Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-07-19
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The National Educational associa-
tion in session at Detroit elected as
president William NJ. Beardshear, of
Ames, Ia.
The fishing vessel Winona, belonging
TO Gloucester, Mass, was run down off
the Grand banks by an unknown
steamer and is of her crew were lost.
Fire almost wiped out the town of
Joshua, Tex.
Coleman and James Younger after
serving 25 years in the Saltwater
,(Minn.) penitentiary for completely in
bank robbery and murder at North
field, in 1876, have been paroled.
In convention in Columbus the
Ohio democrats nominated Col. James
kilbourne, of Columbus. for governor
Seventeen persons were killed and
over 40 injured, some fatally, in
coll!e;on between Chicago & Alton
passenger train and freight near
Norton, Mo.
Five persons committed suicide in
Chicago and one made an unsuccess-
full attempt.
The thermometer reached 102 de-
grees in Chicago on the 10th, which
exceeded all previous records of the
local weather bureau.
Revenue war tax collections from
June 10, 1898, to May 81, 1901, amount
ed to S31O,053,363.
The twentieth international Chris
tian Endeavor convention closed at
Cincinnati.
An accident in plate glass factory
at Kokomo, Ind, will make it neces-
sary to amputate the arms of five
men.
The hot wave has done great dam
age to the crops in western states.
The Kansas corn crop is virtually de-
stroyed,
The transport Mcclellan sailed from
New York for the Philippines bearing
Senator Bacon, of Georgia. and sew
eral members of the house of repre-
sentatives, who will investigate con-
ditions there.
The town of Port La Vaca, Tex,
was swept away by tornado, but no
lives were lost.
The berry crop in Wisconsin is al
most complete failure, and corn and
tobacco will be little better unless rain
comes at once.
Gen. Gomez sailed from New York
for Havana. He declared that he was
convinced that the Americans sympa-
ahize with Cubans.
A freight train on the Nickel Plate
road went through bridge at Spring
field, Pa, and nine workmen were
killed and Ia injured.
A farmer named McGrath, living
near Brockport, N. Y, killed his wife
and then committed suicide. Five chill
dren are left orphans.
Forty mules were cremated in fire
in n stable in st. Louis.
Samuel Huise, aged "a and weighing
only Al pounds, and Sarah Stephens,
weighing SO pounds, were married at
Maryville, Mo.
The supreme lodge Knights o. Pyth-
las reorganized the insurance branch
of the order in Chicago and increased
the rates of insurance 81 per cent.
Peter Smith, wealthy farmer at
cambridge, Mich, was assassinated
by an unknown man who was hidden in
field.
"A large PaTt 'oI the business portion
of Clear Lake, Ia, was swept away
by fire.
Chicago servant girls have formed
the Working Women's Protective as
sociation.
A child was killed by an explosion
at Albany, Mo-, caused by tool chest
falling upon pet frog which had
swallowed dynamite.
Later advices show that 10 persons
lost their lives in the railway wreck
near Norton, Mo.
Drought in Kansas, Missouri, Ne
braska, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa
has damaged crops to the extent of
hundreds of millions of dollars.
G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark
university, declared at the teachers
convention in Detroit that higher edu-
cation unified women for wifehood
and motherhood
Death claimed two of the three
Stanton sisters in Chicago devoted to
each other and sorrow rendered the
third insane.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of Huntsville, Ill.