Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-07
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.

thirteen hundred school teachers
who have been touring the United
States left Philadelphia for home.
Ogden II. Fethers, of GAINESVILLE. Wis,
was elected supreme chancellor of the
grand lodge, knights of Pythias.
The thirtyfourth annual encamp-
ment of the G. A. r. adjourned after
electing Maj. Leo Rassieur, of st. Louis,
commander in chief, choosing Denver
for the next meeting place and sending
President Mckinley an Endorsement by
telegraph.
The Afro-American council at Indian
apolis commended President McKin-
ley's condemnation of negro lynchings.
The census gives Detroit, Mich. 205,-
SIC inhabitants, gain of T9,s2s in ten
years.
Mrs. Mary L. Carr, of Denver, was
elected president of the Woman's Relief
Corps at the annual NEE ting in Chicago.
Maddened with jealousy, James Ben
nett shot and killed three women and
12-year-old child at Howard's Creek,
Ky.
Four masked men held up and robbed
a Union Pacific express train near
Table Rock. Wyo., securing $4,000.
Thomas ]. Powers, banking commits
sioner of Pennsylvania, was killed by
, falling from train at Philadelphia.
James j. Corbett knocked out kid"
Mccoy in the fifth round at Madison
Square garden in New York.
The battleship Wisconsin will be
ready for her official trial trip about
the 25th of September.
The Daughters of Veterans in ses-
sion in Chicago elected Miss Lillian Z.
Phillips, of Austin, ILL.,, president.
Fifty thousand persons saw a sham
battle at Washington park, Chicago,
and the visiting veterans enjoyed. the
spectacle.
Sons of Veterans have raised $780,
and will erect a college in memory of
the grand army men.
Direct telegraphic communication
between the United States and Ger.
many was opened through the new
German cable and the president and
emperor exchanged congratulations
1t was decided at cabinet meet
ing to send transport to bring back
miners stranded at Nome.
The government will build six sub
marine torpedo boats at once.
Forest fires were devastating large
areas of timber in Colorado.
Merchants estimate that encamp-
ment visitors spent 100000 in Chi
cago.
The Union national bank of Chicago
has been merged into the First ma
tional.
Luke Merritt and S. NJ. Dixon, who
had been farming on shares at Cen
ter Hill, Fla, quarreled over division
of crops and killed each other.
Charles Turville rode n mile on
bicycle in Salt Lake City in 1:32, beat
ing the worlds record.
Gen. MaXimo Gomez declined to ac-
cept nomination to the constitution
al convention in Cuba.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 31st ult.
aggregated SLIPS, ,946, ,19s, against ST.
26S, ,907 the previous week The
decrease compared with the corre-
spending week of 1899 was 21.s.
There We're IT'S business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 31st ult., against III the
week previous and 1853 the correspond
ing period of 1899.
y conservative estimate of the total
population of the United States,
based upon twelfth census returns al
ready reported, is 76,OOO,0OO.
The Presbyterian general assembly
has written each church asking its
opinion regarding a revision of the
creed.
Edward Wetmore, of New York, was
elected president of the American Bar
association at its twenty-third annual
meeting in Saratoga.
Gov. Gen. Wood reports that con-
ditions in Cuba are very encouraging
William Q. Black (coloredD was
hanged at Bellair, Nd. for criminal
assault on 15-year-old girl.
No more prize fights will be al
lowed in the state of New York.
Thomas Jones, negro preacher
who murdered a family of six persons,
was hanged at Raleigh, N. C.
The percentage of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the I'd were: Brook
lyn, .614; Pittsburgh, .543; Philadel-
phia, sos; Boston, sos; Chicago, .496;
Cincinnati, All; ST. LOUIS, .466; New
York, .402.
The public debt statement issued on
the Ast shows that the debt increased
$2,922,396 during the month of Au-
gust. The cash balance in the treas
ury was $2s5,419,696. The total debt,
less the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to $1,307 ,6ss,s02
One hundred weddings broke the
Sunday record at st. Joseph, Mich.
The internal revenue receipts dur
| ing August were 500, ,421 1891, an in
crease of $1,409,1 1O3 over the same
month last year.
George Michaels, aged II, and Rob-
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