Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-11
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
TIE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

per. Inc cnSn Dalance In the treasury
was Ss4G.4O9,0T6. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to $1,000, ,226, ,466.
In his message to the general as.
sembly which convened at Richmond
Va, Gov. O'Farrall discussed the lynch
ing question and proposed legislation to
correct the evil.
The canals of the state of New York
have been closed for the season.
The government receipts during No.
yember were $40, ,363, Cos and the eS.
penditurcs were $37,s10,s3s.
Fire in the +. o. Sawyer & Co. paper
factory in ST. Louis caused u loss OF
100000.
Miss Susan Wesson died in Roxbury,
Mass, aged 100 years 4 months and Z
days. She was the oldest unmarried
woman in Massachusetts.
Justice Fields retirement from the
supreme court, of which he gave official
notice last October, has taken place.
AT the annual convention in New
York of the American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers Charles w. Hunt, of
New York, was elected president.
The gold output of the Cripple Creek
(Col.) district in November was $1,25s,.
600, the largest for one month in the
history of the camp.
BY order of Assistant Postmaster
General Heath it has been made an of
fense punishable by dismissal from the
than eight hours @ day.
Mrs. Christine Behrens. who muir
dered her husband. Claus Behrens, last
July. by giving him paris green. was
sentenced in Davenport, Ia, to life i'm
prisonment.
The deposits in state banks of North
Dakota have nearly doubled in co
days.
Charles W. Spalding, late president
of the defunct Globe savings bank in
Chicago and former treasurer of the
state university, was given an indeter'
inmate sentence to the penitentiary.
The executive board of the Knights
of Labor reports the order largely in
creased in membership during the last
year.
The Moosehead Pulp & Paper COM
pany at Solon, Me-, failed for 100000,
Nearly 1000 men in the limestone and
iron trades at Youngstown, O., have
had their wages advanced from ten to
twenty per cent.
A suburban population of fully 10000
will be added to Kansas City, Mo-, as q
result of a special election.
BY the explosion of an engine on e
street car line near East Titusville, Pa.
four men were injured, two fatally.
Light earthquake shocks were felt
at several points in Kansas, but no dam
age was reported.
Seth Lowe. William Phillips and John
Howard, farmers living near Huntsville,
Ark. fought for the hand of Miss Irene
Pruitt and all three were fatally
wounded.
Anna Niggl, young married wom-
an. murdered her two younger chill
dren in Philadelphia and attempted sui
eide. No cause was known for the
deed.
Bib Scott (colored) killed John Sing
ley, wealthy farmer, and his wife and
child at Warrens, Ala. and stole $500
and escaped.
Albert Krueger. butcher, shot and
killed his wife and then committed sui
eide in Milwaukee. A quarrel was the
cause.
The president has appointed Blanche
K. Bruce (colored), of Mississippi, to be
register of the treasury.
The annual reports of Indian schools
show progress at Carlisle, Pa, and
Hampton, Va, the principal institu-
tions, where 900 students are enrolled.
The Piedmont state bank at Morgan
town. n. c., closed its doors.
Nine Cinnamon captured near Ma
lone, n. Y. will be sent back to China.
The imports of dutiable sugar dur
ing October last amounted to 1S2,99s,-
945 pounds, valued at S3.G43.613 which
is an increase over the September i'm
ports Of nearly 73,ooo,0OO pounds.
Five robbers entered Miles & Higbee's
bank at Milford, Ind, but secured nc
booty.
Giuseppe Fuda, convicted of the mur,
der Of his wife in East Norwalk. Conn
February II last. was hanged at the
state prison at Wethersfeld.
Two orphan children of George Cope.
land were fatally burned in the house
of their grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Cope.
land. at Sullivan. Ind.
The exchanges Mt the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Sd aggregated
$1,323, 1861, ,4G5, against $1,05s, ,4s2 ,20s the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 5.4.
In his annual report the commits
sioner of internal revenue estimates
that the receipts from all sources fol
the current fiscal year will aggregat,
sl55, 900. an increase over 1897 of So,
100000. During the year 2,241 illici
stills were destroyed and s2o persons
were arrested.
Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of Hi
nois, has declined the position of chair
man of the interstate commerce com
mission.
w. ]. Burian fired revolver at hi
wife in Detroit but succeeded only il
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