Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-07-20
"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.

only 1000 troops will be in Cuba.
Two girls and young man were
drowned in the lagoon in Washington
park in Chicago by the capsizing of
n rowboat. sts .t.'.a -' H
The big Harper & Bros publishing
plant in New York will be sold under
foreclosure on, August o. The sale
will include the right to use the name
of Harper &aBros.
Two boys attempted to wreck the
Chicago flyer on the Lackawanna
road between Oswego and Lounsber-
hy, n. Y. .
The Nebraska insurance commission
has suspended all fraternal societies
with Illinois charters.
Six masked men held up an Illinois
Central fast train near Wickliffe, KY,
robbed the express car of $4,000 and
made their escape.
! The tenth annual convention of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union of Amer
3ca began in Cincinnati.
: Senator Hanna says the report that
a plot to assassinate President McKin-
ley had been discovered in New York is
false.
The new Hamburg-American liner
Deutschland broke all records from
Plymouth TO Sandy Hook, her time be-
ing days Is hours and 46 minutes.
Secretary Hay has demanded of the
Chinese government through the min
lister here that the state department be
put in communication with Minister
Conger at Peking without delay.
Late reports from Red Lake, Mimi,
say that the Blanket Indians are con-
gregating in large numbers anG an out
BREAK is feared.
Charles Il. Westervleit, treasurer of
the Dime savings bank at Newark, n.
J., was said to be $4,000 short in his
accounts.
The president has appointed 40 West
Point cadets.
John Jennings (colored) was lynched
by mob at Cressweu, Ala, for the
murder of L. Martin.
Returned gold seekers say law,ess-
ness, suffering and death are features
of life at Cape Nome.
j. NJ. Green, of Trenton, n. j., was
chosen president of the National Edu-
cational association at the annual
meeting in Charleston, S. c.
The explosion of tank in the Boston
i& Maine yards at Somerville, Mass,
hurled blazing oil on thousands and
TWO persons were killed and over a
hundred injured.
The state department has abandoned
its hope that Minister Conger is alive
and the officials of the department are
firmly convinced that general mas
sacre of foreigners has taken place in
Peking.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
$1,525, ,014,556, against 1,599,9l2, ,7o5 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week of 1899
was 21.1.
There were 196 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 146 the
week previous and 169 in the CORE
spending period of 1900.
The yield of wheat in Minnesota and
North and South Dakota is estimated
at lac, ,OOo, Goo bushels.
Lewis G. Tewksbury, New York
broker, is missing. 1t is said he owes
100000.
Hot, dry weather is causing great
loss to cattlemen in southern Arizona
John Chapman and Iver Lawson rode
mile on tandem bicycle in Salt Lake
City in 1:47A, breaking the worlds
record.
Tramps tried to captuw Big Four
freight train near indianapolis and
were worsted.
Two of the men who robbed the Illi-
nois Central train at Wickliffe, Ky, are
in custody. ~
Mrs. Laura Grant May, famous artist
killed herself with poison in Bloom
ed, N. j.
Gov. Charles A. Allen, of Porto
Rico, was in Canton to consult with
the president.
The transport Hancock reached San
Francisco from Manila with 1o1 gen.
eral passengers and SAT soldiers.
Dun's and Bradstreet's reviews show
general improvement in trade through
out the country.