Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-18
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.

Lightning struck the barn of Engel-
bert Jersly at Clifton, Wis, and his two
sons, Vincent and Engelbert, aged 16
and 90 years respectively, were killed.
An unidentified negro was lynched
at Jasper, Fla, for attempting to as
sault white woman.
At the national convention in Phila-
delphia of shoe manufacturers a gen
eral advance of ten to twenty-five cents
in the price of shoes was agreed to.
Four firemen lost their lives in blaze
in Omaha, Neb.
The twenty-ninth annual convention
of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America began in Chicago.
An American syndicate has pur-
chased for S1,OOO,OOO two islets, La
Cruza and La Ramon, off the coast of
Cuba, that contain immense quantities
of iron.
Mrs. Edward Ecllinger, aged 23, killed
her husband and child near Canton, o.,
and then committed suicide. Domestic
trouble caused the deed.
Adolphus Brown (colored) was shot
and killed at Amite City, La, and Edgar
and Edward Barr severely fiogged by
gang of armed men.
Goldie McConlley was shot dead and
her lover, George Bond, fatally wound
ed in the street in Denver, Col, by some
one unknown.
Ira j. Palmer and his wife were killed
by the cars at a crossing in Toledo, o.
Gen. Brooke has been given instruc-
tions to prevent at all hazards any fill
clustering expedition in Jiminez' inter
est leaving Cuba for San Domingo.
The report of Commissioner of Pen
sions Evans for the fiscal year ended
June 80 last shows total disbursements
of S13s, 1928, leaving balance of ST.
s57, 1ss in the treasury. The total num-
Der of pensionsers on the roll was 091,-
$40, decrease of 2,195.
The house of Thomas Martin near
Grasser, Va, was burned, and he and
three children perished in the flames.
Two million bushels of wheat, worth
at least S1,OO00OO, were lost in hail
storm which partially destroyed the
crop on nearly 250,000 acres of land in
North Dakota.
An electric storm of exceptional
severity did damage to the extent of
s1.OOO,O 600 in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Clara L, Baldwin, wife of Enos
Baldwin, of indianapolis, administered
strychnine in food to her husband and
two children, II and 10 years old re-
spectively, and then shot herself dead.
The poisoned persons may recover.
The street car strikers and their SYM
pathizers in Cleveland propose to boy
colt every man who attended the busi
ness mems meeting held for the pur-
pose of adopting measures to stamp
out the boycott.
w. b. Cleveland & Co., wholesale gro
GERS at Houston, Tex, failed for $441,-
OIL.
A Washington dispatch says that
Mai Gen. Otis will remain in supreme
command of the Philippine islands, and
should he request to be relieved Maj.
Gen. Lawton will be assigned to duty
as his successor.
The yellow fever epidemic at Hamp-
ton, Va, is practically at an end.
Five negro children were burned to
death on McKowan's plantation, near
Jackson, La. The parents locked them
up in their house and went to church.
The United States transport Morgan
City sailed from San Francisco for Ma
Mia with 675 recruits and supplies.
Sigurd Rudd, a tailor, aged 90, and
Ida Olson, 20, were drowned at Mime
apolis by the capsizing of boat.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 11th aggregated
$l,576, AL ,1O2, against $1,5oG, ,77s,656 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1898
was 24.3.
There were 1876 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the nth, against 1s2 the week
previous and 10G in the corresponding
period of 1898.
Consolidation of the leading cigar
manufacturing interests of Tampa, Key
West, New Orleans and Havana is re-
ported.
viii Chambers, colored, charged with
criminally assaulting the 14-year-old
daughter of William Watson, was
lynehed by a mob near Bell Buckle,
Tenn.
Will Mcclure, n negro, was lynched
at Glen, Ga, for attempted assault on
Mrs. George Moore, wife of farmer
of Carroll county.
Sam Wilson, young negro accused
of attempting assault, was taken from
jail at Port Gibson, Miss, by mob and
hanged to the gallows in the Jail yard.