Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-07-05
Four men were killed by lightning

ana shocking several PERSONS.
Great damage was done at La
Crosse, Wis, by tornado, which
wrecked several business places.
In quarrel over fence at Dayton,
Ia, Oliver Bricker shot and killed C.
d. Guild and his son.
Business throughout the country is
reported to be remarkably prosper
Gus.
Hon. William r. Clarke and his two
young daughters and George Il. Bryan
were drowned at Newbern. n. c.
A Boston doctor will fast month
to prove that such treatment will cure
all illness.
Peter Price, negro charged with
assault on white woman. killed two
of lynching party at Panther, w. Va,
and escaped.
Henry Marquand & Co., bankers and
brokers in New York, made an assign
ment with liabilities of Ss,OOOOOO.
William Magruder (colored) was
lynched by mob near Georgetown,
Ga, for trying to enter young wom
ans bedroom.
Fred Lee and his wife, just married,
were killed by lightning at Meriden,
Conn.
Robbers assaulted County Treasurer
Norlin at Minden, Neb., and carried off
$4,000.
Frank Miller and Alonzo Williams,
negro murderers, were hanged at Bir
mingham, Ala.
The percentages OF the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 30th ult were:
Pitts burgh, $50; New York, .5G2; st.
Louis, .5i4; Brooklyn, 1886: Boston,
500; Cincinnati, .434; Philadelphia,
.396: Chicago, .322.
Frauds more extensive than in
Tweed's time are said to have been
discovered in New York city.
Many deaths from heat were re-
ported from all parts of the country.
The law making kidnapping punish
able by death has gone into effect in
Illinois.
In the American league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the 30th ult. were:
Chicago, .649; Boston. .620; Baltimore,
.5T4; Detroit, .536; Washington, .532;
Philadelphia, 1906; Cleveland, 1853;
Milwaukee, SAT
The last of the volunteer army was
mustered out at San Francisco with
in the time fixed by law. Maj. Gen.
Shafter has gone on the retired list.
A late start and hot, dry weather
is doing serious damage to the great
corn belt. Wheat was never in finer
condition.
Postage stamps issued by the de-
partment in Washington during the
fiscal year just closed numbered
J,116, $4,000, against 4,377,727,0O0 the
previous year.
The Cripple Creek (Col.) gold out
put the past fiscal year reached $23,-
s15,O22.
The City national bank of Buffalo,
n. Y, closed its doors with liabilities
of SO, ,S02 ,O03. Injudicious loans caused
the suspension.
Herst c. Gam. Jr,, 90 years old, one
of the editors of the Sentinel-Leader
at Warren, Ill.,, was drowned while
bathing.
Pastors of churches in st. Louis,
Mo-. and Decatur, H., appeared in
their pulpits in shirt waists.
A marked increase in trade with
the Philippines was shown the past
fiscal year.
Two hundred employees of the Hi
nois Central railroad have been re-
tired with n pension.
Twenty-Five thousand employees OF
he American Sheet Steel & American
Steel Hoop companies throughout the
country were ordered to quit work
because of wage disagreement.
The steamer Mohawk, carrying 9o(
excursionists, sank in Long Island
sound in shallow water and all or
board escaped.
Gen. Chaffee in report to tie wal
department accuses American mis-
sionaries in China of looting.
The Denver (Col.) chief of police OF
dered policemen to MAIN and if neces
sary kill ruffians who have overrun thu
city.
Cincinnati is making elaborate plan
for the twentieth international Chris
tian Endeavor convention.