Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-08
DOMESTIC.

A monument to union and confed-
crate soldiers was dedicated at Antie-
tam, President Mckinley delivering
the principal address.
Jaw Scott, Leo RobidcauX and Roy
Walthall, aged ~ to IA years, were
drowned in n pond at Benkelman,
Neb.
The transport Meade arrived in San
Francisco from Manila with Maj. Gen.
L. S. Otis on board.
Twelve persons were shot, three fa-
tally, during riots on st. Louis street
car lines as n result of the strike.
Samuel Cupples and Robert Brook
ings, of st. Louis, donated S5,000,OO0 to
Washington university.
Near Montgomery, w. Va, 12 men
died from eating poisoned provisions.
Memorial day was generally OBJ
,erved throughout the country.
Fire destroyed a large portion of the
town of oche, Neb.
The foi y-fourth anniversary of the
first republican state convention held
in Illinois was celebrated in Bloom
ington.
A senate committee has begun in
vestigating the postal frauds in Cuba.
Harry Z. Miles, 25 years old, was
killed and William L. Stafford was ia
tally injured in a bicycle race at Wal
than, Mass.
A bench warrant was issued in Frank
fort, Ky, for the arrest of eX-Gov. Tay-
lor as an accessory before the fact to
the Goebel murder.
The school census of Indiana shows n
population of 2,63s, ,4S3, Il decrease of
5,407 in n year.
John w. Hinton and wife celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary in
Milwaukee by sending check for $5o,-
600 to the Protestant home for the
aged @
The enumeration for the twelfth CEN
sus began, and il is to be completed in
80 days. The cost will be over S15,00O,-
600.
Engineer John Hines and Fireman
Womble were killed in the wreck of n
train 80 miles south of Waco, Tex.
Carl Raub,. a newspaper man. aged
50, killed his niece, Miss Bertha Yuck-
er. aged 25, in Cleveland, o., and then
the deed.
Gen. Elwell S. Otis is slated for COM
mand of the department of the lakes,
with headquarters in Chicago.
Congress has appropriated $4,000
for geological surveys in Alaska this
year.
Railroad crop reports point to a
heavy harvest in Iowa, Nebraska,
northern Missouri and northern Kan
sas.
William Broehm and his wife and
three children and William Stevens,
brother of Mrs. Broehm, were in
stantly killed at Brillion, Wis.,, by an
explosion of dynamite.
Capt. Arlie Morrison, Frank Camp
bell and William Medlar were killed by
lightning at ST. Clair, Mich.
At Miles City, Mont, the Northern
Pacific express Office was robbed of n
$1,000 package.
The bank of w. c. Shields at Mulberry
Grove. H., closed its doors and II Is
alleged that Shields went to st. Louis
taking with him between 5000 and
$4,000 in deposits.
A union motorman in st. Louis shot
and fatally wounded policeman, and
was then killed by another officer.
The premature explosion of nitro
glycern at well near Whipple, o.
killed four men and injured seven, foul
fatally.
The Hawaiian authorities have de
clared the Hawaiian islands free from
infection by the bubonic plague.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 1st aggre
gated $l,a33, II. .,0s7, against $1,524, ,704,
OIL the previous week. The decreas'
compared with the corresponding weel
OF 1890 was 20