Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-01

Ocean Grove, N. j., said that the pur-
| pose in the Philippines was peace first;
then, with charity for all, to establish
n government of law and order protect
l.fe, property and occupation for the
well-being of the people; a government
in which they shall participate under
the stars and stripes.
An official report from Porto Rico
says that there have been 2,s12 burials
of victims of the recent hurricane. One
thousand families are missing, together
with their houses and the number of
destitute persons i. 100000.
An entire series of new notes is to be
issued by the treasury department to
replace the old ones of the denomina-
tions of 81, So, SIS, $40, 500, $780, 500 and
$500.
The Iowa state fair opened in Des
Moines with the largest number of
visitors and exhibitors in its history.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 25th aggregated
81 ,527 ,S12, ,66S, against $1,576, ,441, ,102 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1898
was 22.1.
There were 153 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 25th, against 1S2 the week
previous and 179 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
Cyrus A. Brown and Matthews Craig
were executed at Muskogee for muir
der. 1t was the first legal hanging of
white men ever held in Indian terri
tory.
The new cable between Miami, Fla,
and Havana, Cuba, has been completed.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 27th were: Brook
lyn, .676; Boston, .615; Philadelphia,
GOT; Baltimore, .6O7; ST. Louis, sol;
Cincinnati, $50; Chicago, sos; Pitts
burgh, .495; Louisville, .45o; New York,
.444; Washington, 1886; Cleveland, .167.
st. AIMS convent at Sparkill, N. Y,
was burned, and it was feared that
many of the 500 children in the building
perished in the flames.
Under the management of the United
States government the receipts in Cuba
from January 1 last to August 1 were
$S,321, 1884; disbursements, $6,531, ,S65.
The National Farmers congress will
meet in Boston October to 6.
The historic old Clay mansion near
Paris, Ky, has been destroyed by fire.
William Moran, a railway fireman,
shot and killed his wife in Marshfield,
Wis, and afterwards killed himself.
Family troubles were the cause.
quantity of valuable timber in Laramie
county, Wyo.
The trotter Abbott went n mile at
Readville, Mass, in 2:0634, which is the
fastest mile ever trotted in New Eng
land in race.
In the village of Reading, Mich, %
buildings were burned, causing loss
of $4,000.
The exports of silver fromGNew York
during the week ended on the goth ag-
gregated $S1S,152. There were no gold
shipments.
Demetri Friedlander, leader among
the Russians of Chicago, and man of
wealth, is mysteriously missing with
$4,000 belonging to his countrymen
and placed in his hands for safe keeping.
Reports from Mormon missions show
that 551 elders are laboring in the south.
Little Rock, Ark, was visited by an
electrical storm of such violence that
millions of English sparrows we're
killed.
In San Francisco George Tanner,
saloon keeper, murdered Deputy Sheriff
James X. Brown and Fannie Barnes.
Jealousy was the cause.
At Binghamton, n. Y, the CONNER
cial Travellers and Hotel Mems league,
numbering 6,s31 members, has been or
ganized to fight the trusts of the United
States.
The roundup of riotous negroes in
Mcintosh county, Ca, by the military
resulted in the surrender of several of
the leaders.
George S. E. Vaughan, who was the
subject of Abraham Lincoln's last Of
fetal act as president of the United
States, died in Maryville, Mo. He was
convicted as a SPY and Lincoln par
doned him.
The United States cruiser Boston ar
rived in San Francisco from Manila.