Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-04-29
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.
IONE AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

ly scattered, and that the losses by de-
sertions and death are large. The war
department will increase Gen. Otis reg
ular force to $4,000 men, to take the
place of the volunteers who will be
brought home.
Three little girls lost their lives by
the burning of the orphans home at
Berne, Ind.
One of the most famous counterfeit
ing gangs in the country has been cap
tured in Philadelphia.
1t is reported that Thomas Bracket
Reed has become the head of the law
firm of Simpson, Thacher & Barnum,
and it is understood that he will soon
resign his seat in congress and remove
to New York city.
Fire destroyed the large department
store of Ever &5 CO., in Newcastle, Pa.
Loss, $150,OO0.
The large tannery and yards of the
United States Leather company were
destroyed by fire at Lincoln, Me. Loss,
$15O.00O.
The recruiting of the regular army
up to $4,000 has been practically accom-
plished.
The Thirty-second general assembly
of the state of Arkansas adjourned sine
die.
Rev. j. @. A. Henry, leader of the cru
SADIE in Chicago against vice, has re-
signed the pastorate of the La Sale
Avenue Baptist church and will go to
New York.
1t is understood that Gen. George W.
No.. Sc, 10 1,a Ia nf
Porto Rico, to succeed Gen. Guy V.
Henry.
President Mckinley has accepted an
invitation to attend the state encamp-
ment of the G. A. r. to be held in
Youngstown, o., the latter part of June.
The Missouri legislature has passed a
bill levying an inspection tax of one
cent per gallon and two cents for each
package of beer sold in the state.
Gen. Maximo Gomez has announced
to the people of Cuba his support of an
American protectorate until such time
as a stable, independent government
may be founded.
Alaska advices say that deaths by sui
eide are occurring daily at Dawson City
because of failure to find gold.
An English syndicate has bought the
Independence gold mine near Colorado
| Springs, Col, for $10,000,000.
Counterfeit five-dollar gold pieces are
in circulation in San Francisco.
1t is stated positively at the war de-
partment that the provisional army of
$4,000 volunteers authorized by law will
be called out only as last resort.
A factional fight between rival COM
panies in Fresno, Cal, of Chinese high
binders resulted in the killing of three
men and the fatal wounding of two
others.
For the nine months of the present
fiscal year the total internal revenue
receipts were $2O1, ,522,141, an increase
over the corresponding period of last
year of $77, 400.
An extra session of the Alabama leg
islature has been called to repeal the
constitutional convention act.
The Pennsylvania legislature has adj
journed sine die.
The United States post Office officials
have entered into an agreement for a
parcel post treaty with Venezuela.
The United States and the Orange
Free State have exchanged notifications
of the new treaty of extradition be-
tween the two countries.
The steamer Alfonso XIII. sailed from
Havana with 1000 Spaniards aboard.
Many of them are business men who
have sold their property in the island
and are returning to reside in Spain.
The will of the late Nicholas II.
Cheseborough, of New York, gives $780,
900 to charities and religious bodies.
Judge Guthrie, CT the circuit court in
| Charleston, w. Va, decided that legal
advertisements and notices printed in
Sunday papers were not legal or bind
ing.
The American Glass company at
Pittsburgh, Pa, has advanced prices Of
window glass ten per cent, to take eff
feet at once.
With capital stock of $3O,0OO,OOo, the
newest trust, a consolidation of the
shipping interests of the great lakes,
was effected in New York.
There were 1874 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 21st, against 1873 the week
previous and 2O4 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 21st aggregated
$1,975 ,962, ,4s4, against $2,124 ,932, ,423 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
was I'll.
Four men and boy employed in a
coal mine at Madrid, Col, lost their lives
by an explosion of gas.
The Chicago g. Alton railroad officials
announce an increase in wages of all
section men.
The secretary of War issued orders
for the reorganization of the military
departments in Cuba. The number of
departments is reduced from seven to