Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-05-06

John Cavanaugh, who killed Kid La
velle in prize fight at Pittsburgh, Pa.
has been held for manslaughter by n
coroner's jury.
G. a. Shinkles bank at Ellsworth, ILL.,,
was robbed by burglars of 81, 100.
AS n result of the tornado that swept
through the eastern portion of Kinks
Vile, Mo-, demolishing half of the resi-
dcnces and other buildings, more than
80 dead bodies and 20 injured persons
have been recovered from the ruins.
Six inches of snow fell in the Black
Hills in South Dakota.
The business portion of st. Francis,
Kan, county seat of Cheyenne county,
was destroyed by fire.
Rev. w. j. Reese had just concluded a
marriage ceremony near Alton, o. T.,
when lightning struck his house and he
was killed.
The international Sunday school con-
vention at Atlanta, Ca, refused negroes
representation on committees.
There were 1S4 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the esth, against 1s4 the week
previous and 262 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 2sth aggregated
S1,s15, ,652 ,5G6, against S1,975, ,4S4 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
was 65.7.
The Second Illinois regiment,
bronzed and weatherbeaten after long
service in Cuba, arrived in Chicago.
A statement prepared at the war de-
partment shows that 1oS of our men
were killed in the Philippines from Feb
ruary to April 2s, and LII wounded;
total, 1900.
The New York legislature has ad-
iourned sine die.
President Mckinley sent dispatch
to Gen. Otis conveying to officers and
men heartfelt congratulations and graf
itude for their signal gallantry and tri-
umph.
Four families were annihilated by a
cyclone at Milan, Mo-, and great dam
age was inflicted on property.
Willie Sees, a negro aged 80, was taken
from the Jail at Osceola, Ark, by mob
and hanged for barn burning.
Houses were wrecked and other dam
age was done by tornado at Avoca,
Ia, and vicinity.
Brig. Gen. George w. Davis has been
assigned to the department of Porto
Rico, with headquarters at San Juan.
He relieves Maj. Gen. Guy V. Henry,
who retires on account of i'll health.
The report of the court of inquiry
which Investigated Gen. Miles charges
regarding army meat is now in the
hands of the president.
Three persons were killed, over a
dozen severely injured and so less seri-
ously hurt in wreck on the Rochester
& Lake Ontario railroad near Roches-
ter, n. Y.
The international Sunday school con-
vention at Atlanta, Ga, decided to hold
the next meeting in Denver in 1902.
One of the press mills of the Dupont
smokeless powder works at Carney's
Point, n. j., blew up and killed six
men.
The II. c. Frick Coke company IN
Pittsburgh, Pa, which employs $4,000
men, has advanced wages from six to
1919 per cent.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 3Oth ult. were: st. Louis,
SIS; Philadelphia, .714; Chicago, 600;
Cincinnati, .5S3; Boston, .52S; Brook
lyn, .53S; Baltimore, .53s; Louisville,
800; New York, 1913; Washington, sos;
Pittsburgh, 200; Cleveland, 1925.
~ prairie fire swept over 25 miles of
fine farming land in northern Nebraska,
destroying houses and barns and burn
ing to death Mrs. Rolla Livingston and
her tive-year-old boy.
Brig. Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, L. S.
V, arrived in San Francisco from Ma
Mia. His home is in Los Angeles.
The trouble between union and non
union miners at Wardner, Idaho, cul-
minated in the union men blowing up
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine and
mill, causing loss of S250,000, and one
man was killed and many others in
| jured.
Andrew j. Miller, aged 55, vice presi.
dent of the Bank of Golden, ILL.,, which
failed March /, 1899, committed suicide
Many towns in Indiana, Illinois and
Kentucky felt earthquake shocks, and
in nearly every case the vibrations were
sufficiently severe to stop clocks, shake
down chimneys, crack walls and dis
turb dishes and light objects.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Rev. Alexander II. Clapp, d. D., "a
years connected with the American
Home Missionary society as secretary
treasurer, died in New York, aged 81
years.
Sam t. Jack, well-known theatrica