Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-06-25


A cloudburst in the vicinity of Chel-
sea Park, suburban pleasure resort
near Kansas City, Kan, caused the
death of five persons.
At Tacoma, Wash, James Bartlett
shot and killed Clarence Emery, his
rival, and Tillie Millet, his sweetheart,
and then blew his own brains out.
John S. johnson and Karl Kaiser
made two miles an a tandem bicycle in
Philadelphia in 1857, beating the worlds
record.
Burglars murdered William Gordon
and his wife and William Curley at
Wetumpka, Ala, and burned their resi-
dence.
At the commencement exercises of
Princeton (N. J.) university Admiral
Dewey was honored with the degree of
LII. D.
The supreme lodge, knights of Honor,
in session in Washington. decided not
to admit women to membership in the
order.
The schooner Gypsum Princess, of
Parrsboro, n. S., was sunk in a COL
lison near New York and Capt. Mer-
riam and his wife and three children
were drowned.
Caleb Gaines (colored) was taken
from Jail at Glasgow, KY, and hanged
by mob for assaulting four-year-old
girl
The business portion of Grove City,
Pa, was destroyed by fire.
At the congress of labor commission
ers in Detroit, Mich, Carroll d. Wright,
United States labor commissioner, was
reelected president.
Fire at Lagrange, Mo-, destroyed ten
business houses.
There were 233 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 2o3 the week
previous and 234 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
$1,269, ,6s6, ,4sO, against 1924, 766, ,412 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1897
was 20.04.
Mrs. John P. Sawyer was shot and
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prominent man, who mistook her for
burglar.
The four negroes who murdered Mr..
Garden and his wife and an old man
named Carlee near Wetumpka, Ala.
were lynched by a mob.
A cloudburst in St. Charles county,
Mo-, washed away bridges, flooded
farms and caused great damage near
the city of st. Charles.
The gross earnings of 132 American
railroads for the first five months of
the present year were 1924, ,761 Jill, an
increase, as compared with the corre-
spending period of 1897. of $4,000, $40.
In saloon fight at Brunswick, Mo-,
Mayor Heisel shot and killed City Mar
shall Ashby and was himself fatally
wounded.
During the absence of her parents
Mary Seldom, the 17-year-old daughter
cf Thomas Seldom, was murdered near
Pepin, Wis, and the house robbed of
s4OO and burned.
Fire wiped out the entire business
portion of Tracey, Cal.
The percentage of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 10th were: Cincinnati.
.667; Boston, .647; Cleveland, $50;
Baltimore, $50; Chicago, .55s; Pitts
burgh, .529; New York, $50; Philadel-
phia, .426; Brooklyn, AIT; Washing
ton, 1873; St. Louis, 1873; Louisville,
.296.
Alice Stitzel and Mamie and Minnie
Corner were drowned in the river at
Defiance, o., while bathing.
The business portion of Garwin, Ia,
was destroyed by fire.
James T. Gatewood, of Ashland, Va,
private secretary to Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, of the Seventh army corps, was
struck by lightning and killed at Pablo
Beach, Fla.
Shocks of earthquake were felt in
many towns in eastern Tennessee, but
no damage was done.
Since the opening of navigation ten
gold seekers have lost their lives in
White Horse rapids in Alaska.
Charles Sargent, aged "a, and his sis
ter Goldie, aged IA, were drowned in the
river near Dawson, Ill.
w. w. Hamilton, of Denver, lowered
the worlds professional bicycle record
for one mile unpaced at Denver, his
time being 1855 AS.
Park City, Utah, w1s almost entirely
destroyed by fire, the loss being over
$l,oOo,OOO.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Ohio democrats will hold their state
convention in Columbus August 23.
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