Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-25
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.

n. Y, defeating Joe Patchen and
Searchlight in n match for $4,000.
Five highly respected white women
were brutally assaulted by negroes in
Little Rock, Ark. There is intense ex-
citement and race trouble of a serious
character is imminent.
Keeper Pugh, of Gull Shoal life saving
station, N. c., reports the schooner
Aaron Reppard wrecked three miles
south of that station. The crew con-
sisted of eight persons, of whom three
were saved and five lost.
Reports received from Brownville,
Neb., are to the effect that Senator Hay
ward is considerably improving. His
mind is clear, he is some stronger and
there are no indications of a relapse.
The first national convention of the
Young Peoples Christian Temperance
union is called to meet in Chicago Sep
tember % and 2S. This claims to be the
first temperance organization to sys-
tematically unite the ability of women
and the voting power of men. Rates of
fare and third have been granted
from nearly all parts of the country.
The order of Railway Telegraphers
will leave Peoria and will step into new
headquarters in the city of st. Louis on
September 20.
Six persons were drowned in White
river, near Washington, Ind, Thursday
morning. They were Mrs. Albert Helm
sci, her four children, Able, aged 16;
Andy, aged IA; Thomas, aged ten, and
Nellie, aged one, and Miss Amy Dillon,
aged IS. The wagon in which they
were seated was being driven onto fer
ryboat, but overturned and all were
thrown into the water.
The jury in the inquest into the cause
of the accident on the Shelton Street
Railway company's bridge at Pecks
mill pond, near Bridgeport, Ky, Au-
gu 6, by which 30 people were killed,
rendered their verdict that the motor
man of the wrecked trolley car, George
S. Hamilton, was guilty of criminal
carelessness, and that the Shelton
street railway was very negligent.
A telegram from Boston announces
the death of Prof. George A. Hench, of
Michigan university, who was injured
while riding bicycle down n road in
the White mountains.
The next session of the International
| Typographical union will be held in Mil
waukee. Wis.
F. NJ. Towar, chief of the corps OF
government engineers making the sur
vey for the ship canal through the
Desplaines and Illinois valleys, died
suddenly of heart disease early Thurs
day morning in the camp of the survey
ors near Joliet, Ill.
The first national encampment of the
Spanish-American war volunteers will
be held in Washington, d. c., Septem-
Der and 0.
jim Franey, the pugilist, injured by
Frank Mcconnell in their fight at San
Francisco, Cal, died without having re-
covered consciousness.
United States troops now serving in
Cuba are to be brought to the United
States for the purpose of giving the men
a change of climate and an opportunity
to recuperate.
An explosion of dynamite in a store
room of the Cumberland Electric Light
and Power company at Nashville, Tenn,
wrecked the building and killed John
| laws, anu kOltLtl ,
storekeeper.
An order has been issued by Secre-
tary Root directing that ten additional
regiments of infantry volunteers be or
ganiZed for service in the Philippines.
The regiments will be numbered from
3S to AZ. The result of the secretarys
order will be to give Gen. Otis n fight
| ing force of 62, ,451 men.
Cows. Shaw, of Iowa, and Stephens,
of Missouri, have issued proclamations
calling upon the people of their states
to contribute money and clothing to the
suffering people in Porto Rico from the
recent hurricanes.
John Zeltner, accomplice of his broth
er Paul in the murder of Attorney Z.
II. Westenhaver at Hoytsville, o., last
March, convicted of manslaughter, was
sentenced at Bowling Green, o., to 20
years in the penitentiary.
The town of Red Bay, on the island
of Andros, 20 miles southwest of Mas
sau, was swept away in the recent trop.
ical hurricane and about 300 lives lost
An eyewitness of the storm estimated
that the loss of life on the island was
fully 600.
A special from Fargo, N. d., says:
Heavy hail in Sargent county destroyed
so per cent. of all uncut wheat and
much flax.
Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht Sham
rock, challenger for the Americas cup
reached New York, accompanied by her
tender, the steam yacht Erin.
Preparations for the observance OF
the one hundredth anniversary OF
George Washingtons death are being
actively conducted by the committee OF
the grand lodge of masons for the state
of Virginia. Masonic obseryances will
take place in Alexandria and AT Mount
Vernon December ~ and IA.
The amount of gold certificates issued
under the recent order of the secretary
OF the treasury in exchange for gold
coin lis 1s,s36.040.