Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-05
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.

A perfect carnival of violence and
bloodshed is raging in Georgia and
Alabama. Murders, assaults on women
and shooting affairs are reported from
all directions, and at various places
troops are under arms to protec: pris-
oners from the fury of mobs.
Brickmakers in all the union yards
in Chicago went on strike.
The city of Cleveland was practical
ly free from rioting as the result of the
presence of the militia. The storm CEN
ter of the street railway strike is now
in the suburb of Brooklyn, where en-
counters are frequent.
The war taxes collected during the
fiscal year ended June 30 amounted to
s102, ,9s3, ,52s.O7, according to the figures
of the internal revenue bureau.
At Brownsville, Pa, the wife of
George Hackett, negro coal miner,
gave birth to seven children, six girls
and one boy.
A monument to the memory of Justus
II. Rathbone, founder of the knights of
Pythias, was dedicated at Utica, Ny.
An increase of 25 cents day has been
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various foundries at Youngstown, o.
A meeting will be held in New York
August to organize new labor party.
\ merchant of Seattle, Wash, was
robbed of $1,000 in a Chicago panel
house.
Adolph L. Luetgert, of Chicago, con-
victed February Q, 1898, of killing his
wife May 1, 1897, and boiling her re-
mains in a vat in his sausage factory,
was found dead in his cell in Joliet pris-
on. Heart disease was the cause.
The complete statements of this ma
tons foreign trade for the fiscal year
ended June 30 shows that the total ex-
ports amounted to $1,227 pos, ,410,
against $1,231, ,4s2, $50 for the previous
fiscal year, and the imports were S697,-
1864, against $616,O49,654 the preced-
ing fiscal year.
The report that while insane Charles
daughters at Denmark, Ind, and then
killed himself, was fake.
The body of Robert G.Ingersoll was
cremated at the Fresh Pond q. I.) Gre
matory.
Carlo Bendetti, of Paterson, n. j.,
who was known both in this country
and in Europe as a sword-swallower,
died at Morris Plains, N. ].
Three Mormon elders who have been
preaching their doctrines in Georgia
were mobbed by 30 masked men near
Newton factory, in Jasper county, and
it was rumored that they were lynched.
The Dominion line steamer New Eng
land made the run from England
to Boston in days hours and 40 min
utes. This eclipses all previous rec
ords.
Gov. Foster, of Louisiana, has noti-
fed the state department that three
of the five Italians who were lynched at
Tallulah were naturalized Americans,
and two were Italian subjects.
James Jeffries, champion pugilist,
sailed from New York for Southamp-
ton, England.
The will of Sidney Hall, of Hartford,
'onn., leaves $11, ,12O for the purpose of
combating the doctrine of the immor-
tality of the soul.
Aeronaut Thayer, of Niles, Mich, fell
200 feet and was instantly killed at
Streator, Ill.
1t is now estimated that the property
loss occdsionsd by the recent flood in
Texas amounts to $1sOOO,OO0.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 2Sth aggregated
$1,6S1 ,G20, ,431, against LASS, ,335,S14 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1895
was 1872.
There were 151 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 2Sth, against 145 the week
previous and 225 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
Four colored men, Cornelius Gardner
John Myers, Charles James and Joseph
Bryan, convicted of murder and assault
were hanged simultaneously on the
same gallows in Baltimore, Md.
A hailstorm in Deuel. county, S. d..
destroyed wheat fields on strip of ter
rtory four miles wide and ten miles
long.
|, Judge NJ. NJ. Morrow, one of the most
prominent lawyers in Wisconsin
dropped dead on the street in Sparta.
! August 12. the first anniversary ot
the day on which the American flag was
raised over Hawaii. will be observed as
a holiday throughout the island.
August Mattingly. II; Paul Cheaney
"A. and Marion Onana were drowned il
the Ohio river NJ Evansville, Ind, by
the capsizing of boat,