Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-23
DOMESTIC.

It is positively announced that Mr..
Mckinley has rendered the state port
folio to Senator John Sherman, of Ohio,
and that the senator has accepted the
position.
The monetary conference concluded
its labors at Indianapolis by adopting
resolutions that declare for the gold
standard, for the retirement of treas
ury notes, for freer banking and for a
monetary commission to suggest re-
forms.
1t is said that the agreement between
the United States and Spain regarding
the terms to be granted to the Cuban in
surgents has been practically concluded
in Washington.
Peter Tinco, John Taylor, Henry
---.y----.~s s3-:il.---..- rUr aiu theodore
Frouhnerstein were crushed to death in
a mine near Pottsville, Pa, by the fall OF
a cage.
Fred Donley and Mamie Reed were in
stantly killed by train at crossing
near Columbus, o.
DIR. Richard C. Flower, a Napoleon
of finance" in Boston, failed for $275,-
OO0.
The West Virginia Legislature met at
Charleston.
The Seattle (Wash.) savings bank
closed its doors with liabilities of $780,
600.
John II. Couch, late populist candi-
date for judge of the Kansas court of
appeals, committed suicide at Scott be-
cause of family trouble.
Escaping gas from a coal stove in
Chicago killed Charles Poole and his
mother Mrs. Esther Poole.
The Wisconsin legislature convened
at Madison. L. w. Thayer, of Ripon,
was chosen president pro TEN. of the
senate and George w. Buckstaff, of
Oshkosh, speaker of the assembly.
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the
telephone and a resident of Washington,
has renounced allegiance to the queen
o. England and become citizen of the
United States.
Gov. Sooficld, of Wisconsin,, in hia
message to the legislature recommends
board of pardons, revision of the state
banking law and the erection of a re-
formatory for juvenile culprts.
The City national bank of Streator,
AAt.t Aao foioh fJ AStttCd iiOll
ness.
Thomas j. Brown, president of the
National Association of Letter Carriers,
died in Chicago, aged II years.
John d. Rockefeller. the multimil-
lionaire, has been reelected superin-
tendent of the Sunday school of tho
Euclid Avenue Baptist church in Cleve-
land.
William Ferguson, corresponding sec
retary of Typographical union No. 6, |
and Jacob McKenna were suffocated |
by gas in New York hotel.
Thomas Lowe, aged 26, of Denison, |
Tex. confessed to having 10 wives. all |
living.
The exports of gold during December
to $405,S56 and the imports
to $2.572,271. For the year the ex- |
7 orts aggregated $56,742,s44 and the
imports $l02. .76B. .43S. The silver exports |
during December amounted to $6,S10,-
545 and the imports to SOL. Dur
ug the year the exports amounted to
S63. .029.336 and the imports to $l2,5O4,-
577.
The steamship Eva, with party of
six aboard. was los. off the New Orleans
coast.
The exports of domestic merchandise
Turing December amounted to $ll8,-
2s,334, and for the year $0s6,s7l 1856.
The imports during December aggre.
gated $57,05G. 200, and for the year $780,
.56.223.
The grand lodge of masons OF Mime
'ota adopted a resolution barring ali
hose who sell intoxicants from be-
coming masons in it's jurisdiction.
Five persons were seriously injured
md about 80 Others more or less cut
md bruised by an accident on street
ar line In Pittsburgh Pa