Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-10
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
DOME STlC.

murder of Gilbert w. Gates 30 years
ago, was acquitted by jury at New
London, Mo.
A large part of the business section
of Convoy, o., was destroyed by fire.
Roger Wolcott, former governor of
Massachusetts, has accepted the ten
der of the position of ambassador to
Italy.
The total coinage at the mints dur
ing July was $s,4o4,427.
The government receipts during
July amounted to $40, ,955,16O and the
expenditures 1879 ,653. leaving a def
icit for the month of S4.024, ,493.
The total circulation of national
bank notes on July 81 was $320,o15,-
1856, an increase for the year of $751;
473,97s.
The town of Gilman, Col, was
burned, making homeless upward of
28O people.
Crop reports from the western grain
belt indicate that the harvest will be
large.
The amount of gold in the treasury
on the 1st was $431, ,170,764, the high
est in the history of the government
The transport Meade sailed from
San Francisco for Taku, China, with
1000 soldiers aboard.
The whole of the Tintic mining dis
frict in Utah was shaken by an earth
quake.
Smokers of cigarettes will not be
employed henceforth in the packing
house of Swift e. Co., in Chicago.
A storm in the broom corn district of
Illinois did over $1,Ooo,oC0 damage to
the growing crop.
Martha Hendricks and Paul Warner,
who were attempting to elope from
Poplar Bluff, Mo-, were drowned while
trying to escape from the girls ia
ther.
The steamers Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse, Deutschland, New York and
Oceanic will race across the Atlantic,
the mail contract being the prize.
During the month of June the in
ternal revenue collections throughout
the country amounted to SOS, 1o4 ,152, an
increase as compared with June, 1899
OF $1,9r6,721.
Receipts of Klondike gold at Pacific
coast points so far this season are
about $9,5o0,0o0, against $T,G90,O0O at
the same time last year.
The census Office announced the pop
ulation of Louisville, Ky, at 2o4,7a1
an increase of 43,6o2 in ten years.
The wife and two children of j. A
Norris died from eating toadstools in
mistake for mushrooms near Harvey
i'll.
Judge J. w. Dukes has been elect.
ed governor of the Choctaw nation in
Indian territory.
Andrew Nelson, aged n, fatally shot
hiswife, aged 67, at Moline, H., and theI
killed himself Jealousy was tn.
cause.
The exchanges at the leading Clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended ON the Sd aggregated
$1,32s, ,4o3,563, against 81 ,337, ,153,24o tn,
previous week. The decrease com
pared with the corresponding week O
1899 was 1913.
There were 22s business failures il
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sd, against 231 the weel
Iiod of 1899.
President Mckinley has returned t.
Canton, o., from Washington.
James Byrd, 40 years old, was hange,
at Greenville, Miss, for the murder o
his mistress.
Amos B. Smith (colored) was hange,
at Baltimore, Nd, for killing Sadi
James, his mistress.
The barn of Hebe Smith near Wau
lesha, Wis, was burned, and 13S shee
and five horses were cremated.
A plot to kill all the rulers of tn
world, which was formed in New Yor
and Paterson, N j., has been discoy
cred.
Nikola Tesla, of New York, Las dis
covered an electric cure for consumI
tion wSch meets with remarkabl
success.
The Canadian government has de
cided that pauper immigrants arriving
at any Canadian port cannot be per
mitted to lend.
Next December the centennial of tn
establishment of the seat of govern
mcct in the District of Columbia wi
be celebrated in Washington.
In the last fiscal year 341, I'll imm
grants arrived in New York, which
the greatest number since 1893.
Mobs, riots and bloodshed attende
the canvassing of the vote in the Mort
Carolina election by the county board
and the military had been called ou
Nearly 81 100000 worth of lumbe
was burned in the Barker g. stewal
and Keystone Lumber companie
yards at Ashland, Wis.
Lawless followers of circus ha,
caused reign OF terror for nearly
week in Cass Lake, Grand Rapids an
other towns in northern Minnesot
and troops were called out to supprei
them.