Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-01
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.

DOMESTIC.
The rural guard and Cuban soldiers
| disappointed over not receiveing their
| pay at Cuevitas, a small town near San
tiago, had a fight, in which five of the
latter we're killed and ten wounded.
The assault of the white cappers at
Peck, Fla, on the white postmaster will
result in the discontinuance of the post
Office.
Gen. Robert Dyrenforth, of Washing
ton, was reelected commander in chief
| of the Union Veterans union at the
meeting in Des Moines, Ia, and the
name of the union was changed to the
| Order of Union Battlemen.
The Iowa Mutual Fire association
failed in Des Moines with about So, ,0O0,-
600 of risks in force.
A stage was held up at Horseshoe
Bend, Idaho, by masked men, who Sc
cured $4,000 from II. j. Reiling, of Chi
cago.
The state department has been in
formed that Gen. Otis has applied the
Chinese exclusion laws to the Philip
pines.
AT the thirty-third annual meeting in
Mystic, Conn.,, of the Univ ~rsal Peace
union A. II. Love, of Philadelphia, was
reelected president for the thirty third
0ime.
Mrs. Annie Gravenstock, aged 81
years, died of starvation in Chicago.
Carl Trenkhaus, aged 40, and his wife
were shot and killed by Trenkhaus'
brother at New Milford, Conn, in a
quarrel.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles is out in an inter-
view praising the work of the army in
the Philippines and approving the war
programme of the administration. He
speaks admiringly of the vigor of the
new secretary of war and commends
the efficiency of Gen. Otis in flattering
| terms.
Julius Alexander (colored) was pri-
vately hanged at Charlotte, N c., for as
saulting n white woman.
President Mckinley and his wife left
Plattsburg, N. Y, for Long Branch,
where they will be the guests of Vice
President Hobart for a time, after
which they will go to Canton, O., and
from there to Philadelphia, to attend
the grand army encampment
Five miners were killed by an explo-
sion of dynamite at the Margaret Min
ing company's mill near Carterville, Mo.
w. j. Spradling, wealthy cattleman,
shot and fatally wounded Miss Nellie
McKinstry near Fairview, n. NJ, and
soon after Spradling was shot dead by
cowboys.
An explosion in a powder mill near
Sheppton, Pa, killed William T. Betzen-
berger, one of the proprietors, and
Harry Jones, powder maker.
Harry and Joseph Becker, 30 and 90
years of age, respectively, brothers, of
st. Louis, were drowned in the river
just above Grafton, Ill.
After riding a bicycle 1900 miles to
attend the national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, James A.
Raape, aged 81 years, of Marinette,
Wis, arrived in Camden, j.
As result of a quarrel with his di-
vorced wife Rev. William r. Wilborne,
of Flat Hollow, KY, was fatally wound
ed by the woman.
A dispatch from Admiral Dewey says
that he will arrive in New York on Sep
tember rs.
DIR. Edward Bedloe, of Pennsylvania.
United States consul at Canton, China,
has been suspended and is now on his
way home to answer charges of aiding
the Philippine insurgents.
The Mahomet house at Buzzard's
Bay, Mass, was burned, the guests mar
rowly escaping.
Concord, n. H., was shaken by an
earthquake.
The Third cavalry, consisting of IT'S
men and IS officers, left Seattle, Wash,
for Manila.
Farmers and business men in Topeka,
Kan, have organized the Farmers Fed
Grafton of the Mississippi Valley with
capital stock of $2O,0OO,000, to control
the prices of farm products.
PresidentMcKinley has decided to en-
list the entire force of $4,000 volunteers
provided for by congress.
Both Gen. Brooke and Gen. Wood
have denied to the war department re-
ports of riots and disturbances in San.
tiago.
The annual meeting of the National
Association of Mexican War Veterans
will be held in indianapolis September
13 and IA.
AT Warsaw, Ilh, Judge William N.
Grover, prominent lawyer, dropped
dead on the street from heart failure.
Since the beginning of the Spanish
war there have been enlisted iii the
regular army OO,671 men.
Troops were called for 10 put stop
to race troubles in Darien, Ga.