Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
DOMESTIC.

WlllldIIl u. QulHlau, Jr.. CdSnleT OF the
Chemical national bank in New York,
resigned after loaning $393,o0O of the
banks money without authority.
AT West Bend, Wis, during a glove
contest between Carl Lindback and
Willie Giants, Lindback fell dead in the
fourth round. The boys were attend
ing the high school.
NJ. F. Tanner, a Montana cowbc who
killed A. A. Call, of Worthington, Mimi,
and William Lee, of Massachusetts,, was
lynched by mob at Valdes, Alaska.
Forty San Francisco druggists were
aresed for selling bogus pills under
counterfeit labels.
A board of naval engineers that has
been experimenting with oil as fuel has
made highly favorable report.
Thousands of sheep have perished
from cold and starvation in western
Wyoming.
The First Presbyterian church in
New Albany, Ind. was totally destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Later advices say that at least 40 per-
sons were drowned and $2000,O0O loss
inflicted by the storm that swept over
eastern Massachusetts and Rhode
Island.
An explosion in the Park paper mills
at Marinette, Wis, wrecked three
story brick building, killed two men
and injured third.
All biscuit and cracker companies
between Salt Lake City on the west,
Portland, Me-, on the east, ST. Paul on
the north and New Orleans on the south
have com bined with capital of S55, ,OOO,-
600.
At the annual banquet of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association
of Baltimore Lyman j. Gage, secretary
of the treasury, and Congressman Ding
ley, of tariff law fame, were the speak
ers.
Fire destroyed the Young Mems Chris
tan Association building in Scranton,
Pa, the loss being $225,OOO.
The will of Mrs. Josephine Mellen
Aver, widow of j. c. Aver, of Boston,
of patent medicine fame, disposes OF
$4,000, 900, and s15O,OOO goes for charity.
AT the carnival at Saranac Lake, n. Y,
II. F. Mullarkey, of Plattsburg, beat the
worlds record for jumping backward
on skates, making a jump of 81 Is
inches.
Sol F. Autrey, a farmer, killed his
father and mother and his ten-year-old
son near Mulberry, Ark, while tenn
porarily insane.
The Cherokee-Lanyon Spelter COM
pany's plant in st. Louis was burned,
the loss being $150,0O0.
Four thousand employees in the Car
negie mines in Ironwood, Mich, have
received an advance of ten per cent,
in wages.
Samuel Webster accidentally decap-
itated his stepson while chopping wood
at Earl, Tenn.
Harry Albury, an 1s-year-old boy,
died in a Brooklyn (N. " hospita, of
leprosy.
At Columbus, o., the Main street
school building was burned, but 500
children were marched out safely.
There were 1886 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 4th, against 342 the week
previous and 81 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses I'M the United, States during
the week ended on the 4th aggregated
$1,47o, ,3OO,S S2s, against 1888, ,71O,105 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1897
was 40.6.
The Lake Shore road has become the
property of the New York Central G.
Hudson River Railroad company.
An earthquake shock lasting three
minutes was felt at Edwardsville. Ill.
The tota! circulation of national bank
notes on January 81 last was $226,444,.
DOG, decrease for the year of SIS ,563, ITO
Judge, Lesae's Weekly and Demo
rests Family Magazine have been con-
solidHted and will hereafter be pub
lished in New York by the Arken Pub
fishing company.
Fire in the reclaiming plant of the
United States Rubber company at Naug-
atuck, Conn, caused a loss of $500, 900.