Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-12-14
DOMESTIC.


convention adjourned after signing the
revised constitution. The negro dele
gates refused to sign on account of the
provision depriving them of suffrage.
Luis Felipe Carbo, minister of the
new government of Ecuador, is study
ing American institutions and will en-
deavor to get teachers to inaugurate
the public school system in Ecuador.
1t was reported that the reply of the
marquis of Salisbury to the note of
Secretary olney on the Venezuelan
question was refusal on the part of
Great Britain to arbitrate.
AT convention in Guthrie memo
rial was adopted asking congress to ad.
NIT Oklahoma as a state ut once, as she
has greater taxable valuation and
population than any other state in the
union at the time of admission.
The Chaffce block at Allegan, Mich,
was burned. the loss being 100000.
The Empire State express on the
New York Central road now makes
daily trips from New York to Buffalo,
440 miles, in 400 minutes, making it
the fastest passenger train in the
world.
There was but little over foot of
water in the Mississippi river at st.
Louis, the lowest record in nearly 20
years.
j. W. Forlines, engineer; A. w.
Straley, conductor, and Brakeman e.
II. Heilgi were killed in railway
wreck at Lick Branch. w. Va.
A. ii. Andrews d. Co., manufacturers
in Chicago of fine furniture and office
fixtures, failed for $4oO,oOO; assets,
100000.
William ]. Murray, n prominent resi-
dent of Toledo. o.. died after continu-
Gus self-imposed fast of AZ days.
A negro named Isom Kearse, and his
aged mother, charged with stealing a
Bible from church near broxton Ford,
$. c., were whipped to death with a
strap by a mob.
Peter Maher and Robert Fitzsimmons
were matched to fight to finish for the
worlds championship near Ell Paso,
Tex, between February IL and Febru-
airy Is.
A trust. comprising almost every car
pet tack factory in the country, was
formed in New York, and the price of
tacks was advanced to almost double
the former rates.
The movement to bring about the
taxation of church property in Missouri
| was assuming commanding proper
tions.
Melancholia, brought on by trouble
in love affairs, caused Miss May Wills,
young society woman of Akron, o., to
hang herself.
John and Margaret Cowling, aged 73
and 10 years, respectively, after having
been separated by divorce "a years. were
reunited in marriage at Jeffersonville,
Ind.
In tearing out the wall of an aban-
doned cellar near Larned, Kan, the
skeletons of five men were found. and
they were thought to be the remains
of party of land-buyers who went to
western Kansas in 1880 from Pennsyl-
vania, and who mysteriously disup'
peared. They were probably murdered
Tor their money.
Il. M. c. King, justice of the peace
and his wife. who had been ill, died sud
denly in Claybourn county. Tenn. from
the effects of dose of medicine given
them by an Indian doctor.
At its quarterly meeting the w. G. t
q. of Richmond, Va, adopted resolu
lions denouncing the new woman''
Bible"
The First national banlS of Pratt
Kan, went into voluntary liquidation
All depositors were paid in full
Heinrich Hostman, of Dortmund
Prussia. arrived at Cincinnati on his
trip around the world on IA bicycle Hs
is TO make the trip in two years.
There were 324 business failures IT
the United States in the seven day
ended on the 9th, against 2ss the weel
previous and 1856 in the corresponding
time of 1894.
The mint in Philadelphia is turning
out 100000 pennies daily because OF th'
big demand.