Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-04-16
DOMESTIC.

President McKinley's Cuban message
was not sent to congress as was eX-
pected. 1t will be held until the 11th
or later in response to an appeal from
Consul General Lee that its publication
might cause massacre of Americans.
Gen. Lee expects to have all Americans
removed to places of safety by that
time.
Benjamin Hill was hanged at San
Quentin prison, Cal, for the murder of
his wife in Oakland two years ago.
Mrs. G. w. Carr and two children
were cremated in their burning house
at Bays, o.
Gov. Holcomb, of Nebraska sent a tel
full strength of 80 state militia in case
of war with Spain.
The cruiser Diogenes, recently pur-
chased in England, has been renamed
Topeka, after the Kansas capital.
The North German-Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse made the
trip from Southampton to New York
in five days and twenty hours, breaking
| all records.
The supreme court has decided that
the reading of the Bible in the public
schools in West Virginia cannot be pro-
hibited.
James Kearney, a Chicago gambler,
killed his wife in Milwaukee and then
fatally shot himself.
The Southern Pacific company has
discontinued it's steamship service from
New Orleans to Havana for the present.
Reports from Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia show that great damage
has been done to the fruit and berry
crops by the frosts.
The total output of coal in the United
States in 1897 amounted approximately
to los, ,250,O00 tons, an increase of 6,2T0,-
600 tons over 1896.
Representatives of Austria, Hungary,
Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy
and Russia called upon President Nc
Kinley in the interest of peace and the
president, while recognizing the good
will that prompted the call, said that
this country owed a duty to humanity
and must end the Cuban war.
Twenty-Five carloads of provisions
were shipped from Omaha to the Cuban
sufferers.
Prince Baker murdered his son-in-
law, Bob Thomason, and then commit
ted suicide near Princeton, Ky.
The Mallory line steamer Comal ar
rived in Key West from New York with
large quantities of provisions and am
munition for the government.
A passenger train on the Pennsyl-
vania road was wrecked near Fernwood
o., and two persons were killed and
others were injured.
Most of the striking miners in the
Hassillon CO., district have resumed
work at the operators terms.
Although there was comparative
quiet in Washington on the Sth the war
spirit was abroad, and the latest advices
indicate the hopelessness of averting a
conflict unless Spain yields to the Amer
lean demands and abandons Cuba. A
dispatch from Madrid says that the
Spanish government has no intention
of opening further negotiations.
WI. Calhoun, of Danville, H., recent
ly appointed member of the interstate
commerce commission, has entered
upon the duties of his office.
| 1neTe were S3S business 1allureS In
the United States in the seven days
ended on the sth, against 22O the week
previous and 252 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Sth aggregated
, $1,2S1, ,207 ,662, against 81 ,106,05s,1 ,142 the
, previous week. The increase compared
| with the corresponding week of 1897
{ | was 26.3.
The pattern storehouse of the South
ern Pacific Railway company in Sacra
3 mento Cal, was burned, the loss being
: $1,O00O00.
II. C. Raymond was hanged at Fol
a som, Cal, for the murder of Fred An
/, drews at Baden on November II last.
The Ward Line Steamship compan,
y has abandoned its service between New
York and Havana for the present.
;, A young man named Baker killed tn,
iG-year-old daughter of William Hoff
u master, farmer living near Grea
= Bend, Kan. and then killed himself.
George Stout, Of Philadelphia, VIII
a was knocked out by Oscar Gardner in
prize fight at Columbus, o., died of hi
injuries,