Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-12-19

eHucu on Lne llln, HBulHSb ofS tHe week
previous and 333 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Mustapha Bey, the Turkish minister,
has received peremptory instructions
from his government to secure a retrac-
tion of the injurious statements made
by President Cleveland in his message
to congress. and q rupture of the dip
lomatic relations between the United
States and Turkey Is threatened.
The Georgia legislature has passed n
bill making women eligible for state Ii
bIarian.
The international hypothecate bank
was incorporated at Dubuque, Ia, with
n capital of $10,000,ooo.
Walter F. Slade and Francis H.
Clough, operating the Clear River WOOL
en- mills at Burrellville. R. l., failed for
| 81 100000.
The National bank of commerce at
Duluth, Mimi, closed its doors with liza
| bilities of $4,000.
The First national bank of Niagara
| Falls, N. Y, suspended with liabilities
of $15o,ooo.
Mrs. Sarah B. Ingersoll Cooper and
her daughter, Harriet Cooper, both
widely known as workers in the cause
| of temperance, Christianity and phi
lanthropy. committed suicide together
| in their home at San Francisco because
| ot church scandal in which they sided
with the pastor and were snubbed by
former friends.
The Commercial Travellers Life as
sociation of Syracuse, N. Y, went into n
| H. l. l.; 8
| oOO
AT the annual meeting in Philadel-
phia of the National Civil Service Re
form league Carl Schurz, of New York,
was reelected president.
Print paper manufacturers at meet
ing in New York agreed to form a ma
tional association to control the product
of all mills and fix prices.
An Iowa organization of friends of
Cuba has been effected, with hcadquar-
ters in Des Moines.
Miss Helen Beers, of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, born blind 40 years ago, has had
her sight restored by the removal of a
cataract from each eye.
An exceedingly well-executed coun-
terfeit of United States five-dollar gold
coins is in circulation in st. Louis.
Mrs. Catherine Corbett. aged 20, and
her daughter Mary, aged 40, were suf-
focated by gas at their home in Indian
apolis.
The railway earnings in Iowa the past
year were $+1, 100000, gain of $5,ooo,-
600 over the previous year.
The three young children of Edward
Farnsworth were drowned at Brook
line, N. H., while playing on thin ice.
| a denial is made of the report that
the sultan of Turkey has entered pro-
test against the language of the presi-
dents message to congress in its treat
ment of the Turkish question.
| Samuel y. Putnam, aged So. of Chi
cago. president of the free thought con-
gress, and May L. Collins, aged 20, of
Midway. KY, promising free thought
lecturer and writer, were suffocated by
gas in Boston.
Bagot's Sons. dealers in dry goods III
New York, failed for $15O.O0O.
In the six-day bicycle race in New
York, Hale, the Irish flyer, was the
winner, making 1910 miles and new
record. Rice, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, was
second. with score of ], 1882 miles.
F. B. Newton. an extensive lumber
dealer at Cleveland. o., made an assign
ment with liabilities of S125,0OO.
A new city directory gives Indian
apolis a population of 100000, an in
crease of 11,000 in one year.
The Free Press and Doniphan Eagle
offices at Grand Island, Neb, were de-
stroyed by fire.
The high school building at Urbana,
O., was destroyed by fire, the loss being
| 100000.
The annual report of Commissioner
Joseph S. Miller, of the internal reve-
nue. bureau, shows the receipts for the
fiscal year ended June 80. 1896, to have
been $146.s3o,615, against $143, ,O77
the previous year.
The Nonpartisan W. C. T. U. conven-
tion at Washington reelected as presi-
dent Mrs. Annie NJ. Wittenmeyer, OF
Pennsylvania.
Charles ID. Lane, chairman of the ma
tional bimetallist committee, has issued
an address to his followers urging them
to suspend active agitation of the sub
ject of free coinage of silver for the
present and to join in uphoding the
hands of Maj. Mckinley as president o1
the United States, and to support him
in all efforts to increase the prosperity
of the people.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 14th was: Wheat
54,2S4 900 bushels; corn, II, ,461 900 bush
els; oats, 11,350,Ooo bushels; rye, 2,5s2,
600 bushels; barley, 5,403,OOO bushels.
The president sent to the senate tn,
nomination of Charles A. Prouty, o1
Vermont, to be interstate commerce
commissioner in place of Wheelock q
Veazey, resigned.
In fit of insane jealous rage Ernes
L. Chase, aged IS, cut =he throat of HI,
wife aged 32, in Detroit, Mich, and ther
cut his own throat.
The Cuban League of the Unitet
States was organized in New York by