Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-10
The anti.gambllng law in Montana

has gone into effect.
The corner stone Of statue of Brig
ham Young was laid with imposing GER
emonies at Salt Lake City.
The American Baptist Home Mission
society and the american Baptist Mis-
sionary union have won John ID. Rookie
feller's provisional gift of $250,oo0 to
wipe out the debt of$4s6,OOo.
The wife and three children of John
Stephens. of Belmont, Ind, died within
short time of each other and poison
ing is suspected.
In the match race at Colorado Springs,
Col, between Walter c. Sanger, the
well-llnown Milwaukee cyclist, and the
famous pacing horse, Albatross, the
man won two out of three half-mile
heats.
James Burgin, aged 90, prominent
man living near Bentonville, Ark, and
his wife were murdered by burglars.
The Iowa Legislature met in special
session in Des Moines and passed bill
putting the new code in operation Oc-
tober 1.
One of the largest and finest steel
drawbridges in this country, which
unites the cities of Duluth, Mimi, and
Superior, Wis, has been opened for
traffic.
The government deficit for the fiscal
year just closed was SIS, ,623. los, reduc-
tion of $3l, l,s21.9S5 since March IL last.
The receipts from customs in June ag-
gregated S21,56o, 152, against $1l,351,- :
500 for June. 1896. The receipts from
internal revenue during June were S12,-
sS7,os5, loss as compared with June,
1886, of about S50O,O0O.
The biennial session of the Pennsyl-
vania legislature adjourned sine die.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt decreased
S10,o27,966 during the month of June
The cash balance in the treasury was
SS71,3s9, ,35S. The total debt. less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to 1856, ,404,34i.
AS the result of the failure of the Joint
wage conference of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Work
ers and manufacturers to agree upon
the scale at the Youngstown (O.) con-
ference all the union mills closed down
and between $4,000 and $1,000 men are
idle.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the I'd aggregated
S1.065, ,101, 400. against 70,269,23s the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 81.
The National Reform Press associa-
ton met at Nashville, Tenn.
a cyclone passed over Cancer town
ship in Illinois and large number of
live stock were killed and many build
ings were damaged.
Lemuel w. Nelson was hanged at
Grants Pass, Ore, for the murder of
Charles Perry in Josephine county in
March, 1896.
There were al business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the I'd, against PIG the week
previous and 25T in the corresponding
period of 1896.
1t was semi-officially announced that
the president would soon send q special
message to congress recommending the
creation of currency commission to
consider n revision of the monetary
system of the United States.
In the four-mile race on the Hudson
river at Poughkeepsie between the
Cornell, Columbus and Pennsylvania
crews the former won in 2O:4 As; Co
lumbia, second. 21:20 80.
a general strike of miners of the
United Mine Workers of America was
ordered for July 4. Some 375,0OO men
are involved.
At Colorado Springs McReynolds and
Carruthers, the celebrated tandem BIZ
cycle pair, broke the worlds tandem
records. They did the third of a mile
in O:34 AS, half in O:55 3-5 and two
thirds in 1917 2-5.
Kansas City (Mo) packers broke all
records during the first half of 1897.
This is the record: Hogs killed, 1885,
600; cattle killed. $4,000; sheep killed,
100000.
The monument of the First Mime
sofa regiment was dedicated on the
Gettysburg battle field.
The grain dealers national conven-
ton met at Des Moines, Ia.