Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-09-25
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Michael broke the worlds 2O-mile
bicycle record at Springfield, Mass, GO
| ing the distance in 3S:11.
President Ratchford has sent out a
circular address to the miners declar-
ing the great strike Off.
1t is estimated that the recent hail
storm in the vicinity of Washington,
Ia, caused n damage of 100000.
By the fall of cage in mine at Nam
ticolle, Pa, four men were fatally i'm
jured and eight Others seriously hurt.
A mob of 400 mer lynched Lyle Levi,
Bert Andrews, Clifford Gordon, William
jenkins and Hiney Shuler at Versailles,
Ind. The men had been arrested for
burglary.
The steamer Excelsior arrived in San
| Francisco from Alaska with 63 passen-
| gers and about $2,500,000 in gold.
An investigation made by Commits
sioner Jones, of the Indian bureau,
shows that there are only 6s insane In
| dians in the country.
Postmaster General Gary is dcroting
considerable attention to an investiga-
ton of the wisdom of establishing post
al savings banks.
Another very rich gold find has been
made in Lucky 13" shaft at Deadwood,
| S. d.
| Seymour Bros, stock brokers in New
York, with offices in various cities in
the country, failed for 81 ,oOo, 900.
The president has appointed Thomas
Smith, of New Jersey, to be consul at
| Moscow, Russia.
Tramps caused an $4,000 fire at
Moorhead, Nfinn.
| Domestic exports for the eight
to $629, ,434,371, an increase of $62, 2,217,
3s7 over last year.
The farmers along Taylor's bayou
in Jefferson county, Tex, lost S150,ooo
by the destruction of the rice crop in
the recent hurricane.
Commissioner Powderly, of the immi-
grafton bureau, has directed the depor-
tation of 16 contract laborers recently
arrived at San Francisco from Japan.
The amount of gold imported during
August amounted to $4,374, ,175, and the
exports to $1,9s3,5ss. The silver i'm
ports amounted to $1,491,752 and the
exports to $5,313,277.
The Great Dismal swamp, of Virginia
and North Carolina, covering an area
of perhaps 400 square miles, was on fire
from one end to the other.
The French ambassador at Washing
ton, Mr.. Paternotre, has been trans
ferred to Madrid, and Count Montholon,
the French minister at Brussels, will
succeed him at Washington.
Several buildings were unroofed and
many shade trees torn up by storm
in Dubuque, Ia.
Fire at Youngstown, o., destroyed
the stock farm of John A. Logan, Jr.,
and eight finely-bred horses and many
elegant equipages were burned.
| At the session in Boston of the Ma
tional Laundrymen's association res
olution looking for boycott of the
Chinese laundries was defeated.
Tom Lane, a miner, killed Jim Shea,
q shift boss, near Butte, Mont, and then
committed suicide.
Thomas Lucas and Michael Welsh
wera killed and James Cody and John
Lyons were fatally hurt in a railway
collision near Basalt, Col.
President Mckinley attended the cor
ner stone laying of the new synagogue
to be erected by the Washington He
brew congregation on Eighth street.
NJ. G. Palmer, of Peoria, was elected
president of the Illinois Federation of
Labor.
Secretary Cages desire that postage
stamps shall hereafter be green has met
| ,t-ith lafaof NV fha 1icnnunrxy thnf ha
rules of the international postal con-
gress forbid any change in the color of
| stamps.
After over two months idleness be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 coal miners in
the Pittsburgh district returned to
work.
In a railway collision at Keytesville,
Mo-, William Gaines, postal clerk, and
w. b. Smith, fireman, and w. Clark
and Paul Street were killed.
| Yellow fever was said to be increasing
| in New Orleans and other portions of
the south.
| AT the closing session in Nashville,
| Tenn, of the national road parliament
| resolutions recommending state aid and
aid by the general government and a re-
stricted use of convict labor were
adopted.
Three masked highwaymen entered
the post office at Belmont, Neb., and
secured $500.
Col. A. G. Robinson, quartermaster's
department, stationed at Jeffersonville,
Ind, has been retired, having reached
the age of 62 years.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the nth aggregated
$1,3s6, ,354,242, against S1,1o4,0so,65O the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 52.6.
There were 2O4 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 215 the week