Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-09-04

A dispatch says that rich strikes of
| gold have been made on the American
side in the Yukon valley in Alaska.
Cigarettes have been raised TO double
their former price by the Chicago Cigar
and Tobacco Merchants association.
The Grand Army encampment at Buff
| falo, N. Y, came to an end after the
election of the following officers:
Senior vice commander, Alfred Lyth, of
Buffalo; jSnior vice commander, Fran
els B. Allen, of Hartford, Conn; chap
lain, Frank c. Bruner, of Chicago; sur
geon general, DR.. David Mckay, of Dali
las, Tex. Mrs. S. j. Martin, of Missouri,
was elected national president of the
Woman's Relief corps.
In Wisconsin Mrs. Cusick and Daniel
o'Rourke were killed by the cars near
Wilton and w. j. Bennett and Bryan
Want met like fate at Reedsburg.
At the tristate fair in Toledo. o., two
aeronauts, Walter Steele and Leroy
Northcott, were fatally injured.
At a hog sale in Springfield, H.. a
boar named Klevcrs Model sold for $5,-
100, the largest price ever paid for a
hog.
Star Pointer went mile in 1904
at Readvillc. Mass. which is the fastest
time ever made by racer in the worlds
history.
Coal operators of the Pittsburgh dis
trict decided to attempt to open their
mines with nonunion help.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 2sth were: Baltimore,
$50; Boston, .6s2; New York, 634; Gin
cinnati, Ga; Cleveland, .524; Chicago,
ass; Pittsburgh, .447; Louisville. .44o;
Philadelphia, ,435; Washington, .423;
Brooklyn, ,425; st. Louis. ,952.
Cracksmen blew open the vault of the
Exchange bank at Elmdale, Kan. and
secured $1,soo in cash.
The entire south side Of the square
at Virginia, Ill.,, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being 100000.
Eight persons were poisoned and
seven died by eating a melon stolen
from neighbours patch in Galloway
county. Ky.
The farmers national congress began
its annual session in st. Paul.
The steamship Portland. the treasure
ship of the North American Trading
ard Transportation company, arrived at
Seattle. WASH, from Alaska with $685.
900 in gold dust on board. Her passen-
gers confirm the marvellous reports of
gold discoveries, but warn people from
making the trip until next spring.
While in a demented condition Mrs.
William y. Hutchin, of Flint. Mich.
chloroformed her five-year-old daughter
and shot her 15-year-old daughter. prob,
ably fatally,
A storm struck Laurelwood park near
Batavia, Ill.,. where picnic was in prog
ress, and Mrs. Kate Brown was killed
and II other persons were injured. All
were from Chicago.
At Denver, Col, A. L. Hachenberger
rode 100 miles, unpaced, on bicycle in
hours and Is minutes, establishing
new worlds record.
President Mckinley was given re-
ception in Cleveland by the Tippecanoe
club.
In wreck on the Chicago G. Alton
road near Alton, ILL.,, Engineer Rafferty,
was fatally injured and many other per-
sons were badly hurt.
Many coal miners and their families
in Ohio and Indiana were said to be on
the verge of starvation.
The main building of the Admission
(Ala.) Pipe Foundry company was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $5O0,OO0.
AS the result of wound received in
the civil war Congressman d. B. Hem
derson, of Iowa, had his left leg ampu-
tated at the knee in Dubuque.