Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-10
DOMESTIC.

Later advices from the railway wreck
at West Chicago, ILL.,, say that John God
ing, of Austin, New, Mrs. r. Shipman,
of Appleton, Wis, and John Rode, a.
tramp, were killed, ard 90 other per-
sons were injured.
A new counterfeit five-dollar bill has
made its appearance in Chicago. 1t is
of series 1896, check letter B, plate No.
4, Tillman, register, and Morgan,
treasurer, No. 376,67O, with small car
mine seal.
The National Grain Dealers associa-
tion in session in Des Moines, Ia, elect
ed w. I. Mckay, of Kentland, Ind, as
president.
At Cambridge, Mass, Harvard uni
versity graduated class of 773 men.
In the two-mile freshman boat race
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Cornell defeated
Columbia and Pennsylvania, the time
being 0:21 is.
Five Indians, including Chief Wee
Sug, died at Malone's Point, Minn., as a
result of drinking pain killer, hair oil
and other preparations containing al
cohol.
The Commercial Building Trust, q
corporation doing building and loan
business in Louisville, KY. failed for
S50O,OOO, and the Columbia Building
Loan and Savings association failed for
100000.
Mrs. Pauline Weitmeier and her
daughter committed suicide at Owens
boro, Ky, by taking carbolic acid. No
cause is known.
The Western Door company, trust
with headquarters at Rock Island, ILL.,.
has collapsed.
Col. w. j. Calhoun. of Danville, ILL.,,
has decided to decline the position of
comptroller of the treasury.
Charles McCausland, his mother his
half-brother, Frank Mills. and a girl
servant, were killed by lightning at
Westfield, Ia.
Judge Thomas NJ. Cooley, of Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, the noted authority on con-
s:itutional law, has become hopeless
invalid
Ten persons-nine men and n woman
were injured by the explosion of To-
comotive boiler at Morgan Park, Ill.
Tom Logan and Wyatt Cooper
brought about deadly shooting affray
at a picnic near Vanceburg, Ky, in
which two persons We're killed and
many others were wounded.
Rev. DIR. Frank NJ. Ellis, aged 40, pas
tor of the Washington Avenue Baptist
church in Brooklyn, n. Y, died sudden
ly of apopleXy while attending the or
dination services of Rev. James Bristow.
The steamer st. Louis broke the
ocean record between New York and
Southampton, her time being 6 days
10 hours and As minutes.
The Keystone national bank at Erie,
Pa, by unanimous vote of the direc-
tors, decided to close its doors. The
depositors will be paid in full.
The reports as to the condition of
the crops throughout the country were
all favorable.
Three hundred Bannock Indians
broke away from the Fort Hall reser-
vation in Idaho, and the settlers were
greatly alarmed.
The University of Illinois at Cham
paign has decided to admit women to
the medical college.
Enemies of Leon Olchofski blew up
his block of buildings in South Scran-
ton, Pa, with dynamite, and 20 other
houses had all the windows blown out
and plaster torn from the walls. Sew
eral persons were badly injured, Oh
chofski probably fatally.
"Schweinfurth," the so-called "Mes-
siah" of Rockford, ILL.,, has purchased
land in Benton county, Ark, where he
will establish one of his "heavens."
The annual convention of the Ne
braslsq League of Republican clubs was
held in Omaha and resolutions were
adopted indorsing President Mckinley,
the gold standard and protection.
The republican members of the SEN
ate committee on judiciary have prae-
tically agreed upon an amendment to
the tariff bill making it an offense pun
ishable by fine and imprisonment for
any person or corporation to monopo-
lize or conspire with any other person
or corporation to monopolize trade In
any article protected by the tariff bill
The proposed boxing match between
Fitzsimmons and Sullivan in Brooklyn,
N. Y, on July has been prohibited by
the police.
Secretary OF Agriculture Wilson has
decided that officials of the gov.
ernment must obey the orders of courts
whether they are engaged when sum-
moned or not.
The Grand View, the leading hotel al
Tallulah Falls, well-lknown Georgia
suminer resort, was burned.
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