Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-11-07
Edmund Bersch. former member of

the house of delegates, was found
guilty of perjury in st. Louis, and
given five years in the penitentiary.
Cresceus lowered the worlds two
mile record by trotting two miles in
4:17 at Memphis, Tenn
There were 233 business failures in
the United States during the week
ended on the 3lst ult., against 232 the
same week in 1901.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the seven days ended on the 31st ult.
aggregated $2,1o2,7 ,7j6, sos. The in
crease, compared with the correspond
ing week of last year, was "A.
Four workmen were killed by gas in
a tunnel at Niagara Falls.
Gen. Gillespie. chief engineer of the
Uuited States army, in his annual re-
port urges the necessity of providing
defenses for the great lakes.
The nineteenth annual report of the
United States civil service commits
sion for the last fiscal year shows that
62,029 persons were examined for
places and 1883 persons appointed.
A new direct steamship service is o
be established between New York and
China and Japan.
Six soldiers died during the home
ward voyage of the transport Sheridan,
which arrived in San Francisco with
1,011 troops from Manila.
II. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review says
that speculation waits upon politics,
hut laf l. Il Sc
turbed by the approaching election.
The Morgan opera house at Sharon,
Pa. was completely ru:ned by fire.
Stanley Buford and Don Neal were
killed and Ernest Rousch fatally in
jured by an engine at Lafayette, Ind.
The boys, who had run away from
Watseka, ILL.,, were asleep on the
track.
Three trainmen were killed by a
Baltimore & Ohio locomotive explo-
sion near Baltimore.
President Roosevelt and party vis-
tied the battlefield of Cedar Noun
tain, Va, where an informal recep-
tion was held.
The statement of government re-
ceipts and expenditures for October
shows a surplus of $4,4s7.000.
The explosion of bomb under Jo-
seph Cordeck's residence in Chicago
killed Cordeck and his two-year-old
daughter and injured Mrs. Cordeck
and seven children.
A trust with $1,O00,000 capital has
been organized to control the flower
trade.
Capt. F. P. Gilmore, U. S. N, has
been retired with the rank of rear
admiral.
A negro, whose name is unknown,
was burned at the stake at Darling,
Miss, for the murder of f. o. Jackson
and a mill owner named Roselle.
Peter Grant shot and killed his
wife at Grover, Wis, and then killed
himself. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
Marine hospital service officials
fear n spread of the bubonic plague
from San Francisco to Chicago and
other cities.
Illinois BARRIERS have formed state
protective association and will de-
mand state regulation of their trade.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt decreased
$14,739,6S2 during the month of Octo-
ber. Cash in the treasury, S356,421,- :
SIS. Total debt, less cash in the treas
ury. $95s, s,507,721.
Heatherbloom, owned by Howard
Willetts, of White Plains, n. Y,
jumped over bars seven feet eight
inches high at the Chicagohorse show,
making a new worlds record.
Fire at Larchmont, n. Y, DESTROYED
the greater portion of the business
| district.
The coal strike commission has de-
cided to begin the taking of testimony
in Scranton November IA.
A grand stand collapsed during the
Nichigan-Wisc football game at
Chicago and many persons were in
jured. Michigan won the game.
Five miners fell down a coal shaft It
Newton, Ia, and were fatally injured
A Northwestern train killed Frank
and Louis Schultz and Charles and
James Woodrich at Algonquin, Ill.
Investigation of the mysterious
death of seven inmates of the Marion
| Ind.) soldiers home in the last two
weeks has been begun by the authori-
ties.
The Annapolis Naval academy
course has been cut from four to three
wears because of need for officers.