Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-03
DOMESTIC.

The first official dinner of President
McKinley's administration was given
in honor of the cabinet. No wines were
served.
Fred c. Squires, of Michigan, has been
appointed private secretary to Secre-
tary of War Alger.
President Mckinley has signed the
commissions of John Hay, ambassador
to the court of st. James; Horace Por-
ter, ambassador to France, and Henry
White, first secretary of embassy at
London.
Martha Bull shot and killed Thomas
McCrae and then shot herself in Han
cock county, Tenn.
Thomas B. Spencer, one of the best
known men in Saginaw, Mich, shot him
self because of business misfortunes.
Sixteen apprentice boys deserted from
the United States gunboat Adams in
San Diego, Cal, because of severe train
ing tactics.
President Mckinley has signed the
joint resolution passed by congress au-
thorizing the secretary of war to furnish
tents to the sufferers of the AIissis-
sippi river floods.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
road has withdrawn from every traffic
association of which it has been amen
ber
The Illinois river at Chill!cothe, Ill.,,
was four miles wide and many persons
had been driven from their homes.
James Wolfe, John Hevelow and
G.l
were drowned near Lewes, Del, by the
upsetting of their boat.
The residence of Jacob AIDE, Is miles
from Nashville, Tenn, was burned, and
the bodies of Jacob AIDE, Mrs. Ade,
Henry Ade, aged 13; Lizzie Ade, aged
90, their daughter. and Rosa Moirer,
aged ten years, who was visiting the
family, were found in the ruins. 1t was
thought that murder preceded the fire.
The doors of the De Kalb county bank
at Maysville. NO., were closed.
In diplomatic circles in Washington
it was considered that Spain had prac-
tically abandoned the effort to crush
the Cuban insurrectionists.
The house of Frank Penrod at Ladds-
vile, Ia, was burned while he and his
wife were away and their three girls
and two boys perished in the flames.
Andrew Lipielslki drank ten glasses of
whisky in saloon at Peru, H., to win
wager and died three hours after
ward.
John McAllen and his wife arrived
in Newark, n. j.. from Omaha, Neb.,
having walked the entire distance of
1929 miles. They started January 2S
last.
Frank Nielann, of Oakland, Pa, shot
and fatally wounded his sister-in-law
and then shot himself through the
heart. Family trouble was the cause.
A bill prohibiting kaleidoscope cXhi-
bitions of prize fights passed the Maine
legislature without argument or dis
senting voice.
1t was discovered that James NJ
Gordy, in Jail at Georgetown, Del.
charged with the murder of his wife
hrs. Mary Lewis Gordy, of New York
has nine wives now living.
John J.. Sullivan has challenged Rob
ert Fitzsimmors for fight to finish
with gloves fok $4,000 a side and the
championship of the world.
President Mckinley gave reception
to the newspaper correspondents sta
| toned in Washington and the repre-
sentatives of the local press.
The engine and four cars of a trair
ON the Chicago g. Texas railway wen
through bridge at Aldlidge, ILL.,, ant
Engineer Joe Forester and Fireman
! James Anderson were drowned.
Martin, Mise g. Fitzhugh, the bigges
firm of cotton buyers in Texas, failed il
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