Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-06
DOME STIC.

DOMESTIC.
Gov. Yates issued proclamation
designating Saturday, June a. as Flag
day in Illinois.
Gen. Wood denies charges of wasting
funds during his administration of af-
fairs in Cuba.
Frank P. Sergeant says that soft
coal miners will strike if the anthra-
cite strike does not end in eight days.
An organization of colored men.
headed by Bishop Turner, of Georgia.
will ask congress for S5O0.oO0. COO to is
sist negroes to leave the United States.
A distinct earthquake shock in
Chattanooga, Tenn, caused houses to
tremble.
The funeral of Lord Pauncefote,
British ambassador. was held in st.
Johns Episcopal church in Washing
ton. An American warship will carry
the body to England.
Gov. Jefferson Davis, of Arkansas,
has been expelled by the Little Rock
Baptist church on charges of drunk
enness and gambling.
The tobacco trust has acquired the
three largest concerns dealing in
Cuban cigars and tobacco and will
practically control the whole Cuban
output.
Thomas A. Edison has invented n
storage battery to enable automobiles
to run 100 miles without recharging.
1t is expected that mckinley" pos
tai cards will be in the hands of all
post offices throughout the country by
July l.
Jesse L. Blount, of Fort Wayne, Ind,
trainer, was killed by an elephant in
circus at Brooklyn, y. Y. that he had
teased by burning with lighted cigar.
Gen. Filipe Buencamino, of Manila,
formerly Aguinaldo's secretary of
war, called on President Roosevelt
and said the stories of cruelties per-
petrated by our soldiers were either
wholly untrue or greatly eXagger-
ated, and also said that the civil gov
ernment was doing wonderful work
for good in the islands and that it
had been ably seconded by the army.
The forty-fourth general assembly
of the United Presbyterian church of
North America convened in Pittsburg,
Pa.
Severe storms, causing floods in
the panhandle along the Red river
in Texas, have resulted in great dau'-
age to property.
A conference was held in Cleveland
between Senator Hanna, chairman OF
the Civic Federation, and George W.
Perkins, representing j. p. Morgan
d. Co., relative to settlement of the
anthracite coal strike.
William McFetridge was found no.
guilty in Chicago of the murder OF
his brother, Robert McFetridge, and
the jury was severely scored by Judge
Kavanagh for the verdict.
Judge James NJ. Smith, of Cincin
natl, died on a train while en- route
home from the Presbyterian genera
assembly in New York.
Rare flowers We're sent by Presi
dent Roosevelt to Canton, O., to dec
crate the grave of William Mckinley
and Mrs. Roosevelt sent basket o.
flowers to Mrs. Mckinley.
A statue of President Mckinley, the
first in the world, was unveiled at Mus
kegon, Mich.
President Roosevelt, addressing wal
veterans at Arlington, said that self
government would not be granted tn,
Philippines until they had proved
themselves fit for it, and also said tha
charges of cruelty against the arm,
were as unfair as blaming the state o
Texas for the burning of negro by
mob.
Herbert and Ivy Martin and Libb,
and Lizzie Durkee were drowned nea
Martins Bluff, Ore, by the upsetting o
boat.
The war department announces tina
the military force in the Philippine
will be reduced to $4,000 men in les
than two months.
President Roosevelt will appoint
national commission to study tn
tramp problem.
immigration is now at the highes
point in the history of the Unite
States, and is said TO be due to tn
country's great commercial prosper
fly
Arthur Williams, of Manchester, \
H., United States consul at Saltillt
Mexico. died at Monterey.
Jacob Graham, 13-year-old bo
of st. Joseph, Mo-, confessed that h
killed Robert c. Hunter, aged IA.