
Buenos Ayres and ten persons were
killed.
A cyclone passed over n portion of
disaster in it's path. Many houses were
demolished and a Mrs. Powers was
killed.
While lowering q boat from the cruiser
Marblehead at Key West, Fla, the davits
broke and two sailors were thrown into
the sea and drowned.
A heavy snowstorm in central Indiana
did great damage to telegraph wires.
Later reports from the fire at Knox
vile, Tenn, indicate that II persons lost
their lives.
The republican senators in Washing
ton who are acting as subcommittee
of the senate committee of finance in
the preparation of the tariff bill say it
will be reported in about two weeks.
The Poughkeepsie IN. " glass works
were completely destroyed by fire, the
less being 100000.
Mayor Strong, of New York, has re-
turned the Greater New York charter
to Albany without his approval, and
this makes the passage of the bill by the
Legislature again necessary.
Encampments of the Union Veteran
legion throughout the country cele-
brated the thirty-second anniversary
of Lees surrender at Appomattox
Courthouse.
The Nebraska legislature adjourned
sine die.
The anti-pooling law in Wisconsin has
been officially published and is now in
effect, gambling on horse races being
therefore at an end in the state.
Gov. Bushnell has issued proclama-
ton fixing April % as Arbor day in
Ohio.
Passenger trains on the Southern rail-
way collided at Harrisburg. N. c., kill
ing three persons and wounding six.
Mrs. Myrtle Growers two children and
daughter of William McFall were ia
tally poisoned at Howell, Mich, by eat
ing wild parsnips and Will Hughes,
farmer, and his two sons died at their
home near English, Ind, from the
same cause.
Texas was visited by general rain
and windstorm and great damage was
| done. Austin and Calvert suffered
most, three persons being killed at the
latter place.
The total area under water by floods
is 1890 square miles, of which 1900
square miles are in Mississippi, 4,500
square miles in Arkansas, 1850 square
miles in Missouri, 1900 in Tennessee
| and $50 in Louisiana. The flooded dis
tricts contain $4,000 farms. valued at
| $65 100000.
Tillie Anderson won the siX-day 12-
hour women's bicycle race in Detroit,
making 264 miles.
The American barkentiEe Nellie
Smith was sunk in collision with the
steamship La Grande Ducbesse off the
Jersey coast and Capt. Dodge, of Pea
body, Mass, and four sailors were
drowned.
The Cooperative Town company of
Elizabethton, Tenn, failed with liabili-
ties of $1,OOO,OOO.
Hundreds of families in North Da-
kota were made homeless by freshee
in the Red river and in East Grand
Forks the principal business street
stores were flooded eight feet deep.
Dwight L. Moody addressed 5000
women at an afternoon meeting in the
Auditorium in Chicago and as many
men at an evening meeting.
The Oldtown (Me.) Indians, whose
tribal name is the Tarrantines, have is
sued decree banishing from their
reservation on an island in the Penob-
scot all white persons.