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

DOMESTIC.
A tornado swept across the country
four miles east of Superior, Neb., and
many farm buildings were destroyed.
All Colorado was buried under about
foot of snow and stock on the ranges
would suffer severely.
The Monon railroad has passed out of
existence as corporation and has been
succeeded by the Chicago, indianapolis
& Louisville railway.
A cyclone passed over Gradys, Ark,
almost destroying the village, killing
four colored women and wounding sew
eral others.
Clark Lewis and several other men
under arrest at Charleston, w. Va, com
fessed that they have committed 27
murders in the past two years and hid
den the bodies in an old mine.
The condition of affairs in the Mis-
sissippi vallew grows daily more eX
citing, and it is probable the worst has
not yet been experienced. One or two
more big breaks in the levees have oc-
Cured.
High water in rivers in Illinois, Iowa
and Wisconsin was again doing great
damage and many persons were driven
from their homes.
The severest blizzard of the season
prevailed in western Nebraska and all
railway trains were blockaded.
The excess of government receipts
over expenditures for March amounted
to $S,743,7 72S.
Ten business houses at Albany, Ind,
were destroyed by fire.
The turnpike raiders of Lincoln coun-
ty, Ky, have formed an oath-bound or
ganization pledged to destroy all the
tollgates in the county.
Fire gutted the warehouse of Bousfeld
&, CO.. woodenware factory at Bay City,
Mich, the loss being 100000.
The countess of Aberdeen, the wife
of the governor general of Canada, de-
livered the convocation address at the
University of Chicago, an honor never
before accorded to a woman in this
country.
The gold coinage during March
amounted to S13,770,900, while 1,4OO,25O
silver dollars were struck off.
The public debt statement issued on
the lst shows that the debt decreased
$S,63S,254 during the month of March.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$S75, ,759. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to S1,OO3, ,062.20o.
Every town, village and hamlet along
the course of the river Desperes in Mis-
souri, was submerged in water.
The government receipts from Gus
toms during March amounted to $22,-
s33,S56, against $13,344,215 for March,
1896. The receipts from internal rev.
enue increased about $375,ooO over
March of last year.
The flood situation in the Mississippi
delta above Greenville, Miss, was i'm
proving.
Cambridge Springs, health resort
near Meadville, Pa, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire, involving loss of
100000, the death of Charles Hayes, a
merchant, and the serious injury of a
score of persons.
A cyclone passed south of Star City,
| Ark, wrecking many houses and out
buildings and killing three persons.
Between Minneapolis and st. Paul
1000 families were rendered homeless
by rise in the Mississippi river.
The most severe snowstorm in 20
| years struck Laramie, Wyo., and vicin-
| ity, doing immense damage to cattle
and sheep.
1t is announced that Associate Justice
Stephen j. Field, of the United States
supreme court, proposes to retire from
the bench July 1.
j. II. Flynn, mining editor of the
| Deadwood Is. d. Times, fell from the
steps of his house and broke his neck.
Francisco Gonzelas, Antonio Gonzelas
| Sauriano Alarid and Patricio Valencia,
who murdered ex-Sheriff Frank Chavez
on May 20, 1892, were hanged together
on one scaffold at Santa Fe, N. M.
Christian Schultz, n bookLeeper for
the Kuh, Nathan &s Fischer company
in Chicago, was assaulted and robbed
of $4,000 belonging to the corporation
| by Edward Wilson, another employe OF
the company, who made his escape.
The Blanc brothers were executed at
Lafayette, La, for numbering Simon
Begnaud, merchant at Scott. La,
about year ago.
Secretary Sherman has protested
against the execution of Gen. Ruis Ri
vera. the Cuban leader in Pinar del Rio
who was recently captured by the Span
ish forces.
Heavy frosts have caused extensive
damage to fruit crops throughout Cali
fornia.