Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
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.

Ia, of the National Music Teachers as
sociation Arthur l.. Manchester, of
Camden, n. j., was elected president.
Robert Lockhart, of Covington,
Tenn, and Miss Katherine Cline, of Pa
toka, Ind, were married by long-dis-
tance telephone.
The Kentucky court of appeals en-
joined the state board of health from
interfering with physicians of the os-
teopathic school in their practice.
At Galena, Kan, City Marshal Mil
ford Parker was instantly killed by
an electric shock from broken tele-
phone wire.
An incendiary fire destroyed the
Morrison hotel in South Bend, Ind,
and L. c. Smart, of Hudson, Mich,
was killed and five other persons were
seriously injured.
Charles Fultz, of Quincy, ILL.,, has in
vented a new match. Instead of wood
he uses the stems of prairie grass.
The Woman's Army and Navy
league of Washington has issued an
appeal for aid for the library at Ma
Mia, p. l., established as memorial
Amonumentt to the memory of Samuel
Hahnemann, founder of the homeo-
pathic school of medicine, was dedi-
Gated in Washington.
Brigham II. Roberts, Utah's eX-con-
gresham, was convicted of polygamy
by jury in Salt Lake City.
Joel Hunt his wife and William
Barnes, negro farm tenants, were killed
near Corsicana, Tex, in a dispute over
division of crops.
Perry Wagner, convict in the pen
itentiary at Rusk, Tex, was hanged for
the murder of fellow convict last
October.
Harrison De Sylvia Pike, railway
official, killed his wife in San Fran
cisco and then committed suicide.
Domestic trouble was the cause
Arthur Ledyard, perhaps one of the
best known aeronauts in the United
States, was drowned in Lake Erie off
Toledo, o., his balloon falling into the
water.
; The Southern Pacific roundhouse al
Kern CITY, Cal, was burned and Pat
rick Quinn and Byrd Gilmore, en-
ployes, perished in the flames.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 23d aggregated
$1,49S, ,26S,9s0, against $1,455, 1865, ,7S9 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week of 1899
was IA.
There were 167 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 23d, against 162 the week
previous and $50 in the corresponding
period of 1899.
Fire in one of the principal business
blocks in Pittsburgh, Pa, caused loss
of $250.0O0.
South Dakota farmers. by digging a
short cut for the Missouri river at Rem
niger's Neck, changed its course.
Oliver Dalrymple says two-thirds of
the North Dakota wheat crop has been
destroyed by drought.
At Eldorado Kan, Miss Jessie Nor
rison killed Mrs. Olin Castle with q
razor and then fatally wounded her.
self. Jealousy was the cause.
a rainstorm in Indiana did great
damage at Fort Wayne, Warsaw, Peru
and other towns in the Wabash valley
Lightning struck church at Gilling
ham, Wis, while services were in prog
ress and Louis Peckham was killed, the
entire congregation shocked and the
building wrecked.
Cars now run regularly in the day
time on all lines and at night on many
in st. Louis.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for tn,
week ended on the Gath were: Brook
lyn, ego; Philadelphia, .627; Pitts
burgh, .4s1; Boston, .470; Chicago, All
Cincinnati, ,449; st. Louis, .427; New
York, .3oG
John Whitehead, farmer, killed hi
wife and himself near Poseyville, Ind
No cause is known for the crime.
The business portion of Huntley
Mimi, was nearly destroyed by fire.
Many cattle were killed and mucl
property destroyed by windstorn
near Blanchardville, Wis.
Brigham II. Roberts was sentenced
in Salt Lake City TO pay fine of $3.50 o,
go to Jail for 100 days for "unlawfu
cohabitation."
The residence of Mrs. Collier n
Thatcher, A. T., was burned and iiv
small children perished in the flames.
Maj. Schaefer, a retired army officer
committed suicide in the cemetery a
New Prague, Minn.
A transport left Cuba with 1875 teach
ers to attend the summer course a
Harvard university.
A mob in Livingston parish, La
lynched Frank Gilmore, a white man
for the murder of an aged woman.
The American Derby at the Wash
ington Park race track in Chicago wa
won by Sidney Lucas, twenty to on
outsider. in 2:4oh.