Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-12-20
DOMESTIC.

1t is announced at New York that DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler will succeed
Seth Low as president of Columbia uni
versity.
The Omaha Loan & Trust company
has gone into the hands of receiver
with liabilities of 100000.
Ewald Eichorn, farmer near Du-
quoin, Ia, was blindfolded, bound hand
and foot and beaten to death by rob-
bers.
A confidence man at the Houston
who sought to arrest him, and was in
turn slain.
Nine. Nordica has taken steps to
prosecute a claim against the govern
ment for 100000 of which an an
cestor was despoiled by French pri-
vateers.
Fire destroyed block of business
houses, II in number, at Sweetwater,
Tex.
The state department is planning
to send young men to China to study
the language and act as Interpreters
for consuls.
Henry Demond. student at the
state university in Tacoma, Wash,
starved to death while seeking an ed
ucation.
The Pennsylvania Railway company
will build a tunnel under the Hudson
river to secure entrance to New
York.
The Red Cross society at its annual
meeting in Washington reelected Miss
Clara Barton president.
The bonds of George b. Cortelyou
and Judge William r. Hay as admin
istrators of the estate of the late Pres
ident William Mckinley have been filed
at Canton, o.
f. L. Powell, of Wilson, n. c., man
ager of the brokerage business of Muir
ply & Co., of New York, is said to be
short $4,000.
Special Commissioner Rockhill's re-
port on the results of his work in con-
nection with the Chinese negotiations
in Picking has been submitted to con-
gress.
Maj. Gen. Arthur Macarthur has
been ordered to Denver to assume
command of the department of Col
orado.
The eighty-third anniversary of the
admission of Illinois into the union as
state was celebrated in Springfield.
The Wanatah Und.) bank closed its
doors with liabilities of $4,000. De-
positors will be paid in full.
The corn crop of Illinois this year
was 1s3,702,200 bushels, the smallest
since 1890.
William B. Leeds. of New York, has
been elected president of the Chicago
Rock Island &s Pacific railroad.
Three children of Tunis Pons were
drowned at Pompton Lake, n. j. while
skating.
The president has reappointed Inter.
state Commerce Commissioner Charles
A. Prouty, of Vermont.
Seven men have been arrested at To,
ledo, O., charged with robbing Ohio
post offices.
Near Kokomo, Ind, a train struck Q
wagon load of young people and one
was killed and three seriously injured
The good offices of the United States
have been rendered to Argentina an(
Chilli TO adjust their quarrel about
frontiers and Notifications along the
straits of Magellan.
William Allen (cofored) was hanged
at Uniontown, Pa, for numbering
Hiram Mcmillan.
The twenty-frst annual meeting O.
the National Civil Service Reform
league began in Boston.
Miss Emma King of Brooklyn, N. Y.
who permitted herself to be inoculatet
with bovine tuberculosis germs, devel
oped the disease.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States durin,
the seven days ended on the 18th ag
gregated $2,402, s31 ,s02, against $2,47s
1G1, COG the previous week. The in
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of last year was 1912.
After a sleep of five weeks James A
Harris died in Peoria, H., aged 67 years