Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-03-20
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
A cyclone mile wide struck Ralston,
o. T., and nearly every house in town
and in the path of the storm was blown
down. Many persons were wounded.
The Western association baseball sea-
son will open April 30 and close Septem-
ber 90, making total of 126 games.
The dam in the Genessee river at
Mount Morris, N. Y, was washed away
by flood, causing a loss of 100000.
The Ryan elevator in Buffalo, N. Y,
was burned. the loss being $125,ooo.
Troops have been sent to the Uncom-
pahgre Indian reservation in Utah for
the purpose of removing intruders.
A train on the Evansville G. Terre
Haute railroad struck a washout near
Hazleton, Ind, wrecking the entire
train and killing at least six persons
and injuring several others.
The Louisville, New Albany & Chi
cago railway was sold in Indianapolis
by the receiver to New York parties for
$3,001,000.
Richard Graham and wife, an aged
couple residing alone on farm at Crab
Tree, Pa, were the victims of fatal as
sault by burglars.
A woman named Sandoval and her
paramour, Silverio Martinez, were killed
by the woman's husband at Coyote,
n. NJ.
Mrs. C. Bragg, widow of Frederick
Bragg and wealthy woman, was found
fatally shot at her home in Chicago,
and her stepdaughter, aged Is, was
charged with the crime.
In Indiana the loss from floods in Rip
ley county will aggregate $15o,ooo, in
Decatur county 100000, and in Law
renee county $2,0Oo,0oO.
The Thirty-frst general assembly of
| Arkansas came to close after q 60 days
session.
Later dispatches say that only four
lives were lost in the Evansville & Terre
Haute wreck near HaZelton. Ind.
The Mckinley schedule on woods and
woolens has been substantially adopted
by the republican majority of the ways
and means committee.
President Mckinley has proclaimed
the new treaty with japan and it is now
operative.
The National Building G Loan asso-
citation of Milwaukee failed with heavy
liabilities.
The total exports of breadstuffs dur
ing the first eight months amounted to
S136,951 ,7s9, against $04,224,24o in the
same period last year.
At Savannah, Tenn, Mrs. Alfred AL
exander, young wife, hanged herself
because of jealousy.
A young man named Harrington and
his mother were drowned near Romeo
Mich, while trying to ford Belle river
The ice on the Missouri and James
rivers at Yankton, S. D., is three feet
thick-a condition unknown before al
this time of the year.
The st. Paul (NIinn.) Plow company
failed for 100000.
1t is announced that the men whc
have been appointed United States sen
ators by the governors in states where
legislatures have had an opportunity
to elect will not be admitted.
There were 256 business failures il
the United States in the seven day.
ended on the 18th, against 246 the weel
previous and 300 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
The fourth Legislature of Oklahom;
adjourned sine die at Guthrie after pass
ing bill prohibiting a man from mar
rying his mother-in-law.
The exchanges ut the leading clearing
houses in the United States during th'
week ended on the 18th aggregated
1925, ,145, 1884, against $1,o10,426,627 th'
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week of 1s9
was 2.2.
In a sparring match at Cheyenne
Wyo., between Privates O'Shay ant
Collie, of the Eighth United States in
fantry, Collie was struck blow tina
killed him instantly.
In a quarrel William Drossel shot hi
wife in Chicago and then shot himsel
dead.
Trade throughout the country is sal
to be slowly but surely improving.
, Arthur Mayhem, n negro, was electro
cuted in the prison at Sing Sing. N. Y
for the murder of Stephen Powell,
prominent and wealthy resident c
, Hampstead, L. l., March 7, 1896.
The new tariff bill has been practica
} ly completed and it is said that ii wi
increase the revenues about $7o,00o,oC
per year.
: The Jenney electric motor works q
indianapolis were burned, the loss b'
ing 100000.
The Bank OF Mulhall, o. T., closed II
doors.
The damage to railroads and ind
: viduals by the floods in Kentucky
= placed at $6,000,000.
The heaviest snowstorm in years pr
vailed in Minnesota and the Dakota
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