Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-07

The Glaw-Anderson bicycle race at
Toledo, o., for the female championship
0f America was won by Lizzie CLAW, of
| Chicago.
BY dropping lighted lamp Mrs Wal
lace j. Scoby and her son were burned
to death at Grand Rapids, Mich.
DIR. John II. Love, of Mount Clair, one
Of the best-known physicians in New
Jersey, fell dead while assisting in a
| surgical operation.
A hailstorm in Rock and Noble coun-
ties, Mimi, destroyed 100000 acres
of crops.
Train wreckers threw an express
train from the track at Thorntown,
Ind, and Engineer Seth Winlow and
Fireman B. Crickmore were killed and
two other persons were fatally injured.
Miners in the Danville (lll.) district
are in destitute circumstances, over 400
Families being without means.
John johnson (colored) was hanged
at Livingston. Ala. for the muir
der of A. f. Clarke, white man,
in January, 1896, and Pig" Newell was
executed at Selma. Ala, for murder.
Heavy hail destroyed crops at Garth
age, Bristol, Waubay, Alexandria and
Bryant, in South Dakota.
The bullion value of the silver dollar
on the 30th was "A cents, the lowest in
it's history.
Reports show an improvement of
business without exception in every
northern city of Importance.
In the vicinity of Rock Rapids and
Sioux Center, Ia, so per cent. of the
small grain was ruined by hailstorm.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 1st were: Boston, 200;
Baltimore. .667; Cincinnati, 1858; New
York, SOB; Cleveland, $50; Philadel-
pha, .476; Pittsburgh, 463; Chicago,
.440; Louisville, .435; Brooklyn, .425;
Washington, .372; ST. Louis. $50.
Waldemar p. Leonhard, of Cincinnati,
O., has been appointed vice consul at
Hamburg, Germany.
William Cummings. the leader of the
nonunion miners at Scottdale, Pa, was
shot dead in quarrel with union men.
w. G.. Hubbs was arrested for the crime.
There was no material change in the
strike situation.
Gen. A. w. Greeley, the Arctic ex-
plorer, in an interview says he thinks
Prof. Andree, the balloon voyager, will
never be heard from.
Reports received from the New Eng
land, middle and western states say
that the hay crop will be the largest in
years.
The loss to the government on ac-
count of increased imports in n.anticipa-
ton of the increased duties imposed by
the new tariff act is estimated at $780,
666,427
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Hammond and
Mr.. and Mrs. Abner Norris were
drowned in the Wabash river near Car
Isle, Ind, while bathing.
Factory "B' of the Pioneer Fireproof
Construction company's plant in OF
tawa. ILL.,, was burned, the loss being
100000.
Mrs. Margaret Lelong arrived at her
home in San Francisco from Chicago on
a bicycle. being the first woman to
ride a wheel from Chicago to the Pa
cific ocean.
Willie and George Young (brothers)
and Henry Hall and Fred Bridgeford
were drownedat Kansas City, Mo-, while
bathing.
The First national bank at Asheville,
n. c.. went into voluntary liquidation.
A rich lead mine has been struck on
Main street, within a few blocks of the
business center of Joplin, Mo.
AT least $50 persons perished in the
recent floods at Kertch in the Crimea.
Frank Donahue, of Fort Wayne, Ind,
28 years old, slack-wire bicyclist, fell
from the wire at Ridgewood Park, L. l..
and was killed.
The month of July, just closed,
smashed the heat record for the past ten
years.
The Golden Rod Silk company at
Paterson, n. j., failed for 100000.