Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-10
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.


| by friends.
The annual report of the adjutant gen
eral of the army, Brig. Gen. Corbin, sums
up the military forces now in the serv-
ice of the United States as: Regular
army, 64,5s6; volunteers, 34,574; total,
99,16O.
The steamer George L. Colwell, bound
from Fernandina, Fla, to New York,
was wrecked in a hurricane off the
| South Carolina coast and 13 of the crew
perished.
The monthly statement of the comp
troller of the currency shows that the
national bank note circulation in
the United States on the 1st was $242,-
| 9s4,604.
The annual report of the adjutant
general shows the casualties in actions
and deaths in the regular and volun-
teer armies between May 1, 1898, and
June 80, 1899, numbered 10,O76.
The Fifty-frst Iowa regiment was
mustered out in San Francisco and i'm
mediately left for home.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt decreased
S2,276, 19S during the month of October.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$1,O25, $40. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to 81 1,O46, ,O49,O2O.
The transport City of Puebla arrived
in San Francisco from Manila with
troops. Seven volunteers died on the
voyage.
Gov. Murphy, of Arizona, says the ter
ritory will ask for admission to state
hood when congress meets.
The state department has been in
formed of the arrival at Reval, Russia,
of the first steamer with American In
dian corn.
Slosson won the professional billiard
match with Schaefer at Madison Square
garden in New York.
During October more than 20,000,000
I6eces of money were coined at the mint
in Philadelphia, representing total
value of $3.263. .563.26.
Judge John C. Long, of Florida, has
been appointed diplomatic agent and
consul general at Cairo, Egypt.
The Philippine commission in a
preliminary report to the president
fitted for self-gevernment, that inter
necine warfare would result if the
United States should withdraw, and
that there is no course open except to
prosecute the war until the insurgents
are reduced to submission.
John Balm g. Sons livery stable was
destroyed by fire at Boone, Ia, and 25
horses were cremated.
Chief Examiner Server, of the civil
service commission, in his annual report
says 4S,503 persons were examined for
entrance to the government service and
not quite rs per cent. of the candidates
passed.
Albert Sloss, negro, was lynched by
a mob near Courtland, Ala, for criminal
assault on Mrs. W. E. Bussey.
Burglars robbed the state bank at
Chiffon, Wis, of $2,s0o.
The Twentieth Kansas regiment was
given royal welcome in Topeka and
Gen. Funston was presented with fine
sword.
Criticism of his speeches led to the
resignation of C. D. Heron from the
faculty of Iowa college at Grinnell.
John Ovens three small children were
burned to death at Rowan, Ia, while
their parents were away.
The schooner Chiquita went ashore
near Miller's Station, Ind, and Capt.
ID. S. Way and three sailors persisted.
A. II. Patterson, a railway empIoye,
killed his wife and then took his own
life in hotel in Chicago. Domestic
trouble wus the cause.
1t is said that colonial bureau will
be established to take charge of all mat
ters pertaining to the outlying depend
encies of the United States.
The private bahAing firm of Wood
bury & Moulton at Rutland, Me-, made
an assignment with liabilities of $780,
600.
Efforts to combine all the threshing
machine manufactures in the United
States in one organization have failed.
Levi r. Doty, a Chicago coal mer-
chant and capitalist, filed petition in
bankruptcy, with liabilities of $5,OOO,-
900 and assets of 100000
The annual report of Rear Admiral
A. S. Crowninshield, chief of the bureau
of navigation, says that the number OF
hieh anu apprentices III scTNlce on June
30 was 14,501.
j. o. Fussell, an old resident of Mani
tou Park, Col, was caught in blizzard
and frozen to death.
The project for national university
at Washington was discussed in that
city by college presidents.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 3D. aggregated
S1,022, ,O93, against $1,70o, ,4s7,!97 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1898
was 31.5.
There were 1873 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sd, against 100 the week
previous and 1914 in the corresponding
period of 1898.