Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-11-20
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Meadow Lawn farm near Mattoon.
| ILL.,, has been purchased for home for
! dependent widows and orphans of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
The Baldwin locomotive works at
Philadelphia are crowded with orders.
Secretary Alger recommends the adj
| dition of two more'regiments of artil
lery to the army.
A bill will be presented to the next
Maine Legislature to punish sportsmen
who accidentally shoot or kill men in
| the woods.
President Mckinley received Sir Will
fred Laurier, premier of Canada, in the
blue room at the white house.
The youngest daughter of Robert Il.
Lincoln, of Chicago, Miss Jessie, was
married in Milwaukee to Warren Beck
with, of Mount Pleasant, la. 1t was an
elopement.
Lyman Taylor failed to marry Miss
Mary Burns, as agreed. at Cynthiana,
Ky, and she committed suicide. Re-
morse caused Taylor to take his own
life
The will of the late Charles A. Dana,
of New York. leaves $1,000,o0o to his
widow and son.
The exports of breadstuffs in October
amounted TO $26, ,156,0o4, On increase,
compared with October, 1896, of $6,2o2.-
O12.
The attempt to start movement for
a Henry George memorial building in
Naw Norly hnS fn on thrOuph
Rev. George Reader has practically
been expelled by Boston university for
marrying couple in n lions cage.
The November report of the depart
ment of agriculture gives 23.7 bushels
as the average yield per acre of corn in
the principal corn states. against 27.3
bushels in November, 1896.
Betting on the floor of the stock ex-
change in New York has been pro-
hibited.
The trial at Long Island City, N. Y,
of Martin Thorn for the murder of Will
liam Guldensuppe was suspended ow-
ing to the dangerous illness of juror
and a new trial ordered.
Edith and May Roberts, sisters, aged
respectively 10 and II years, were ter
JlDlN dlIu iSa thSi GU
by white caps at Oakwood, o.
The Lion department store in Chi
cago owned by W. A. Wieboldt & Co.
was burned, the loss being $200,000.
Edward Hankins, 90 years old, was
hanged in Chatham, Va, for the murder
of DIR. John Roy Cabell, of Danville, on
June 26 last.
A passenger train on the Louisville,
| Henderson & st. Louis road was de-
rallied and entirely consumed by fire
near Lewisport, Ky. No lives were lost.
Henry Hurburt, one of New York's
leading financiers. dropped dead at the
dinner table at his home.
Robert T. Lincoln has been made
acting president of the Pullman Palace
Car company and will serve until Sc
lection for president is made.
Count de Vecchi. one of the best
known Italians in this country. died
in Washington from eating mushrooms
supposed to be of the edible variety.
The total shortage of ex-State Treas
urer Bartley, of Nebraska, has been
placed at $s70,000.
Theodore Durrant, the convicted MUIR
derer of Blanche Lamont. has been
| granted another stay of execution by
| the California supreme court.
At Brownsville, Tex. Mexican
named Bernardo Salazar. eyed IL, shot
and fatally wounded two old women
and two little girls.
Three men blew open the safe in
Heine's bank at Silver Creek, n. Y, Sc
curing $4,000 in money and $4,000 in
| jewelry.
The president has appointed Charles
Page Bryan, of Illinois, to be envoy eX-
traordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary of the United States to China.
Joseph Ladue. who struck it rich on
the Klondike. was robbed of $70o worth
of nuggets in Chicago.
The quarantine at New Orleans be-
cause of yellow fever has been abol-
| isled.
One of the first bills introduced IN
the New York legislature will be one
providing for the creation of new
| state to be called Manhattan, which will
| ilclude 16 counties and have popula-
tion of 3,OO2,22O.
| Definite arrangements have been
made for taking up the subject of
reciprocity treaty between the United
States and Canada.
For signing his name to the liquor
license petition for Princeton inn, the
establishment owned by the alumnus
of the university in Princeton, N. j.,
Prof. Charles w. SHEDS, d. d., LII. D.,
of the faculty, was at his own request
blotted from the rolls of the Presbys
terian church.