Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-08-02

The jury, under instruction of the
Judge, acquitted Robert S. Fosburgh
of the murder of his sister at Pitts
field. Mass.
The total registration at El Reno
for lands in the Kiowa reservation
was 167,oO6.
c. Il. Penicls, a banker of Charlton,
Ia, is supposed to have committed
suicide by jumping from the steamer
Virginia off Racine, Wis.
The weekly review of trade declared
that two weeks of strike have caused
no noticeable change in the steel situa-
tion.
Investigation of the indianapolis in
sanity trust shows that nearly half the
persons examined were found sane.
Cyrus Larke, eight years old, was
robbed Of 4s cents by several compan-
ions of his own age at Rogers City,
Mich, and then drowned in a mill pond
by them.
The husband of Mrs. Lillian Allen,
who was one of the chief beneficiaries
of the will of Pierre Lorillard of New
York. was found to be woman in Mr..
Lorillard's employ.
The Schley inquiry plan as outlined
by Secretary Long includes a review of
the entire campaign in Cuban waters.
A company organized in New Jersey
is virtually bread trust, and expects
eventually to control the output of all
great cities.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 2Sth were: Pitts
burgh, .595; st. Louis, .57S: philadel-
phia, .577; Brooklyn, .525; Boston,
.474; New York, .472; Cincinnati, .41O;
Chicago, .372.
Successful tests of Marconi's system
of wireless telegraphy have been made
in New York bay.
In the American league the per-
centages of the baseball clubs for the
| week ended on the 2Sth were: Chi
cago, .654; Boston, Cos; Detroit, .563;
Baltimore, .562; Washington, .451;
Philadelphia, .432; Cleveland, 1856; Mil
waulee. $40
Two-thirds of the horses in Chicago
are said to be afflicted with the
grippe.
The t. NJ. Roberts supply house in
| Minneapolis failed with liabilities of
$75O,oO0.
President Shaffer, of the Amalga-
mated association, conferred with j.
Pierpont Morgan in New York and
settlement of the great steel strike
was. said to be near.
Drenching rains in five states of
the great corn belt broke the
drought and revived the shriveled
crops. Millions of dollars will be
saved to the farmers.
At Providence, r. l., Will Stinson
broke the worlds bicycle record for a
paced mile on six-lap track, riding
the distance in 1:24 1-5.
The convention of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union in Chicago
ended with conservation services.
Judge Horton thinks radical ac-
tion necessary to stay prevalence of
perjury and subornation in the
courts'in Chicago.
Secretary Root called for reports
| by army post commandants on the
effect of the abolition of the can
teen. His recommendation to con-
gress will be based on the informa-
ton.
Two men were burned to death and
seven others seriously injured in a
fire at Louisville, Ky.
Harley Hamrick, Harry Mears and
Henry Young, all boys, were killed
by the cars at Wyanet, III.
The new battleship Maine was
launched at Philadelphia.
| Three men were killed and two IA
tally injured by boiler explosion at
Seger, Okla.
July 81 was Wisconsin day at the
Pan-American exposition in Buffalo
and the state building was dedicated