Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-05-06
A WEEKS RECORD
all 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.

DOMESTIC.
Freddie Limp. aged IA, who in q fit of
anger killed playmate in Washington,
Ind, has been sent to n reformatory un-
til of age.
The canals of New York have been
opened for navigation, the earliest open
ing in II years.
A prairie fire burned over $4,000 acres
of land near Mitchell, S. D., and Frank
Howard and Allie Smith perished in the
flames.
Speaker Reed sailed from New York
for Europe on the steamer New York.
A combine of 100 of the largest bicy-
Gle manufacturing plants in the United
States, with capital of $5O,0Oo,o90, is
proposed
There is big oil strike in the fields
at Cambridge, o., and spectators are
rushing in from all over the country.
The thirty-first annual convention of
the National American Woman Suf-
frage association began in Grand Rap
ids, Mich.
Alleged bribe-takng is said to be the
cause of the suspension of % customs
inspectors IN New OrK city.
High water in the Missouri river at
st. Joseph washed out the tracks of the
Rock Island and the Burlington, and
bottom lands opposite Leavenworth,
Kan, were all inundated.
The transport Cook reached New
York, bearing $50 bodies of American
soldiers who died in Cuba and Porto
Rico.
Confederate Decoration day was OBJ
served generally throughout the south.
New York capitalists are planning to
combine the principal mineral springs
in Saratoga under one management.
Work on the harbor at San Pedro,
Cal, commenced when President Nc
Kinley, in his library at the white house,
pressed an electric button.
w. F. Mcdowell, for nine years at the
head of the University of Denver, has
been elected president of the Colorado
agricultural college.
An equestrian statue of Gen. Grant
was unveiled in Fairmount park, Phil
adelphia, in the presence of Mrs. Grant,
President Mckinley and members of
his cabinet and other distinguished per-
sons.
A tornado did great damage in the
vicinity of Onawa, Ia, and five persons
were killed and several other persons
were injured.
The seventy-seventh birthday of Gen.
Grant was fittingly celebrated at his
old home in Galena, Ill.
A cyclone swept away 400 buildings
at Kirksville, Mo-, and from the ruins
25 dead bodies were recovered and 9th
er persons were missing, while over
1000 were injured.
Fifteen persons were killed and great
damage toproperty by cyclone at
Newtown, Mo.
Mitchell Daniel, negro, was lynched
by mob near Leesburg, Ca, for at
tempted assault upon a white woman.
The Missouri Legislature has passed
bills prohibiting the formation of trusts
in the state and taxing department
stores from $500 to $500 for each class
of goods, except one, handled by them.
The transport Comal arrived in New
York from Havana with Ga passengers
and $50 discharged soldiers.
The president has issued proclamu-
tion announcing the ratification of the
new eXtradition treaty between the
United States and Mexico.
Rear Admiral Howell has been rc-
ilieyed as senior member of the naval re-
tiring board and will he succeeded by
Admiral Schley
The Lake Village savings bank at
Lakeport, N. H., closed its doors with
liabilities of $23O,OO0.
Gov. Gen. Brooke is considering n de,
cree to prohibit raffies and lotteries in
Havana.
Nearly the entire village of Croton
Mich, was destroyed by FIRE.
Henry 7. Sloane, the well-known and
wealthy society man, was granted di-
force from his wife, Jessie A. Sloane, in
New York, and on the same day Mrs
Sloane was married to Perry Belmont
The funeral of eX-Gov. Richard j
oglesby took place at his home near
Elkhart, ILL.,, and was largely attended
by prominent persons from many
places.
Fire destroyed j. j. Welden's grocery
and the Novelty candy works in Pitts
burgh, Pa. Total loss, 100000.
The jury at Canton, O., acquitted Mrs
Anna George of the murder of Georgf
ID. Saxton, brother of Mrs. Mckinley.