Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-03

Engineer John Pcyton was instantly
tilled and Fireman James Smith seri-
| ously injured in a railroad wreck near
Slmara, Ind.
A dispatch from Buffalo, N. Y, says
has been definitely decided that the
Corbett-McCoy battle will take place
at Cheektowaga on October 1.
The congressional members of the
committee to report on form of gov
,rnment for the territory of Hawaii
commenced theil work in Honolulu.
Ice cream prepared with lemon ex-
tract purchased from travelling sales
nan at Middletown, N. Y, caused the
death of three persons and the seri-
ous Illness of score of others.
George II. Russell, of Detroit. Mich.
wns elected presideS.t at the closing
session of the American Bankers as
sociation in Denver, Col.
The ThingvalIa line steamer Norge,
which arrived at New York, reports
that she sunk the French fishing
schooner Lacoquette, of Bayonne,
France, and that 16 persons were
drowned.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggre-
gated $1,e49, ,6O7,o12, against $1.221 .929,-
527 the previous week. The increase
compared with the corresponding
week in 1897 was GA.
There were 179 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the Goth, against 196 the week
previous and 223 in the corresponding
period OF 1897.
The volume of business throughout
the country is 20.4 per cent. larger
than last year and 26.s per cent.
larger than in 1902. heretofore the
year of the largest business and
highest prosperity ever known.
Senior Vicuna, the new minister from
Chilli to this country, presented his
credentials to the president, and there
was the usual exchange of diplomatic
greetings.
The steamer Stickeen Chief was lost
on the way to Alaska and 43 persons
were drowned.
At the session in Indianapolis of the
oupreme lodge, Knights of Pythias,
Thomas G. Sample, of Allegheny, Pa,
was elected supreme chancellor.
DR.. L. C. Lewis was horsewhipped,
tarred and feathered and driven out of
Carrollton, H., by mob of indignant
citizens He had threatened the life
Of John Hensler, his father-in-law.
John Carrigan, about 60 years of age,
was brutally murdered by his son
Frank, aged 33 years, at Buffalo, N. Y,
while he slept.
Mrs. Rev. George Jefferes and child.
of Philadelphia, died in Shippensburg.
Pa, from the effects of eating toad
stools.
The National Association of Naval
Veterans of the United States of Amer
lea Will hold their thirteenth reunion
in Cincinnati on September 6.
Harry S. Stevens, a well-known
broker in Cleveland, o., committed sui
eide by shooting himself. Business
troubles were +he cause.
In a cyclone at Justin, Tex, the
plantation of Parker Terrill was de-
vastated, dwellings demolished. barns
razed and stock sheds wrecked, and a
child was killed.
President Mckinley and his wife ar.
rived at Somerset, Pa, on visit to his
brother. He will be absent from Wash
ington one week.
In railway wreck near Birming
ham, Ala, two soldiers of the Sixty
ninth New York volunteers were
killed, another was fatally injured and
four were slightly hurt.
The report of Chief Wilkie, of the
secret service, shows that. in the past
fiscal year 705 arrests were made and
the value of counterfeit notes recov-
cred was $117,243.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 2sth were: Cincin-
natl, .637; Boston. .633; Baltimore,
.632; Cleveland, .591; Chicago, .563;
New York, $50; Pittsburgh, .496; Phila-
delphia, .472; Louisville, .3s9; Brook
lyn, 1857; Washington, 1854; St. Louis,
.2s3.
George Whiting, his wife and two
daughters, and the crossing boy were
killed instantly at Whiting Crossing.
Mass, on the Massachusetts, Central
railroad.