Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-05-13
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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

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Stanton Sicliles, of New York, has
been reappointed secretary of the Unit
ed States legation at Madrid.
James Meade Plumb, well-known
man in New York, shot and killed Alex
ander Masterson, retired millionaire
banker Plumb claimed that his VIC
tim destroyed his home.
Hugo Wardin, n grocer, fatally shot
his wife and killed himself at their
homein Chicago. Domestic trouble was
the cause.
Prairie fires in South Dakota have
caused loss of hundreds of thousands
of dollars in various parts of the state.
David j. Vile, Chicago lawyer, was
fatally shot by Miss Mabel Burke, who
afterward shot herself dead.
Fire destroyed the clothing store of
Bacharach 6, Co. in Philadelphia, the
loss being 100000.
An old grudge caused William Os-
born, farmer near Knoxville, Tenn, to
nssassinate Reason Kits and Arthur
kits, brothers.
Seth Low, Capt. A. I. Mahan and
Frederick w. Holz, the American dele
gates to the peace conference at The
Hague, sailed from New York On the
American liner st. Louis.
Howard Fraley, Henry Lewis and
Ray Lewis were killed by lightning at
Torra Alta, w. Va.
The home of Gen. Wade Hampton
near Columbia, S. c., was burned with
his fine library of 5000 volumes.
George X. Van Horn, the murderer
of Mrs. Josephine Westcott on August
2S, 1896, was hanged in Scranton, Pa.
Fire destroyed so houses in the mar"
ket place at Rio Janeiro.
Almost the entire business portion
of Moody, Tex, was destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Augusta Styles shot and killed
her mother, Mrs. Catherine Schultz, in
Chicago, for revealing secrets of her
past life to her child.
The Wisconsin legislature has ad-
journed sine die.
At Mechanicsville, n. Y, James WI
liams, aged IS, murdered his wife, with
whom he had not lived for years, and
then mortally wounded himself.
The Connecticut Legislature defeated
bill providing for woman suffrage by
vote of 103 to 60.
Gov. Stephens, of Missouri, has signed
the bill providing for the inspection of
all beer sold in the state.
The receipts at the Havana custom
house for April were $S60,O0O.
Bill Embree, negro, was hanged at
Thompson, Ca, for the murder of Ellis
Martin (colored) year ago.
An explosion in a sawmill near Hop
kinsville, KY, killed the owners, Bar
rett Mcknight and Effie Mcknight, and
John White.
John Little was hanged atGreenville,
Tex, for the murder of George Stone
sipher. whom he robbed.
Because she would not marry him
John Bloricll shot and mortally woNnd-
ed Lizzie Diedrich and then fatally shot
himself in st. Louis.
Twenty thousand barrels of oil were
destroyed by fire from lightning in an
oil tank near Morgantown, W. Va.
Capt. Thomas Crapo, of New Bedford
Mass, who recently sailed from Provi'
dence, Il. l., for Cuba in a nine-foot
skiif, probably was lost in gale.
The one hundred and thirty-first an
nual meeting of the chamber of com
merce was held in New York.
Governor General Brooke has selected
the officers of the supreme court of Gu
ba, Antonio Gonzales de Mendoza being
chief justice.
The famous Ute reservation in Colo
RADIO has been opened for settlement
and many homeseekers entered the re
gion.
The first train over the South Parl
ran through solid walls of snow ano
steamed into the town.
The entire interest of Andrew Carne
gle in the Carnegie Steel company has
been purchased by the copartners in
the business for $150,O0O,OoO.
There were 158 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 5th, against 1874 the week
previous and 262 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
The postmaster-general has ordered
that the rural free delivery service o.
the country be divided into two graSt
divisions, the western and eastern.
Samuel Powell, umpire in a game o
ball at Lowndesboro, Ala, was instant
Iy killed by Frank Mccoy, one of the
players, because of decision.
A consolidation of many of the grea
steel trusts into one company, with {
capitalization of 81 ,00O,0 900, is undel
way.
Gov. Stephens, of Missouri, has signe'
the bill prohibiting the employment o
nonresidents as deputy sheritfs, deput.
constables or as police officers.
The monthly statement of the comp
trollcr of the currency shows the tota
national bank note circulation on Apri
20, 1899, to have been $242 ,714, 1888, al
increase for the year of SIS, ,101. .4ss.
a consolidation of the peanut trad
et the country under the control of
single company with capital of $4,000,
COO is ABOUT to be effected.
james j. Smith, well-to-do farme
living near Dernadotte, ILL.,, shot his di