Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-09-05
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.

Reports of bankers throughout the
west and northwest show that crop
and business conditions are at high
water mark.
Commander Wainwright has been ap-
pointed to command the cruiser New
ark and will be succeeded as superin-
tendent of the Annapolis academy by
Capt. w. H. Bronson.
FL. II. Brinker formerly receiving
teller of the German national bank of
Pittsburg Pa, is in Jail charged with
embezzling S20,500
President Roosevelt and Senator's
Beveridge and Dolliver will address
the convention of National Republican
Clubs in Chicago October /, 3.
Mrs. John McCurdy, bride of a few
months, fearing that she was going in
sane, killed herself in Chicago by tying
her head over an open gas jet.
Five employees of the Battle Creek
(Mich.) sanitarium were drowned in
Lake Goguac as a result of collision
between a steamer and a row boat.
Home rule for cities with the right
to ownand control public utilities was
advocated by President Ashley in his
address opening the convention of
the League of American Municipalities
at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Rioting miners took possession of
the Panther creek field near Shenan-
doah, Pa, and soldiers were hurried
to the scene of disturbance.
Rear Admiral Higginson reported on
his part in the naval war game and
urged the need of wireless telegraphy.
j. r. Hunter. j. w. Woodwork, H. p
Kauffer and S. n. Bickerstaff, OF
Kalamazoo, implicated in a scheme to
defraud the state of Michigan in mill
tary supply contracts, pleaded guilty
and were fined $4,000 each.
The value of the gold output for
the past year in the United States was
$7s,066,700 and silver $33, ,12s, 400.
Six negro laborers were killed in a
wreck on the Iron Mountain road near
Illinois Station, /. Il.
President Roosevelt made two nota-
BILE speeches in Maine, the principal
one at Bangor. His principal topic
was the duties of citizenship.
Attorney General Knox who sailed
for Europe on Panama canal affairs,
said the people could abolish trusts if
they so desire.
Relatives of the late Mrs. Charles L.
Fair, of San Francisco, will receive
S500,000 and renounce all claim to the
estate of the millionaire and his wife.
In fit of Jealous rage Christian
Ganz killed Mrs. Lizzie Hall and Ar
thur W. Campbell in New York and
then committed suicide.
The report of the auditor of the in.
terror department showed the amount
paid in pensions for the year ending
June 80 last was $137, ,4OO,741.
An address on trusts by President
u. M. Rose was the feature of the
opening session of the American Bar
association at Saratoga, N. Y.
Gen. Miles says his trip to Manila
is merely for a visit to the army. He
will sail September 16.
President Horace G. Burt, of the
Union Pacific road, was arrested on n
charge of bringing men to Omaha to
take places of strikers.
On the sixth anniversary of her
husbands death Mrs. Josephine Voll.
mer killed herself and her niece in New
York city.
The government weekly crop report
says the weather has been unfavor.
able to growing plants and thrashing
and harvesting has been retarded.
Edward X. Pitman, one of the best
known democratic politicians il
southern Iowa, died at Mount Ayi
from u kick by a horse.
A justice at Keokuk, Ia, gave a
mother the custody of her children
and declarmed unconstitutional the
law permitting charitable institution.
to take them.
The visit of Gen. Nelson A. Miles
TO the Philippines is declared to b,
for the purpose of inspection.
Anthracite coal mine operators me
in New York and agreed to accep
no suggestion and to refuse all of
fers to arbitrate the strike.
The government estimate of tn,
gold output in the Klondike this yea
Is $14.000,000, compared to $4,000, ,o0
last year.