Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-06-11
DOMESTIC.

The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt increased
$19,341, Jos during the month of May.
The cash balance in the treasury was
1921, ,o70,3 800. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $1,037, ,773,760.
The Worthington (Episcopal) college
building near Lincoln, Neb., was de-
stroyed by fire.
The schooner Jane Grey, which sailed
from Seattle for Alaska with gold seek
ers, foundered 90 miles west of Cape
Flattery and "a persons were drowned.
A cyclone that tore through section
of DeKalb county, Mo-, did an immense
amount of damage and killed the wife
and three children of Calvin Smith.
The twenty-eighth annual conference
of the general secretaries of the Young
Mems Christian Association of North
America was held in Warsaw, Ind.
The government receipts during May
amounted to S3o,o74,S1S and the expen-
ditures to $47,049,0 900. For the IL
months of the fiscal year the receipts
show an increase over 1897 of more than
$6O,000,0O0.
The Trans-Mississipp and interna-
tional exposition opened at Omaha,
Neb., from the white house President
Mckinley starting the electric spark
which set the shafting of machinery
hall in motion.
The new reciprocity arrangement be-
tween the United States and France has
gone into effect.
The amount of gold and silver coins
and certificates and United States and
national bank notes in circulation June
was $1,s30, sos, ,256, an increase of $780,
164,361 over that of June last year.
The town of Bicknell, Ind, was al
most entirely wiped out by fire.
The tug Record was run down and
sunk in the canal at Duluth, Mimi, and
Capt. John Bricklet, Elmer Cook, stew
ard, and George Riggs, engineer, were
drowned.
A tornado swept through the resi-
dence portion of Brainerd MINI, wreck
ing outbuildings, uprooting trees, de-
molishing store fronts and tearing off
roofs.
A line fence dispute caused the death
in fight of Farmer James Kilgore and
County Commissioner Samuel Barnes
near Muscadine, Ala.
There were 222 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sd, against PAS the week
previous and PAL in the corresponding
period of 1897.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Sd aggrega ted
$1,155, 159,051, against 81 ,1sS, $685. ,343 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1897
was 3O.3.
Joe Anderson, the elephant keeper
with Wallace Bros circus, was killed
at Racine, Wis, by one of the elephants
that became unruly.
Ray Chapel and mis- son were killed by
the cars at crossing at Hamilton, Ind,
and Mrs. Chapel was fatally injured.
Georgia, Florida and other southern
states celebrated Jefferson Davis birth
day.
Ben Hayden (colored) was lynched
by mob at TeXarlIana, Ark, for as
saulting white girl.
Louis Martels was shot fatally at AL
fred, Me-, by Joseph Glendon, husband
of the woman with whom Martels had
been involved. Glendon then commit
ted suicide.
William Street, a negro at Doyline,
La, who attempted to murder Mrs.
Parish, was burned at the stake by a
mob.
The plant of the Webster Manufactur-
ing company at West Superior, WIS,
was burned, the loss being 100000.
Business throughout the country was
reported to be in good condition.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 5th were: Cincinnati,
1877; Cleveland, .65s; Boston, .632; Balti-
more, .5ss; New York, $40; Pittsburgh,
.525; Chicago, .462; Philadelphia, Asst;
Brooklyn, .429; Louisville, .341; Wash
ington, .207; ST. Louis, .297.
Four inches of snow fell at Sherman,
Wyo.
A. Weston & Co., bankers at Painted
Post, N. Y, made an assignment, ty-
ing up $2,00O,000 worth of property.
Personal AND POLITICAL.