Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-10-29

The German national bank, one of
the biggest financial institutions In
Pittsburgh, Pa, closed its doors with
liabilities OF $2,0oO,oOo.
President Mckinley was greeted by
5000 members of the brotherhoods of
railroad men at the First Regiment
armory in Chicago and made an adj
dress. He left for Washington amid
the cheers of crowds of people.
Charles Kugadt was hanged at Bren-
ham, Tex, for tho murder of his sister,
his purpose being robbery.
Billy Walker, pugilist, who was
knocked out by Andy Dupont ut South
Omaha, Neb., died of his injuries.
The IL hostile Indians who have dis
puted the authority of the United
States surrendered at Walker, MINI.
DIR. William f. Brooks, director of
Smith observatory at Geneva, N. Y,
discovered a new comet.
An English syndicate has purchased
13 Cincinnati breweries.
By the bursting of boiler tubes on
the torpedo boat Davis at Astoria,
Ore, seven of the crew were killed.
Frost is breaking the backbone of
the yellow fever scare in the states of
Louisiana and Mississippi.
Conservative estimates place the
damage TO farmers in North Dakota
by continued wet weather at $5,000,000.
Rev. Charles Heath, a colored preach
er in New York city, is dead. He was
1o1 years of age and a veteran of the
civil war
Rear Admiral w. T. Sampson has
been elected president of the United
States Naval institute at Annapolis,
Md, for the ensuing year.
Five persons lost their lives in hotel
fire at Clairvlle, Cal.
Henry Scherf, John Stevenson and
Michael Vail were torn to pieces by
dynamite which they were thawing
out in Duluth, Minn.
Sig. Perugini received decree of di-
vorce in Jersey City, n. j., from Lillian
Russell, the actress.
The First national bank of Lisbon,
o., capital $50, 900, closed its doors.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 21st aggre-
gated S1,321, ,633, ,294, against S1,3s9,2 ,261,-
652 the previous week. The increase
compared with the corresponding
week in 1897 was IL.
There were 221 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 21st, against 205 the
week previous and 224 in the corre-
spending period of 1897.
Two little daughters of William
Meyer fell into an acid vat in fer
tilizer factory in Middletovn, N. Y,
and were suffocated.
The loss of the schooner Annie Rowe
and II passengers in the North sound
in Alaska was reported.
A boat capsized in Sand lake near
Jonesville, Mich, and John and
Charles Heating and Frank Evans
were drowned.
The boilers in furniture factory at
Pentwater, Mich, exploded, killing
two men and injuring three others.
one fatally.
One continuous ovation marked the
passage of President Mckinley over
the states of Indiana and Ohio.
A storm in southern Texas did i'm
mense damage to the cotton crop and
injured.
President and Mrs. Mckinley and the
members of the cabinet returned to
Washington from their western trip
Five laborers employed on the Rock
Island railroad in the Indian territory
were killed in freight wreck.
An explosion at the Judson powder
works in San Francisco blew two work
men, Peter Anderson and John Roach,
to pieces.
L A. Childs, cashier of the First ma
tional bank, of Lisbon, o., who ab-
seconded, is said to be 100000 short in
his accounts.
In race war at Harpersville, Miss,
nine negroes and one white man were
killed.
John Melchart, a Chicago photog-
rapher, shot and killed Lillian L. Nor
ris, his affianced wife. in Omaha, and
then committed suicide. Jealousy was
the cause.
The Pillager Indians in Minnesota
were each sentenced to pay S1Oo in ad-
ditlon to serving term in Jail for re-
sisting arrest.
Serious trouble is brewing among
the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache In
dians and cattlemen in Oklahoma ter
ritory.
Henry Jones and Garrett French,
two jealous husbands, killed their
wives and themselves in Jersey City,
n. j.
Arch Baur, colornd man who had
assaulted Miss Annie Morrison near
Tompkinsville, KY, was captured by q
mob and hanged.
Geronimo, the famous Apache In
diam chief, escaped from the guards
while going from FL Reno, o. T., to
Fort Sill, where he has been stationed
for the past ten years as a military
prisoner.
John Anderson (colored), charged
with the murder of Charles Holmes. u
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