Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-08-20
DOMESTIC.

a receiver mas Deen appointed Tor the
st. Louis baseball club.
The steamer Mariposa sailed from
San Francisco for Honolulu, taking "a
passengers the Hawaiian commission
ers, Senators Cullom and Morgan and
Congressman Hit.
In a jealous rage William Shannon
shot and killed his wife and j. p. Gid.
dings and Jack Wear at Central City,
S. D., and then killed himself. All the
parties were pioneers and well to do.
Mullock Walker, negro, was taken
from the Jail at Corinth, Miss, and
hanged by mob for robbing and fatal
ly assaulting Charles Dezille.
The doors of the Bank of Waverly,
ILL.,, were closed, with liabilities of
$t50,000.
The total imports of dutiable sugar
during July were $780, ,97O, against S2,-
2s1,2s7 for July, 1897.
The New York Yacht club has ac-
cepted the challenge of Sir Thomas
Upton, of London, for race for the
America cup.
Iowa's property assessment this year
is $544, 100000, reduction of $9,0o0,00o
over the previous year.
Henry c. Hawley, a New York city
policeman, in drunken rage fatally
shot his wife, his mother, his son and
daughter and then killed himself.
Floods in the Scioto valley in Ohio
covered over $4,000 acres of corn land
in the immediate vicinity of Ports
mouth, causing loss of over 100000.
Robbers held up train on the
Burlington road near st. Joseph, Mo-,
and took $4,000 from the express car.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggre-
gated $1,221 ,92o, ,527, against $1,1s7,6 $685.
574 the previous week. The increase
compared with the corresponding
week in 1897 was 5.s.
There were 196 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 196 the week
previous and 239 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
Large and extensive coal deposits
have been discovered about 40 miles
fl ON Sitka, Alaska.
Charles Baier and his wife, Minnie,
an old German couple, were burned to
death in their home in Chicago by a
fire started by robbers.
The entire business portion of
Wheatland, Cal, was destroyed by fire.
Summerfield Dennis, negro boy less
than II years old, was hanged at Snow
Hill, Nd, for killing his stepfather.
Leonard Roby, son of Judge Roby, of
All Tnl
were drowned in Crooked lake, near
Angola.
A cloudburst flooded Clarksburg, W.
Va. and caused immense damage.
The United States steamship Phila-
delphia arrived in Honolulu with Ad-
miral Miller and staff on board, and
the admiral will raise the American
flag over the Hawaiian islands.
Mrs. J. Polk Deane and her sister,
Mrs. j. F. Dunning, died in Dover, Del,
from eating poisoned candy.
Fire at Fresno, Cal, destroyed prop
erty valued at 100000 and caused the
death of four persons.
The monthly statement of the i'm
ports and exports of the United States
shows that during the month of July
the imports of merchandise amounted
to S5o647,566 and the exports amount
ed to S71, 1912.
James Davis and Albert Robinson
were drowned in lake near Paducah
Ky, by the overturning of their boat
while fishing.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 18th were: Cincin-
natl, $50; Boston, .643; Cleveland; sos;
Baltimore, ,591; New York, $50; Chi
eago, .545; Pittsburgh, .521; Philadel-
phia, 40; Brooklyn, .3s9; Louisville,
.374; Washington, 1854; St. Louis, 2s3
Sheriff Fisher and posse of 13 men
made raid on a crowd of negro gam
blers at Bayboro, Ga, killing five of
them and mortally wounding three 9TH
ers.
A hailstorm, destroying 10000 acres
of grain, swept over the western part
OF Foster and Eddy counties, N. D.