Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-07-12


| art in New York.
Tariff treaty with Cuba will be the
next serious problem for congress to
consider.
Roy Powell, aged IS years, was con-
victed at Freeport, ILL.,, of killing
Woodbury. Worltinger and given 80
years imprisonment.
Emanuel Koehler, aged IL years,
was killed in quarrel by Raymond
Albers, aged 10 years, at Albany, N.
Y. The slayer committed suicide.
The keel of the battleship Colorado
was laid at Cramps yard in Philadel-
phia.
While insane Edward W. McConkey,
a well-known farmer, killed John Bry-
ant and Bryant's son near st. Joseph,
Mo-, and then killed himself.
Four men were fatally injured by an
explosion at the waterworks near Gin
cinnati.
Mrs. Carrie Nations threat to wreck
saloon in St. Louis caused her arrest,
but she was released upon promise to
leave the city.
The Houston Oil company, with $780,
100000 capital, has been incorporated
in Texas.
Residents of Evanston, ILL.,, attacked
followers of Dowie, who abandoned a
meeting and fled for their lives.
Only one portrait is needed to COM
plete the collection of patent Office
commissioners from the beginning.
Jose Sanchez, who killed Catherine
Almmdares last December, was
hanged at Silver City, n. NJ.
S. r. Dawson. of Des Moines, Ia, in
ventor of the Damascus steel process,
who has served half of a ten years
sentence for killing his son-in-law of a
day, has been paroled by Gov. Shaw.
Four Italian miners were suffocated
by fire damp in an abandoned mine at
Catsburg, Pa.
Four negroes. Belton Hamilton,
John Simmons, Jim Harrison and Will
Williams. were hanged at Vernon, Fla,
for murder.
The business part of Polo, Mo-. was
destroyed by fire.
Comptroller of the Currency Dawes
has rendered his resignation to the
president. to take effect October next.
Peter Tiedman, of Springfield, ILL.,,
killed his wife and himself at San Ber-
nardino, Cal.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 9TH were: Pitts
burgh. 500: st. Louis, $50; New York,
.545; Brooklyn, .524; Boston, 500;
Cincinnati. .45O; Philadelphia, .4o7;
Chicago, .31s.
In the American league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the 9TH were: Boston.
640; Chicago, .525; Detroit, $40; Bal
timore, .537; Washington, 500; Phil
adelphia, 400; Cleveland, 1893; Mil
waukee, .349.
John Garner, a farmer near Ma
deira, Cal, killed his wife and him.
self. Domestic trouble was the cause
Sylvester Green killed his wife near
! Williamstown, W. Va. because she
would not give him money to gamble
with, and then killed his child and
escaped.
The twentieth international Chris
| tan EnIeaNOr convention opened AT
| Cincinnati.
Edward Luty, bookmaker. killed
his wife in New York because she was
late in getting his dinner and then com
mitted suicide.
The United States cruiser Newark
Travelled from Hong-Kong to New York
in 80 days and 10 hours.
The Irish World, New York publ.
cation, printed an offensive cartoon
of the American flag and the issue was
suppressed.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of Wilbur, Wash.
A meeting of labor leaders is to be
held in st. Louis on July % to form
one big union of steel employees.
The use of streets for Dowie meet
ings at Waterloo, Ia, has been for
hidden because of recent riots.
The town of Versailles, o., was al
most entirely destroyed by fire.
A report on exports of farm prod
ucts in 1900 showed 10 nations ex
pended over $4,000, 900 each for Amer
lean products.
Commerce with Porto Rico showed
big increase during the last year
the exports exceeding those of 1s9
by 300 per cent.