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


The town of New Madrid on the Mis-
sissippi river 40 miles below Cairo, Ill.
was practically wiped out by fire.
At Grand Forks, n. D., over one inch
of snow covered the ground and a biz
zard was raging.
AT the annual meeting in Detroit,
Mich, of the Society of the Army of
the Cumberland Gen. D. S. Stanley, of
Washington, was elected president, and
Chattanooga, Tenn, selected as the
meeting place next year.
Fourteen of the principal merchants
of Kansas City, Mo-, charged with vio
lation of the law for the regulation of
department stores, were arrested.
Mrs. Theodore Reiner murdered her
two children in Detroit, Mich, and then
cut herself fatally. No cause is known
for the deed.
The gelding Bumps, owned by c. X,
G. Billings, of Chicago, broke the
worlds wagon pacing record of 2:O4A,
held by Joe Patchen, going the mile in
Louisville, KY, in 2:O3A.
Burglars blew up the Citizens bank
at Durand, ILL.,, securing $4,000.
Gen. Ludlow, the military command
er of Havana, has effectually squelched
the strike which threatened to paralyze
all branches of trade.
The farmhouse of Michael Wild near
Princeton, Ind, was burned, and his
son and two other boys perished in the
flames.
Five men were killed and two serious
ly injured in a railway collision near
Glasgow, Mont.
James Washington (colored), who be-
trayed Edward Curtis, fugitive convict
from the Tennessee lumber camps, mar
rowly escaped lynching in Chicago at
the hands of mob of 500 negroes.
Leading carriage and buggy manu-
facturers of the central states formed
combination at Indianapolis and
raised prices on an average 90 per cent.
Gov. Roosevelt officially welcomed
Admiral Dewey to New York in the
nare of the people of the Empire state.
Gen. Miles and other distinguished per-
sons also called upon the admiral and
during the day Admiral Farragut's old
flag was presented to Admiral Dewey
and his men were given the medals
voted by congress. The Washington
committee presented its compliments
to Admiral Dewey and gave him the in
vitation to visit that city.
Five men were fatally burned in a
natural gas explosion at Greentown,
Ind.
The Point terminal warehouses of the
Atlantic Coast line and the Southern
railway at Pinner's Point, Va, were
burned, the loss being $5OO,OOO.
Henry Williams was hanged at Green
vile, Miss, for the murder of Eliza
Brown, and James Hall (colored) was
executed at Blakely, Ga.
The entire business portion of the
city of Coushatta, La, was destroyed
by fire.
G. p. Moore's livery stable was
burned at Bristol, Tenn, and 25 horses
were cremated.
Charles Hoskins was killed by Jim
Pendergast in prize fight at Grass
Valley, Cal.
A masked robber held up the stage
between Pine and Discovery in the Yu-
kon country and robbed persons of
$500.
The sawmill plant of the Oconto
(Wis.) Lumber company was destroyed
by fire, the loss being $15O,OOO.
Fire partly destroyed C. F. Gunther's
large candy factory in Chicago, the loss
being $150,0O0.
Gov. McLaurin and other Mississippi
officials left jackson on account of the
yellow fever.
A heavy frost, the first of the season,
occurred in all portions of Madison
county, Ala.
The excursion steamers Ivanhoe and
r. j. Gordon were destroyed by fire in
the lake front basin in Chicago.
The naval parade in New York in
honor of Admiral Dewey was the great
est display of the kind in the history
of the nation. Warships and countless
other crafts sailed up the Hudson to
Gen. Grants tomb and returned, the
sight being witnessed by at least
100000 people on land and 100000 on
board vessels. The Olympia led the
parade. In the evening magnificent
display of fireworks took place.
September was the twelfth consecu,
tive month in which the volume of busi-
ness throughout the country was great
er than in the same month of any pre-
vious year.
The Arkansas deaf-mute institution
at Little Rock was burned, the loss be-
ing 100000.