Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-07-06
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.
William and Rose Ruby. aged 90 and
10, were killed by lightning near Os-
kaloosa, la.
William Nahrwald n barber, killed
his wife and himself in Fort Wayne,
Ind. No cause is kno for the deed.
Forest fires were doing great dam
age in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Bob Davis, n negro desperate, was
hanged by n mob at Mulberry, Fla,
for murder.
Solomon Scruggs and Philip Hilpot,
commercial travellers, fought with pis-
tolls in a saloon in New YORK and both
were killed.
Wheat in the northwest has been
seriously injured by drought. Min
nesota will have half crop, South
Dakota and Montana even less, and
North Dakota practically none.
AT New London, Conn, the annual
four-mile boat race between Harvard
and Yale was won by the latter.
In Boston Rev. Francis Z. Clark has
been reelected president of the United
Society of Christian Endeavor, which
uoW mas o,oUUuUU members.
The Baltimore & Ohio road will es-
tablish automobile cab service for
passengers in Chicago.
Miss Helen Gould, of New York, un-
yelled Mt Three Oaks, Mich, pedes-
tailed cannon captured in Manila from
the Spanish feet by Admiral Dewey
Thousands were present.
Tho Pna,. apvnr. e,;la1 fro,. No..
York for Havre.
Gov. Dole, of Hawaii, was inaugural
ed at Honolulu.
The Indiana supreme court decided
1t unlawful to pump natural gas from
wells. Only natural pressure may be
used.
A fund of $1s,546 has been collected
for Mrs. Guy V. Henry, widow of Gen.
Guy V. Henry, of the United States
army.
Damage of S125,ooO was wrought by
fires in the packing house and the lum-
ber yard districts in Chicago.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the goth aggregated
$1,462, ,202, against $1,49s, ,26s, $50 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week of 1899
was 1915.
There were 207 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ende~ on the goth, against 1877 the
week previous and 1s1 in the corre-
spending period of 1899.
Dave Bell (colored) murdered his
wife and then killed himself in AL
bia, la. Domestic trouble was the
cause
Light frost occurred in the Red river
valley in North Dakota and vegeta-
ton suffered in spots.
The work of establishing bus lines
by the strikers to compete with the
Transit company in carrying passen-
gers is progressing in st. Louis.
More than 1,6O0 miles of new rail-
road track have been laid in the
United States since January 1 last.
This exceeds the record of the cor
responding period of 1899 by nearly
800 miles.
John Moberly, aged 90 years, COM
mitted suicide at the home of his son
near Maryville, Mo.
Three men were killed and several
Others were injured in landslide at
Hartsell Hill, Ala.
The Western Envelope company in
Chicago lost contract for OF 900 900
envelopes because of strike.
Gov. Roosevelt left New York to at-
tend the rough riders reunion in Okla
homa City, Okla.
Mrs. Peter Darlington celebrated in
New York the one hundredth anniyer-
sary of her birth.
Benjamin Hill Smell, A years old,
was hanged in Washington for the mur-
der of 13-year-old Lizzie Wiesenberger.
eli was six feet six inches in height,
weighed 237 pounds.
homas Flannely was hanged at San
ientin, Cal, for the murder of his
father and Sheriff McEvoy October "a.
1897.
The steamer Gustin, from Dawson
and Yukon ports, arrived at st. Michael
with 300 passengers and $2,OO0,OO in
gold dust.
George Willard, said to be notorious
diamond thief and bank robber known
to all the police departments in the
United States, was arrested in Detroit. !