Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-11-29
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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


In a wreck on the Santa Fe near the
Needles, Cal, at least 10000 letters
were burned.
Four trainmen were killed and seven
injured in head-end collision at
Hughes Siding, Ala.
Alabama's new constitution will be-
come effective Thanksgiving day, No
vember 2s.
Fire destroyed five business blocks
at Frankfort. Ind.
Nicholas Muller, of the Seventh New
York district, has resigned as member
of congress because of i'll health.
Burglars secured $1,000 at the post
Office in Duncansville, Pa.
An unknown man at Pittsburg, Pa,
jumped into a furnace filled with
molten metal.
The rule of the railroads in charging
excess fare on fast trains between Chi
cago and New York is likely to be abol-
ished.
Gov. Van SAINT, of Minnesota, has
written to the governors of other
northwestern states, asking their as
sistance in his fight against the Hill
railway combination.
Gov. Hunt, of Porto Rico, who is in
this country on vacation, says that
the people are enjoying great pros
perity and are not only acquiescing
in American rule, but they are becom-
ing enthusiastically American.
Students of Wabash college, at
Charlottesville, Ind, revolted because
of the refusal of the faculty to OBJ
serve Founders day, and locked the
president in his room.
Western members of congress be-
lieve n new department of commerce
will be established.
Michigan game warden seized 1s
miles of new trout nets in Lake
Michigan belonging to the A. Booth
company, of Chicago.
One thousand drunken men held a
street parade at Syracuse, n. Y.
The Whitney grand opera house at
Detroit, Mich, was partially destroyed
by fire.
Twenty-three bodies have been
taken from the Smuggler-Union mine
at Telluride, Col.
Whisky distillers will urge congress
to reduce the tax from $1.10 to 70
cents gallon, thus representing to
them a saving of $60,000,000.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing, houses in the United States DUR
ing the seven days ended on the 22d
aggregated $2,430, $4,000, against $2,.
529,S67, 1853 the previous week. The in
crease compared with the correspond.
ing week of last year was 81.
There were 223 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 22d, against 221 the
week previous and 215 the correspond.
ing period of last year.
The state law prohibiting ticket
scalping was declared unconstitution.
al by the New York court of appeals.
One man was fatally hurt and two
girls injured by the fall of an ele
vator in ST. Joseph, Mo.
William ID. Brookman, Chicago
printer, who thought he had fatally
wounded his wife with bullet fired
at burglar in a dream, committed
suicide.
A report on railway labor in the
United States shows that railways in
this country employ nearly 100000
people.
The contest over the Office of attor.
ney general in Kentucky has ended in
the seating of Clifton j. Pratt (rep.).
Other northwestern states will
join Minnesota in the fight against
the consolidation of railroads in thai
section.
Admiral Schley declined the Offer
of Knoxville (Tenn.) paper to raise
a fund to pay for his court of in
quiry expenses.
A Burlington stock train broke il
two near Walnut, ILL.,, killing one mar
and injuring nine.
James Wynn returned to life at Ok
ford, Ala, just as his encofiined body
was being lowered into the grave.
Manufacturers in convention a
Washington declared for reciprocity Il
IL does not hurt home industries ant
stand by the principle of protection.
George Trapp, u union picket at thu
Allis-Chambers plant in Chicago, wa
shot and killed while attacking non
union employe