Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-06-07

Three men were drowned in the Calu-
met river in Chicago by the capsizing
IF a small boat.
Charles Haverson was hanged at
Westville, Miss, for the murder of A.
A. Almonds.
Gov. McSweeney, of South Carolina,
declined to accept the designations of
Senators Gilman and McLaurin.
After quarrel Mrs. Kate Hester
shot and killed her husband. three
year-old daughter and herself at Cow
ington, Ky.
The warship Illinois is to be given
its official trial on June 10.
Continued satisfactory trade con"
ditions are reported in the south and
west, with slight setback in the east
because of unfavorable weather.
Nearly 1,S00 machinists struck in
Chicago on the refusal of their en-
ployers to grant their demands.
The Minnesota supreme court gave
Russell Sage, of New York, possess
sion of 10000 acres of land now held
by settlers.
A gang of five tried to hold up
neapolis from Chicago, but was foiled
by the quick wit of the engineer.
Percentages of the baseball clubs
in the American association for the
week ended on the I'd were: Chicago,
csc; Washington, .595; Detroit. .5sS;
Baltimore, .53S; Boston, .4S1: Philadel-
phia, 400; Milwaukee, .376; Cleveland,
$50.
Probable reconciliation between
Gen. Booth, head of the Salvation
Army, and Ballington Booth. leader of
the Volunteers of America, is an
nounced.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the I'd were: New York,
$40; Philadelphia, .5S1; Cincinnati,
.567; Pittsburgh, .531; Brooklyn, .467;
st. Louis, 400; Boston, .423; Chicago,
1853.
Mrs. Mckinley is slightly improved,
but is still very weak, and her condi-
tion still causes much concern.
The public debt statement issued
on the 1st shows that the debt de-
creased S1o,26s,762 during the month
of May. The cash balance in the
treasury was $312,33s.469 The total
debt, less the cash in the treasury,
amounts to $1,062 ,476,494
During the month of May the govern
ment receipts were $50, ,629.44O and ex-
penditures S42, ,136.560, leaving sur
plus of SIC, ,492, $50 and surplus for the
IL months of the present fiscal year of
S5s,5s7,1 ,135.
Dowie declared himself the "Messen-
ger of the Covenant and the reincar-
mated Elijah vefore large audience
i'll Chicago.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina.
has declined to withdraw his resigna-
ton.
The president and his advisers have
determined the United States shall
continue to control Cuban affairs un-
til the Platt amendment is adopted by
Cubans without alteration and stable
government is installed.
Robbers looted the county treasur-
er's safe at Jasper, Tex, and then set
fire to the town, wiping out every busi-
ness house anda number of residences.
Dowie escaped indictment by the
grand jury in Chicago because there is
no law bearing on his case under which
a conviction could be secured.
John d. Rockefeller will establish
in New York an institute for medical
research.
Fifteen fishermen were drowned in
a storm off Charleston. s. c.
Michigan university won the inter-
collegiate conference athletic meet
in Chicago, with Wisconsin second
and Chicago third.
The one nundredth anniversary of
the birth of Brigham Young was gem
orally observed throughout Utah
Nick Connor killed mis- wife ard ia
tally shot himself at Cassopolis,
Mich. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
June 25 will be Illinois day at the
exposition in Buffalo, n. Y.
Mrs. Nancy b. Irving offers $1,000
to any business or professional man
in Chicago who can prove ne has car
ried on his work for month with
out lying.