Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-10-08

a Well-organlZed ana SUCCESSFUL
gang of counterfeiters has been round
ed up at El Paso, Tex.
Fire originating from burning for
ests in Wisconsin destroyed half of
the city of Cumberland and completely
wiped out the villages of Poskin and
Clayton. In the country farmers lost
their homes and stock, and several
lives were sacrificed.
a syndicate which is to control the
leading western flour mills has been
practically completed in Milwaukee
with a capital of $4OOOO,OOO
Ten of the national banks in Boston
will be consolidated into one bank
with n capital of $5,O0O,O0O.
Martial law now rules in Pana, H.,
and the streets are pa,rolled by armed
militiamen. An armed body of strikers
held up train at Tower Hill and COM
PEELED the negroes who were EN- route
to Pana from Washington, Ind, TO work
in the mines to return to Indiana.
United States Senators Cullom and
Morgan and Congressman Hit, men,
bers of the Hawaiian commission, ar
rived in San Francisco from Honolulu.
Charles Pittelkow, doing real estate,
loan and insurance business in Milwau-
kee, failed for S13s, 900.
DR.. Frederick A. Todd, aged 80, as
sistant superintendent of the Ohio state
hospital for the insane at Toledo, died
of hydrophobia in a Chicago hospital.
Jehu Baker, the veteran Illinois poll
tician, has become blind as the result of
a serious illness four years ago.
All diplomatic and consular officers
of the United States were instructed TO
hoist the flag at half-mast over their
buildings and keep it so for ten days in
memory of the late Thomas Francis
Bayard.
The Wisconsin battleship commission
has chosen Miss Elizabeth Stephenson,
of Marinette, to christen the new war
vessel which is to bear the name of
Wisconsin.
Reports show that the volume of busi-
ness doing the country over is heavy
one.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 3Oth ult. aggre-
gated $1,240, SIT ,751, against S1,225,S90,-
915 the previous week. The increase
compared with the corresponding
week in 1897 was 14s.
There were 1876 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 30th ult., against 173 the
week previous and 1914 in the corre-
spending period of 1897.
In Washington Col. John Hay was
sworn into office as secretary of state.
Forest fires, both in Wisconsin,
South Dakota and Colorado, continue
to spread and threaten many towns
with destruction.
The business portion of Ipswich, s.
D., except one block, was destroyed by
fire.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the I'd were: Boston,
.670; Baltimore, .655; Cincinnati, COB;
Cleveland, .55S; Chicago, $40; New
York, .514; Philadelphia, SOY; Pitts
burgh, .4s6; Louisville, ,464; Brooklyn,
.376; Washington, .343; St. Louis, .254.
Snow and rain have checked the prog
ress of the forest fires in Colorado.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt increased
S54,6Os, ASS during the month of Septem-
ber. The cash balance in the treas
ury was $94O,1O5,524. The total debt,
less the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts TO 81, ,O67, ,479,2O5
Robert Lesh shot and killed his wife
- Tr Tn
himself. Domestic troubles were the
cause.
Despondent over the death. of her
father, Bertha Beilstein killed her
mother in Pittsburgh, Pa, and then
took her own life.
The statement of the government re-
ceipts and expenditures for September
shows the receipts to have been $780,
77S,O7o and the expenditures S54223, ,921.
A fire in the Midvale mine at Wilkes
barre, Pa, caused the death of five
men.
Mrs. S. L. Williams, insane over reli-
gion, poisoned her two children and
cut her own throat at Detroit, Mich.
Eight blocks of the best portion of
Colorado Springs, COL, were de-
stroyed by fire, including the Antlers
hotel. The loss is $1,OOO,OOO.
Lawrence Greenwood, president of
the Coatesv Elle (Pa.) National bank,
was robbed fpf $4,000 worth of bonds
in PhiladelH ria.f
N. A. & Jlsahytr, woolen manufac-
turers in Manchet ter, N. H., assigned
with liabilities of'31, 100000.
John Hollingstyorth, a murderer,
and some of his friends, killed five men
near Murfreesboro, Tenn.
More than 100 persons are missing
in the burned-over sections in the
northern part of Wisconsin and many
bodies of others have been found, but
all so badly burned that Identification
is in most cases impossible.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
The New York democrats in conven-
tion at Syracuse nominated Aupuktus