Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-24
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.

killed his wife and committed suicide
by shooting.
The 5000 employees of the trust smell
ters in Denver, Pueblo and Leadville
struck for higher wages.
In May the exports of breadstutfs
from the United States amounted to
$1363S,312, cattle and hogs $2,SS3,745,
provisions $13,000,076 and cotton S9,-
610.617.
The statue of Benjamin Franklin pre-
sented to Philadelphia by Justus c.
Strawbridge was unveiled.
A statue OF Chester A. Arthur, twen-
ty-frst president of the United States,
was unveiled in New York. 1t was
erected by personal friends.
Later news from New Richmond,
Wis, says that the number of known
dead from the cyclone is lis, and the
killed in the adjacent country brings
the total up to $50. The total number
of injured is placed at $50 to 300.
The officials of the war department
have decided further to reduce the force
of regular troops in the United States
in norder that Gen. Otis may be furnished
5000 additional men at once.
A cloudburst near Spofford Junction,
Tex, flooded the country and NJ. l.. But
Ter and his wife and two children and
Henry Carver were drowned.
A chair trust combining rs of the
leading manufacturers of the United
States was formed in New York with
a capital of S+0,o00,000.
Ten persons killed, 25 injured, five
fatally, and 100 buildings in ruins is the
record left by the cyclone which prac-
tically wiped Herman, Neb., Off the
map.
At the annual encampment in Water
loo of the Iowa G. A. r. c. f. Bailey, of
Ireton, was elected commander.
Fully $500 men are on strike or have
quit work along the docks in Buffalo,
n. Y. for various reasons.
In Colorado the Miners bank at Credc
and banks at Hooper and Monte Vista
closed their doors.
Edward Gray, negro in ST. John,
La, who was acquitted in court of
charge of burglary, was Iynched by
mob.
On the charge of heresy Prof. o. t.
Morgan, of the department of Greek
and Hebrew in Drake university in Des-
Moines, Ia, has been removed.
John Heidricll, the 19-year-old farm
hand who murdered James NJ. Lail and
attempted to kill his employers wife on
July l, 1898, was hanged at jackson, Mo.
The upper Yukon river in Alaska is
now open for navigation.
George Taurie and his wife, an aged
couple living near Huntington, Ind,
were killed by bull.
Carroll NJ. Rice, wife murderer, was
hanged at Alton, Mo.
A statement issued by the agricul-
| tural department estimates the worlds
wheat crop of 1899 at 2,5O4, 100000 BUSH
els, against 2,74S, 100000 bushels in 1898.
Street car strikers in Cleveland
created several riots and a number of
nonunion men were hurt, three proba-
bly, fatally.
The members of the commission ap-
pointed by the president to examine
into the question of the most feasible
route for a canal across the Isthmus of
Panama met in Washington.
The Western Baseball association has
disbanded.
The navy department has received the
1,700 bronze medals authorized by con-
gress for the officers and men who par
ticipated in the battel of Manila bay.
George Beauregard Barrow, the prin-
cipal in the kidnapping of Marian Clark,
the infant daughter of Arthur Clark, of
New York, has been sentenced to IA
| nj tan 4hr' ~
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 10th aggregated
S1,696, ,473, against $1,s16, ,7O6,426 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
was $50.
There were 1876 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10TH against 159 the weel
previous and 233 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
The figures of the treasury depart
ment show the exports of the United
States to Canada continue to increase
rapidly.
"Boy" Williams and Dave Clark, boil
colored, were lynched by mob neal
surrency, Ga. Both were charged will
assault.
Prof. f. S. Strong, of New Haven
Conn.,, has been elected president o
the University of Oregon.
Mrs. Maggie Neal, of Des Moines, la.
and farmer named Vossler are deaC
and four others are very seriously il
from drinking wood alcohol at a picnic
near Mingo, la.
The visible supply of grain in th
United States on the 18th was: Wheat
27,601, 600 bushels; corn, 13 3,236, 900 bush
els; oats, S,sO5,OO0 bushels; rye, S92,
600 bushels; barley, 1,26 1000 bushels
The municipality of Havana has pre-
sented to Gen. MaXimo Lomez Ger
tificate naming him as an adopted So
of the city.
The gross receipts of the so larges
post offices in the United States in Ma