Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-04-12
A WEEKS RECORD
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All 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.

ties were $31 ,7O3,4s6 against S33, ,122,-
573 in 1900.
Victor Shultz, n mail carrier at
Marion, Ind, aged 35, shot and killed
his wife and fatally wounded w. A.
Eikenberry, boarder, and then cut
his own throat.
Almost the entire business portion
of the little town of Lehigh, Ia, was
swept away by fire.
The Vanderbilts have acquired con-
troll of the Delaware & Hudson road,
which will be merged into the New
York Central.
The Minnesota legislature passed
law providing for the nomination
of candidates by primary election.
Mrs. Frederick II. Aims has given
100000 to the University of Cincin-
natl for musical culture.
Miss Rose P. Duffey, aged 10, deputy
postmaster at Parnell, Ia, is charged
with embezzling $1,000.
Mrs. William Carroll was burned to
death at Lincoln, ILL.,, by lamp explo-
sion, and her husband was fatally
burned.
Marrying Pastor" Meese, of Au-
burn, Ind, reached his fifteen hun
dredth wedding by officiating at his
grandson's marriage in Chicago.
Reduced rates on money orders have
been arranged with Canada.
BY the terms of bill passed by the
house at Springfield kidnapping for
ransom is made capital offense in
Illinois.
BY vote of Is to 12 the Wisconsin
senate killed the anti-cigarette bill.
During the ten months ended Febru-
airy 2s, 1901, the imports into Porto
Rico were valued at SIS, ,lO2, AGO and the
exports at $5,s14,0s3.
Pittsburgh was visited by an unusu-
ally severe storm of snow and sleet,
which prostrated telegraph and cleo
trio light wires and delayed railway
traffic.
Two women at Newkirk, Okla.
fought a duel with revolvers at 20
PAGES, one of them being shot twice.
The Thirtieth infantry, recently
from the Philippines, was mustered
out in San Francisco and most of the
men left for their homes in the east.
Darius Bachelor, aged 60. shot and
killed his wife, aged 35, and then shot
himself at Adrian, Mich. Jealousy
was the cause.
The Kiowa, Camanche, Apache and
Wichita reservations in Oklahoma
will be opened for settlement on Au-
gust 6.
Republican leaders in Washington
started n movement to discourage the
formation of large industrial combina-
tions.
A scheme to bring all the great rail-
way systems under one management
is said to be seriously contemplated.
Six men robbed the bank at Char
don, o., of $125, overlooking 100000 in
currency.
The Union iron works in San Fran
cisco will launch the battleship Ohio on
May IS.
a passenger train on the Jersey Cen
tral was wrecked, killing one person
and injuring 40 others.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur.
ing the week ended on the 5th aggre.
gated $3.50, ,S94 ,321, against 50 ,304, ,104, ).
TIT the previous week. The increase
compared with the corresponding
week of 1900 was 31.3.
There were 1SS business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the 5th, against 206 the
week previous and 1s2 the correspond,
ing period of 1900.
Michigan university defeated Chi
cago university in their annual debate
in Chicago.
Mrs. ophelia Meyer, aged 3s years
threw herself in front of train al
Celino, o., and was cut to pieces.
Almost the entire business portion
of Augusta, Mont, was destroyed by
fire.
The war department will promote
army officers who helped Gen. Funston
capture Aguinaldo.
One of the Detroit (Mich.) plants ot
the American Radiator company was
burned, causing loss of $150.00O.
Dun's trade review notes general ac
tivity in all lines of trade.
Civil officers are said to have located
the $722,o00 stolen by Capt. oberlin NJ
Carter and his associates.
Two brothers, George and James
Todd, were killed by the explosion o.
boiler in a sawmill near Ketterman
Mo.
In two days 1000 immigrants from
Europe passed through Chicago Ell
route to homes in Minnesota an,
North Dakota.
f. c. Griffith, of Rhode Island, woI
the grand American handicap in tn,
shoot of of the ties at Interstate Park
L. i.
Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay with rifle pre-
vented deputy sheriifs from levyinl
;on furniture in his house at White
lhall, Ky.