Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-12-10

The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt increased
SIG, SOC, ,565 during the month of Novem-
berry. The cash balance il the treas |
ury was $9261l7,1s2. The total debt,
less the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts TO $1.127, ,4T3,4 ,4s7.
The state department has been ad
vised that the French government will
establish naval attache at Washing
ton.
The coinage of the San Francisco
mint for the month of November
amounted TO $4,516,25o,
At Peabody. Mass. Mrs. Richard
Hurley, wife of gardener, murdered
two OF her children, n 12-years-old
daughter and son seven years old.
She was insane.
A decree has been issued in Paris for
bidding the admittance into France of
fruits and plants from the United
States.
Chicago will entertain the general
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church in May. 1900.
The exchanges at the leading clear
irg houses in the United States during
1885. s07 $40, against 1881 ,s44,749 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1897
was 1873.
There were PSI business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Cd, against 1sS the week
previous and 306 in the corresponding
period of 1907.
A new tin plate trust was formed in
Pittsburgh, Pa, to be called the Corr
solidated Tin Plate company, with a
capital stock of $4,000, 900.
The dry goods firm of II. n. Bradley
& Co. of Denver, Col, failed for $4,000.
Philip Metz, aged 35, dealer in paper,
known as "the heaviest man in Har-
lem" weighing 425 pounds, committed
suicide in New York.
Gen. Miles, commanding the army
has prepared the draft of bill provid
ing for a regular standing army of
100000 men.
The annual report of Secretary of
| War Algcr reviews the work of the year,
and especially the operations in the
Philippines, Cuba and Porto Rico. and
| gives general summary of the military
| operations during the war. The sec
retary says a standing army of 100000
| is needed, favors the enlistment OF ma
| tives of the various islands, and sug-
! gests hat the United States construct
Cuban railways.
Business throughout the country in
November last was the best known in
the nations history
Freight trains collided on the Bal
timore &, Ohio road at Walkerton, Ind,
and seven trainmen were injured.
Fire in the Home Life Insurance
company, Postal Telegraph company
and Roger Peet G. Co. buildings in New
York caused a less of over 81 100000.
By the explosion of a steam pipe IN
the epgine-room of the steamer Almo
in New York six men were scalded to
death.
One of the worst billiards that ever
visited Kansas ragged in many portions
of the state for "a hours.
A snow, sleet and windstorm in Tn
diana. Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York,
Massachusetts, and Maryland did great
damage to property. In Baltimore 500
houses were uLroofed and telegraph
poles and trees were leveled.
Town Marshal c. c. Runyon and AL
fred Allen killed each other in fight
at Jackson, By. An old quarrel was tie
cause.
Nearly the whole business portion of
Eufaula, l. T., was destroyed by fire.
William Kent murdered his brother,
Noble Kent, at Girard, Ill. Both
were prominent, and a quarrel over
property was the cause.
Link Thayer convicted of train rob
berry at Fergus Falls, Mimi, was sen
fenced to 90 years in prison.
The annual report of Charles G.
Dawes, comptroller of the currency, fer
the year ended October 81, 1898, shows
that there were 3,5OS national banks in
the country with authorized capital Cf
1924 ,552, 1876, aud 5,145 state banks with
tapital of $370,O73, 7Ss.
For the first time in our history the
United States in 1898 exported manu-
featured articles of greater value than
were imported.
a flour trust has been formed in New
York to control nearly all the product
in this country and also the supply OF
three-fourths of the world.