Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-03-12

The Nicaragua canal commission es-
Inmates that the cost of the work will
be $1O0,OoO,O00.
After serving rs n United States Judge
in the Norfolk (Va., district "a years
Judge Hughes has retired.
Secretary Long said at Washington
that while the United States is not seek
ing war the government is preparing
for any emergencies that may arise.
John w. Bailey has been elected pres
ident of the Philadelphia Record Pub
fishing company to- succeed the late
William NJ. Singerly.
Gen. Merritt has returned to Wash
| ington from his tour of inspection of
the southern coast Notifications, great
ly pleased with the conditions he found
prevailing.
There were PSI business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 4th, against 233 the week
previous and 246 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 4th aggregated
$1,541, ,20s, against $1,201, ,7s4, ,156 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1897
was $50.
In all portions of the country all
signs point to an unprecedented vol
ume of business being done.
Lorenzo Barnes was hanged at East
| Cambridge, Mass, for numbering John
Deem, farmer about rs years old, on
| December II, 1897.
Advices from Tacoma, Wash, say
that 10000 persons are moving across
| Chilkat and White passes toward Klon-
dixie.
kid" Mccoy, of Indiana, champion
mddle-weight pugiist of the world,
defeated Nick Burley, of California, in
Hot Springs, Ark, in the second round.
At cabinet meeting in Washington
n reward of ST, 500 was offered for the
arrest of the murderers of Postmaster
Baker at Lake City, S. C.
Will Jones (colored) was lynched at
Lake Cormorant, Miss, by a mob for
assaulting n colored woman.
At Biddeford, Me-, the strike of the
$500 employees of the Pepperel and La
COMA cotton manufacturing corpora
tions, which began January II, has been
| declared off.
President Mckinley has refused re-
quest from the Spanish government
| that Consul-General Lee be recalled
from Cuba, and also a request that the
American war ships which have been
designated to carry supplies to Cuba
for the relief of the sufferers there be
replaced by merchant vessels.
The tug Underwater, reported to
have been lost while en- route to Ha-
vana, has reached the Charleston Is.
c. harbor after rough passage.
Adolph Kraus, ex-president of the
civil service commission; Dudley Win
ston, Hampstead Washburne and Rob-
ert Lindblom, members of the commits
sion, were indicted by the grand jury
in Chicago on charges of violation Of
the civil service law.
Alfred S. Healy, n 25-year-old stem
ographer, killed 16-year-old Libbie
Brauschand at Cedar Rapids, Ia, and
then killed himself. No cause for the
tragedy is known.
In a tenement house fire in Pitts
| Durph, Ia, MIS-. JOnn lSnTlSllo was SUI
focated and four persons were fatally
burned.
It is announced that 80 United
States war ships will be at Key West
and vicinity within the next 30 days.
Crazed by jealousy C. w. Wood muir
dered Mrs. Irene BREEDER and afterward
sent bullet Though his own brain at
Ottawa, III.
Adolph L. Luetgert was taken from
the Jail in Chicago to the state prison
at Joliet under n life sentence for the
murder of his wife.
DIR. Edwin Klebs, professor of pathol-
ogy and bacteriology in a Chicago med
ical school, has discovered the cause of
yellow fever.
Fred Fivecoats and Frank Jacllman
were sentenced at Creston, Ia, to i'm
prisonment for life at hard labor for at
tempted trainwreclling. Both are
young men.
Adrian Braun, convict in Sing Sing
On. W prison, murdered his wife, who
was paying him visit.