Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-10-30
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

Fire destroyed the business portion
of 0sceola, Ark.
The body of Charles Anderson Dana
was laid away in st. Paurs shurchyard
at Glen Cove, L. l. Many prominent
men gathered to pay the last respects,
Gen. Htzhugh Lee, consul general in
Cuba, announces that he expects to re-
turn to Cuba about December and re-
main until the conclusion of the war.
Advices say that not since 1902 has the
potato crop of the United States proved
so nearly failure as this year.
At the annual meeting in Philadelphia
of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States Rear Ad-
miral Gherardi was reelected command
er in chief.
The total cut of II lumber mills on
the river in the Marinette (Wis.) region
this year will be over 327, 100000 feet.
| Joe Patchen broke the worlds wagon
record, pacing the mile at Joliet, ILL.,,
in 2:04A.
| The secretary of war has issued an or
der creating military reservation in
that part of Alaska lying within radius
OF so miles of st. Michael.
| President Mckinley has determined
not to consider any new consular p
| pointments until congress meets.
James X. Taylor, of Pennsylvania,
has been appointed supervising archi-
tect of the treasury in Washington.
AT the annual reunion in La Crosse,
Wis.,, of the Iron brigade Gen. E. s.
Bragg was reelected president.
Driven temporarily insane by busi-
ness reverses George Young, n farmer
| aged 35 years, living near Blue Earth
City, Mimi, killed his wife, his two chill
dren and himself.
The National Association of Retail
Liquor Dealers in session at Indianap-
oils elected August Kochler, of New
| York, president, and declared against
persecution of men engaged in the
| traffic.
In n railway collision near Dayton,
o., two men were fatally hurt and five
persons were more or less injured
The Yaqui Indians in New Mexico
are driving white gold seekers out of
their country.
Twenty-eight italians were denied
admittance to this country at Duluth,
Mimi, under the contract-labor law.
Indiana bankers met at Indianapo-
lis and formed state association with
| Allen M. Fletcher, of Indianapolis, as
president
All the business part of Center, Ind,
was destroyed by fire.
After being out 6S hours the Jury in
the Luetgert murder trial in Chicago
failed to agree, standing nine to three
for conviction, and they were discharged
by Judge Tuthill.
The centennial of the launching of
the United States frigate Constitution
was celebrated at Boston.
At the National Christion Missionary
convention in Indianapolis resolutions
were adopted declaring the saloon the
greatest evil confronting the church
and civilization.
Y. L. Murden's livery stable was de-
stroyed by fire at Peru, Ind, and 12
borses were cremated.
President Mckinley has asked Rus
sell Sage, of New York, to purchase
the Union Pacific railway on the basis
of satisfying the full government claim
i'll the property.
The office of the Daily Whig at Jack
son, Tenn, was destroyed by fire.
At Williams Bay, Wis, the greatest
observatory in the world was presented
by Charles T. Yerkes, of Chicago, to
President Harper, of the University of
Chicago.
The bank of Lodi, Wis, has closed its
doors.
George Westerman, so years of age,
killed his stepdaughter at Madrid, Mo-,
and then shot himself.
Three robbers blew the safe in the
Exchange bank at Wakarusa, Ind, and
secured 5000.
Gen. Wilson, chief of the engineers of
the army, in his annual report to the
secretary of war estimates that $780,
0CJ will be needed for coast defenses
| for the years 1S9S-9 and S,32S, 900 for
rivers and harbors.
| During the fishing season now closed
the Gloucester (Mass.) feet lost II YES
sells and 62 men.
The president has appointed w. X.
Van Reypen to be surgeon general of
Bates, deceased.
The exchanges at the leading clear
inS houses in the United States during
\ the week ended on the 22d aggregated
1,3o6, 1884, against 81 ,3O7, ,9O7, ,1s9 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 25.2.
| There were 224 business failures In
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 22d, against 223 the week
previous and 274 in the corresponding
| period of 1896.
The Iowa supreme court says that
speculation in grain, where no delivery
is intended, is gambling, and that such
contracts are void.
Ex-Congressman Charles NJ. Wood
man, of Chicago, has become insane.
Several points in southwest Virginia
report having experienced earthquake
shocks.
w. G. Hitchcock & Co., dealers in silk
in New York, failed for 81 100000.
| Four unknown men were run down