Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-12-07
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.

DOMESTIC.
The census gives North Dakota a pop
ulation of 319,146, increase 136,427;
South Dakota 401, $40, increase 72,762;
Washington 51s,1O3, increase 16s.713;
Oklahoma 3oS,245, increase 336,411;
New Mexico 1920. increase 41,717.
Three boys and baby were killed
and Is or 90 lads injured by an eXplo-
sion of nitroglycerin at Wellsburg,
w. Va.
Richard Novak, the 14-year-old boy
who stabbed and killed his companion,
Albert Olson, of the same age, in Chi.
cago, was found guilty of murder.
The state department has cabled Min
lister Conger to forward the text of the
agreement reached by the foreign min
listers at Peking. Meanwhile. he will
withhold his signature until the presi-
dent has had an opportunity TO satisfy
himself as to this important document
and to make such changes as will bring
it in accord with our policy.
Nome, Alaska, is now completely iso-
lated from the outer world by bar
rier of ice, and Will remain so seven
months.
scented President Mckinley with
Thanksgiving turkey weighing 80
pounds.
Charles Nearang, a drunken brick
maker in Milwaukee, shot and fatally
injured his wife and then killed him
self.
The funeral of the late George w.
Wilson, commissioner of internal rev.
enue, was held in Washington. and the
remains were taken to Hamilton, o.,
for burial.
Andrew and Bridget Mckinley, o
married couple aged about GO years,
were burned to death in their home in
Newtown township, Pa.
The Farmers bank of Emden, H.,
was blown open and robbed of $4,000 by
four masked men, who also killed Po-
liceman Sanford.
While fishing with dynamite in
johnson county, Tenn, Marion Sny-
der lost his arms and both eyes by
an explosion.
Forty-five bodies of storm victims
were found in and around Galveston,
Tex, and buried.
Secretary Wilson's report gives an
encouraging account of the work of
the department of agriculture.
Secretary Roots army reorganiza-
tion bill provides for minimum
strength of 5s,024 and maximum of
96,766.
w. II. Linter, of Cedar Rapids, was
murdered and his wife fatally shot by
n robber in Burlington, la.
Thirteen persons We're killed, Is
fatally injured and several others less
seriously hurt by the caving in of a
roof over ,white-hot glass furnaces in
San Francisco.
Evangelist Sam Small was placed in
Jail at Havana, Cuba, on a charge of
swindling.
Thanksgiving day was celebrated
throughout the country. The presi.
dent attended church and sat down
to his dinner at seven o'clock in the
evening.
Gov. Stickney signed bill passed
By the Vermont legislature prohibit
ing the sale of cigarettes to minors
in the state.
Preston Todd, aged 90, was killed
- AoD'p"ii Eahc NiitdSOi
making the fourth victim during the
past season.
The official canvass of the vote cast
at the last election in Iowa on the
proposition to hold constitutional
convention shows it was defeated by
555 votes.
Illinois has As cities with popula.
tions between 5000 and $4,000 and 9t
between 1000 and 5000.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 30th ult
aggregated S1,7s2, ,744,03a. against So,
246,117.s34 the previous week. The in
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of 1899 was $40.
There were 1s4 business failures il
the United States in the seven day
ended on the 30 ult.. against 23s tn
week previous and III the correspond
ing period of 1899.
The gold in the United States treas
ury amounts to $414, ,10S,336, breaking
all records