Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-11-20


series of conferences upon topics bear
iug upon future relations between the
United States and Canada.
The National Baseball league mag
mates in session in Philadelphia abol-
ished theTemple cup series of games
which have been played between the
clubs ending first and second.
Most of the members of congress who
have already arrived in Washington
express the opinion that the coming ses-
sion will be the shortest regular long
session in years.
George Dobbs and Mrs. Joseph New
are under arrest in Eureka, Kan,
charged with having murdered Mrs.
News husband.
The Riverview hotel at Kankakee, ILL.,.
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
$s5,oOo
Fred Lausen and Miss Matte Schul-
sen were killed by the cars near New
Liberty, Ia.
Albert Voters was hanged at Fay
etteville, w. Va, for the murder of
Charles Gibson at Montgomery April
22, 1896.
Gov. Barnes, of Oklahoma, issued his
first Thanksgiving proclamation, call
ing upon the people to observe the day
as one of public worship, family re-
unions and deeds of charity.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
$1,317, ,652,600, against $1,216, ,346.71s the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 1913.
There were pol business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 216 the week
previous and 276 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
At the general assembly of the
knights of Labor in Louisville, KY,
Henry A. Hicks, of New York, was
chosen grand master workman in place
of James r. Sovereign.
AT the Coliseum in Chicago Jumes
Michael beat the 15-mile bicycle record,
going the distance in 31:o7 2-5.
The Missouri Pacific ST. Louis night
express was held up three miles east
of Independence, Mo-, by five masked
men, but they secured no booty.
A combination of steel tube COM
panies, with headquarters at Shelby,
o., will control 90 per cent of the entire
steel tube output of America.
At the fourth annual convention in
Baltimore of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy Miss Katie Cabell Cur
dent.
Charles NJ. Murphy. a member of the
Kings county wheelmen, rode a mile
in New York in the startling time of
100 AS.
Aul Holy Track, Philip Ireland and
Alec Coudot, the three Indians who
murdered the Spicer family on Feb
ruary 81 last, were taken from the Jail
in Williamsport, n. D., by mob and
Hanged.
Earnest advocacy of the establish
ment of postal savings banks by the
United States government is the fea-
ture of the first annual report of Post
master General Gary.
Rome Bronson and Florence Will
liams. his betrothed, were overtaken by
storm on Black Point mountain in
Arkansas and both perished.
A mail carrier was held up near War
ren, Idaho by lone highwayman who
secured registered letters containing
$4,000.
The University of Wisconsin defeated
the University of Chicago football team
in Chicago by score of % to s.
Joe Sartin and George Skipper fought
a duel in Forest City, Ark, and both
were killed.
Advices say there is no fear of starva-
tion in the Klondille, as the companies
were supplying the men with provisions
for winter.
The dead bodies of Henry Turner, his
wife and sister were found in potato
patch in Campbell county, Ga. They
had been shot to death.
Joseph Williams, fireman of the
Northern Pacific ctranscontinental train.
committed suicide near Mandan, ~ D.,
by jumping into the firebox of his en-
gine.
Henry Phillips, negro and self-con-
fessed murderer. was hanged by mob
at Osceola. Ark.
Cattle near Eldora. Ia. were dying
from eating cornstalks or which poison
Gus smut had gathered.
The Bank of Amigo, Wis, closed its
doors, but it is said depositors will be
paid in full.
Three Indiana banks, respectively To-
Gated in Leavenworth and at Marengo
and English, with deposits estimated
to aggregate $1ooOoO have closed their
doors.
Alex. Pellty, whose daughter married
Walter Beresford, the bogus lord,
dropped dead from grief at Fitzgerald,
Ga.
A. L. Luetgert's second trial for the
murder of his wife will begin in Chicago
on the 22d inst.
A peculiar disease, which covers the
entire body with small sores, is fast be-
coming epidemic at Omaha, Neb.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Mrs. Mary Flannery died at Indepen-
lanna To oua6 1nG