Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-08

committee of the house of representa-
tives will recommend that Mr.. Roberts,
of Utah, be prevented from taking the
oath of Office and that hts case be re-
ferred to the elections committee.
Secretary of State Hay denies that
there is an alliance between England
and the United States.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 1st aggregated
LABS ,945, 1876, against $1,S74, 1897, ,097 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1898
was 6.5.
There were 144 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 1st, against 191 the week
period of 1898.
Richard Smith (colored) was hanged
at Perry, Ga. Smith murdered Bob
Pine, also colored, at Beach Haven, last
May.
Mamie DeLong shot and killed Lizzie
Sessions, her rival, and Calvin Andrew,
her lover, near Tampa, Fla.
The annual report of Ethan Allen
Hitchcock, secretary of the interior,
shows that there were disposed of dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 30, 1890,
public lands aggregating 9,1s2,413
acres. The total area of public lands
is now approximately 1,0s2, 1921
acres. The total cash receipts during
the year were $3,070,137.
The schooner Clara was sunk by the
steamer Ericsson in the Delaware river
off Thompson's point and four of the
crew were crowned.
The wYll of Vice President Garret A.
Hobart, filed at Paterson, N. j., leaves
an estate of $2,5O00O0 mostly to his
widow and son.
The annual report of Elihu Root, sec
retary of war, gives full history of the
military operations in the Philippines
from August 12, 1898, up to the present
time, and says that there are now 1,499
officers and 1896 men in the islands.
The report favors an increase of the
regular army and artillery service, the
establishment of departmental head
for artillery and the establishment of
n war college.
The circulation of national banks on
November 80 was $243, ,760,24s, an in
crease of 81 ,05S,21O compared with the
same date last year.
| A masked robber held up two ex-
press messengers near Branchville, S.
c., and secured S1.700,
| Twenty-eight thousand employees of
the Fall River (Mass.) cotton mills are
to get ten per cent. advance in
wages.
Postmaster General Smith in his an
nual report urges reform in the laws
| governing second class mail matter to
mike the postal service self-supporting
and the extension of the rural free de-
livery service. The total receipts in the
fiscal year were $05,O21, ,3s4.17 and the
expenditures $1O1, ,632, ,16O, leaving a de-
felt of $6,61O,7!6.
Fifteen persons were injured in a
railway collision at Bushnell, Neb.
Messages were exchanged between
New York and Chicago by the Pollak-
Yirag rapid automatic telegraph de-
vice at the rate of G5,0OO words an hour.
The livery stable of Payne &, Sons
was burned at Boone, Ia, and 40 horses
were cremated.
President Mckinley has designated
Adelbert f. Hay. the son of Secretary
Hay, to succeed Mr.. Macrum as consul
in Pretoria, South Africa.
Secretary Long calls for larger
navy in his annual report. He recon,
mends the construction of three ar
mored cruisers, three protected cruisers
and 10 gunboats. On June 80 the enlist,
ed force numbered 1870 petty officers
and 1O,131 men and apprentices, total
of 14.5O1. The estimates for 1901 are
$74,23O, 300.
In a railway wreck near Great Falls
Mont, Engineer Daniels, Fireman
Riley and Brakeman Edmiston were
killed.
A six-day bicycle race commenced in
New York with IS starters.
The treaty that divides the Samoan
islands between England, Germany and
the United States has been signed by
Secretary of State Hay
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