Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-22
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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


by the government.
There are now 1853 soldiers quar-
tered at the Presidio in San Francisco.
The American authorities at Santiago
de Cuba have refused to permit the
landing of number of Cinnamon.
Mrs. Joseph Maskaline and her daugh
ter Angeline were burned TO death in
Cleveland, o., by the explosion of a can
of coal OIL
With more than 400 delegates pres
ent, representing 35 states and as many
organizations of employers and en-
ployes, the conference on the use and
abuse of trusts and combinations was
opened in Chicago.
Mrs. Jane Barber and her two sons
were murdered by unknown robbers
in store in OtastoRe county, Tex.
II. E. Battle, negro preacher, was
killed by an unknown white man near
Thomson. Ga.
The secret service mas discovered
new counterfeit two-dollar silver GER
tificate of the series of 1896, check let
ter &C" Bruce register, Roberts treas
urer.
The new White Star line steamship
Oceanic, the largest vessel afloat, ar
rived in New York from Liverpool.
William White, of st. Louis, SO years
of age, shot and fatally wounded Mrs.
Alice Bremser and then shot himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
The merchandise imports of the
United States in August amounted to
$66,71S,737, against $49,677,349 in Au-
gust, 1898, and the exports were valued
at S1O4,64S, ,436, against $S4,565,56 for
August, 1898.
Twenty people were killed and in
jured in collision on the Southern Pa
citic road at Famosa, Col.
Col. Charles DENLY and Prof. Dean
Worcester, members of the Philippine
commission, have been requested by
President Mckinley to return from
Manila as soon as possible.
Private Thomas McVeigh, of the First
Wyoming volunteers, sentenced to
death for attempting to kill an officer,
has had the penalty commuted by Pres
ident Mckinley to three years impris-
onment.
The National Export exposition was
formally opened in Philadelphia. Fully
10000 persons visited the grounds. The
dedication ceremonies were brief and
simple. Congressman Hepburn, of
Iowa, delivered the oration. A message
from President Mckinley was received,
and the president pressed an electric
button in the white house in Washing
t,n l. Il
Secretary John Willis Baer, of the
Society of Christian Endeavor, has de-
clined the nomination of the Massachu-
setts prohibition state convention for
governor. He gives no reason.
The president is receiving petitions
asking him to request the French gov
ernment to pardon Dreyfus. No such
action will be taken, the administration
holding that to do so would undoubted-
ly be offensive to France.
Mrs. Catherine Kennedy was burned
to death in fire which invaded FIVE
story tenement in Atlantic avenue,
Brooklyn.
In the trust conference in Chicago
the principal addresses were made by
Byron w. Holt, of the New England
free trade bureau; Lawson Purdy, of
New York; Thomas Updegrafl, of
Iowa; John +. Scanlan, of Illinois;
Samuel II. Greeley, of Chicago; j. c.
Hawley, of st. Paul; Adam Jones, of
South Bend, Ind, master of the Ma
tional grange; B. f. Tucker, editor of
an anarcf$tic paper in New York; ex-
| Gov. Foster, of Ohio, and Gov. Pingree,
of Michigan.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 18th aggre-
gated $1,710, ,393,2Gs, against 81, ,370, ,706,-
SCI the previous week. The increase
compared with the corresponding week
of 1898 was 2s.7.
There were 140 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th. against 1872 the week
previous and I'll in the corresponding
period of 1898.
Admiral Schley has been assigned tc
command the South Atlantic station.
The open golf championship of the
United States was won in Baltimore by
William Smith, of Chicago.
Noah Finley (colored) was hanged al
Pulaski, Va, for highway robbery and
attempted murder.
a freight train went through bridge
near Nebraska City, Neb., and three
men were killed and 20 cars destroyed.
Funeral services over the remains o.
Cornelius Vanderbilt were held in ST
Bartholomew's Episcopal church il
New York.
AT the trust conference in Chicago
the opponents of concentrated capita
gave full vent to their beliefs, Bourk'
Cochran, of New York, and Samue
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, being among thu
speakers.
The United States cruiser Boston ha
been put out of commission.
Joseph Allen was hanged at Helena
Mont, for the murder of j. S. Reynolds
his partner in the strengthening bust