Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-08-16
A WEEKS RECORD
All 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.


Postal receipts for the year will
show an increase of S7,Oo0,OO0, the to-
tai being nearly 100 per cent. greater
than in $780,
The warship Machias will sail at once
for Panama to guard American inter-
ests in Colombia during the revolu-
ton.
Two Dowieites who attempted to
hold street meeting in South Chicago
were driven away by mob.
Fire destroyed a livery stable and
several adjoining buildings at Port
land, Ore. Fifty horses perished.
Loss of ground by the steel strikers
is reported at various points, but
President Shaffer minimizes the sto-
ries and cites figures in behalf of the
men. Leaders on both sides assert
neither will sue for peace.
The body of murdered girl, cut to
pieces, was found in n trunk un-
earthed by street graders at South
Seattle, Wash.
A mass meeting at Fort Scott, Kan,
ordered temperance workers to leave
the city.
Prompted because of losses
through clerks, Chicago business men
organized to fight gambling at the
Harlem race track.
Ten persons were seriously injured
and others slightly hurt in a railway
wreck at Confluence, Pa.
Late wheat was damaged by frost
near Bottineau, n. ID.
A former employr of the Selby
smelling works at Vallejo, Cal, which
was looted of $2sOOOo in gold, has been
arrested as one of the thieves.
A storm at Portsmouth, n. H., Sc
verely damaged the navy yard and two
persons were killed and many injured.
Mrs. Hogan and her three children
were killed by lightning at Mount
Hennen, La.
The warships Wisconsin and Iowa
have been ordered to be in readiness
to go to Panama to protect Ameri'
can interests in the Colombian rebel
lion.
Prof. Triggs, of Chicago university
told his class in English literature
that Longfellow's poetry was trivial
and unworthy of consideration and
scored Oliver Wendell Holmes.
A thier who robbed the Washburn
Jewelry company, of Anderson, Ind.
of SO 1000 worth of goods, repented and
confessed to priest, who returned the
p.under.
Clements Buchter shot and killed
his daughter, aged 10, and fatally
wounded his wife in Louisville, Ky.
Officials of the steel companies admit
that thousands of men will obey the or
der of President Shaffer, of the Anal
gamated association, and go out, bu
deny that the tie-up will be general.
The exchanges at the leading clear
dng houses in the United States dur
y" ing the seven days ended on the 9tl
aggregated S1,932, ,529,352, against 81
793,365,296 the previous week. TIL
increase compared with the CORE
spending week of last year was $40.
There were 173 busines failures il
the United States in the seven day
ended on the 9th, against 160 tn
week previous and TT the CORE
spending period of 1900.
Preparations are being made by tn
war department to make furthe
reduction in the military force in tn
Philippine islands.
Women taxpayers in Alabama hav
been given the privilege of voting o
questions of isuing bonds or incul
ring obligations.
The entire business district of Raj
foul, ILL.,, and half dozen blocks {
residences were destroyed by fire.
September will be president
day" at the Pan-American expositio
in Buffalo.
A census bulletin gives Michiga
1,24s,905 males and 1,172,077 female
and Minnesota 032,490 males al
S1s.904 females.
The Catholic Total Abstinent
Union of America in session in Har
ford, Conn, passed resolutions col
demning the custom of treating.
Benjamin Boyce was hanged at TT
coma, Wash, for killing his wife.
Jesse Jamison, chief of the Senec
Indians. was killed in n fight on I'll
Cattaragus IN. W reservation.
The business portion of Lin
Springs, Ia, was wiped out by fire.