Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-03
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.


Charles Hale Hoyt, the famous au-
thor, actor and manager. has been de-
clared insane in New York.
Four women were killed and 81 other
persons hurt as the result of an eXp1o-
sion and fire in a collar factory in Chi
cago.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Bristow in his report on Cuban
postal affairs says Neely, Rathbone,
Rich and others were in collusion and
nre embezZlers.
Otto Melial, oil Brooklyn, n. Y, was
killed and Is other persons injured in
n wreck on the Chicago d Eastern 1lli-
nois railroad near Benton, Ill.
A constitutional convention will be
held in Havana. Cuba. November 5.
Ludwig s. Rasmussen. aged So,
killed Mrs. Augusta Bergenthal. n
widow, in Chicago, and then killed
himself. Refusal of the woman to
marry lin was the cause.
Bartholomew Ruello, an Italian, the
king of silver dollar counterfeiters,
was caught in Philadelphia.
A mob took posse sion of the streets
of New ORGANS and killed one negro,
fatally sLot two more and wounded a
dozen men.
The schooner Pretoria, the largest
wooden boat ever built, was launched
'ot Bay City, Mich. She is $50 feet long.
4sH feet beam and % feet deep.
Martial law has been declared nj New
Orleans, the anger at the killing of two
policemen by the negro Charles having
resulted in the worst race war known
in the city. Four persons have been
killed and a dozen wounded at latest
reports.
Sergt Ed Jackson, writing to his
father in Wichita, Kan, from the Phil
ipines, says the soldiers there generally
believe that Aguinaldo is dead.
The Lake Lebarge steamer Florence
S. overturned while going through the
rapids at Thirty Mile, Alaska, and 40
passengers were drowned.
A gigantic plot 10 release prisoners
from the western penitentiary in AL
legheny, Pa, was discovered.
The United States League of Build
ing and Loan Associations in session
in Indianapolis, Ind, elected j. w.
Bailey, of Somerville, Mass, president,
Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson
fought mob of 200 men who assailed
him while he was speaking in Fort
Scott, Kan.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 9th aggregated
81 1897, 53.240. against S1,471 ,651, 900 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week of 1898
was OF.
There were 231 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 27th, against 231 the
week previous and ISL in the CORE.
spending period of 1899.
Robert Charles. the colored desperate
who killed Policemen Day and Lamb
was smoked out of hiding in New Or.
leans and shot TO pieces, but not unit
he had killed three persons and fatally
wounded four more.
Four hundred persons were poisoned
by eating ice cream at an Evansville
(Ind.) church social. All will recover.
Arrangements have been completed
for the purchase from Spain of the
islands of Cibitu and Cayayen which
were left in Spanish possession by the
treaty of Paris, although part of the
Philippine archipelago.
The best available data puts the CEN
ter of population of the United States
about Bloomington, Ind.
The United States transport Warren
from Manila, reached San Francisco
with a number of discharged men.
The post office department has an.
nounced the establishment of the first
railway mail service in Hawaii.
Fire wiped out nearly the entire vii
lage of Buckley, Wash.
The exports of the United States fol
June amounted to $10S,355,s46, an in
crease over the same month in $50!
Of s12 100000. The imports amounted
10 $60,s09,225, against SOL l,757,3Oo il
June, 1890.
hailstorm damaged crops in Nortl
Dakota over territory comprising 1Ot
square miles.
The National Woman's Relief Corps
will old it's eighteenth annual con
vention in Chicago during the G. A. r
encampment.