Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-01-28

ooTdN anu poIdClC dclu nave JCIneu In
trust.
The president issued an order setting
apart what is known as Mission rock, in
San Francisco bay, as naval station.
The Cuban evacuation commission
was dissolved after submitting to the
president report on their labors.
Because of a threatened strike all the
collieries at Audenried and Honey
brook, Pa, were shut down, throwing
$500 men out of employmnt,
Chief of Police Crow, of Somerville,
N. j., was shot and fatally wounded
while chasing a burglar.
David Williams, surveyor, shot and
killed his wife and then committed sui
eide a his home near Silverdale, Wash.
Gen. Eagan was served with legal no.
tice of the ordering of courtmartial
and his duties as commissary general
of the United States army were placed
in charge of Lieut.. Col. George B. Davis.
Gen. Jiminez Castellanos, former cap
tain general of Cuba, complained to
Gen. Brooke that the Cubans in the
province of Santa Clara were murder
ing Spanish ex-volunteers.
There were 249 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 31s the week
previous and 374 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
The exchanges at theleading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
$1,996, ,541 ,167, against $1,94Or605,3 $40 the
previous week The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
was 40.S.
The American officials in Porto Rico
have been ordered to enforce the Chi
nese exclusion laws of this country on
that island.
Rear Admiral Schley was presented
with a jeweled sword by his brother
members of the Royal Arcanum at Car
negie music hall in New York.
The post office and other buildings,
occupying an entire block in the town
of Davis, l. T.. were destroyed by fire.
John and Henry Hall, both negroes,
were hanged at Montgomery, Ala, for
the murder of James Belzer.
James Booker, a young negro, was
nduBeu dt hdltlS H. ~ ~, lOl lhC iiiulbC
of his sweetheart, Mehaley White.
A. E. Keith and wife, prominent resi-
dents of Creston, Ia, were burned TO
death in q steamboat fire in Memphis,
Tenn.
Burglars robbed the bank at Arthur,
H., of $4,000.
Vandals wrecked the offices of the
Amigo Republican, the Weekly News
and the German Herold at Amigo. Wis.
Mrs. Mary Hine died in Ithaca, n. Y,
aged 110 years.
Wreckage of the missing yacht Paul
Jones was found at Breton island, in
the Gulf Of Mexico, and those on board
were given up as lost. They were Will
! liam Yocum and daughter, of st. Louis;
Miss Margery Woodland,of Chicago;
Miss Taggart, daughter of Mayor Tag
CART, of indianapolis. and a crew of four
persons.
Three children of John and Susan E.
Shear were drowned in the reservoir al
Ravenna, o.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, of Chicago
has accepted the pastorate of Plymouth
church in Brooklyn, n. Y.
John Deithloff killed his wife and
| himself in Chicago. Domestic trouble
was the cause.
More than $s50,000,000 worth of farm
| products were exported from the
United States last year, against $3.50,
100000 in 1897.
Advices from Tacoma, Wash, say $50,
| 100000 is conservative estimate of this
winters Klondike output.
Washington officials have decided up.
on plan for the treatment of the Phil.
ippiue situation in case Filipinos at.
tack the American troops. The pltr
involves the blockading of the islands
of the archipelago, the isolation of each
and the subjugation of the islands one
by one.
| A distinct earthquake shock was felt
at Richview, ILL.,, but no damage wal
done.
The German national bank at Pitts
burgh, Pa, which suspended paymen
on October IS last, has resumed bust
ness, paying all creditors in full.
In fit of insanity Mrs. S. j. McCul
Tough, wife of a well-known man in To
ledo. o.. committed suicide after poi
soning her four children, one of whom
died.
Two brothers known as the "Bartor
twins" aged IS years, were burned t.
death. in their home near Shelbina, Mo
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Michigan republicans will hold tn,
state convention for nomination of jus
tice of the supreme court and regent!
of the university at Jackson March /.
Nathan b. Scott, commissioner of in
ternal revenue, was chosen as candidat,
for senator by the caucus of the Yves
Virginia republicans.
In North Dakota the republican legis
lative caucus nominated Porter j. Nc
Cumber for United States senator.
The funeral of Nelson Dingley, Jr.
took place at Lewiston, Me.
Andrew Peterson. eX-consul of Den
| mark to Illinois and IS other states