Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-12-07
DOMESTIC.


The motorcycle contest in Chicago
over 54-mile course for purses amount.
ing to $4,000 was won by the Charles l.
Duryea gasoline motorcycle of Spring
field, Mass, which made the distance III
ten hours.
The Cherokee Indian legislature
passed bill making it impossible here.
after for any white man to obtain prop
erty rights by marrying Indian women
Eight Berry detectives, Implicated in
the shooting of innocent Frank White.
while seeking his criminal brother,
were indicted in Chicago by the grand
jury on counts charging murder.
The report that Harry Hayward had
confessed in Minneapolis to the murder
of Catherine Cling was said to be un.
true.
Peter McGeoch, the millionaire spec
ulator, whose deals and attempt to cor
ner the provision markets at various
times startled the world, committed
suicide in Milwaukee because of famil y
troubles. He was 81 years old.
Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance, in
his annual report calls attention to the
insufiiciency of the appropriations and
suggests that congress should permit
the ordnance bureau to replace old arms
now in use with weapons of servicea-
BILE type and uniform character.
Secretary Hoke Smith of the interior
department in his annual report calls
attention to the strict enforcement
which has been given to civil-service re-
| form; estimates the amount of public
lands undisposcd of to be 100000, 900
acres and says the total receipts during
the year for public lands amounted to
over $2,000,000; says an intelligent
treatment of the Indians will make
them self-supporting; and upon the
subject of forests says that 100000
acres are now included within forest
reserves, the object being to preserve
them for future use.
Dispatches from all over the United
States note a general observance of
Thanksgiving day in the usual man
ner.
Roman Bohrer and Sadie Henschen,
who were soon to be married, were both
killed by the cars at Arcola, Ind,
while going to a dance.
S. e. Martin, the ossitied man, who has
lain on his back for seven years unable
to move a joint, died near Bryan, Tex.
AT noon ON Thanksgiving day in
Cleveland over 5000 members of Chris
tian Endeavor societies prayed for the
salvation of the soul of Col. Ingersoll.
Later advices say that the loss to the
oil interests in Ohio and Indiana by the
| hIiyzn WI
Sl,000,000.
Three men were fatally hurt and sew
eral seriously injured in n wreck on
the Norfolk d Western railroad at Can
terberg, w. Va.
Football games in Chicago resulted
as follows: University of Michigan, 12;
University of Chicago, o; Boston and
Chicago Athletic associations, tie, 4
to 1. AT Kansas City-Univcrsity of
Missouri, 10; University of Kansas, 6,
The Chattahoochie national bank at
Columbus, Ca, closeusts doors.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 29th aggregated
$s7o, ,4s4,ls2, against $1,126, ,226,63s the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
| 1894. was so.
There were 2SS business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the goth, against 320 the week
previous and 1928 in the corresponding
time of 1894.
AT Nashville, Tenn, John S. Johnson
lowered the one-mile flying start bicy-
Gle record from 2:16 to 2:10 is. The
two-mile flying start record was low
cred by A. f. Sem, of Ilion, KY, from
4:49 2-5 to 4:4S 3-5.
Joseph Robinson and Ozias McGahey,
both negroes, were taken from the Jail
Mt Fayetteville, Tenn, and hanged by Il
mob. The colored men were charged
with an attempted assault upon white
girl.
Secretary of War Lamont in his an
nual report gives the expenditures for
the fiscal year ended June 80 last as
$52,2S7, ,7s0.44. The appropriations for
the same period were $40, ,466, ,57l.75. lie
says the year has been undisturbed by
Indian outbreaks, domestic violence or
troubles on the border, and that the
army is better fed, housed and clothed
than ever before. The total force of the
army is 25.706. The total expenditures
for the improvement of rivers and har.
bors was $ls,S12,517. He says that the
condition of our seacoast and lake
frontier should be strengthened.
John Williams and David Rose, two
prominent and wealthy stock traders
at Hazel Green, KY, fought over a trade
and both were killed.
Reports reached El Paso, Tex, of a
Yaqui outbreak in northeastern Sonora
in which a number of citizens, includ-
ing Americans, were killed.