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


passenger train near Murray, Ia, failed.
Sonly Ryan, who on the 4th inst. muir
dered his wife, was hanged at Green's
boro, n. G.
The ninth annual convention of the
United Mine Workers of America will
be held at Columbus, o., January IL,
1893.
Stephen Spellcn, who killed Michael
Rohrer at Dubois, Pa, was shot dead
while attempting to escape his pur-
suers.
Fire damaged the Power and Will
shire blocks in the business center of
Cleveland, o., to the extent of $500, 900.
The revenue cutter Onondaga was
launched at Cleveland, o.
A counterfeit five-dollar silver GER
tifcate was discovered in Washington
OF the series of 1896, j. Fount Tillman,
registrar, d. n. Morgan, treasurer, No.
2s526s7.
The two little children of George
Coallley, farmer near Tiff City, Mo-,
were killed and eaten by vicious hogs.
The Chestnut Street national bank
and the Chestnut Street Trust and Saw
ings Fund company failed in Phila-
delphia with combined liabilities of 3d.
100000. William NJ. Singerly, publisher
of the Record, is president of both COM
panies.
Fire and an explosion in the build
ing in Chicago occupied by the Tosetti
Cafe & Restaurant company caused
loss of 100000 and % persons were in
jured.
The steamer China made the trip from
and 12 hours and 1S minutes, beating
all previous records.
Two hundred schoolhouses in the de-
populated districts of western Kansas
are to be sold at auction.
There were 292 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the cath, against 329 the week
previous and 297 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the gath aggregated
$1,331 ,263,Ss1, against $1,36s,94S, ,2s3 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 26.O.
Fire destroyed the Coliseum building
in Chicago, the loss being $35o,0oo on
the structure and $125,o00 on exhibits
contained therein. One man was
burned to death and many other per-
sons were injured.
The grand jury voted 35 indictments
against proprietors of alleged gambling
resorts in Chicago, among those in
dicted being three aldermen.
Four children named Maltbeski were
suffocated by smoke during a fire at
Philadelphia.
Peter Coleman, who murdered his
wife, was hanged at Vancouver Court
House, Va.
Wesley Mcbride and his wife were
killed and their daughter, aged six
years, fatally injured, by a train at
Stauton. Del.
The wife of Jacob ]. Payer, well-to-
do farmer living at Park River, N. D.,
committed suicide after killing her four
little children with poison. Family
trouble was the cause.
Christmas day was the most quiet
and peaceful on record at the white
house owing to the recent bereavement
of the president.
William Gottzyer and Mrs. John Rice,
both of New York city, dropped dead
while trimming Christmas trees for the
children.
Milton Neal and his aged wife were
shot to death by an unknown assassin
at their home near Jacksonville, Pa.
Mrs. John Moore and Miss Clara Brat
tain were killed by the cars at Terhune,
Ind. Mrs. Moore had only been married
one day.
The Iowa Legislature will meet in Des
Moines January 10.
James and Samuel Lytle (brothers)
were killed on the Erie railroad neal
Atlanta, Pa, while driving to rela'
tive's house to spend Christmas.
The treasury gold reserve on the 25th
was $160,267, ,463, the highest on record
Michael and Terence McDermott
aged twin brothers, died at the same
time in New York.
The NJ. d. Harter company's Touring
mill at Fostoria, o., was burned, the loss
being $15o,o0o.
The output of gold in Alaska this win
| ter is estimated at $10,000,000.