Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-12-06
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.

smasher."
Directum, at one time champion trot-
ting stallion with Il record of 2:05A,
has been bought by the International
stock farm of Minneapolis for $12, 100.
Twsnty-nine dead bodies have been
taken from the ruins caused by an eX
plosion in the Penberthy Injector
company's plant in Detroit.
Among the wants of Alaska, as sum-
married in the recommendations made
in the annual report of Gov. Brady,
are extension to Alaska of all the fed
eral land laws; survey of the land for
immediate settlement, and n delegate
in congress without territorial organ
ization.
JarA Keene says that the United
States Steel company will have $751;
100000 surplus at the end of this year.
WI Ting-fang, the Chinese minister,
delivered an address on the Chinese ex-
clusion act at the head of the stairway
leading o the Office of President Roose-
welt, in which he severely criticised the
exclusion of his people from this coun-
try.
The annual report of Secretary Root
says that the full strength of the army
in every branch is S4.5l3 officers and
men, of whom 1920 are in the Philip
pines, 4,914 in Cuba and 1,541 in Porto
Rico.
Dispatches from various parts of the
United States show universal observa-
tion of Thanksgiving day.
Rear Admiral Schley visited Phila-
delphia and was given an ovation.
Mrs. Josephine r. Ormsby, famous as
the mother of quadruplets, has sued
her husband in Chicago for divorce.
The annual report of the general SUI
perintendent of the life saving service
says that in the past year II lives were
lost and property valued at So, ,l39, 900
was saved.
Emigrant and passenger trains on
the Wabash road collided near Seneca,
Mich, wrecking both trains. The num-
ber of persons killed may reach so, and
over 20 were injured. The cars were
set on fire and many of the injured
were burned to death. Nearly all of
the dead were Italian laborers on their
way TO Colorado.
Washington have been invited to join
in the fight against the railroad COM
bine.
Thomas Nichols, aged 5s, was killed
and Charles Rich fatally injured in a
grade crossing accident at Evansville,
Ind.
Stuart II. Young, retiring city treas
urer of Louisville, Ky, club man and
social favorite, committed suicide
when $4,000 shortage in his accounts
was charged.
Three Chinese were killed in fight
al San Francisco.
Terry McGovern, of Brooklyn, was
knocked out in the second round of
fight for the featherweight cham
pionship by young Corbett," of
Denver. at Hartford, Conn.
University football results Thanks
giving day: Wisconsin 35. Chicago o.;
Michigan so, Iowa o; Cornell "a, Penn
sylvania 6; Minnesota 16, Illinois o.
A fire in the lumber yards and mills
in East Tenth street in New York
caused loss of $1,000,0OO.
President Roosevelt has signed an
order placing the rural free delivery
system under civil service.
Secretary Root in his annual report
says the spread of good government
in the Philippines is greater than cX-
pected and most encouraging.
Miss Estelle Reel, superintendent of
Indian schools, in her annual report
urges teaching Indians how to farm.
Secretary Hay received a dispatch
from Constantinople announcing the
rumored death of Miss Stone, the
American missionary held by Bulga-
rian brigands,
Secretary and Mrs. Hay announced
the engagement of their daughter
Helen TO Payne Whitney, son of w.
C. Whitney, the wedding to be in Feb.
ruary.
Henry Raymond, of Chicago, killed
himself because he was unable to pro.
vide a Thanksgiving dinner for his
family.
Commander and Mrs. Cowles and
Senator and Mrs. Lodge were the
Thanksgiving guests of the president
The exchanges at the leading clear.
tuB HoNstb III lHt CUlltu suites uuT'
ing the seven days ended on the 29th
aggregated Sl,952, ,s25,sl3, against So,
43o,S04,oo4 the previous week. The in
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of last year was 0.2.
There were 1S2 business failures II
the United States in the seven day.
ended on the Goth, against 223 Tho
week previous and IT'S the correspond
ing period OF last wear.
A revised list places the number OF
persons killed in the Wabash railway
wreck near Seneca, Mich, at rs.
A new baseball league to be called
the American association has beer
launched in Chicago.