Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-09-06
pr. ]. w. Bashford, Of Ohio wesleya

university, declined presidency of
| the Northwestern university in Chi
| cago.
Allen Richards, George Fortner and
Sam Ray were burned to death at
Ducktown, Tenn.
According to census bulletin 941,-
76o of the population of New Jersey
are males and 041 900 females, the total
population being 1,ss3,669.
George O'Brien was hanged at Daw-
son, Alaska, for the murder of Lynne
Rolfe, Fred Clayson and Lineman Oh
sen on Christmas day, 1899,
The loss of life by the explosion on
the steamer City of Trenton at Torres
dale, Pa, is now placed at Is, with ten
missing.
Secretary Root left Washington for
his summer home on Long Island for
rest. He is suffering from carbuncles.
Women in the Virginia constitution
al convention in Richmond turned
their backs on a speaker who praised
negroes.
Two persons were killed and 2s in
iured in a railroad wreck al Fairville,
n. Y.
Little Boy, brown gelding, beat the
worlds record for wagon PAGERS with
amateur drivers in Chicago by going a
mile in 2:03 3-5.
The United Typothetae in session in
Buffalo, n. Y, elected as president A.
E. Pears, of Pittsburg.
Seventeen business houses at Scran-
ton, Ia, were destroyed by fire.
The grand encampment of Knights
Templar in Louisville elected Henry
Bates Stoddard, of Bryan, Tex, grand
commander, selected San Francisco as
place of meeting in 1904 and adjourned.
Joseph Zachello, who stabbed his
mother-in-law to death at Tompkins-
vile, S. l., was put to death in the cleo
trio chair at Sing Sing prison.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the seven days ended on the 3Oth
aggregated $1,74o,055,664, against ST.
702, ,422, ,662 the previous. week. The
increase compared with the corre-
spending week of last year was 54.1.
There were 202 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the 30th, against POS the
week previous and 175 the corre-
spending period of 1900.
Later advices indicate that 2s per-
sons lost their lives in the steamer
explosion near Philadelphia.
In wreck on the Great Northern
road 40 miles east of Kalispell, Mont,
IL people were killed.
Four persons were killed and seven
seriously injured in tenement house
fire in Brooklyn, n. Y.
r. G. Dun g. Co.'S Review of Trade
says business continues to gain in all
lines, despite the great steel strike
and the shortage in crops.
A report of the general land office
shows that 9,4Ss more final homestead
entries were made in the last fiscal
year than for any year since the act
was passed.
The Labor World, a trades union
paper in Pittsburg, arraigned Presi-
dent Shaffer, of the Amalgamated as
sociatton, for his management of the
strike and demanded his impeach-
ment in order to save the organiza-
tion.
Ex-President Cleveland narrowly
escaped arrest at Lake Garfield, Mass,
on the charge of catching understood
fish.
A thunderstorm killed one person,
injured eight and shocked 200 at golf
tournament in Altoona, Pa.
James Mitchell broke the indoor BIZ
cycle record in New York, making two
miles in $40 3-5.
During the past year 1862, 700 acres
of public lands were disposed of, the
receipts being S4,972, 100.
William H. Hunt, formerly associate
judge of the Montana supreme court,
has been appointed governor of Porto
Rico.
Plow manufacturers met in Chicago
and partly completed plans for con-
solidation of national scope.