Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-17
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.

Peter Kindred, who killed Andrew A.
Alley at Mercer, Pa, February 8, 1S9S,
was hanged at Princeton, Mo.
Martin Meier, aged 67, a wealthy and
eccentric recluse, was found murdered
in his home in Chicago.
Freeman Cochran, who killed George
Scarborough in 1897, was hanged at
Bethany, Mo.
Ralph w. Wireback, the murderer of
d. b. Landis, was hanged at Lancaster,
Pa.
The United States court of appeals in
session in Milwaukee says the alien la
Dor law applies solely to common la
borers, eXempting clerks and all kinds
of skilled artisans.
Gov. Gen. Brooke issued orders at Ha-
vana appointing Senior Gonzales de
Quesada special commissioner for Cuba
at Washington, with salary of $4,000.
WIN Hill, brother of Alex Hill, the
negro who killed Mrs. Hester Hubbard
near Eoline, Ala, was hanged by mob.
At the one hundred and forty-ffth
annual commencement in New York
of Columbia university the degree of
Ii. ID. was conferred on Gov. Roosevelt
and Carl Schurz.
Jonas Preston, Jr. (colored), was
hanged at Westchester, Pa, for the
murder of his wife in February, 1898.
The Harrison county courthouse at
Marshall, Tex, recently finished, was
burned with its contents, the loss being
100000.
Twenty-Five persons died from the eff
fects of the warm weather in New York
city and vicinity on the 18th.
Chancellor Mclean, of Nebraska uni
versity, has been elected president of
the University of Iowa at Iowa City.
Advices from Seattle, Wash, say that
200 miners perished last winter along
the Edmonton trail.
Thirty passengers were injured in a
railway wreck near Goffs, Kan.
The fire loss of the United States and
Canada during the month of May
amounted to $9,O91, 900, against $11, ,O72,-
200 in May, 1898.
A cloudburst and storm at Peru, Ind,
leveled scores of houses and demolished
3Oderricks in the oil field, together with
barns, trees and fences innumerable.
A landslide at Ross Hollow, Ark, en-
quilted 2S men, all of whom were killed.
The report that Thomas b. Reed had
resigned as congressman from Maine
is said to be false.
Leonard Mason, a well-known young
business man, and William Anderson
were drowned while bathing near Rem
vile, MINI.
Gridley James Fox Bryant died in
Boston, aged SO. He was at one time SUI
pervising architect of the United States
treasury.
In session in Kansas City the Modern
Woodmen of America reelected as head
consul William A. Northcott, of Illinois
A cloudburst in the vicinity of Aus
tin, Tex, transformed rivers and small
er streams into raging torrents, sweep
ing everything before them, and 25 per-
sons lost their lives.
Herman Clavite and his brother-in-
law, Chris Kervis, two well-known
farmers of Jackson township, ILL.,, were
drowned while fishing.
The Pacific Coast Biscuit company,
otherwise known as the cracker trust,
has collapsed.
All opposition on the part of the Gu
ban insurgents to receiving the gra-
tuity from the United States has ended.
The war department in d statement
showing the number of enlistments in
the regular army since the war began
says that at that time the army con-
sisted of $4,000 men. The enlistments
since then have been about $4,000 men.
Mrs. Samuel C. Walker was killed in
a runaway at Waterloo, Ia. Her hair
caught in wheel and she was dragged
to death.
The United States Brewers associa-
tion in session in Detroit elected as
president Rudolph Brand, of Chicago.
A train on the Kansas City, Pitts
burgh e. Gulf railroad was derailed
three miles south of Grandview, Mo-,
and 40 persons were injured.
The total exports from the United
States to Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and
the Philippines in the full fiscal year,
which ends with this month, will reach
about $30,o00,OO0, against $17,00o,OOC
last year.
A fine monument to the memory oi
Frederick Douglass was dedicated in
Rochester, N. Y.
Alexander j. Cassatt has been elected
to succeed the late Frank Thomson as
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company.
Miles of railroad tracks aAd thou
sandsof dollars worth of property were
destroyed by food near Wichita, Kan.
and two deaths were reported.