Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-10-02
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

the murder of "a striking miners near
Lattimer on Sept. 10.
The works of the Youngstown (0)
Bridge company were destroyed by fire,
the loss being 100000.
Samuel and Henry Mas, aged 16 and
10, respectively, were killed near Rock
port, Ind, by the caving in of a sand
bank.
In speech at Colorado Springs, COL,
James II. Eckels, comptroller of the
currency, said that he believed a great
wave of prosperity was sweeping over
the country.
The necessity Of increasing the per-
sonnel of the navy will be presented to
congress in the Forthcoming reports of
bureau chiefs of the navy department.
Twelve new cases of yellow fever were
reported in New Orleans, II at Edwards,
Miss, and at Mobile, Ala.
Nearly the entire business portion of
Bainbridge, o., was destroyed by fire,
and w. p. Beardsley and Thomas Hig-
gins were burned to death and seven
other persons were badly injured.
John r. Gentry and Robert j. paced a
mile in double harness in Philadelphia
in 2:09, breaking the worlds team rec
ord.
The sawmill boiler of z. D. DeS, three
miles from Livermore, KY, blew up and
three men were killed and ten injured.
May and 4.
In the Luetgert murder trial in Chi
cago Judge Vincent made the open
ing address for the defense, in which
he claimed Mrs. Luetgert was seen
after May 1, that bones found in the
vat were not human, and that rings
found did not belong to the missing
woman.
The monetary commission appoint
ed under the authority Of the conven-
tion of business men held last January
in Indianapolis met in Washington for
the first time. Ex-senator George T.
Edmunds, of Vermont, was chosen
chairman.
In the Luetgert murder trial in Chi
cago NJ. j. Sholey, Henry Feldshaw and
W. j. Grunsten testified that they saw
Mrs. Luetgert alive in Kenosha, Wis,
Fire destroyed the major portion of
the John Gund Brewing company's
plant at La Crosse, Wis, entailing loss
of 100000.
AT Saline, I. T., David Ridge, sheriff
of the district; Jesse Sunday, sheriff
elect (both Indians), and Thomas Bag
got (white) were killed in a drunken
row by Samson Bait.
Lieut.. Peary, the arctic explorer has
arrived in Boston from Sydney, B. C.
He said the big meteorite he brought to
America weighed 100 tons.
The completion of the new steel arch
bridge over the Niagara gorge was cell
ebrated at Niagara Falls.
John Trafford and his wife were fa-
tally injured and their 14-year-old girl
killed in a runaway near Coy, Ark.
During a fire in a grocery store at
Chester, Pa, six persons were seriously
injured by the explosion of barrel
of gasoline.
Orders were sent from the navy de-
partment to San Francisco to have the
gunboat Wheeling sent to Honolulu.
While Rev. L. d. Morris, of Green
castle, Ind, was delivering an address
to convention of Christian churches
he was fatally stricken with paralysis.
Frost has seriously damaged the to-
bacco crop in Kentucky and Tennessee
A report to the state department
shows that there are more than 10000
Europeans and Americans resident in
China.
The Western league and the Western
association baseball clubs closed their
seasons, the Indianapolis club winning
| the pennant in the former and the Cedar
Rapids club in the latter.
A statement prepared at the bureau
of statistics of the treasury depart
ment shows the total imports of duti-
able sugar during the last fiscal year to
have been 1881 ,4O3,6 ,6s7 pounds, valued
| at $s5,9O1 ,9o2.
The exchanges at the leading clear
| ing houses in the United States during
| the week ended on the Gath aggregated
| $l,36s, ,s04, ,677, against $1,3S6, ,354,242 the
| previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 60.6.
There were 200 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Gath, against 2O4 the week
| previous and 315 in the corresponding
| period of 1896.
Up to the oath there were % cases of
| yellow fever in New Orleans and is
deaths, Al cases at Mobile, Ala. and 8
| deaths, 1913 cases at Edwards, Miss, and
20 deaths, and rs cases at Biloxi, Miss,
and 4 deaths.
The village of Riverdale. Mich, was
reported to have been nearly wiped out
by fire.
At the national encampment in CO.
lumbus, o., of the Union Veteran lie
gion Archibald Blakely, of Pittsburgh.
was elected national commander.
Every business house in the town OF
Alton, 1. T., was destroyed by fire.
| by an explosion of black damp in the
| Williamson county coal mines at Johns
ton City, ILL.,. five men were killed and
several others were badly injured.
A landslide on the Dyea trail in Alas
ka killed 1s persons.