Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-05-01
DOMESTIC.

ury department says the damage caused |
agricultural interests by the Missis- |
sippi river flood is over $14,000,o00.
At Bay st. Louis, Miss, fire destroyed
12 buildings in the business part of the
town, including the post office.
Terrific sandstorms swept over the
Arkansas valley in southwestern Kan
sas, doing great damage.
The curfew ordinance is now a law in
Springfield, o., and boys and girls under
16 years must be in their homes by nine
o'clock in the evening.
E. L. Carpenter, of Salt Lake City.
paymaster of the Pleasant Valley Coal
company, was robbed of $500 by two
burglars.
The New York legislature has passed
a bill taxing inheritances.
AT Lima, o., Clinton Hawk fatally
shot his father and fatally wounded
Fannie Watkins. No cause is known
for the deed.
In Lake county, Tenn, Jose Cans and
his entire family-wife, two sons and
daughter-were drowned by the up
setting of sltiff.
The Western league baseball season of
1897 opened in indianapolis, the home
team beating the Grand Rapids club by
score of 10 to O.
Fire destroyed block of nine houses
in the business part of Shoals, Ind.
George Hobson, the clerk of the courts
of Hamilton county, o.. has been found
short $4,000 in his accounts. He is in
sane.
Frost has done damage amounting to
hundreds of thousands of dollars to
early fruits in Maryland. Virginia, Della
ware and North Carolina.
John McCleash, aged 40, and John
Coyne, aged 13, were burned to death in
fire in Chicago, the former losing his
life while trying to save the boy.
The business portion of the town OF
Tullahoma, Tenn, was destroyed by
fire.
AS the result of a landslide near
Sheep Creek. b. c.. on the Red Noun
were killed.
Joseph Mccoy (colored) was lynched
by mcb at Alexandria, Va, for assault
ing his employers two daughters.
Sanborn's tower elevator was burned
at Port Huron, Mich, the loss being
100000.
Frank Evans died in San Jose, Cal,
from the effects of q blow received in
prize fight, and William Vernon died in
Philadelphia from the same cause.
President Mckinley nominated and
the senate confirmed Harold NJ. Sewall,
of Maine to be envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Hawaii.
A memorial was presented to the
president and members of the cabinet
by the executive council of the Fedora
ton of Labor urging the enactment of
legislation calculated to relieve the
wage-earners.
Fire destroyed sc houses at Potters-
Vile, Pa.
Mai. Gen. Nelson A. Miles. command
er of the army, has been authorized by
the president to go to Europe to witness
the war between Greece and Turkey.
The National league baseball season
opened. the percentages of the clubs
at the close of the games being as fol-
lows: Philadelphia, 1000; Brooklyn,
1000; Baltimore, 1000; Cincinnati.
1000; Pittsburgh, 1000; Louisville,
1000; Chicago, 900; New York. 900;
Washington, 900; Cleveland, 900; st.
Louis, 900; Boston, 900.
The paper mills at Ellsworth, Ind,
were burned, the loss being 100000.
Dispatches from all the flooded Sec
tions In the south report no substan-
tial change in the situation.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
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week ended on the 23d aggregated
$034,219,710, against $95G,264,17O the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 10.
President Mckinley has nominated
Judge William II. Day, of Canton, o..
for first assistant secretary of state, and
c. NJ. Barnes, of Guthrie, to be governor
of Oklahoma.
r. II. Straub was hanged at Friday
Harbor, Wash, for the murder of Leo
Lanterman on August 30, 1895.
Fire at Whitney's Point, N. Y, de-
stroyed property valued at $25o,ooo.
b. w. Braunschweig shot and killed
his former employer, John FL. Raap,
a liquor dealer in Chicago, and then shot
| himself dead. Braunschweig was $2,500
short in his accounts and feared prose-
| cution.
The embarrassment of the Rowland,
Rotch & Bedford company mills at New
Bedford, Mass, is announced. The total
liabilities are $4,521,6 ,62s.
The overdue ship Samaria. bound
from Seattle to San Francisco, was
given up as lost with the 81 persons on
board.