Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-09-20

III is said That there are 10000 an
archists in Chicago.
Three negroes, Ernest Harrison
Sam Reed and Frank Howard, who con
fessCS to the murder of Washington
Thomas, an aged colored man, wer,
hanged by mob at Wickliffe, Ky.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the seven days ended on the 18th
aggregated $2,057, ,52s,33 against ST.,
$40, ,4s5, ,710 the previous week The in.
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of last year was 54.s.
There were 175 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 169 the week
previous and 1876 the corresponding pc.
riod of 1900.
Settlement of the steel strike was
reported to be near at hand.
Rear Admiral Francis Munroe Ram.
| say. retired, has been selected as the
third member for the Schley court OF
inquiry, to succeed Admiral Howison
Theodore Roosevelt, now president
of the United States, is the fifth vice
| president of the nation to succeed the
president with whom he was chosen to
! office. John Tyler was the first, sue
ceeding William Henry Harrison. Next
came Millard Fillmore, who succeed
ed Zachary Taylor. Andrew johnson
succeeded Abraham Lincoln and Ches-
| ter a. Arthur took the place of James
A. Garfield. Three of the five vice
presidents owe their advancement to
the assassin's bullcs.
Judge Eli Torrance, of Minneapolis,
was unanimously elected commander
in chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public at the closing session of the
annual encampment in Cleveland, o.
The Pan-American exposition in
Buffalo was orderd closed for three
days because of the death of Presi-
dent Mckinley.
The streets around police head
quarters in Buffalo where the assas-
sin of the president is prisoner
were crowded with excited men
thirsting for vengeance, and to pre-
serve order and Illustrate any at
tempt at lynching two regiments of
the national guard were called out.
Funeral services for the late Presi-
dent Mckinley were held at the Mil
burn residence at Buffalo at IL a. IN.
on the 18th. The body lay in state in
the city hall from noon until five p. m.
On the morning of the 10th the funeral
party left for Washington, where the
state funeral will be held and where
the body will lie in state in the rotunda
of the capital from the morning of the
18th until evening, when it will be re-
moved by special train to Canton, o.,
for interment. The burial will take
place on the afternoon of the 10Th.
Theodore Roosevelt became presi-
dent of the United States at 1882
o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th,
when he complied with the constitu-
tional provision and took the pre-
scribed oath to support and defend
he constitution and the laws of the
United States. He took that oath in
the library of the residence of Ansley
Wilcox in Buffalo, and it was admins
tered by Judge John r. Hazel, of the
United States district court. The new
president declared that he would carry
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the national league for the
week ended on the 18th were: Pitts
burgh, .633; Philadelphia, .5s2; Brook
lyn, .573; st. Louis, .537; Boston, .504;
Chicago, 1894; New York, .391; Gin
cinnati, 3S6.
Official announcement was made
that the steel strike, which began
June 80, had been settled.
In the American league the per-
centages of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the 18th were: Chi
cago, ,622; Boston, 500; Detroit, .552;
Philadelphia, .522; Baltimore, 1876;
Washington, .446; Cleveland, .424;
Milwaukee, 36S.
The direct cause of the death of
President Mckinley in the official
death certificate is given as gangrene
of both walls of the stomach and
pancreas, following the gunshot
wounds.
Gov. Odell will not call special ses-
sion of the New York supreme court,
as he has been assured the trial of AS
sassin Colgosz will be in progress with
in Is days.
The death of the president was the
theme of sermons in all parts of the
country.
Mrs. Robert E. Perry, wife of the arc
tic explorer, arrived in Portland, Me-,
bringing encouraging accounts of her
husband
a monument to the memory rof Jen-
ME Wade, who was killed while maxi
ing bread for union soldiers, was un-
veiled at Gettysburg, Pa.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Franklin Landers, congressman from