Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-01
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


ance has arrived in New York after an
extended cruise.
Mrs. Barney Picker, aged widow, died
in want at Lima, o., and the admins
traitor found over $4,000 in cash and
$4,000 in notes secreted in an old bon
net.
In Milwaukee Walter C. Sanger broke
his own worlds indoor bicycle record
for half mile, unpaced riding the dis
1ance in one minute fiat.
A loss of $150,000 was sustained by a
fire which consumed the A. II. Andrews
company's furniture factory in Chica-
go.
Postmaster-General Gary has decided
to order special issue of stamps COM
memorative of the holding of the trans
Mississippi exposition at Omaha the
coming year.
The school board of Iron Mountain,
Mich, has forbidden its teachers to at
tend dances or parties ON evenings pre-
ceding school days.
The reciprocity negotiations between
the United States and Germany are
practically suspended.
A train struck a stage coach at
crossing near Passaic, n. j., and 20 per-
sons were injured, three fatally.
Charles e. Stubbs has been sent to
Europe by this government to encour-
age the use of the American horse in
the cavalries of Europe.
The constitutionality of the civil
service law was upheld by the Illinois
supreme court.
In an open. letter to the Federation of
Labor Secretary of the Treasury Gage
defends the gold standard.
1t is announced that President Nc
Kinley will send a message to congress
recommending the establishment of
department of commerce and industry.
Chadwick Marshall and John McDon-
aid, the alleged murderers of Orville
Hayden at Pennington, Wash, were
taken from Jail by mob and hanged.
w. H. Hughes, A. H. Dolphin, John w.
Bright and Samuel Sewer, hunters
near Dawes creek, in Newton county,
Ky.
In riot during trial in the court
house at Macarthur, O., Elijah Brown
and Plyly Teeters were fatally injured.
AT the commencement of 1898 the
United States will have 1s4, AGA miles of
completed railway.
A buggy containing William Pearcy
and Miss Brooks, of Pennington, Ind,
| was struck by train and the latter
was killed and the former fatally hurt.
Freight traffic through the United
| States and Canadian Sault canals for
| l. Ill
by nearly 100000 tons.
The visible supply of grain in the
| United States on the goth was: Wheat,
| 35,565, 900 bushels; corn, 3S ,539, 900 bush
els; oats, 14,2S2, 900 bushels; rye, $685.
600 bushels: barley, 4,605,O0O bushels.
The consolidation of the three great
cracker companies of the United States
is now an assured fact, it's capitalization
being sos, 100000.
Leading cotton planters met in Mem
phis and formed an association to main
Eain prices.
A report as to the penitentiary scan
dial in Nebraska discloses irregularities
aggregating $537,S71.S7.
The doors of the First national bank
of Pembina, N. D.. were closed, with
liabilities of $05000.
William Gordon Prince, who was the
oldest living graduate of Harvard col
: lege, died in Dedham, Mass, aged 94
years.
Twenty-year-old Peter S. McMahon,
craZed by cigarettes, shot and killed
himself at Syracuse, N. Y.
Three schooners of the Gloucester
(Mass.) fishing fleet with 40 men were
given up as lost.
Mrs. August Radke, of Oshkosh, Wis.
gave birth to 10 pound baby, breaking
the record for weight in this country.
The expectation of raw cotton from
the southern states to Japan is prac.
tically double what il was last season.
Freezing weather has greatly dam
aged the orange crop in California.
The Southern Express company's Of
flee at Columbia, S. c., was robbed Of
$4,000.
Fire destroyed the business portion
OF Doniphan, Mo.
The Auditorium theater and the Au
ditorium hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
owned by. Alexander Fraser, wcr,
burned, the loss being 100000.
The Hide and Leather bank in Chi
cago went into voluntary liquidation
and the assets were transferred to the
Union national bank.
Leda Charland. 13 yenrs old, Georg,
NORM, aged is, and Frank Waterman
aged 1S, were drowned at Gardner
Nh s., while skating Oh thin ice.
Mrs. Ann Kelly, aged G5 years, ant
Miss Mary Baird, aged so years, diet
in Plainfeld, n. j., from drinking WOO,
alcohol.
Samuel Sloan, president of the Della
ware, Laclsawanna & Western railroad
was presented in New York with SIG,
600 golden service.
Engineers j. s. Hodson and i. b. Hor
ton were killed in railway wreck a
Cayuga, Ind.
Miss Leila Herbert, aged 30, daughte
OF ex-Secretary of the Navy Herbert
killed herself while Respondent over II