Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-08-09
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign News
DOMESTIC.

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total coinage executed at the mints
of the United States during July,
1901, was $5,621, $50, as follows: Gold
s4,2c5,OOO, silver $1,312,ooO, minor
coins $S4,s30.
A general advance of ten cents
day is announced by the Pennsylva-
mia railroad for section men on the
Indianapolis d Vincennes branch. The
advance fixes laborers' wages at $1.20
q day, and foremen are increased IS
a month.
The boiler of an engine pulling a
passenger train exploded near Bolton,
Ga, on the 2d. Fireman Aenchbach-
er was killed. Engineer Bell was
blown 40 feet in the Dir, but alighted
on his feet unharmed.
The strike of the union hod carriers
of Denver, which began June 1, has
been declared off. Eight hundred
men were out and the strike serious
ly interfered with building The other
labor unions of Denver refused to
sanction ana support the strike.
Plans for central railroad station
at Chicago, estimated to cost $40,000,-
600, are being prepared to submit at
81 meeting of railway officials to be
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railroad companies with Chicago ter
minals have approved the scheme.
The statement of the New York as
sociated banks for the week ended
August 3 showed reduction of $685.
225 in. surplus reserve, leaving this
item at S22 ,165,350. This amount of
reserve compares with $29,144.S75
year ago, and is regarded as ample to
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money for crop purposes.
The bureau of admissions announ-
ces the attendance at the Pan-Amer-
ican exposition during the first three
months ending July 81, as 2,724,9Os.
With the exception of one week the
admissions have shown steady in
crease.
George Bissert, police ward man,
or precinct detective, has been con-
victed at New York City of having
received bribe of $500 from the
keeper of disorderly house, in con-
sideration of which the place was to
have police protection. He is liable
10 ten years imprisonment or $4,000
fine. or both. The wardman's con-
viction has caused excitement in po-
lice circles, for it is the first instance
i'll ytuTS NncTe bHe CIlluc Ol tAlOIblOI
has been brought home against a
ward man.
Reports to II. G. Dun & Co. show
that the commercial failures in the
United States during July numbered
607, with an aggregate Indebtedness
of $7035,033. Compared with the
same month last year, there appears
n gratifying improvement, as failures
-. lNn.. nd
775 in amount.
William Wilson and Jesse Wilson,
employed on the new Frick building
in course of erection at Pittsburg,
were instantly killed on the I'd. The
accident was caused by the sheering
of brace, while hosting n siX-ton
beam. This caused the derrick TO
give way and tine men were precipi-
tated from the sixth to the second
floors.
Fifteen strikers, structural iron
workers, attacked number of non
union men unloading iron at Wilkins
burg, Pa, on the 2d and Charles
Force, one of the worllmen, was seri-
ously injured. The workmen, rein
forced by n number of policemen and
about 100 citizens attacked the strik-
ers, who retreated.
The report of the Kentucky agri-
cultural bureau up to August l shows
the following loss in crops due to the
recent drouth. Corn So per cent,
hemp 2S per cent, tobacco 26 per
cent.
During the athletic contests at
tendant upon the quarter-centennal
celebration at Colorado Springs on
L. i No 4 IN. I,,I fnt,
broke the worlds running record for
100 yards, making the distance in nine
seconds fiat. The professional rec
ord was 8 3-5, and the amateur rec
ord AS.
A temporary injunction restraining
the strikers at Northport, Wash,
from attempting to interfere with the
employment of non-union men in the
Northport smelter has been signed
by Judge Hanford, of the United
States district court at Seattle. The
order is sweeping in its terms.
Indictments against 25 judges and
clerks of election for making false
return of the votes cast last fall for
county commissioners have been re-
turned by the grand jury at Chicago.
The charges We're brought at the di-
ICSbIoh Oi ouhSc AdilCI, hHO Ihsll-
tuted an investigation into the con-
duct of $50 other election officials.
Hundreds of home seekers who
failed to draw claims in the new
Kiowa-Comanche country are selling
their tents, horses and wagons at a
sacrifice in order TO reach their for
mer homes. Many others who have
camped on the borders of the land
for months, expecting that it would
be opened by run" are destitute
and already suffering is apparent.
A large warehouse at Evansville,
Ind, belonging to the broom corn
trust and filed with broom corn, was
destroyed by fire on the night of the
Sd, entailing loss of $150,000. Sew
eral firemen were overcome by smoke
while fighting the flames.
Several prominent citizens of Nor
folk, Neb., among them former can