Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-05-17
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.

dents at the University of Chicago
that fiction was truer than fact.
A bitter fight for control of North
ern Pacific caused panic in the
New York stock exchange. in which
many fortunes were wrecked.
Seats collapsed in circus at Oil
City, Pa, badly injuring dozen per-
sons.
Col. f. F. Taggart, of Akron, has
been elected commander of the G. A.
r., department of Ohio.
Harvard trustees voted to make
President Mckinley an LII. ID.
All factories of the National Starch
company have been ordered closed be-
cause of the corner in corn.
Prof. j. II. George, of Montreal, has
been elected president of the Chicago
theological seminary.
In Mrs. Mary L. Owens Chicago has
the only patrolwoman in the world
doing daily police duty.
Three thousand farm districts are
now served by rural mail carriers at
a cost of S3,5oo,oOO a year. More
routes are projected.
Minister Conger, in conference with
the assistant secretary of state, went
into the details of the Chinese situa-
tion.
A decision of the comptroller of the
treasury will make it easier hereafter
to keep out Objectionable immigrants.
Treasury officials in Washington
declared legitimate comm ercial enter
prise not affected by the furry in
stocks.
Maryland's corrected census figures
reduce the population of the state to
1,lsS,O44.
The Thirty-second infantry, United
States volunteers, has been mustered
out of service at San francisco.
7. S. McClindy, in fit of insanity.
shot and killed Howard Baker and
then killed himself at Boone's Ferry,
Ore.
Efforts are to be made at the next
session of congress to give the inter-
state commerce committee more
power.
Knights of Columbus have begun a
movement in New York to expel from
the organization all persons employed
eating liquor.
Engineer Monk and Fireman Addi-
son were killed in a railway wreck near
Joplin. Mo.
Mrs. Carrie Nation has been released
from jail in Wichita, Kan, on bail.
President Mckinley reviewed floral
parade at Los Angeles, Cal. The city
was beautifully decorated in honor of
the visitors.
Expulsion of Italians from lola,
Kan, in a labor fight is to be investi-
gated by the Italian government.
Fight of rival syndicates to control
Northern Pacific caused wild panic
in the New York stock exchange,
sending that stock up to $1,000
share and causing drop of 10 to 35
points in other securities. Many spec
ulators were ruined.
locomotive trust is to be formed
of leading concerns in the country.
Scott r. Wellington was arrested in
Chicago, charged with proposing mar
riage TO over score of women and
obtaining their jewelry.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 10th aggre-
gated $3,413, ,46S, 591, against $3.O33, ,4O0,-
s7S the previous week. The increase
compared with the corresponding
week of 1900 was 1912.
There were 1s7 business failures in
the United States in tine seven days
ended on the 10th, against 1G3 the
week previous and 1872 the correspond
ing period of 1900.
BY the explosion of an engine boiler
at Mount Dallas, Pa, A. S. Berkstress-
cr, engineer; Charles Hollingshead.
conductor; John Richie, and Fireman
Thomas Edwards were killed.
The steamer Bon Voyage was burned
and five members of the Altman fam
lily, of Lanrium, Mich, grandmother,
mother and three daughters, We're
drowned.
The Twenty-ninth inihntry, United
States volunteers, was mustered out
at San Francisco.
An American syndicate is forming
to sell coal in France.