Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-02-13
DOMESTIC.

j. IL. KaWllnS (Qem.) was elecueu
United States senator from Utah.
John Brown, in fit of jealousy, shot
and killed his sweetheart, Ellen Tit
worth, in Wise county, Va, and then shot
himself.
In railway collision at Arlington,
S. D., Conductor Addington, Brakeman
Hosiac, John Lotus and w. L. Harri-
son were killed.
1t is announced that John Addison
Porter, editor of the Hartford Comm
Post, will be the private secretary of
President-elect Mckinley.
Seeley Wakeley's house in Grovetown,
Mich, was destroyed by fire and his two
children, aged two and four years, were
burned to death.
The schooner Biscayne foundered ten
miles off Jupiter inlet, Florida, and
Charles Hinson, of New York, Archie
Lindsay, of Florida, and Roger Harris,
of Key West, were drowned.
The large general store of NovarlS &
Zabokrtsky was burned to the ground
at Walford, Ia, and two men perished
in the flames.
George Tschan, an employe of the
Fox steel works in Joliet, ILL.,, fatally
shot his wife after quarrel and then
fatally shot himself.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company have elected Frank
Thomson, of Philadelphia, as president
of the company to succeed George Il.
Roberts, deceased.
johnson Harris and William Lifting,
both white men, fought duel near
Arbeka, o. t., over the affections of
Wannetta, pretty balf-breed Indian
girl, and were both killed.
The entire business portion of the
town of Pleasureville, Ky, was wiped
out by fire.
The house of representatives, by a
vote of n to AZ, passed bill prohibit
ing the playing of baseball on Sunday
in Missouri.
A bill providing for the creation of a
cabinet position to be filled by n sec
retary OF labor was discussed by the
house committee on labor in Washing
ton.
After years of hard work it is now
said that the post office authorities in
earth a band of thieves which has been
robbing the government of stamps at
the rate of about 100000 year for
many years back.
Mr.. and Mrs. John BrohnamaDn and
two sons, living near North Branch,
Mimi, were suffocated by carbon diox-
tide, due to y fire in closed root house.
The Sac and Fox agency in Oklahoma
was raided by outlaws and three citi-
zens were killed and Agent Thomas
badly wounded.
Five thousand Christian Fndeavorers
celebrated the sixteenth anniversary
of the society at Boston.
Benjamin Henderson, wealthy ranch
owner near Ulsiah, CAL, was murdered
by Mexican laborer.
Robert Morton (coIored) was hanged
by mob near Rocktield, Fy., for writ
! ing an insulting note to Miss Tommie
johnson, n popular white woman.
With the Chinese New Year the Six
Companies, the most powerful and rich
est Chinese organization in America,
went out of existence in San Francisco.
William II. Crawford G. Co., wholesale
dealers in spices at Baltimore, Nd, made
an assignment with liabilities of $780,
600.
Investigation shows there are over 60
families ut the Belmont coal mines near
Bellaire, o., suffering for the necessities
of life and some are almost actually
starving.
AS the result of the excessive use OF
cigarettes, Harry Woods, a boy 13 years
OF age, was declared insane at Vim.
cennes, Ind.
An ice gorge broke and swept away
the wharves at Richmond, Va, taking
vessels from their moorings and doing
great damage.
A. w. Linderstrom, n farmer at Tar
coma, Wash, in fit of anger, blew out
the brains of his five-year-old son and
then killed himself. "