Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-04

There were 236 business failures In
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 267 the week
previous and 300 in the corresponding
period of 1906.
The 5000 miners in the Wilmington
1ll) coal field resumed work, ending
the big strike.
Hicks Price, negro charged with
criminal assault, was taken from the
Jail at Starks, Fla, by mob and
hanged.
Antonio Minirano quarreled with his
wife at Erie, Pa, and, after first fail
ing to brain her, doused her with oil
and then set fire to the oil, burning her
10 death.
Miss Louise Lusalle and Miss Jennie
Sberess, each II years of age, were
drowned at Duluth, Mimi, while skat-
ing.
In Indiana the towns of Chesterfield,
Daleville and the Indiana spiritualists'
camp were wrecked by the explosion of
co quarts of nitroglycerin.
The annual report of the secretary of
the navy, John D. Long. says that the
navy consists of SO vessels in fighting
order and an auxiliary fleet of over 40
steamers. The cost of the navy for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1907. was
$17,514,231. More enlisted men and bet
ter dockage facilities are asked for.
December wheat sold 1T one dollar on
the Chicago board Of trade.
Chinese merchants of San Francisco
have combined to suppress the murder
Gus highbinder societies.
The wages of the $4,000 employees of
the Missouri Pacific railway have been
increased ten per cent.
The trial of the battle ship Iowa shows
it to be as fine ship of her class as there
is in the world.
James w. Loveridge, ared 10, died
from injuries received in "a football
game at Hammondsport, N. Y.
At Rainey Mountain, o. T., a Baptist
association was organized, consisting
of -four church organizations composed
wholly of Indians.
The steamship City of Seattle arrived
in Seattle, Wash, from Alaska with rs
passengers from Dawson City, whose
money possessions amount to ST, 100000
in drafts and gold dust. They reported
that fear of famine amounting to panic
prevailed in the ISondike gold fields.
On cotton plantation in st. Francis
county, Ark, eight negroes murdered
Joe Miller, cotton picker, and assault
ed his wife.
Nathan Willis (colored). charged
with the murder of a white man near
Town Creek, n. c., was burned to death
by lynchers.
The United States revenue cutter
Bear sailed from Seattle, Wash, to aid
the whaling fleet imprisoned in the ice
in the Arctic ocean on the northern
shore of Alaska.
The resignation Of lfr. Eckels as
comptroller of the currency will take
effect the last of December.
Walter L. Sessions, A. W. Jordan and
Miss Sadie Voss perished in a fire at
Jamestown. n. Y.
Delegates representing the first and
second-class post office clerks of the
country met in Pittsburgh. Pa, and
formed a permanent organization with
the object in view of lettering their
condition.
The product from beets in Nebraska
this season will be nearly 100000
pounds of sugar.
Mary Luxton, aged % years, shot and
fatally wounded Ole Halverson. aged 25
years, at Inkster, N. c., as the result
of lovers quarrel, and then shot her
self, but not fatally.
Hundreds of persons are arriving in
Oklahoma, anticipating the opening Of
the new lands to settlement.
Counterfeit dollars better in the guam
tity of silver they contain than those
turned out by Uncle Sans mint are in
circulation in San Francisco.
James Scales (colored), found guilty
of criminal assault upon Judge Ennis
12-year-old daughter Katie in ST. Louis,
was sentenced to 80 years in the peni-
tentiary.
At Mason, Mich, Scott Bowdish shot
his nine-year-old daughter, fatally in
juring her, and then killed himself.