Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-03-29
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.
The NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

An explosion in mine at Glover.
land, Ind, fatally burned Alfred Re.
flitt, Albert Harris, Ithel Harris and
Thomas Harris.
Isaac Marlowe and William Stamm
farmers, were blown TO atoms by an
explosion of dynamite near Kokomo,
Ind.
The first discovery of oil in the
southern portion of West Virginia
was made in a 30O-barrel oil well
drilled at Milton.
japanese railroad officials compared
American and English facilities and
decided to buy Yankee engines.
A project is on foot to unite all
the coal operators of Illinois under
one management, with capitaliza-
ton of $75oO0,0OO
ID. f. Thompson, nominee of the re-
publican caucus for United States
senator, failed of election in the Ne
braska legislature.
III. Barringer Cox, an indianapolis
scientist, says he has discovered the
law for measuring interstellar spaces.
Three million boxes of oranges are
rotting in California orchards owing
to lack of shipping facilities.
Fire almost entirely destroyed the
village of Tiptonville, Tenn.
Attorney General Griggs expects to
retire from the cabinet on April l. to
be succeeded by p. c. Knox, of Pitts
burgh, Pa.
Albert w. Wishard has been ap-
pointed United States district attor-
ney for Indiana, and II. c. Petit
United States marshal for the same
state.
Mrs. Norris Paul confessed in Chi
cago that she taught her children to
steal.
AS the result of storm more than
a mile square of the Menominee valley
in Wisconsin was under five to six
feet of water.
Jerry Bell, negro. was lynched at
Terry, Miss, for robbery.
fl. c. Henderson, n prisoner in the
Dallas (Tex) Jail, says he is one of
the Cudahy kidnapers.
The body of Mae Comstock. of Ben
ton Harbor, Mich, the missing music
student, was found in the lake in Chi
cago. She had taken her own life.
w. 5. Eden, manager of the Great
Northern hotel in Chicago, filed a pc
tition in bankruptcy, scheduling liza
bilities of S1,327,36 and assets $780,
Ill.
Jacob Marr, a farmer living eight
miles from Clinton, Me-, killed his
three children with an AK. No cause
is known for the deed.
The warehouse of j. S. Ford, John
son d Co., chair manufacturers, was
destroyed by fire in Chicago. Loss,
100000.
Mrs. Naramore, of Cold Brook, Mass,
while insane murdered her six chill
dren, but failed in an attempt to end
her own life.
Congressman returning from Cuba
report the political outlook as promis-
ing.
The battleship Massachusetts dis
obeyed her rudder and went hard
aground near Pensacola, Fla.
EN-President Harrison left SIC. 600 In
life insurance.
The Central Passenger association
granted one-cent rate to the G. A. r.
encampment at Cleveland, o.
The steamboat City of Poughkeepsie
ran on the rocks and sunk at Stony
Point, N. y. All on board were saved.
The property loss is $15O,OOO.
1t is denied at the white house that
ex-senator Wolcott, of Colorado, is to
be secretary of the interior.
The Minnesota legislature passed a
Dill prohibiting the manufacture, sale
or giving away of cigarettes in the
state.
Portland, Mich, was under water be-
cause of an ice gorge in Grand river.
Four Pegroes were killed in a mine |
near birmingham, Ala, by the fall
ing of are.
Mrs. Carrie Nation has signed a
contract for six lectures in Cincin-
natl at 500 for each lecture.
The exchanges at the leading clear
Ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 22d aggre-
gated S2,416,792, 403, against So. .lO5. Ply
lO9 the previous week. The increase
compared with the corresponding
week of 1900 WAS 51.2.
There were .2+ business failures in
the ohlted States In the seven days
ended on the 22d, against 2O9 the
week previous and 1873 the correspond
ing period of 1900.
Gov. Voorhees, has signed bill di-
viding New Jersey into ten, instead of
eight, congressional districts.
Milo Gregory, aged 26 years, was
hanged at Kenneth, Mo-, for the MUIR
der of his employer, Joseph Covert,
February 20, 1899.
A race for $4,000 will be trotted by
Charley Herr, Cresceus and Boralma at
keadville. Mass, in September.
Charles Pfeifer fell dead in Brook
lyn, N. y, while going for doctor
for his mother. The mother was dead
when the doctor arrived.