Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-08

Ten business houses were destroyed
by fire at Lebanon, Tenn.
DR.. Wiley Meyer, of New York, has
discovered new anaesthetic. consist
ing of chloroform, sulphuric ether and
petrolic ether.
The Pennsylvania Building and Loan
association of Altoona went into the
hands of receiver.
Henry Behner and Joseph Browneller
were asphyXiated at the formers home
IN Findlay, o.
President Mckinley has accepted the
invitation of the National Manufacture
ers' association to attend it's banquet
in New York on January 81.
Stephen V. White, who failed in the
financial panic of 1898, has been rein
stated to full membership in the New
York stock exchange.
Actor Stultz, of the Stultz Theater
company at Manti, Utah, and his wife
were fatally burned while preparing
fireworks to be used in their play.
John j. Stevenson, of New York, has
been elected president of the Geological
Society of America.
The long-distance telephone is held
responsible for the decrease in railway
passenger earnings.
Canada and the United States will
work together in giving aid to the
needy in Alaska.
There were 395 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 1st, against 292 the week
previous and 439 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 1st aggregated
$1,1ss, ,351 ,o46, against $1,331, ,2G3,ss1 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1897
was 42.4.
The losses by fire in the United States
in 1897 aggregated $129,001, ,797, against
S111,s56,067 in 1896.
In fire in Jersey City, N. j., Adolph
Reich and his wife and four children
were crematcd.
AS closely as can be estimated 2,426
lives were lost upon the ocean in 1897,
65 upon inland waters, 2,761 by railroad
accidents, 4s,353 by disasters abroad,
Oils by disasters in this country, 222,-
oO2 by epidemics and famine and 103,-
451 by war or massacre, making total
OF 3s9,o77, against 246,546 in 1896.
During 1897 there were 166 persons
lynched in the United States, against
131 in 1896, and 5000 persons commit
ted suicide, against 6,52o in 1896.
The Red Cross society has opened
headquarters in New York for the re-
ception and forwarding to Havana of
contributions for the benefit of suffer
ing Cubans.
The record of embezzling, forgery, de-
faulting and bank wrecking for 1897
in the United States was $11,24s,os4,
against $o,465,921 in 1896.
The gold product of the United States
for 1896 was S53, 100, 900; for 1897 it will
approximate $61,5o0,ooo, an increase of
SIS, 400, 900.
Severe earthquake shocks were felt
at Exeter, N. H., and vicinity.
The loss of life by railroad disasters
of various kinds in the United States
The total number of murders COM
mitted in the United States in 1897 was
$500, against 1862 in 1896.
Mrs. James Miller and her 1s-months-
old baby were fatally burned at Ames,
Ia.
An aged negro was lynched by mob
near Sheriff., Ark, for stealing hog.
P. H. Mabry, agent of the Southern
Express company at Brunswick, Ca,
who embezzled more than $4,000, was
captured with the money.
In football game at Marysvile, CAL,
Clyde Maxwell had his back broken.