Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-15
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

hanged at Sevierville, Tenn, for the
murder of William and Laura Whalley
on December 2S, 1898.
The fire losses of the United States
and Canada for the first half of 1899
aggregate sos, 500, ,750 or about 81 100000
more than in the same period of 1S0S.
Rev. DR.. Francis Z. Clark was re-
elected president of the United Society
of Christian Endeavor at the annual
meeting in Detroit, Mich, and John
Willis Baer was reelected secretary and
William Shaw treasurer.
A tornado at Ainsworth, Neb., killed
one woman and wrecked houses, barns,
fences and bridges.
While bathing at Oakland, n. Y, Mrs.
Mary w. Simons, 63 years old, widow of
the late President j. w. Simons of the
University of Dakota, and her little
grandson, were drowned.
The fourteenth annual convention of
the National Editorial association met
in Portland, Ore.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 5th was: Wheat,
33,632, 900 bushels; corn, 13, ,S3S,000 BUSH
els; oats, 1851 900 bushels; rye, 722,-
600 bushels; barley, S9s,oO0 bushels.
Fire destroyed 20 buildings at Paris,
Tex, the loss being $2O0,OoO.
Willie Porter, aged nine years, at
Coats, Kan, killed his mother and baby
sister while playing with pistol.
Further advices from Texas say that
the flood district has length of over
500 miles and breadth of so miles, and
in all this vast space damage incalcula-
BILE has been done. The number of lives
lost is placed at 100, and the property
loss at over $10,000,000.
A railway engine exploded at Tip Top,
w. Va, killing Engineer j. d. McColgan,
Fireman E. w. Albert and Brakeman
Oscar j. Owens.
The war department announces that
the aggregate receipts from customs
in Cuba for the past IA weeks were
S3,94O,S14.
The director of the mint estimates
that the total output this year of all
the gold mines of the world will be $780,,
100000, which will be larger by about
$40,OOO,O00 than the product of 1898.
The Michigan supreme court says
that Gov. Pingree's plan for municipal
VI DclIOlI SlIGGI .
is unconstitutional.
Charles Saltzman and Miss Kate Hor-
foldsteimer fought duel with revolv-
ers in a buggy near Seatonville, ILL.,,
over getting married, and both were fa-
tally injured.
At the national convention in Indian
apolis of osteopathists \. 6. Hildreth, of
st. Louis, was elected president.
James McAfee was hanged at Car
thage, Mo-, for the murder of Eben
Brewer, merchant of Joplin, whom he
attempted to rob July 80, 1897.
Returns from $50 cities and towns in
the United States show that SO persons
were killed and 1870 injured by acci-
dents on the Fourth of July.
Later news from Texas say that the
entire valley of the BraZos, from Bren-
ham on the north to its mouth at Quin-
tana, is flooded, and it's current is flied
with the debris of wrecked houses,
stock and farming implements. Secre-
tary of War Alger has placed at the
disposal of the governor 10000 rations
to be supplied to the destitute and fam
ishing sufferers.
|
fornia was felt from San Francisco to
Monterey.
A wind and hailstorm devastated the
country for miles around Kendalls
Wis, running large tracts of valuable
timber.
ED Clinch, a dealer in general mer,
chandise at Bakus, Mimi, shot his wife
and then committed suicide.
The New York Central and the Penn
sylvania railroads have become one
system.
August Albert Becker was found
guilty in Chicago of wife murder and
sentenced to be hanged.
Prof. Rush Rhees, of Newton Mass
theological seminary, has been elected
president of the University of Roches
ter, N. Y.
A number of persons were injured
in wreck on the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy railroad at Waldron. Mo.
An order for the enlistment of tel
new regiments of infantry to serve tive
years was issued by the secretary o
war.
The mining town of Coulterville, Cal.
was entirely destroyed by fire.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Wheeler has beer
ordered to report to Gen. Otis at Ma
Mia for duty in the Philippines.
The army transport Mcclellan ar
rived in New York from San Juan, Por
to Rico, and Santiago, Cuba, with tive
cases of yellow fever aboard.
Many plantations in Texas are still
under water and hundreds of person
who had taken refuge on mound three
miles below Sealey are slowly perish
ing for want of food.
Orders have been issued for the re
sumption of all idle coke companies
in the country.
: The receipts of the United States pat
ent office for the last fiscal year We're 81,
209.G54. which leaves a balance to th
credit of the patent fund of $4,000 owe
expenditures.