Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-04-01
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
DOMESTIC.

At meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Cuban assembly in Ha-
vana 12 generals of the army attended
and said that the army must be imme-
diately disbanded and its arms surren-
dered.
Mrs. Charles Molter poisoned her two
children and herself at La Grange, Ind,
while temporarily insane.
Attorney-General Griggs declares
that the regulation or suppression of
trusts lies solely in the power of the
individual states, and that the federal
government cannot interfere unless the
combinations affect insterstate com
merce.
The Excelsior bank at Silver Creek,
n. Y. closed its doors with liabilities of
$4,000.
Georgia fruit growers say there will
be no peaches for shipment from that
state this year.
The army board of inquiry finished
its work in Chicago and left for New
York.
The leaders of the radical party in
Porto Rico have decided to organize
republican party with thoroughly
American platform.
A passenger train on the Erie road
jumped the track at Rittman, O., and
Engineer Wallace was killed and Fire
man Ward fatally injured.
Charles Reuss and Burt Froy, who
were imprisoned in a mine near Lead
villc, Col, 13 days ago, were released
safe and sound. They had been sup
piled with food through a shaft.
Arrangements are being made for a
reunion to be held at Guthrie, o. T.,
in June next for the rough riders who
fought in the battles about Santiago.
Albert Griffith, of Chicago, known the
world over as Young Griffo," the pu-
gilist, was sent to the insane asylum.
Excessive use of liquor has wrecked his
mind.
Mrs. Frank Wilsick, of Oliver, Pa,
used kerosene in kindling fire and
she and her two children we're fatally
burned.
The Roumania sailed from Santiago
with the remains of 554 American SOL
diers who were killed or died in Cuba
and 100 from Porto Rico.
A race war is on in Little River coun-
ty, Ark, and thus far seven negroes
have been lynched by citizens.
j. w. Geneser, aged As, and one of
the best known bankers in Iowa,
dropped dead on the street at Des
Moines.
The little town of Liberty, Tenn, was
almost wiped off the map by cyclone,
but no lives were lost.
Secretary of War Alger and a party of
friends sailed from Savannah, Ca, on
the transport ingalls, for trip to Cuba
and Porto Rico.
The 25 round contest between Bob
FitZsimmons and Jim Jeffries for the
heavyweight championship of the
world will take place at Coney Island,
n. Y, May &c.
During the last session of congress
1,457 bills and joint resolutions became
laws out of a total of is, ,463 introduced
in both houses.
At Appleton, Wis, Chris Bosser shot
and killed his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Brehm and probably fatally shot his
wife. Domestic trouble was the cause.
In boarding house fire in Memphis,
Tenn, Mrs. Chaplin and her two chill
dren and Thomas Bull perished in the
flames.
James w. Cole, who on December 12
shot and killed his sweetheart, So
phronia Ford, was hanged at Bismarck,
ND.
Gov. Pingree has signed the bill au-
thorizing the city of Detroit, Mich, to
nd La 90,
ways of that city.
In the annual report of John Hyde,
statistician of the department of agri-
culture, the total value of farm ami
mails is estimated at $1997 ,01O ,407, an
increase of $1OS,355, ,4S2 during the last
year.
There We're 200 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the gath, against 1s9 the week
previous and 251 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
Commissioner Wilson, of the internal
revenue bureau, says that agents of ex
press companies selling express money
orders are not brokers and are not sub
ject to the special tax of $50 per an
mum.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat
29,o02 900 bushels; corn, 33, ,4G6, 900 bush.
els; oats, 11,O74,Oo0 bushels; rye, 1,503,-
900 bushels; barley, 2,546, 900 bushels.
The Second Illinois and the One Hun.
dred and SiXty-frst Indiana regiments
have been ordered from Havana to be
mustered out. Including these two
regiments, IL have now been ordered
home.
1t is reported that the location of tb,
keyboard by which the United State.
battleship Maine was blown up in Ha
vana harbor February is, 1898, had beer
found in gunroom of the Fuerzl
prison.
The Japanese cruiser Chltose, ths
first war vessel built in San Francisco
for foreign power, sailed for the
orient.