Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-07-13
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the lake to st. Joseph, Mich, and got
married.
Thirty-six pleasure seekers were
killed by the plunging of car into
deep chasm near Tacoma, Wash.
A boy fired pistol into fireworks in
Philadelphia and by the explosion that
followed four children were killed and
three fatally wounded.
President Mckinley delivered
Fourth of July address to the people Of
Canton, o.
Asteamer arrived at Seattle bringing
$S00,000 in gold dust from Skaguay.
Secretary of State Hay has notified
the powers of the world, through our
ambassadors and ministers, that this
government will enter into any mutual
agreement which has for its object the
restoration of law and order in China.
Washington officials recalled five reg
iments from Cuba and Porto Rico and
ordered them to sail at once for China.
Fire in the Standard Oil company's
plant at Constable Hook, N. j. caused
loss of $1,5OO.OOO.
Six men were killed and scores OF
ptlsohS ny Vic SADloSloh VI uh
immense oil tank at Parkersburg, w.
Va.
Mrs. George Z. Thompson and her
brother-in-law, w. f. Thompson, were
drowned ut Springfield, H., by the
capsizing of boat.
Noah Blickenstaff and two of his
ichildren were killed and his wife and
another child fatally injured at rail-
way crossing near Flora, Ind.
Mrs. Maggie L. Lehnis, n widow Of 25,
killed her baby boy and herself in Gin
cinnati while respondent.
The Middlebury (Vt.) college held its
centennial celebration.
Fourth of July celebrations through
out the country killed so and injured
2,767 people.
Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, an
nounces he will not be candidate for
reelection.
BY the sinking of a skiff at Lake
Charles, La, Mrs. c. ]. Phelps, her
mother, Mrs. Amanda Johnson, and her
brother, Albert johnson, were drowned.
Sebastian Miller, aged rs, committed
suicide on his wife's grave in Quin-
cy, III.
Emil Markenberg, an experienced
aeronaut, fell 500 feet in full view of a
crowd at Santa Ana, CAL, and was
crushed to death.
Eighteen business houses at Prairie
Depot, o., We're destroyed by fire.
John Roe, an 1s-year-old negro, was
lynched near Columbia, Ala, for an
attempted assault on n white woman.
Gov. Roosevelt, of New York, visited
President Mckinley at his home in Can
ton.
Antonio Soso and Jose Vasquez, two
prominent Mexican cattlemen, killed
each other in a quarrel near Tucson,
AT.
A st. Louis grand jury accuses the
police of that city with completely in
the lawlessness of the strike.
The funeral services of William B.
Curtis, the father of American ath-
letics, took place in New York.
The bodies of four more victims Of
the Hoboken On. J) water front fire
were found in the slips, making the to-
tai number of bodies thus far found
1876.
II is reported that cyclone de-
stroyed the village of Steamboat Rock,
Ia.
The branch factory of the Standard
Wheel company was burned at San
dusky, o., the loss being 100000, and
two men perished in the flames.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
ha 1al nod
$1,599, 9,912.7o5, against 81 ,462 PAS, ,2O2 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week Of 1899
was 33.2.
There were 146 business failures In
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 2O7 the
week previous and 1876 in the corre-
spending period of 1899.
Nathan i. Baker killed his daughter
and himself at Richmond, Ind. No
cause known for the crime.
The deep waterways commission S
report fayors 20-foot channel from
the lakes to the ocean, which would
cost 500, 1886.
Rufus L. Wright poisoned his wife
of three days at Columbia, S. c., and
then poisoned himself. No cause is
known for the deed.
The trial of A. j. Jester on the charge
of the murder of Gilbert Gates 80 years
ago began in New London, Mo.
The rough riders reunion at Okla
homa City was inaugurated by the civic
and military parade in which Gov.
Roosevelt was given the place of honor.
The French government will erect
an embassy building in Washington.
Twenty st. Louis street railway
strikers have been indicted for MUIR
der.