Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-06-13
DOMESTIC,

At MonOnk Lake, IN. L., Une lnternn-
tional arbitration conference opened
three days session with ex-senator Ed
munds, of Vermont, presiding.
The Rock Island road sent n special
train from Chicago to Rock Island,
distance of 1S1 miles, in hours and 80
minutes, lowering the best record so
far minutes.
The Farmers deposit bank at Creigh-
ton, Mo-, closed it's doors.
George Herpo and Frank Samuelson
will row across the atlantic from New
York to Havre in boat IS feet inches
long.
Tire national commercial tariff con-
vention in Detroit adopted resolutions
declaring in favor of taking the tariff
question out of partisan politics, the
placing of the consular service in the
hands of men having knowledge of busi-
ness and international law, and the es
tablishment of department of COM
merce by the government.
Clarence Craig, a 15-year-old lad at
Shelbyville, Ind, was handling his IA
ther's shotgun when it was accidentally
discharged and his mother was instant
ly killed.
Jacob Rich. as an individual, and the
First street railroad at San Jose, Cal,
failed for 100000.
A hurricane near Pendoe, Neb,,
wrecked many farmhouses and barns
and greatly damaged crops.
Austin Corbin, aged SO years, the mil
lionaire banker and fnancier of New
York, and his coachman, John Stokes,
l., lAI t1,a @f
accident at Newport. n. III.
The Boylston brewery, owned by Haf-
fenrefer " Co., at Jamaica Plains, Mass,
was totally destroyed by fire, the loss
being $500.000.
The 23d annual session of the national
conference of corrections and charities
commenced at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Affection, Wis, the town without a
woman, lost its distinction by the mar
riage OF +. ii. Metcalf, the postmaster,
to Miss Laura Matthews, of Farming
ton.
The Nebraska supreme court declared
that employers were not liable for in
juries sustained by employees through
accident where ordinary care has been
exercised.
lie lDdl dSSOCiatioh VII
meet in Saratoga, N. Y, August 10.
| At the national convention of brewers
in Philadelphia C. M. Bergner. of that
city, was elected president for the en-.
suing year.
| Edward Perry, who murdered the
Sawyer family in Ava, Mo-, has been
sentenced to hang July 81. The discov-
cry Of the crime, arrest and conviction
occupied but ten days.
The international arbitration confer
ence closed its session at Mohonk Lake,
/ n. ", with declaration to President
| Cleveland that civilization has substi-
tuted law for force in personal matters
and nations should do likewise.
The equestrian statues erected by the
state of Pennsylvania in honor of the
memory of Gems. George G. Meade and
Winfield Scott Hancock were unveiled
on the battle field at Gettysburg.
At the G7th anniversary of the Brook
lyn On. W Sunday School union go
600 children took part in the parade.
There were 240 business failures in
the United States in the seven da.ys
ended on the 5th, against $50 the week
| previous and 105 in the corresponding
| period of 1885,
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during TIE
week ended on the 9th aggregated
$957,2ls,o7S, against $ol7.260,35s the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in lsot
was 14.5.
Joseph Windrath, one of the slayers
of Carey B. Birch, receiver of money
from conductors of the West Chicagc
Street Railway company, was hanged
in Chicago.
The wholesale clothing firm of l. w
Klaw g. Co. failed in st. Louis for $112,
900.
Three hundred families converted te
Mormonism in the mountains of Vir
ginia will enigrate to Mexico and form
colony on the Pacific coast and viii
practice poligamy.