Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-05-27
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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
nnNIESTIC.

session of the New York legislature to
meet on the 22d inst.
The one hundred and eleventh annual
assembly of the Presbyterian church
in the United States began it's session
in Minneapolis.
The expenses of the last Legislature
of Illinois were in round numbers S337,-
900, trifle less than those of the pre-
ceding assembly.
The Connecticut Legislature defeated
measure providing for woman suf-
frage.
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men in session in New Orleans reflect
ed Grand Master Morrissey and adopt
ed a resolution opposing Sunday trains.
Miss Mary Timberman, aged 35. a
well-known actress and writer, of Keo-
kull, Ia, dropped dead on stairway of
the Sturtevant house in New York.
Newport will cease to be one of the
capitals of Rhode Island June Q.
Mrs. John O'Keefe, wife of sign ar
tist in Norfolk, Va, gave birth to three
sons, and they were named Dewey,
Sampson and Schley.
A cyclone did great damage to prop
erty near Colesburg, Ia, and killed
George Lang, Jerome Jacobs and a
child named Tupper.
John Wilmot, retired capitalist,
died in New York, and his brother Sam
uel died at exactly the same hour in
New Castle, Can.
Frank Campbell murdered his di-
vorced wife and her sister, Miss Bitha
Gay, at West Alexandria, o., and then
killed himself.
EN-President Harrison sailed from
New York for England, where he goes
as chief counsel for Venezuela in the
boundary arbitration proceedings.
A vein of ore carrying $4,000 in free
gold to the ton has been discovered on
a ranch near Custer City. S. d.
Gen. Gomez has issued a manifesto
to Cubans in which he advises all SOL
diers to go to work and expresses full
confidence in the good faith of the
United States.
Jesse NJ. Lee, proprietor of the Hotel
Lincoln in Pittsburgh, Pa, filed petit
ton in bankruptcy with liabilities of
$1O3,726.
The trustees of Wittenberg college,
Lutheran institution at Springfield,
o., voted to admit women to its theo-
logical department.
James A. Clemmer was hanged in
Norristown, Pa, for the murder of Mrs.
Emma +. Kaiser on October 2S, 1896.
The publishers of German daily pa
pers in the United States organized in
Chicago under the name of German
American Newspaper Publishers as
sociation."
Statistics compiled by the treasury
department show that China's imports
from the United States for the fiscal
year of 1899 will exceed S13,OOO,OOO.
The Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes,
which is on the way from Santiago to
Newport News, is to be added to the
United States navy.
The transport Portland arrived in
San Francisco from Manila with dis
charged soldiers.
Russell Sage has given $4,000 to the
Women's hospital in New York.
James Weaver (colored) !, aged IL years,
confessed to having poisoned his father,
Woodson Weaver, and his half-brother,
| John Weaver, in Cincinnati, o.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 10Th aggregated
| 81, 1000, ,403,066, against 81, 1854, ,155, 1873 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
was 43.s.
There were 147 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10Th, against 165 the week
previous and $50 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
The American Bankers association
has decided upon September 5, and 7
as the dates for it's next annual conven-
ton in Cleveland o.
The American Glass company, the
combination of window glass concerns,
has advanced the price of its product
five per cent.
James L. Dubois, secretary of the Col
orado state board of agriculture, com
mitted suicide at Fort Collins. Grief at
the death of his wife was the cause.
An English syndicate has completed
arrangementsto to buy all the cotton yarn
mills of Bristol county, Mass.
AS a result of a meeting of the coal
mine operators, the state board OF arbl-
tEation and United Mine Workers Off
cials the ID months struggle between
union miners and operators in Pana,
| ILL.,, is ended.
The town of Jerome, A. T., was near
ly wiped out by fire aSd woman and
| child perished in the flames.
Ernest Austin, aged 25, a farmer, shot
and killed his mother and his brother
William at Middlebury, o., because he
was opposed in his wishes to marry a
neighbor's daughter, and then shot
| himself.
The Wheeling Steel & Iron company
mt Wheeling, w. Va, has granted its
1000 employees an advance in wages of
ten per cent.
Walter Frost, young boy, fell 100
feet from rocky bluff into the Tennes-
see river at Chattanooga and was not
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