Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-12-05
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

Inc annual report OF secretary OF
War Daniel S. Lamont shows that the
total expenditures of the year were
S51 1,S03, ,20s, and the secretary's esti-
mates for next year are only little
more than $1,000,00o in excess of that
amount. The desertions during the year
numbered 1865. The army consists of
25,426 officers and men, or 2S4 below
the legal maximum, and the discipline
of the troops was never better than
now.
1t turns out that Rev. James Miller,
who was supposed to have been MUIR
dered at Decatur. ILL.,. took his own life.
Reports showing favorable results of
the rural free delivery experiments of
the government are reaching the post
Office department in Washington.
Nearly the entire business portion of
the town of Leavenworth, Wash, was
destroyed by fire.
Col. Jose Reyes, aid de camp of Gen.
Maceo, who passed through Jackson
Vile, Fla, said that the most san
culinary battle of the war in Cuba was
fought in the Rabi hills in Pinar del Rio
and 1000 of Weyler's men were killed
and 1000 wounded.
The fertilzing plant of Treston &
Sons in Blissville, L. l., was destroyed
by fire, the loss being 100000.
In football games in Chicago on
Thanksgiving day Chicago university
defeated University of Michigan by a
score of to 6, and the Chicago Athletic
association won from the Boston Ath-
letic association by a score of 12 to 6.
Within the last 30 days there have
been l3 murders in Mingo county, w.
Va.
In football games in various places
on Thanksgiving day one person was
killed and 81 others were injured, some
seriously.
Inman, Poulson & Co.'S sawmill at
Portland, Ore, was burned, the loss be-
ing 100000.
Reports from North Dakota announce
the first great blizzard of the year.
Railroad trains were in hopeless
tanglo from Fargo west to Mandan,
and most of the telegraph wires were
down. Business at Jamestown, Valley
City, Larimore and DEVILS Lake was
suspended.
SOhlI lct pNCl po,OvO,OOu OI
new vessels for the lakes have been
closed in Chicago since the election,
giving employment to $500 men.
The Naval Veterans association I'M
veiled its monument to the United States
navy at Loudon Park cemetery in Bal
timore. Md.
q. w. Nelson, leading tenor in the
choir at Thanksgiving services at the
First Baptist church in Chattanooga,
Tenn. dropped dead in the choir.
Empey d Woodard's grain elevator
at Pennington, Minn., was burned with
100000 bushels of grain.
Thanksgiving day was universally
observed throughout the country.
The exchanges at the leading clear.
irg houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 27th aggregated
S935. 5.o53,113, against $1,235, ,7S2,1+1 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is 60.
There were 300 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 27th, against 34+ the week
previous and 270 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
X. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly re-
view of trade say that reports from all
parts of the country show clearly the
enlargement of trade. not at all points
in the same branches, but everybody
helped by more confident feeling.
Shoninger. Levy q Co., wholesale lace
dealers III Chicago. failed for 100000.
A cyclone near Waco, Tex, devastated
o strip one mile wide and eight miles in
length. A number of farmhouses were
demolished and one person was killed
and several others injured.
j. C. Watts, cashier of the State bank
of Nicola, Ia, is said to be defaulter in
the sum of $4,000. He is supposed to be
| somewhere in Colorado.
Domestic trouble in the home of Hen
ry L. Bowers at De Kalb, ILL.,, eliminated
in the murder of the wife and the sui
| eide of the husband.
| Baltimore Methodists erected bronze
| tablet to mark the site of the Lovely
Lane meeting house, where the Meth
| odist Episcopal church was organized in
1884.
y disastrous prairie fire swept over
the Seminole country near Rochelle, U.
| T., and 16 persons were burned to DEATH
Joseph Green and Mike lnhoter, two
| West Newton (Alinn.) farmers. were
killed instantly by the explosion of a
thrashing engine.
The differences between the window
glass workers and the manufacturers,
which has kept the factories of the coun-
try idle since May 80, were settled at u
conference in Pittsburgh and $4,000 men
will be ut work again December 10.
The body of the late George w. q.
| Ferris, inventor of the Ferris wheel,
was cremated at Pittsburgh in accord
ance with IA request made by him be-
| fore his death.
Twenty-six banks in eastern and
southeastern Nebraska have been bur-
| glarized with losses amounting TO over
$4,000 within the past two months.
| Aft and Bob holly brothers) were
killed at negro cake walk at Selma,