Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-10

national republican committee.
Lyman Cutting and wife, while driy-
ing over n railroad crossing in Shirley,
Mass, were instantly killed by train.
The monthly statement issued by the
treasury department gives the money
circulation per capita as $23O1, based on
nm estimated population of 72,547,ooo.
Maj. Gen. Thomas II. Ruger, COM
manGing the department of the east of
the United States army, with head
quarters IN New York, has been retired,
and is succeeded by Maj. Gen. Wesley
Merritt.
Five men near Indian Bay, Ark,
were drowned while fleeing from the
rising waters in White river, and five
more persons lost their lives in the food
near Madrid. Mo. In Greenville, Miss,
the streets were navigable only by
boat, and plantations never before un-
der water were submerged.
There were 4,042 business failures in
the United States reported during the
past quarter, compared with 4,512 in the
first quarter of 1896, falling off of
about II per cent. The total liabilities
amounted to $62 $4,000, a falling off of
16 per cent. from the corresponding
total last year.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the Cd aggregated $685.
9s6,642, against $ss7 300, ,99s the previous
week. The decrease compared with the
corresponding week of 1896 was 5.2.
A cyclone passed over the southern
portion of Cleveland county, Ark, de-
stroying IS residences and wounding
ten persons. William Shirley was killed.
The steamer ]. f. C. Griggs sank in
the Chattahoochee river near Columbia,
Ala, and five persons were lost.
The Maple Leaf hotel was burned at
Richmond, Mo-, and James Herman and
Frank Anderson perished in the flames.
An ordinance prohibiting buildings
in st. Louis of greater altitude than
$50 feet was passed by the city coun-
ell.
The petition of Joseph r. Dunlop,
publisher of the Chicago Dispatch, for
executive clemency has been denied by
the president. Dunlop is under sentence
for sending obscene literature through
the mails.
AT Jamestown, N Y, Millard Spencer
fatally wounded his stepdaughter and
Miss Helen Van Syckle, of Union, Pa,
who was visiting her, set fire to his
barn, burning 13 head of stock, and cut
his throat.
AT Norwalk, Wis, William Westphal
fatally shot Mrs. Carrie Deitsch, wife of
William Deitsch, and then shot him
self dead. He was insane.
A sailing skiff capsized in the Niagara
river near Niagara Falls, n. Y, and
Thomas Dowd, aged %, and Edward
Bowling, 80 years old, were drowned.
Edward Graham and Daniel Shirley,
miners, were caught by an avalanche
near Tacoma, Wash, and killed.
Fifty villages and cities in Tennessee
were covered with water six feet deep
and in the Mississippi valley $4,000 per-
sons were confronted with famine. The
most fertile farm lands in Mississippi,
lyingin Coahoma, La Flore, Quitman and
Tallahatchie counties were also under
water.
DR.. J. Fl. Walton, a well-known ply
sician of Dubuque, Ia, committed sui
eide in Lincoln park, Chicago, while
temporarily insane.
Gov. Scofield, of Wisconsin, vetoed
the antitrust bill on the grounds that
it was harsh and unreasonable.
A terrific windstorm struck the towns
of Enos, Hagaman, Eldred and Colum-
biana, in Illinois, wrecking many build
ings.
The Richardson building in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, was destroyed by fire and
Boyd Ewing and S. NJ. Fatton perished in
the flames. The property loss is $4oo,-
OOO
Douglass Reece after SO hours of hyp-
motto sleep in a coffin in Chillicothe, o.,
buried five feet below the sod, was resur-
rected and said he felt as well as ever.
Miss Phoebe CouZins has renounced
woman suffrage and repudiated its lead
ers.
A fire in the George G.. Otte company's
carpet store in Cincinnati destroyed the
entire stock, valued at 100000.
Forest fires were doing immense dam
age in the Pocono and Blue Ridge noun
tains in Pennsylvania
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