Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-11-24

| pdTeu Win inc corresponding week In
| 1898, was 1.2.
THE twenty-first annual convention
of the National Women's Christian
Temperance union met in Cleveland
with representative women present
from every state and territory and
from Canada.
The International Christian Alliance
convention met in st. Louis with del
egates present from Canada as we'll as
from different parts of the United
States.
THE southern phosphate works at
Macon, Ga, were destroyed by fire,
the loss being S150,0OO.
In mine at Blackhawl<, Col, four
workmen were suffocated by smoke.
EIGHT men lost their lives by the
capsizing of barge ut Charlotte, Fla.
Col. w, c. p. BREcKINRIDeE will go
on the lecture platform.
TWELVE business houses and nine
residences in Columbia, Ky, were de-
stroyed by fire.
IT was said that 2l5 families of
American Railway union men were on
the verge of starvation in Denver,
Col, because of the railway strike last
June.
j. r. MERCER e Co., dealers in ferti-
lizers and farmers supplies at Macon,
Ga, failed for 500, 900.
JAMES SHEAKLEY, governor of Alaska,
in his annual report says the people
have enjoyed a season of unusual prog
ress and prosperity and law and order
has prevailed The governor estimates
the Tnn111n tinn n 4 n hnnt 90 mn
IN one day four persons committed
suicide in Leadville. Col
The trial in Chicago of Debs and the
other officers of the American Railway
union under indictment in the United
States court was set by Judge Gross
cup for January 8.
DURING the week ended on the 18th
444, 900 head of stock were received at
the Chicago stock yards, the heaviest
receipts on record for six days.
ITALIAN laborers on West Virginia
railroad have received no pay for three
months, and are creating a reign of
terror
JOHN AsHBY and John Heverin were
mortally and Police Officer Stuart seri-
ously wounded in saloon fight at
Owensboro, Ky.
THE new treaty between the United
States and Japan was concluded in all
its essential features.
BICYCLE champions of FIVE foreign
countries arrived in New York, where
they will compete with Americans.
SOUTHERN congressman question the
legality of the new bond issue and
threaten to make trouble for the ad-
ministration.
Mrs. JOSEPHINE WEST, aged so years,
was burned to death at Peru, Ind, by
stepping on a match and igniting her
clothes.
SEVEN large and valuable barns in
Springfield, ILL.,, were burned by In
cendiaries.
A MIME ball received during the
civil war was successfully removed
from the head of George Sackett at
Creston, Ia.
Two INFANT children of Mrs. Maggie |
Walker, of st. Joseph, Mo-. were
burned to death while alone.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat, |
so ,2s2, 900 bushels; corn, 2,765, 900 bush
els; oats, 9,11o,00O bushels; rye, sos, 900 |
bushels; barley, 3,515. 900 bushels.
THE weather throughout the north |
west was the coldest for the season in |
eleven years. Thermometers in st. |
Paul registered 10 degrees below zero.
By an accident at the new chamber |
of commerce building in Toledo, O., |
Fred Cronenberg, aged S5, and John
aged 40, were killed.
MARIN and Antonio Adego, brothers, |
were burned to death in an incendlary
fire at Scranton, Pa.
THE village of Midtown, Pa, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire.
GEORGE KLEINMAN, champion wing |
shot of America, was defeated by DIR. |
Carver in 10O-bird shoot at Watson's |
park in Chicago
The Elwood Qnd. Iron and Radiator
failed for. $780, 900.
A COAL train on the Pennsylvania |
road went through bridge near Lari-
mer, Pa, and eight men were believed |
to have been buried in the wreck.
AT Louisville John S. johnson rode
a mile, standing start, in 1856 3-5, low
ering the worlds bicycle record full
second.
NEAR Wellsville, Mo-, Thomas Por-
tercheck killed his mother, sister and |
brother, set fire to the house and then
cut his own throat. He was insane.
WHILE miners were removing slate /
from remote portion of mine at
colliery near Wellston, O.,
they found in an old abandoned room
the skeletons of four men.
Two MEN and twenty-three valuable
horses were cremated in the stables of |
A. j. Flanders in Boston.
TIE Cook gang of bandits was prac-
tically cornered near Muskogee, |. r.,
by band of Cherokee police.
AT the convention of the Knights of
Labor in New Orleans the miners del
egations from Indiana, Ohio and Penn
sylvania were unseated despite their
claim that they represented many
thousand knights.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.