Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-20
General News Summary,
Interesting Home and Foreign News.
DOMESTIC.

cards amounted TO almost ID per cent.
The New York committee for the
perpetuation of the Dewey victory
arch in marble has received pledges Of
100000 toward carrying out the pur-
pose.
The Fortv-eighth Omitted States in
fantry (colored) mobilizing at Fort
Thomas, Ky, was filled to its maxi
mum on the 18th. Sixty recruits re-
ported, which makes a total of 1,272,
the number allotted.
business failures in the United
States for the week ended October 13
numbered 164, as compared with POS
for the corresponding period of 1898,
and 81 in Canada, as against 20 for the
same time last year.
Fire on the 18th destroyed the three
story frame building in Newton, T.. L.,
owned and occupied by the Equitable
silk mills. Stock and machinery was
damaged $4,000, ,and the building
$4,000.
Within a month the Consolidated
Cattle Co., with capital of $1OO,O0O,
600, will be fully organized in New
York City.
The New York & New Haven rail-
road has Just placed the largest order
for locomotives ever given out by the
road at one time. The contract is
with the Schnectady On. W locomo-
tive works for 40 locomotives. five for
passenger work, 25 for freight work
and 10 for switch work. Another
large order has been given out by that
road for 500 new coal cars.
An explosion started fire in the
national conduit and cable works at
Hastings. n. Y, on the 18th. The com
pany carried on an extensive business
in the manufacture of cable wire. The
loss is estimated at S125,0OO.
The Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
way Co. and the American Express Co,
together have offered reward of S5,-
900 for information leading to the ar
rest and conviction of the Maple Park
Gll.) train robbers. A proportionate
amount will be paid for the arrest and
conviction of each of the robbers.
The Monongahela River Consolidat-
ed Coal and Coke Co. has just closed
the deal for the purchase of the inn
mense tract of coal belonging to the
New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Co.
at Charleroi, Pa, for $1,O0O,OOO cash.
The tract contains about 1000 acres
and is one of the largest and finest
bodies of coal on the Monongahela
river.
The task of pumping out the Hud-
son river tunnel, on which work had
long been suspended. has begun in Jer-
sey City, n. Y. This resumption of
work at the Jersey City terminus is
accepted as an Indication that the
funds with which to continue the con-
struction of the tunnel will soon be Sc
cured,
Secretary Root has ordered all the
available chaplains in the army to go
to the Philippines.
A counter combination is being or
ganized in Pittsburg to oppose the
American Wire and Steel Co. There
are 81 woven wire fence manufactur-
ing concerns embraced in the warning
cabal. They want steel wire mill |
of their own.
Practically all the mills in New York
state are now organized under the
name of the American Association of
Knit Underwear Manufacturers, which
has decided to make a Is per cent. adj
vance in the price of fleece underwear,
which is the kind most generally worn,
and in which line the competition
heretofore has been fiercest.
The administration building of the
Loomis sanitarium for consumptives,
near Liberty, N. Y, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the 14th. Loss $780,
0oo. None of the 100 inmates were
injured. The burned building, which
nf Ctnna fha prift Of I
gan and will be rebuilt.
The comptroller of the treasury has
decided that there is no law authcriz-
ing the payment Of the funeral cx-
penses of soldiers who die At home, |
although there is provision made for
the expenses of funerals of such as die |
while on duty away from home.
Fire which started in the opera
house at Bangor, Wis, on the 18th de-
stroyed block and half on the main |
street, including many business
houses. No lives were lost.
AT Dallas, Tex, on the 18th trolley |
car filled with passengers collided with |
an excursion train on the Gulf, Colo |
RADIO e. Santa Fe road. OF the 40 pas
sengers on board the street car, near
~ hhii VI lhtui were HllFI. DIX were |
seriously injured three fatally.
Five battleships, one cruiser, one
cadet training ship and 25 torpedo
boats and torpedo boat destroyers will
comprise the new construction com
pleted and added to. the navy within
the next year.
From Pima, Ariz., comes the report |
that ten negro soldiers of the Twenty
fifth infantry, stationed at San Carlos,
attacked an Apache camp with clubs
and beat four bucks into insensibility,
so that all may die from the effects of
their wounds.
The Forty-siXth regiment, United
States volunteers, which was recruit
ed largely in New England left South
birmingham, Mass, on the 10th for
San Francisco, where they will embark
for the Philippines. The regiment
numbers few more than 1900 men.
The Bell Telephone Co. is about to
e.