Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-07
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

| ~. Smith for comptroller ana adopted
n platform that declares for bipIetal
lism, but is silent as to the question of
ratio"
Mrs Mary E. Lease, the populist ora
tor. has been selected as queen of the
| fall festivities, harvest demonstration
at Topeka, Kan.
In the stock brokerage Office of c. e.
Trice & Co., in Waco, Tex, b. F. kivett
and w. w. Kivett were shot and killed
by w. Lambden, a member Of the firm.
In wreck on the Central Pacific rail-
way near Reno, New, six Indians were
| killed and nine other persons were seri-
ously injured.
A deal whereby most of the coal
mines in east Tennessee will become the
property of an English and Boston
syndicate is announced.
Bascal Lastell, saloon keeper in New
Orleans, was swindled out of $1,000 by
the gold brick dodge.
The total receipts from internal rev.
enue for the year ended June 80, 1897.
| were $146,619,50S, decrease over the
previous year of $211, LOG.
President Mckinley has amended the
civil service rules so that no removal
shall be made from any position sub
ject to competitive examination except
for just cause and upon written charges
and has included within the classified
service the employees of all custom
| house offices.
The coal operators of the Pittsburgh
district have adopted the true uniform
ity" agreement.
The general strike situation was less
encouraging from the miners stand
point than it was a week ago.
In a runaway at Peoria, ILL.,. Miss
Grace White was killed and Mrs. Simon
Kilduff was fatally injured.
]. W. Clark, who started from Bron-
son, Mich, July 2s, 1896, to travel co.
600 miles in one year without begging
or beating his way, has returned to
Bronson two days ahead of time and
shows receipts which are sworn to for
e0,207 miles.
Jules Bunnell and his bride of a few
days committed suicide with morphine
at Houston, Tex.
Labor leaders issued bulletin say
ing they were confident of success ia
| the miners strike.
The National Temperance society be-
gan its seventeenth annual camp meet
ing at Ocean Grove, N. j.
Copies of the tariff act for circula tion
have been received at the document
rooms of the senate. The law makes a
pamphlet of 70 pages.
The president has appointed board
| of engineers to make surveys and eX-
aminations for a deep waterway from
the great lakes to the Atlantic tide
waters.
Leading merchants in 81 states report
an increase of so per cent. in trade
for the first half of the year over that
| of the first six months in 1896.
rich strike of copper near Hough-
ton, Mich, caused great excitement
throughout the Lake Superior mining
district.
Two cousins named Anderson were
drowned at Foster, Ia, while bathing.
John Johnson and Joseph Dollar
were killed by falling timber in a mine
at Athens, III.
Gold in paying quantities was discov-
cred in mountainous region 20 miles
south of Ashland, Wis.
|
and leader in the Hatfield-McCoy feud.
and credited with killing II men, es-
capped from Jail at Williamson. w. Va.
The United States League of Building
and Loan associations in session in De-
troit elected as president L. W. Sanborn
of Galesburg, Ill.
! Heavy rains flooded Railway, Fan
wood and other places in New Jersey
and did great damage to property.
! There were 236 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 30th, against 227 the week
previous and 2s1 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
Maxine Martinez was hanged at
Floresville, Tex, for killing Jesus Car.
lilo and wife and Juanita Acosta on
June 6.
Two freight trains coHided at De-
| pew Junction, N. Y, killing George FL
! lensbee, engineer, and Charles Eddy
fireman.
! Fire destroyed over one-half of the
business portion of Hillsboro, Kan.
Mamie and Estelle La Point, aged
ten and fourteen years respectively,
were drowned in Mill river at Northamp-
ton, Mass. Their home was in Fort
Dodge, Ia.
Troopers Bertrand and jacobson, of
B troop, Second United States cavalry,
were drowned in a reservoir at Monu-
ment, Col.
The exchanges at the leading clear
Ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 3Oth aggregated
S1,o43,o6s,oo3, against $1,O97, ,o46,201 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 2S.7.
A cyclone did great damage to prop
nrty near San Jose, ILL.,, and A. c. Nc
Dowell and his grandson, Miss Jessie
Groves and Mrs. Samuel Brownlee and
her three children were killed.
Col. Fred Grant has resigned from the
board of police commissioners of New
York city