Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-07-19
The exchanges at the leading clear.


ing the seven days ended on the 12th
aggregated $e,136,321, ,o47, against $2,-
04o, o,373,61o the previous week. The in
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of last year was 40.1.
There were EOS business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 12th, against 204 the
week previous and 1876 the corre-
spending period of 1900.
Fifteen business houses were de-
stroyed by fire at Mountain View,
Okla.
one-half of the business portion of
Cooper, Tex, was destroyed by fire.
Edward Payne, negro, was
hanged at Pulaski, Va, for attempt
ed assault upon Miss Duncan, white
woman.
The battleship Maine will be
launched from the Cramps shipyard
at Philadelphia on July 27.
Former Judge d. A. Russell, of
Pomeroy, o., committed suicide at
Cincinnati.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Lead
vile, Col, 100000 for public Ii
brary.
The weekly trade review of r. G.
Dun & Co. reports general business
active and feeling confident.
The Columbia defeated the Consti-
tuition and the Independence in the
last race of the Newport (R. ~
series.
The city directory of 1901 indicates
that Chicago's population is 2,oso,oOo.
The war department has made pub
lie Gen. Funston's detailed report of
Aguinaldo's capture.
Solomon Haas, of Wilburton, Pa,
frenzied by jealousy, fatally shot his
wife and himself
Reports from all parts of the west
indicate a serious condition of affairs
on account of the long continued
drought.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 14th were: Pitts
burgh, .61S; st. Louis, $40; Philadel-
phia, .544; Brooklyn, 500; New York,
.525; Boston, .476; Cincinanti, .427; Chi
cago, .315.
In the American league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the 14th were: Boston,
GAS; Chicago, .643; Baltimore, $50; De-
troit, .551; Washington, .474; Philadel-
phia, .413; Cleveland, .3ss; Milwaukee,
1893.
Nineteen states and territories are
still suffering from unprecedented
heat and drought.
President Shaffer, of the Amalga-
mated association, ordered a strike in
all the United States Steel corpora
tion mills, affecting $4,000 men.
Judge James NJ. Sellers, one of the
best known attorneys ir Indiana,
killed himself at Charlottesville with
poison.
Fire at Springfield, Ill.,, destroyed
business property valued at 100000.
Coleman and James Younger, who
were granted parole, were released
from the saltwater (Minn,) peniten-
| tiary.
Foreign trade of the United States
increased $65,9ss,s11 last year.
Paul Hague, an aeronaut, was IA
tally injured at Springfield, o., fall
ing 200 feet.
c. d. Graham made his fifth trip
through the Niagara rapids in bar
rel.
Six persons were drowned at pic
mic at Savannah, Ga.
Horace Peters, who murdered Peter
Smith near Dowagiac, Mich, commit
ted suicide on the spot where the
crime was committed.
An Epworth League party of 20 on
the way to San Francisco was robbed
of money and tickets at Colorado
Springs.
Frank McCroy, of Hallstead, Pa,
declared he had discovered the lost
Egyptian art of hardening copper.
Robert Prange killed his wife and
himself near st. Joseph, Mo.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of Cooks Mills, HI.
At all the churches in Jefferson
City, Mo-, prayers were made for
rain.
A pastor at New Brunswick, N. j.,
offered free meals as an inducement
| tn attend Snnhnv Seryicac