Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-14
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

Four girls, Myrtle Pample, aged 10;
Emma Pample, aged IL; Ethel Pam
pie, aged is, and Bessie Adams, aged
IL, were drowned in Skunk river near
Nugent, Ia, while bathing.
A new worlds half-mile unpaced tan
dem record was made at Scranton, Pa,
b. Ralph Gregory and Ben Kelley, their
time being o:55h.
A cloudburst in Douglas county, Col,
destroyed over 100 bridges.
The banking house of James G..
Kings Sons, founded in New York in
1915. is going out of business.
Cattle were dying by hundreds of
anthrax in the vicinity of Sioux City,
la.
Fire in the chemical works of d.
Jayne & Sons at Frankford, Pa, caused
a loss of 100000 and seven firemen
and two workmen were seriously
burned.
Clarence Temperly, of Irvington,
Neb.. and Joseph Scanlon, of Corning.
Ia. were killed by lightning near Wi
ota, la.
The wife and child of Wallace Scoby
were burned to death in Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Charles Dietz shot and fatally
wounded Kate Scollon in Philadelphia
because she would not marry him and
then killed himself.
Two children were killed and six per-
sons were fatally injured in a rail-
way accident near Rockland, N. Y.
Jim Key, marvelously well educated
horse owned by William Key, a negro,
was sold in Nashville, Tenn, to U. G..
Dufleld, of New York, for $4,000.
Three carrier pigeons made the fly
rom Carlyle, ILL.,, to Grafton, w. Va,
500 miles, in 30h hours, an average of
1917 miles per hour. This record sur
passes any previous one made.
Judge Jackson, in the United States
court at Parkersburg. W. Va. granted
a sweeping injunction restraining Eu
gene V. Debs and his associates from i
any way interfering with the propert
of the Monongah Coke &; Coal COMPANY
or it's employees, either by trespassing
upon the property of the company OF
melting its employees to strike.
The latest official estimate of the pop
ulation of the United States is 77,oo0-
06S.
Carl Yates fatally shot his wife and
attempted suicide at Oskaloosa, Ia. The
woman had brought suit for divorce
Yates may recover.
Peter Bons, the tramp charged with
criminally assaulting and numbering
Pearl Morrison at Crystal Falls, Mich,
has made complete confession, ac-
knowledging that he assaulted the girl
and then strangled her to death.
A monument to Edmund Kirby Smith,
the last full general of the confederate
army, was unveiled at the University of
the South at Sewanee, Tenn.
A passenger train on the Union Pa
citic road made the remarkGbl run of
955 miles, from Evanston, Wyo., to
| Omaha, Neb., in "a hours, the fastest
| time on record.
Four men were crushed to death and
two-score injured by falling walls and
fire which destroyed the Northwestern
elevator at Chicago. The property loss
was $350O00.
Three men and one woman perishel 4
| in a fire which destroyed an all-night
restaurant at Cincinnati.
Jose Perryman, negro who criminal
ly assaulted Miss Nellie Walters, on
May 81, was hanged at Hattiesburg,
Miss.
1t was announced at Washington that
the king of the Belgians had been Sc
lected as arbitrator of the dispute be-
tween Japan and Hawaii.
libel & Crabb, Eminence (Ky.) dis
,Iers, made an assignment with liabil.-
ties of 100000.
Henry A. Rucker the negro recently
appointed collector of internal revenue
for the district of Georgia, took the
oath and assumed charge of the office
Six deputies resigned rather than serve
under colored collector.
AT the meeting of stenographers from
various states held at the Tennessee en-
position it was decided to form a ma.
tional organization at an early date.
Two persons were fatally. and num-
Der seriously. injured by the collapse oil
temporary stand at a race track al
Lancaster, Pa.
The Danversport {Mass) rubber
works were destroyed by fire, entail
ing a heavy loss.
Maj. II. Taylor Scott, attorney-gen'
eyal of Virginia. died at Warrenton Of
typhoid fever.
The American Dental association in
session at Newport News, Va, elected
DR.. Thomas Fillebrown, of Boston, pres
ident.
Hardin Johnson, his wife and daugh.
ter and Dan Hazelwood, all colored
were fatally poisoned in Louisville, KY
by laudanum placed in their food. The
crime is charged upon a neighbor
! seXtuplex telegraph wire was sue
cessfully operated between Boston and
New Haven, 300 miles. three messages
being sent over the wire simultaneous
ly.
George B. Hamlet, of Ohio, has beer
appointed chief post Office inspector, tc
succeed Col. NJ. d. Wheeler, of New
York.
Nicola Tesla announced in New Yorl
the completion of his latest discovery
tho cimult1 naouc fro iccion ~