Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-08
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.

For the first time in nearly year
President and Mrs. Mckinley are in
Canton, o., for a few days of rest.
James j. Corbett has been matched to
fight the winner of the Jeffries-Sharkey
battle in October.
A new counterfeit two-dollar treas
ury note has been discovered of the
series of 1901, check letter d; Bruce,
register; Roberts, treasurer; portrait,
Mcpherson.
A sufficient number of enlistments
have been made for the three rcgi-
ments in the Philippines, and the work
of enlistment for the last ten regiments
called out is now in progress.
Ten buildings ia the business portion
of Trio, o., were destroyed by fire.
The insular commission which has
been preparing new laws for Porto
Rico has completed its labors and sub
mitted its report to Secretary Root.
Frank Crosdale, Gustave Gunderson
and William Radtke while working in q
silo at Wausau, Wis, were overcome
with carbonic fumes and killed.
Fire destroyed a store at Yuma, A. T.,
causing a loss of S150,OOO, and six per-
sons were burned to death.
Street railway strikers blew up car
in Cleveland, o., and five of the six pas
sengers on board sustained broken legs.
In view of the revolutionary move
ments in the Dominican republic the
navy department has practically de-
cided to send more war vessels there.
The permanent organization of the
Distilling Company of America (the
whisky trus) has been completed in
New York.
a strike which affects $500 men be-
gan at the William Cramp & Sons ship
and engine building works in Philadel-
phia.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has made an elab-
crate report to the war department on
prevailing conditions in the territory in
Cuba under his jurisdiction, and takes
strong ground for an independent gov
ernment for the Cubans under an Amer
lean prote2torate.
Bicycle manufacturers have formed
combination with a capital of S4O,-
100000, to be known as the American
Bicycle company.
The month of August was the largest
for customs receipts that the New York
custom house has had under the Ding
ley tariff law, the amount being S13,-
1904
Fire destroyed 60 acres of timber
land near New Pittsburg, Ind.
The Pittsburgh (Pa.) rail-coal mine
combination has been formed with
capital of $64,OOO,OO0.
Yellow fever has broken out at Key
West, Fla
Engineer Tilton, Fireman Hollis and
Air Inspector Kellogg were killed in a
railway wreck at Rossville, III.
An order has been issued by the war
department establishing a sanitarium
at Fort Bayard, n. NJ, for consumptives
of the army.
The negro rioters at Darien, Ga, are
surrendering daily in small squads and
the race war is at an end.
The amount of net gold in the United
States treasury on the 1st was $247,-
SsO,6O1, being the largest amount on
hand at one time in the history of the
department.
The annual report of Col. II. Clay Ev-
ans, commissioner of pensions, for the
fiscal year, says the number of pen
sioners was 991 ,519 and the total ex-
penditures were $I3s,355,052.
Dimes, quarters and half dollars are
being turned out by all the mints as
rapidly as they can be produced, the
demand for fractional currency and sill
yer dollars being unprecedented.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt decreased
$4,2S1,116 during the month of August.
The cash balance in the treasury was
S9G2, ,379, $50. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $157 $50.
Government receipts during August
were $40,97s,17 and expenditures, $45,-
522,31l, leaving a surplus of $4,455, ,sG2.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 1st aggregated
$1,443, ,564, ,Ss7, against $l,527, 7,sl2,GGS the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1898
was 1873.
There were 131 business failures IN
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 1st, against 153 the week
previous and 164 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
All the yellow fever patients at the
soldiers home at Hampton, Va, arc
we'll
Jim Jefrries, of California, and Tom
Sharkey, of Ireland, will fight for the
heavyweight championship of the
world at Coney Island, N. y, October 49,
Maj. Bettis, of the Ohio naval re-
serves, has made an offer to the war de-
partment to enlist the Toledo reserves
for duty in the Philippines.
President Mckinley and wife arrived
in Washington from Canton, o.
Four girls and one boy, children OF
farmers living in Easton, Conn.,, were
drowned while sea bathing.