Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-04-09


In duel at Waco, Tex, w. G. Brann
editor of the lconoclast, and Capt. NJ.
T. Davis killed each other.
The government receipts during
March were $32 $685. ,750, a loss of about
S3,000,000 as compared with March, 1897.
The expenditures aggregated $31,s $780,
444, an increase of nearly $4,000, 900 over
March, 1897.
The public debt staten mt issued on
the 1st shows that the debt decreased
S1,3s7,s65 during the month of March.
The cash balance in the treasury was
sS53,70s, ,46s. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $1,o0s,716,351.
1t is reported that n shanty boat
sunk three miles above Mount Carmel,
Ill.,, and family consisting of five per-
sons lost their lives.
A boiler explosion near Campbles-
vile, KY, killed four men outright and
fatally hurt another.
Gen. John NJ. Schofield has taken for
NAL charge of the national volunteer
reserve, and plans for speedily obtain
ing an available standing army of 1,Ooo,-
OUO llCh NCIC az u VI IuC
military committee.
There were 220 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 1st, against 251 the week
previous and eco in the corresponding
period of 1897.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 1st aggregated
81, LOG, ,05S,1 against $1,0S4 1896, ,o16 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1897
was 1913.
At a cabinet meeting it was an
nounced that Spain's answer to the ulti-
matum of this government was unsatis-
factory, and n policy which seems GER
tainly to involve hostilities was de-
cided upon. President Mckinley will
send message to congress explaining
the status of affairs and asking the CO.
operation of the legislative body in
dealing with Spain. One of the signif-
cant happenings of the day was an of
fer of mediation by France, but it was
automatically declined by the presi-
dent.
The opinion held in Washington by
public men and diplomatists is that the
crisis will reach it's climax this week
and that the question of war with Spain
or peace will be determined within the
next seven days. The disposition to
hurry the president seems to have dis
appeared in congress since members
realize that his message must be docu-
ment that is to justify congress in its
action, whatever his recommendations
The state department has ordered all
consuls in Cuba to repair at once to
Havana, there to be in readiness for in
stant departure.
Shawnectown (Ill.) place of 800 in
habitants, ras practically wiped out of
existence by the breaking of levee,
and it was reported that $50 persons
were caught in the sudden flood and
drowned. Hundreds of others were
swept into the Ohio, clinging to the
roofs of houses or floating on pieces of
board. The flood extends four miles
inland, and people were fleeing for their
lives from all lowland hamlets.
NJ. Whrendorf, his three children and
sisterand brother-in-law,w were drowned
in the river near st. Francis, Ark, by the
upsetting of boat.
John Harris and his wife and child
and two men named Hicksw were drowned
near Spottsville, KY, by the capsizing
of boat.
Commodore Schley has notified the
navy department that the flying squad
ron at Hampton Roads is ready to sail
at an hours notice.
Six hundred Sioux Indians have ten
dered their services to Gov. Lee, of
South Dakota, to reinforce the state
militia.
Robert Jones confessed in Chicago
that he was the murderer of Jennie
Cramer, n young girl of New Haven,
Conn, in 1881, for which James and
Walter Malley, nephew and son re-
spectively of New Haven millionaire,
were indicted, tried and acquitted.