Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-02-09

President Mckinley for federal recog-
milton and interference, but met with
refusal. The democrats will ask for
an injunction restraining Taylor from
acting as governor. Goebel's condition
was still considered critical.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the I'd. aggre-
gated 1,52o,3sI15o, against $l,609,-
432.056 the previous week. The in
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of 1899 was 25.1..
There were III business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the I'd, against 231 the
week previous and 207 in the corre-
spending period of 1899.
The president sent congress 264 pages
of the Philippine commissions report;
it advises territorial government with
congressional veto and opposes protec-
torate.
Seventy-five children were injured in
panic during n fire in a Trenton IN.
J.) school.
John Scherer killed his wife and him
self in Philadelphia. Jealousy was the
cause.
Henderson Pierson (colored) was
hanged in lot near Clarksville, Tex,
in the presence of 5000 people for the
murder of his wife and her mother.
The transport Ohio arrived in San
Francisco from Manila with the bodies
of 13S soldiers who died in the Philip
pines.
Martial law has been established in
Frankfort, KY, a provost guard taking
charge of the streets to insure order
and protect citizens. The democratic
legislators met at hotel and by formal
yea and nay vote declared Goebel and
Beckham elected and both were sworn
in again. Goebels condition was i'm
proving.
Two men and one woman were as
phyxiated by gas in the rear of sa-
loon in San Francisco.
The house of George Winans, at Bou-
-tonville, N. Y, was destroyed by fire
and his four children were cremated.
Fire among business houses in St.
Louis caused a loss of $1,5OO,0OO and
one fireman was killed and 12 other
persons were injured.
Cardinal Gibbons in sermon deliv-
cred in Baltimore declared woman's
rights women the worst enemies of
their sex and the cause of wrecliing
many families.
The Great Northern, Wisconsin Cen
trail and Baltimore e. Ohio railroads
are said to have agreed to unite as a
transcontinental line.
William Goebel, the democratic
claimant to the governorship of Ken
tucky, died in Frankfort from the eff
fects of the gunshot wound inflicted
by an assassin. Beckham, the demo-
cratic contentant for the office of lieu
tenant governor, took the oath of Of
flee as governor 1t is reported that at
n conference between leaders of both
parties it was decided to convene the
legislature in Frankfort and try and
come to an amicable settlement of the
political strife.
B. ii. Roberts, the elected congress-
man from Utah, was arrested in Salt
Lake City on warrant charging un-
lawful cohabitation.
Henry Walsh, Chicago post Office
employe, was arrested. on charge of
robbing the mails of 5000 through pack
ages.
The plant of the Hopkins & Allen
Manufacturing Arms company and its
entire stock of firearms were burned
at Norwich, Conn, the loss being $780,
600.
The United States senate committee
on Pacific islands and Porto Rico agreed
to report favorably a bill providing
civil government for the island of
Porto Rico.
1t is announced that the United States
and Great Britain have reached an ami
cable agreement concerning the con-
troll by the United States of the pro-
posed Nicaragua canal.