Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-05-20
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


All the post offices and school houses
in the island of Porto Rico will soon be
flying United States flags.
DR.. L. p. Bagwell and his three chill
dren and an aged woman housekeeper
were burned to death in a fire that con-
sumed their home at Spring Place, ca.
A break in the Erie canal flooded
Spencerport, \. Y, doing great dam
age, and a number of farms north of
the village were submerged.
A seat on the stock exchange in New
York was sold for $4,000, the highest
sum ever paid.
The town of Homer, Neb., was inun-
dated by a cloudburst, driving people
from their homes, and hundreds of head
of stock were drowned.
The supreme court of Iowa says that
n note on account of moneys involved
in bucket shops cannot be collected by
law in the state.
La Patria, the most influential paper
in Havana, strongly indorses the Amer
lean administration.
Riotous strikers at Duluth, Mimi,
blew up street car with dynamite, in
juring ten passengers.
The United Confederate Veterans
annual reunion began in Charleston,
S. C.
George Uhler, farmer so years of
age, residing near Mount Hope, Pa,
killed his wife and then killed himself
while insane.
The cruiser Nashville, the first sea-.
going war vessel that ever came up the
Mississippi river as far as st. Louis, was
riding at anchor off that city.
Western manufacturers of corn
shelters, feed-cutters, grinding mills
and cider presses have agreed to make
general advance of Is per cent in
prices.
y cyclone at Coldwater, Kan, de-
stroyed 12 houses, the Presbyterian
church and a block of stores and killed
Joseph Bowers, prominent cattleman.
Joseph Harvey, aged 20, killed his
wife, Robert Pierson, his uncle, and his
grandmother at Howard City, Mich,
and mortally wounded his three
months-old child and his father-in-law,
John logenslayor, and finally shot him
self, inflicting a serious wound.
A construction train on the Pitts
burgh & Western railroad went through
trestle near Newcastle, Pa, killing
four men and injuring number of
others.
Henry Tincknall killed his wife in
Auburn, y. Y, and then took his own
life. No cause is known for the crime.
The forty-fourth annual session of
the southern Baptist convention began
in Louisville.
Memorial services were held Mt Clyde,
o., in honor of George Burton Meeks,
sailor on the Winslow and the first
Ohioan killed in the Spanish war.
The Third Nebraska, Col. William j.
Bryan's old regiment, was mustered
out at Augusta, Ga.
Six of the largest wholesale dry goods
and notion firms in Philadelphia have
consolidated.
The industrial commission began in
Washington an inquiry into the opera
tions of trusts.
Burglars robbed the state bank of
Ellsworth, Ia, of $3,6s5 in cash and
made their escape.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
1884, ,155,1s3, against $2,162,9l sol the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
was 43.7.
There were 165 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 1853 the week
previous and 24G in the corresponding
period of 1898.
From 30 to 35 persons were killed and
so others injured in collision of pas
senger trains on the Philadelphia d
Eedding road at Exeter, Pa.
The United Confederate Veterans at
their reunion in Charleston, S. c., re-
elected Gen. John B. Gordon COM
mander in chief.
Rev. Peter Bronaugh (colored) and
his little grandson were drowned while
attem,. ting to ford swollen stream at
Hopkinsville, Ky.
An accident at the Centralia (Pa.)
colliery resulted in the death of four
men and the fatal injury of two others.
II. w. Henry, prosecuting attorney of
Jackson county, died in the courtroom
at Maquokcta, Ia, during a trial.
Edward Smith (colored) was hanged
in the district jail in Washington, d. c.,
for the murder of colored woman
named Edmonia Jackson on the 18th of
November, 1897.
An order has been issued creating
the military district of Alaska, with
headquarters at Pyramid Harbor