Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-10-10
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.

SlO,oI5,43f during the mOntn OF sep
tember. Cash in the treasury, $371,-
253,3o4. Total debt, less cash in the
treasury, s957,415,ss7.
Former Superintendent of Police
Fred w. Ames, of Minneapolis, has
been found guilty of bribe-taking.
Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles and his
party sailed from San Francisco for the
Philippines on the transport Thomas.
President Roosevelt invited heads
of coal roads and the miners union
to meet him at the white house to
discuss means of ending the miners
strike. The invitations have been
accepted, and there is believed to be
n fair prospect of success of the
move.
The monument at the grave of
Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the presidents
mother, was dedicated at Lincoln
City, Ind. Gov. Durbin participated
in the exercises.
The presidents injured leg con-
tinues to improve and his condition
is satisfactory.
The government receipts in Septem-
Der were $4s,5s0,3s1, leaving a surplus
for the month of $11 10000
Julia Kachiny, ten years old, was
found strangled to death and buried
under a blacksmith shop at Menomi-
nee, Mich, and Joseph Beck was ar
rested on suspicion.
A Cuban land company, capitalized
mt $3,0OO,0O0, has been organized by
New York, Cleveland and Chicago
citizens to build an American city in
Cuba 40 miles from Havana.
Fred Hardy, convicted of killing
Con and Rooney Sullivan on Unmak
island June z. 1901, was hanged at
Nome. Alaska.
Naval estimates for 1904 show to.
tai of over $50, ,0000 600 and make liberal
allowances for all departments.
Postmaster General Payne has ad-
dressed circular letter to postal en-
ployes advising them to avoid any I'M
due activity in politics.
The ship combine, with an authorized
capital of $120,000,000, has filed incor-
poration papers at Trenton, N. j.
Five persons were killed by the explo-
sion of a boiler at Jesse Hinslow's mill
at Rocky Hills, Ky.
st. Louis councilman testified that
Robert nj. Snyder, banker and pro-
moter, on trial for alleged bribery, Of
fered him 100000 to vote for the Cen
trail Traction bill
The Ohio legislature has voted down
municipal home rule.
John NJ. Burke has given $4,000, 900
as an endowment for hospital for
convalescents at Marshall, Minn.
The brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers at Chicago conference de-
cided to request 10 per cent. wage
increase.
Perrine's comet is now visible to
the naked eye. Astronomers are
watching its course through the
heavens.
The monthly statement of the comp
trolier of the currency says that the
total national bank circulation out
standing amounts to $366, 1893, ,59s.
Five persons, including Engineer
Fred Pearce and Brakeman William
Miller, were killed in railway col
hsion near CORVALLIS, w. Va.
Twelve men were killed by an ex-
plosion of fire damp in the Lawson
mines at Black Diamond, Wash.
Former Superintendent of Police
Fred w. Ames has been sentenced in
Minneapolis to six years and half in
the penitentiary for accepting bribe.
The coal strike conference in Wash
1ngton between President Roosevelt,
anthracite road presidents and John
Mitchell, united mine workers. presi-
dent, failed because operators refused
to arbitrate, except with miners in
dividually; Mitchells offer to accent
arbitration by President Roosevelt
and committee appointed by president
rejected by operators, who demanded
troops to enable reopening of mines;
President Rosevelt's action now un-
certain.
Crazed by jealousy Policeman Luther
McNear killed his wife and committed
suicide at Springfield. III.
There were 164 business failures in
the United States during the week
ended on the Sd, against 2O7 the same
week in 1901.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the seven days ended on the Sd
aggregated $2,715,319,s $40. The in
crease, compared with the corre-
spending week of last year, was 26.7.
Fred and Charles Johnson, 2s and
Fl years respectively, and sons of one
of the test known residents of Wood
vile, Ind., were asphyxiated by gas.
Seventy-three schools in Chicago
depending on furnace heat will be
closed December l unless the coal
strike ends.
Burglars took $1,000 from the safe
of the bank at Norman, Neb.
Fire at Toolumne, Cal, destroyed