Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-08-13


awanda, n. Y, went into liquidation
and turned it's business over to the
Commercial baLk of Buffalo.
Annie Siebenliehm and the three
children of Mrs. Otto Frohwein were
drowned at Raritan, N. j., by the up
setting of a boat.
The Choctaw election returns show
that Green McCurtain has been re-
elected chief of the Choctaw nation in
Indian territory.
The New York savings banks show an
increase in resouces over last year of
nearly $50,C00,000.
Six elevators, with their contents,
were destroyed by fire at Dayton,
Wash, and farmers were heavy losers.
1t is estimated that the salmon pack
for the season of 1898 on the Columbia
river in Oregon will be 1oO,0 cases be-
low the average.
Samuel L. Black, mayor of Column
bus, o., was elected president of the
League of American Municipalities at
the session in Detroit.
A severe storm swept the Florida
coast and shipping was seriously in
being sunk.
The exchanges at the leading clear
| ing houses in the United States dur
| ing the week ended on the 5th aggre-
| gated 81, ,1s7, $685. against S1,039,8 ,815,-
| COZ the previous week. The increase
| compared with the corresponding
week in 1897 was 80.
There were 196 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 5th, against 1s9 the week
| previous and 237 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
Fire in Jacksonville, Ill.,, caused q
loss to six business firms of $125,ooO.
Charles Clybourn was hanged at
Prescott, Ark, for assaulting a girl.
George Greenleff, 81 years old killed
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Edgar Meis-
ner, and William Flewell in Buffalo,
n. Y.
Fluke Fleming was hanged at Little
Rock, Ark, for killing Sol Rollins, a
deputy sheriff.
Six robbers secured $4,000 in money
and about $4,000 in notes from the
Union bank in Richland, Mich.
Sadgwick Arnold Frank Luce and
two brothers named Leisch were
drowned at Lafayette, Ind, while
bathing.
Advices from Alaska say that fam
inc is threatened in Dawson and a
stampede will shortly take place.
Rioting was resumed by the striking
woodworkers in Oshkosh. Wis, and
nonunion men were roughly handled.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
| week ened on the 18th were: Cincin-
natl, $40; Boston, .624; Cleveland, .624 /;
Baltimore, .57s; New York, $50; Chi
cago, .552; Pittsburgh, .532; Philadel-
phia, .467; Brooklyn, .391; Louisville,
.367; Washington, .352; ST. Louis, .2s9.
A runaway team in funeral pro-
cession near Hixon, Ala, killed Mrs.
Mary Williams, sister of the dead man,
and her daughter.
| Henry Schultz, after kissing his little
son and his wife, shot the latter in
Davenport, Ia, killing her, and then
committed suicide.
George Messmore, a prominent
farmer, and his 11-year-old son, were
killed while crossing the railroad track
near Kewanee, III.
Charles Yohansen, a blind man 43
years of age, and his wife, Christia,
were found dead at South River. N. ].
The woman killed her husband and
then committed suicide.
Mrs. Helen Kelley, aged los years,
was burned to death at her home in
Hancock county, Tenn.
John Wesley Lewis, young farmer
near Pittsboro, Ala, killed his wife
and himself. Family trouble was the
cause.
Applications for charters for national
banks in Puerto Rico and Hawaii are
being received by the comptroller of
the currency, but none has been grant
ed as yet.
The plant of the Robinson Basket
company, the. largest grape basket fac
tory in the United States, was entirely
destroyed by fire in Painesville. O., the
loss being 100000.
j. II. Banks. one of the most promi-
nent and wealthy citizens of Willow
Springs, Ill.,, and postmaster of the
town for 20 years, killed himself at the
Briggs house in Chicago.
Fire damaged the st. Louis (Mo.)
Dressed Beef plant to the extent of $780,
900 and 80 sheep were cremated.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Nebraska fusionists in convention
at Lincoln nominated William A. Poyp.
ter, of Boone county, for governor.
The republicans renominated II. o
Crump for congress in the Tenth dis
trict of Michigan.
The republicans of the First district
of Nebraska nominated e. j. Burkett
for congress.
Congressional nominations: Iowa
Eleventh district, A. S. Garretsor
(dem.). Illinois, Twenty-frst diatrict
w. +. Quelmalz (pop.). Ohio, Twen