Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-03-12
DOMESTIC.

An old Indian doctor and little
girl who kept house for him were
hanged by mob near Morgantown,
n. C.
The cruiser Montgomery and gunboat
Nashville have been ordered to carry
supplies to the starving reconcentna-
does in the vicinity of Matanzas and
Sagua la Grande, Cuba.
Lieut.. Commander Sobral, who was
attached to the Spanish legation at
Washington and made himself unpopul-
lar with Americans by ready use of
his tongue, has sailed for home.
The national pure food and drug
congress met in Washington.
The greater part of the town of Bern,
Kan, was destroyed by fire and one life
was lost.
The Maine disaster board of inquiry
concluded it's work at Key West, Fla.
and was ready to return to Havana.
The wrecking tug Merritt has reached
Havana and begun work on the wreck
of the Maine.
Fred Moore, the murderer of Tom An
derson, was take from the Jail at Sena-
tobia, Miss, and shot to death by a
mob.
The United States government will
send an expedition to find practicable
route up Copper river, Alaska, to the
Yukon basin.
The government receipts in February
amounted to SOS, ,572, ,35S, being TN excess
over expenditures of S945, ,35S.33.
The alleged filibuster, Dauntless, un-
der guard at Jacksonville, Fla, has
slipped away to Cuba, carrying recruits
and 1000 rifles.
By the bursting of an engine boiler
near Brewton, Ala, William kelso, An
drew j. Enirght, Arthur Atkins, Peter
Thomas, David Aston and G. w. Thorn
as 0aborers) were killed.
The main buildings of the transmits
sissippi exposition at Omaha are nearly
ready and exhibits have begun to ar
| rive.
A concurrent resolution declaring for
biennial sessions of the Legislature was
| passed in the New York assembly.
Martial law has been declared at
| Skaguay, Alaska, and United States
troops are enforcing law.
The Ohio Legislature passed bill au-
thorizing the governor to appoint wom-
en- notaries public and it is now law.
AS the Bostonia steamed out from her
wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville eight
colored roustabouts were thrown into
the river and four were drowned.
An attempt was made to wreck the
south-bound passenger train of the At
lanta, Knoxville & Northern railway
near Canton, Ga.
A large dry kiln fell in at TeXarkana,
Ark, killing five persons.
| Large shipments of supplies are being
sent to Cuba for the relief of the thou
sands now starving there. The condi-
tions are declared much worse than in
Armenia by w. w. Howard, who has
visited both countries.
A Judgment of custer was pro-
nounced against Mayor John NJ. Good
in the circuit court at Springfield, o.,
for violation of the Garfield anti-corrupt
election practice act.
The schooner Speedwel capsized off
Marquesas, Fla, and the three children
OF Capt. Collier and the entire Nichols
family, consisting of father, mother,
grandmother and three children, all of
Bridgeport, Conn.,, We're drowned.
Shep Wood a prominent young farm
er at Cordele, Ga, shot and killed his
brother Thomas in quarrel and then
killed himself.
Diamond, the largest elephant in cap
tivity, died at Peru, Ind. He was valued
at $4,000.
!. Twenty head of valuable Guernsey
COWS were burned to death on stock
farm near Berwyn, Pa.
The Seventh national bank and the
Fourth street national bank in PhiladeI'
rhia have consolidated.
Secretary Long received n dispatch
from Admiral Sicard informing him
that the court of inquiry into the Maine
disaster will be unable to reach any
conclusion as to the cause of the eXplo-
sion until after further investigation
by the divers now at work upon the
wreck. The court has returned TO IIa
vana to resume the investigation there
-Four tramps were asphyXiated in a
refrigerator car Mt Fort Worth, Tex
They built coal fire in II stove and were
overcome by the gas.
The navy department has been in
formed OF the arrival of the gunboat
Newport ut Aspinwall with the Mic
araguap canal commissioners on board