Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-06-10
A WEEKS RECORD
all 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.

900, to Stanford university.
The Colorado state board of agricul-
ture has elected Rev. Barton o. Ayles-
worth to the presidency of the state
agricultural college.
Kate Lee, aged 16, and Maud Ander
son, aged II, were drowned in Prairie
lake near Tomahawk, Wis, by the cap
sizing of boat.
The report of the Nicaraguan canal
commission estimates the cost of the
canal at Sis, 700.
Three men and three women were
drowned in the Maumee river at Toledo,
o., by the upsetting of a boat.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 1st was: Wheat,
24,192, 900 bushels; corn, 13, ,73O, 900 bush
els; oats, 7,S14,o00 bushels; rye, esq.,
600 bushels; barley, GOO bushels.
A tornado left desolate waste over
mile wide across Kenosha county,
Wis.
A tin can containing $4,000 in gold
was found by workmen engaged in tear
ing down the meat shop belonging to
the estate of Philip Nlulter in Ports
mouth. o.
NSOlBC pNdlhSIs dSCu 50, ShOb lis Ia
ther and mother at Mayville, Mich,
while drunk, and then killed himself.
The parents may live.
John Lind, coal dealer, and his four
months'-old son were attacked by u vi
cious horse in Chicago and the child was
killed and Mr.. Lind fatally injured.
Reputation of any alliance with gold
democrats, and opposition to any COM
promise of the financial plank of the
democratic platform of 1895 were the
dominant ideas in speeches at the ses-
sions of the Ohio Valley Bimetallic
league in Louisville, Ky.
Fire destroyed Il buildings in Cam
bridge, Mass, causing a heavy loss.
A tornado did great damage at Lawn
dale, ILL.,, and vicinity.
A cyclone in Mills county, Ia, de-
stroyed property valued at $4,000, and
ut Minneola Tillie Roherburg, aged IA,
was killed and eight other persons were
injured, two fatally.
Farm buildings were swept away and
stock was killed by cyclone near
Kingsley, Ia.
At the bimetallic convention in Louis
vile, Ky, resolutions were adopted ia
voring the Chicago platform of 1896 and
the nomination of William j. Bryan in
1900.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt decreased
$685. ,S57 during the month of May.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$S9S, ,O67 ,O63. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $1,436,475 500.
Henry Lower, 20 years DID, died in
Cleveland from the effects of a cat bite
received three months ago.
The monthly report of the director
of the mint shows the total coinage at
the United States mints during May,
1899, was $7,SO4,56
The severest shock of earthquake in
30 years was felt at San Francisco.
For the IL months of the present fis-
cal year the government receipts were
$4690S ,s29, gain over the correspond
ing period last year of over sos, ,000,0 900.
The disbursements amounted to $573,-
TO9,072, against 1895, ,523, Jos for the cor
responding period last year.
The supreme court of Cuba was sworn
in at Havana.
Asaresult of family quarrel Charles
Herzog, teamster in st. Louis, aged
80, fatally shot his young wife and her
mother, Mrs. Mary Sopp, and then
killed himself.
The total circulation of national bank
notes on May 81 last was $242, ,064, ,554.
1t has been decided to allow the com.
pany of Filipino actors detained at San
Francisco to enter the United States
for the purpose of giving exhibitions.
Marion Clark, the baby stolen from
! Arthur w. Clark, of New York, was
found alive and well at farmhouse
near SIoatsburg, N. Y, and two of the
abductors were arrested.
Alfred Wells, a farmer aged 40, living
near Thorntown, Ind, while insane
killed three of his little boys.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the I'd aggregated
, $1,377 ,633,9s3, against $1,Ss3, ,4O3,50S th
, previous week. The increase compared
t with the corresponding week in 1s9
I was 1871.
q There were 145 business failures il
ended on the I'd, against 142 the weel
, previous and 222 in the corresponding
g period of 1898.
a Congressman Albert j. Hopkins ha
: withdrawn from the speakership con
test, throwing the Illinois delegation t
Col. David b. Henderson, of Iowa.
!, Six masked bandits held up Uniol
Pacific passenger train west of Wilcox
= Wyo., blew up the express car with dyn
= amite, severely wounded the enginee
!. and escaped with their booty.
y Vice President Hobart left Washing
4 ton for Long Branch, N. j., where he eS
!. poets to spend the summer and autumn
a San Francisco was shaken by sever
n earthquake.
J. After 60 years the Thomas Pain
q monument in New Rochelle, N. Y, wa
g dedicated.
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