Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-03-11

During the past few days over 10000
Iron and steel workers in the United
States have had their wages increased
from five to ten per cent
Fire at Charlotte, N. c., destroyed
The Southern railway freight depot. a
cotton compress and large ware
louse, the loss being $4O0 900.
II. c. Post, one of the most extensive
fish dealers on the great lakes, fled
petition in bankruptcy at Sandusky, o.,
with liabilities of $29s,654.
John X. King, paymaster for the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway, committed sui
eide at his home in ST. Louis by hang
ing.
Frank Metela, saloon keeper in
Cedar Rapids, Ia, killed his little boy
and then killed himself. Dependency
was the cause.
Mrs. John A. Clark, of Lucknow,
Tenn, gave rough ON rats to her three
children and took dose herself. She
was demented.
In fit of jealousy Frank Krause
killed Maggie Good at Cedarville, Pa,
fatally shot Owen Kern and badly
wounded Mrs. Kern.
There were 1s6 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sd, against 191 the week
previous and 251 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Sd aggregated
co G12 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
was 39.4.
The best estimates available place the
aggregate of the appropriations of the
Fifty-ffth congress at $675, ,ss5,4S9.
Mrs. Margaret Stout, a boarding
house keeper at White Pine, Col, and
five men were buried in an avalanche of
snow that swept the house off noun
tain side.
The farmhouse of Joshua McGee was
burned near Onawa, Ia, and Mrs. Nc
Gee and two children perished in the
flames.
Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, As years old,
and Mrs. Mary II. Perkins, 60 years old,
were killed and Abraham B. Hill, So
years of age, was fatally burned in
tenement house fire in Boston.
The latest development of the war de-
partment court of inquiry into Gen.
| Miles beef charges was the appearance
of Mai. Lee as counsel for the general
commanding the army.
Gen. Gomez informed Governor-Gen-
eral Brooke that the Cuban army num-
bers $4,000 men.
Engineer Robert McCutchin and
Fireman ]. C. Trace, both of Harris
burg, Pa, were killed in wreck near
Huntington.
William H. Hoxie, 6s years old, was
killed by lightning while ringing the
bell of church in Chiltonville, Mass.
Frederic Norton killed his wife and
took his own life at Torrington, Conn.
The Kanawha valley in West Nir-
ginia was visited by one of the worst
floods in local history and the city of
| Charleston was almost entirely under
water.
The nomination of William R. Mer-
riam, of Minnesota, to be director of
the census was confirmed in the exec
utive session of the senate before final
adjournment.
A cyclone which swept across East
Tennessee caused serious loss of life
and destroyed property valued at So
100000.
The president has appointed Osborn
W. Deignan, of Iowa, the Merrimac
hero, a naval cadet.
The wife and two children of John
Hutchinson were drowned at Owlsley
KY, while fording a swollen stream.
Three small children of Mr.. and Mrs
Rhinehart, of Walkers Valley, Wash.
we're burned to death during the alb.
sence of their parents.
1t is said that Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay
of Whitehall, KY, is losing his mind
Since the divorce from his child wife
he has been in a moody condition.