Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
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.


President Mckinley and party ar
rived in Washington from the grand
army encampment.
Thirty-two rioters at Darien, Ga, were
convicted and sent to the chain gang
for year.
Fifty persons were injured in a rear
end collision on the b. d o. railroad at
Connellsville, Pa.
Extreme heat has done considerable
damage to the corn crop in Nebraska,
Iowu and Missouri.
An open switch caused n wreck on
the Erie railroad at Miller's Station,
Pa, in which four men were killed.
In freight wreck on the Norfolk &
Western road near Williamson, w. Va,
two braliemen, n fireman and four
tramps were killed.
John d. Rockefeller has contributed
$25OOOO to the S2,OOO,OOO endowment
fund now being raised at Brown uni
versity in Providence, Il. /.
Fire at Marble Rock, Ia, destroyed
six business blocks and contents.
At the grand army encampment in
Philadelphia Chicago was chosen rs the
meeting place next year, and Senior
Vice Commander johnson was elected
commander-in-chief, to serve the uneN-
pired term of the late Col. Sexton. The
total membership of the G. a. r. is
1s7,0s1, and during the past year $780,
355 was expended for relief.
Admiral Dewey will be given his real
homecoming welcome at Washington
on the night of October 2.
Unanimous action urging speedy
congressional legislation for the gold
standard was taken by the American
Bankers association in convention in
Cleveland, o.
There has been a plan arranged to
form a railway system which will ere
ate trunk line consolidation greater
than any now in existence in this coun-
try.
The first national convention of the
Young Peoples Christian Temperance
union will be held in Chicago Septem-
ber 27 and 2S.
Joe Patchen won the free-for-all pac.
ing race in New York from John II.
Gentry and Star Pointer, his two IA
nous rivals, going the mile in 2:O224
Col. Gardeners Thirtieth United
States volunteer infantry left Fort
Sheridan, H., for the Philippines.
Five men were struck by lightning
near Brandon, Mimi, and two were
killed.
a storm at Winfield, w. Va, wrecked
the courthouse, large brick building,
and did considerable other damage.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan, with the Minnesota and South Da-
kota volunteers on board, arrived in
San Francisco from Manila.
The Garden City hotel at Garden
City, L. L., owned by the a. T. Stewart
estate, was burned, the loss being
$23O,OOO.
The thirty-third national encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Repuh-
lie came to an end in Philadelphia after
the election of Col. Albert d. Shaw, of
Watertown, n. Y. commander-in-chief.
Fully 10000 persons attended the
opening of the eleventh annual season
of the Western Pennsylvania Expo
sition society in Pittsburgh
The eighteenth annual encampment
of the Sons OF Veterans, U. S. A., began
in Detroit, Mich.
A tornado near Bowling Green, o.,
wrecked so oil derricks, unroofed sew
eTal barns, injured several persons and
killed number of horses and cattle.
The American Bankers association
in session in Cleveland elected as presi-
dent Walker Hill, of st. Louia.
On the fair grounds at Camargo, ILL.,,
Robert Myers and Spencer Bromheld
were killed and George Adler and John
Griest fatally injured by lightning.
Ned Copeland, for years receiving
teller of the Nebraska national bank in
| Omaha, was accused of embezzling So
600.
Fire destroyed 16 buildings in Cen.
tralia, Mo-, including o. G. Byram's liv.
cry stable, where 20 horses and 90 bug
| gies were burned.
Five vessels were burned and loss
of $250,0O0 was cntailed by fire which
destroyed large building of the Brook
lyn (N. " Storage & Warehouse com.
pany.
Three miners, Fred Hamilton, CIar-
ence Hardesty and Eliza Powers, los
their lives in mines near Fairmont, W
Va, by powder explosion.
An English syndicate has purchaset
for $2,50O,0 600 cash the properties of tho
Big Five Mining company at Ward, Col
Samuel NJ. FELTON, has been electcC
president of the Chicago G. Alton road
The plant of the Shelby Steel Tube
company IN Shelby, o., was damaged
! to the extent of 100000 by fire.