Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-05-08
DOMESTIC.


DOMESTIC.
The flood situation in Missouri
was unchanged. All the bottom lands
from st. Louis to Hannibal were over
flowed and the towns of Gregory, AL
exandria, Canton and La Grange were
submerged.
William Van Ordstrand & Co., private
bankers at Heyworth, ILL.,, closed their
doors with liabilities of 100000.
Mrs. John Newell and her two chill
dren, aged eight and five years, and Mrs.
Celia Barnett were burned to death in
fire in Brooklyn, N. Y,
The Bank of Hutchinson, Kan, pri-
vate concern, closed its doors.
Consul-Gcneral Lee reported to the
state department the arrest of two nat
uralized American citizens in Cuba.
A cloudburst in West Guthrie, o. T.,
destroyed hundreds of houses and 72
persons were known to have been
drowned. For miles farms were COM
pletely ruined and bridges and tracks
were washed out. The estimated prop
erty loss is $50o,ooo.
The general executive board of the
knights of Labor has formally declared
war against the American Federation of
Labor.
Several hundred women assembled in
Philadelphia to take part in the ma
tional convention of working womens'
societies, whose chief object is the bet
terment of the condition of the working
women.
According to returns received at the
mint the gold yield last year in Cali
fornia was $17,1sl,562 which is an in
crease over 1895 of $1,S47,245. The yield
of silver was $422, ,436, decreased pro-
duction for the year of $177,353.
Gen. Williams, formerly consul gen.
eral of the United States to Havana,
says business is completely prostratcd
in Cuba, and the inhabitants are re-
duced from opulence to the direst pow
erty.
In freight wreck at Warrenton, o.,
Engineer George Docksettler, of Mas
sillon, was killed and Fireman Muir
and Brakeman Jewett were fatally in
jered.
Col. w. J. Calhoun, of Danville, ILL.,,
has accepted the position of special le-
gal counsel for the United States in the
investigation of the Ruiz case in Cuba.
Loss of life and great damage to ma
rine interests along the west shore of
Lake Michigan were caused by violent
northeast gale.
The New Hampshire Banking COM
pany at Nashua, N. H., suspended, ow-
ing depositors $S49,352.
Eugene Taylor, linotype operator on
the Denver (Col.) Times, in eight hours
made record of 1o1 800 ems, beating all
previous records.
Severe rain and windstorms through
out the lower Mississippi valley did
great damage to levees and caused great
suffering among refugees camped on
the levees without shelter of any kind.
Nearly half the people in the overfowed
section of Louisiana were without
shelter.
Fire in the II. p. Eclkhardt's whole.
sale grocery establishment at Toronto
Ont, did 100000 damage.
Later advices from the flooded dis
trict in West Guthrie, o. T., say that
the death list will not exceed 20
3 though so or more were still missing
Five hundred homes We're swept away
and the contents ruined. Over 15C
houses were wrecked, 20 streets were de
vastated and ruined, thousand people
were homeless and half as many moro
destitute.
The Central Union Telephone com
pany at Dayton, o., filed mortgage to
the Illinois Trust & Savings bank fol
$3,oOo,000.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 30th ult. aggregated
$S55, 1896, against $934,219,71o tn,
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 1873.
David II. Hays, for 1s years cashiel
of the st. Louis post Office, was arrested
on a charge of embezzling $4,000.
The United States supreme court heI
adjourned until May 10. when 1t will
assemble to deliver opinions, but not t.
hear arguments.
A five per cent. advance in the pric
of window glass, including all sections
of the country, has been made,
The new one, two and five-dollar sill
ver certificates issued last year are t
be withdrawn from circulation as rap
idly as possible and destroyed.