Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-22

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the week ended on the 14th aggregated
81, 1913, ,946,S35, against S1,652, ,204 ,237 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1898
was coo.
There were 100 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 14th, against 1876 the week
previous and 215 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
The Middlesex county bank at Perth
Amboy, n. j., closed its doors and the
cashier, George NJ. Valentine, was said
to be defaulter in the sum of $165, 900.
Detroit, Mich, is experimenting
with three-cent street railway fares.
Abe Brown, a negro, who murdered
and outraged a Bohemian woman, was
shot to death by mob near Gilead,
Tex.
A combination of wholesale grocers
of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, for the
purpose of purchasing goods in large
quantities, was effected in Des Moines.
Annie and Mary Kinney, aged II and
12 years, respectively, and their cousin
Ella, aged 10, were drowned while
bathing in the river at Lower Derby,
Conn.
The Sioux Indians were said to be
on the warpath in Wyoming and off
cials were in pursuit of Swift Bear and
his band of warriors.
At the annual session in Richmond,
Va, of the Young Peoples Baptist
Union of America John II. Chapman, of
Chicago, was reelected president.
Mr.. and Mrs. George G. Williams, of
Philadelphia, will undertake to ride to
San Francisco on tandem in 80 days
on wager of $1,000.
The village of Three Oaks, Mich, has
won the cannon which Admiral Dewey
sent from Manila for the Maine monu-
ment fund.
Ten striking miners were convicted
in the federal court in Fort Worth, Tex,
of intimidating and terrorizing i'm
ported negro miners.
The proposed bicycle trust has been
abandoned.
The city of st. Louis has officially de-
clared war on the Chicago drainage
canal.
The percentages Of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 10th were: Brooklyn,
.G54; Philadelphia, 636; Boston, .G27;
Chicago, .59T; Baltimore, $50; ST.
Louis, $40; Cincinnati, .493; Pitts
burgh, .4T3; New York, 40; Louisville.
.4O5; Washington, $50; Cleveland,
.162.
The men on the street car lines in
Brooklyn, y. Y, struck for higher
wages.
Tin plate workers throughout the
country to the number of nearly 10000
resumed work after an idleness OF TWO
weeks.
ST Smith, farmer who killed Viii
liam Bell, commercial traveller from
Atlanta, was shot TO death in the Jail
at Gainesville, Ga, by mob.
Twenty-seven business houses al
cambridge, Ga, were destroyed by
fire.
Roy Sutton, 20 years of age, shot and
killed Miss Leona Elmere, girl of Is
years, at Mason City, ILL.,, because she
would not elope with him, and then
shot himself
Clifford and James Shannon and
Catherine Winsey were drowned in the
Ohio river in Cincinnati by the capsiZ
ing of boat.
The conductors and motormen of the
Big Consolidated street railway sys
tenn in Cleveland went on another
strike.
The report of railway statistics fol
the year 1898 says the aggregate mile
age of railways was 243, ,532, an increase
of 4,OSS miles.
The steamship Olympia arrived al
Tacoma, Wash, from China and JapaI
with 5000 tons of the new crop of tea.
During a family quarrel Mrs. George
Treider shot and killed her mother
wounded her husband and then killed
herself near Long Grove, Ill.
The town of Wagner, l. T., was al
most entirely destroyed by fire.
The convention of the Young People
Baptist union closed in Richmond, Va
Denver was selected as the meetin!
place next year.
y party of II men and women goins
from Atlin to Dawson, Alaska, wer
drowned in Wind Arm, the dangerou
portion of Bennett lake.