Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-19

the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893
shows there were at the close of the
fiscal year 1880 post offices in the
United States, an increase during the
year of 2,54s.
The schooner S. Thai was wrecked
off Glencoe, ILL.,, and Capt. August
Schoenemann and crew of four were
lost.
More than $1,0o0000 changed hands
on election results in New York.
Mrs Merrie L. Abbott. who has beer
elected prosecuting attorney of Oge
NAV county, Mich, bears the distinc.
ton of being the only woman in the
world, as far as known, who has been
elected to that Office.
There were 214 business failures IN
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 11th, against 1914 the week
previous and 291 in the corresponding
period OF 1907.
The city of Wilmington, N. c., is rap
idly losing all those citizens whom its
new rulers object to, whites and blacks
by the score having been ordered out of
town.
The Kirksville (Mo.) savings bank
was entered by burglars and robbed
of $4,000 in government bonds and $1s,
600 in gold and greenbacks.
Two express trains on the Lehigh Val
ley road collided near WillSesbarre, Pa.
and five men were killed
The annual convention of the Nation
al Woman's Christian Temperance
nj ,y,C
Six of the men engaged in the hold
up of the Great Northern train near
Fergus Falls, Mimi, have been cap
tured.
Fire in the general store of C. A.
Stcarnsin Hanover, Mass. was followed
by an explosion which killed four men.
A statement from the treasury bu-
reau of statistics announces the re-
duction of $113, 900 900 in imports and an
increase of S1230o0,ooO in exports n
the nine months ended September 80
last.
The total number of immigrants who
arrived in the United States during the
last fiscal year was 22o,209, a decrease.
as compared with the fiscal year 1897,
of 1888. OF the whole number 135,776
were males and 93.524 females.
Fire destroyed 10 buildings in sib-
ley, Ia, among them being Littlechild
Bros livery barn, where 10 horses
were burned.
One-half the business part of Bloom
vile, o., was destroyed by fire.
Z. o. Kragness went so miles on a BIZ
cycle in San Francisco in 2:13:2o max
ing a new record.
While drunk Harvey Lutz shot and
killed his father at Reading, Pa, and
then killed himself.
William Slagle. a messenger for the
Exchange bank at Churubusco, Ind,
was robbed of $1,000 by highwaymen.
A young woman named Crossop. Ct
Minneapolis, was drowned while on her
way home from Alaska with fortune
of $1l4.000.
During a shower of meteors at Perry
were killed by large meteor which
fell near their home.
The long strike of coal miners at Vir-
den, Ill.,, has come to an end.
John C.. Roth, county treasurer and
millionaire pork pacler. was killed in
an elevator in his packing house in Gin
cinnati.
John Nickles shot and killed his wife
and his mother-in-law near Shingie
Springs, Cal, and then killed himself
Chicago university beat the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin in football game m
Chicago by score of too.
In fire at Perry Mich, Mrs. Charles
Taylor and her daughter and man
named Clark were burned to death.
Thieves entered the Office of County
Treasurer Culbertson at Charlton, Ia,
and robbed the vault of 81 600.