Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-29

| uHu WIG, Hn aReu couple OF sacramento,
December 80, 1894. Kovalev was Rus
sian exile.
Commander and Mrs. Ballington
Booth were forced to relinquish their
command of the Salvation Army in
| America, and 1T was thought that this
action would result in an organiza-
tion exclusively for the United States.
Mr.. Booth and his wife had disap-
pcared from their home in New York,
and their whereabouts were unknown.
tor the first time since September
{, 1895, the gold reserve passed the
St00,000,o00 point, the exact figures be-
ing $1O5,O92,s43.
Angus ID. Gilbert was hanged in Bos-
ton for outraging and numbering Alice
Sterling, n girl aged eight years, on
April 10, 1895.
Christopher C. Waite, aged IS, presi-
dent of the Columbus, Hooking Valley
g. Toledo railway, died in Colum bus,
o., of pneumonia, and few hours later
his mother, the widow of the late Chief
Justice Waite, died in Washington,
aged 76 years.
! Commander Ballington Booth, of the
| Salvation Army, announced to the mem
bers of his staff in New York that he
bad decided not to relinquish command
of the army in the United States ard
that under no circumstances would he
take orders from England. 1t was an
nounced from London that Commits
sioner and Mrs. Booth-Tucker had
been appointed successors to Com
mander and Mrs. Ballington Booth.
Seven persons were asphyXiated, one
was fatally hurt by jumping from Il
window and five others were more or
less injured during fire in the dwell
ing of James II. ArmIger, a jewele1, at
Baltimore.
Washington's birthday was very gen
erallly celebrated throughout the coun-
try.
EX-Congressman NJ. d. Harter, of
Philadelphia, shot and killed himself
at Fostoria, o. Insomnia was said to
have been the cause. He was member
of the Fifty-second and Fifty-third con-
gresses from the Fourteenth Ohio dis
trict.
The skeletons OF four human beings
were discovered in an abandoned coal
mine mile east of Golfers, w. Va.
The Oldest Baptist preacher in Ken
lucky, Rev. Henry Maher, of Powcll's
Valley, committed suicide. He would
have been 100 years old in June.
Rev. William Bailey, self-styled
preacher, was tarred and feathered and
driven from North Platte, Neb., by
vigilance committee on the charge of
immoral conduct.
Peter Angle and wife, an aged couple
living near Beverly, @, were burned 20
death by a fire that destroyed their
home.
Henry Maui, farmer residing near
Millstadt, ILL.,, who had acquired an un-
enviable reputation as wife beater,
was terribly whipped by white caps.
The board of education of East Liver
pool, o., was petitioned to restore
the Bible reading in the schools, and
two teachers declared they would read
it anyhow.
James Sarrnn and Pearl KImms were
found dead near Keystone, w. Va,
where general fight occurred among
200 colored miners.
Judge Badger decided ut Cleveland
that receiving money in Ohio to be sent
to poolroom in Kentucky to pay rae
ing bets was in violation of the laws of
Ohio.
Rev. f. C. Eggleston, a colored minis
ter, was elected member of the board
of school commissioners of Baltimore,
being the first colored man to hold such
position in that city.
The funeral services of Theodore Run
yon, late ambassador to Germany, were
held in Newark, n. j.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the gath was: Wheat,
GG,010,000 bushels; corn, 1l,576,0O
bushels; oats, 6,91s,OOO bushels; rye,
1.541, 900 bushels; barley, 100000
bushels.
An ordinance prohibiting the use of
cigarettes, cigars or tobacco by per-
sons under IS years within the city
limits of Lincoln, Neb., was passed by
the council.
Ballington Booth was offered the
leadership of an independent Ameri-
can Salvation Army by the brgadiers,
adjutants and majors whom he had
created in all parts of the country, but
he declined, and he and his wife left
the headquarters in New York for good.
Prominent citizens of Mitchell. ). D.,
purchased the Office of the Mail and
then dumped the contents into the
street and burned them. The paper had
become obnoxious.
A lamp exploded in the home of Mrs.
Frederick Rose at Canton, Md, and
three of her children were fatally
burned.
John Millen, 16-year-old boy of
Edinburg, Ind, shot and killed himSelf
because of parental interference in
love affair.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
William Scott, of Delphos, o., cele-
brated his Tooth birthday. He claims