Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-10-01

Mrs. Emma Wilson, 40 years old,
widow, was shot and killed in Brook
lyn, n. Y, by her supposed lover, James
oNeil, who also killed himself.
st. Patrick's church at Audenried,
Pa, is slowly sinking into the mines.
Gen. William X, Shafter attended the
reunion at Constantine, Mich, of his
old regiment, the Ninteenth Michigan,
of which he was colonel during the
civil war.
Charles Cushenbery (colored), shot
and instantly killed his wife and then
committed suicide in Colorado
Springs, Col. Jealousy was the cause.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 23d aggregated
1925. $50, ,015, against S1,330,603,29s the
previous week. The decrease COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1897 was 3.2.
There were 173 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 23d, against 17i the week
previous and 209 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
Two men were killed and three
others fatally scalded in sawmill ex-
plosion at Milan, Mo.
A p. johnson and his son and Erick
Bergman. fishermen, were drowned
near Millers, Ind.
A block of stores burned at Edge
mont, S. D., causing loss of $150,00O.
George H. Morgan, John Shannon
1,t11oI loxr fal
of coal in a mine at Eanticoke, Pa.
Eight men were killed by gas ex-
plosion in a mine near Brownsville,
Pa.
A passenger train on the Missouri
Pacific railroad was held up by masked
men near Leeds, Mo-, and the express
car was robbed.
The Arena, a high class free silver
monthly in Boston, has suspended pub
lication because of lack of support.
Rosser G. Brown. farmer, and his
two young daughters were killed by
lightning near Batesville, Ark.
Charles W. Woodruff, under arrest
in Buffalo, N. Y, is said to have mar
ried more than so women since 1885.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 25th were: Boston,
$3.50; Baltimore, .647; Cincinnati, .611;
Cleveland, $50; Chicago, .543; New
York, .523; Philadelphia, .519; Pitts
burgh, .4s9; Louisville, 444; Brook
lyn. 1892; Washington, 1923; st. Louis,
.267.
BY the laundering of the lighter
Monitor in St. Marys river Joseph
Prior. William Corbier, John Robare
and Emanuel Robare, of Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich and John Foley, of Bay
City, were drowned.
Joseph Terrell (colored) was hanged
at Charlottesville, Va, for the murder
of his mother-in-law, Malinda Brown.
Corbett announces that his fighting
match with Mccoy in Buffalo, N. Y,
is off.
Forest fires in Colorado threatened
over half the timber in the state.
The annual report of C. NJ. Barnes,
governor of the territory of Oklahoma,
shows a rapidlyNincreasing immigra-
tion and prosperous condition of all
the industrial interests of the terri
tory, and says statehood is earnestly
desired.
At the races in Wichita, Kan, Mar
tha B. broke the record for two-year
pacing by making half mile in 1904,
A congress of mothers, under the
auspices of the national organization,
will be held in Omaha, Neb., October 8,
and 10.
A tornado swept over Lima, O., and
vicinity, doing an immense amount Of
damage. Elmer Baty was crushed to
death and so other persons were in
jured, two fatally.
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd
Fellows in session in Boston decided
that no more insurance licenses will
be issued.
Every state in the south has estab-
lished rigid quarantine against all
portions of Mississippi because of yell
low fever.
The Omaha exposition has in bank
$4,000 above it's liabilities.