Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-03-26

Alexander Anderson, a young negro
who attempted to criminally assault
schoolgirl at Grenpda, Miss, was hanged
Oy a mob.
The exchanges Mt the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
S., ,2So, ,102 ,079, against $1,2s2, ,473, ,447 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1897
was 1874.
The barbed wire, wire rod and wire
nail industry of the United States was
organized as a single company in Chi
cago under the name of the American
Steel and Wire company, with a capt
talization of $24, 100000.
The United States cruiser Montgom-
cry arrived in Key West from Havana.
Business throughout the country is
reported TO be steadily on the gain.
Twelve tons of supplies for the re-
concentrates in Cuba were started
south by rail from Cincinnati.
The Maine board of inquiry still con-
tinues at work at Key West, and Cap
tain Sampson says he is unable to state
when the report will be ready. Presi-
dent Mckinley, it is said, will submit
the report to congress as soon as it ar
rives and allow that body to choose be-
tween indemnity, independence or war
Two more bodies have been recovered
from the wreck of the Maine. Part of
the ships silver service and six-pound
gun have also been brought to the sur
face.
A dispatch from Washington says
that at a cabinet meeting the general
tenor of the discussion was that the Gu
ban question must be settled, and set
tied very soon, and that it was useless
to waste any more time in delay or
dplomatic correspondence.
The damage TO the fruit by the frost
in the Suisun and Vaca valleys in Cal
ifornia is placed at 100000.
A bill prohibiting the entry into Can
ada OF nursery stock from the United
States has been signed by the governor
general.
The state bank at Nickerson, Kan,
was blown open and robbed of $4,000.
Capt Albert S. Barker, of the navy,
left Key West for Washington with the
official report of the board of inquiry
into the Maine explosion.
President Mckinley stated that he
did not want congress to adjourn be-
fore the present trouble with Spain
was settled
The Bank of Franklin, ILL.,, was
robbed of $4,000 in cash by burglars.
Three officers and other survivors of
the Maine disaster arrived unexpectedly
in Washington and held conferences
with the president and Secretary Long.
Spain's proposal that the United
States join in effecting a settlement of
the Cuban question upon the basis of
complete autonomy of the Canadian
pattern. under Spanish sovereignty, has
been rejected by the United States.
The international cable chess match
between Great Britain and the United
States was won by the Britishers by
5la to Az games.
An explosion occurred in a mine of
the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railway
company at Pratt City, Ala, killing six
negro convicts.
Fifteen smuggled Cinnamon were
captured at Los Angeles, Cal.
DR.. George Clinton Hubbard, aged %,
assistant surgeon United States navy,
committed suicide in Washington while
temporarily insane.
Ed Chalmers, a negro who recently
married white woman named Headly.
was, with his wife, murdered oy mob
near Wybark, 1. T.
The little town of Clancy, Mont, was
nearly wiped out by fire.
Twenty-Five car loads of provisions
donated in Kansas and Kansas City have
been forwarded to Matanzas, Cuba.
The great station of the Pennsylvania
railroad in Jersey City, N. j., was de-
stroyed by fire.
The thirty international Sunday
school convention will meet in Chicago
March 30,