Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-11-06

The Union Trust company building
In Pittsburgh, Pa, was burned. the loss
being 100000.
! Walter Houghton, postal clerk rum
ming from Cheyenne 10 Ogden, was ar
rested ut Cheyenne, Wyo., on charge
of stealing o registered package con-
taining $4,000.
The twenty-fourth annual convention
of the National Woman's Christian
Temperance union began in Buffalo.
N. Y, Miss Frances Z. Willard presid-
ing.
In prize fight in San Francisco for
the worlds lightweight championship
George Lavinge knocked out Joe VOL
colt (colored) in the twelfth round.
Chief Moore, of the United States
weather bureau, asks for $l,044,050 for
the next fiscal year.
The Congregational council in Chica-
go selected to adjudicate between Rev.
G. o. Brown and the Bay conference of
San Francisco declared DR.. Brown COM
pletely vindicated Of all charges of i'm
morality.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in
his annual report recommends that
agents for the department should be
stationed at each important American
embassy for the collection of informa-
ton of interest to American farmers,
says the sugar beet industry is growing,
and advises farmers to raise good horses
for foreign markets.
The Georgia cotton oil mill was de-
stroyed by fire in Atlanta, the loss be-
ing $117,oOo.
Alonzo Barnes, aged 70. a wealthy
and prominent real estate dealer of
Lincoln, Neb., died in Chicago while on
his wedding tour.
John Watka. a Creek Indian who
murdered Jonas Deer, another member
of his tribe, was legally shot for the
crime at Chelsea, 1. T.
In a mine disaster near Scranton,
Pa. six men lost their lives.
The Werner company, publishers.
failed in Chicago for $sO0,OoO.
The Tennessee Centennial exposition
closed at Nashville. The total attend
ance since the opening on the first day
of last May is estimated at 1,75O,OOO.
Jacob Amos aged "A, and Henry Ber-
genkreuger, aged 3s years, committed
suicide in st. Faul by jumping from a
high bridge.
William S. Ide, banker. was shot and
killed in the courthou at Columbus.
o., by John Smith. coachman, who
said Ide owed him money and refused
to pay.
The government receipts in October
were $24,390,347 and the expenditures
were $33, ,713,00, the deficit being S9,322,-
653.
The tannery owned by John j. Curtis
was burned at Ludlow, Pa. the loss be-
ing S15o,0oO.
Silver counterfeit dollars of greater
weight and fineness than the genuine
were in circulation in st. Louis.
Fire in the business section of War
rem, Mass, caused a loss of S1OO,OOO
Nearly the entire business portion of
Fort Branch. Ind, was wiped out by
fire.
Twenty-Five thousand acres of land
in the coast region of Texas have been
purchased and veterans of the late war
will locate thereon.
Richard Won Cannon, one of the
players on the University of Georgia
football team, died in Atlanta from in
Guries received in a game.
Three men were killed by the falling
in of the bank of ditch being exca-
waited in Augusta, Ga.
Fritz Sigren fatally shot Mary Small
in Chicago and then killed himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
Thomas P. Smith, of Pattsburg, N.
Y, has been appointed supervisor of
Indian schools.
President Mckinley was rendered a
banquet in Cincinnati by the CONNER
cial club and made an address.