Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-01-10
A WEEKS RECORD
All 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
DOME STIC.

$50, against 1O,S33 failures IN 19UO, with
liabilities of l74.113.256.
Crowds attending the New Years re-
ception at the white house broke all
records, President Roosevelt shaking
the hands of s,100 persons.
The Young triplets, the Oldest in the
world celebrated their forty-fifth
birthday anniversary in Chicago with
big family dinner.
Tomas Estrada Palma, in his home
at Central Valley, N. V, received the
news of his election to the presidency
of the republic of Cuba.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Gorton, an aged
couple, were burned to death at their
residence near Litchfeld, Minn.
Eugene Hector, a newspaper man,
shot and killed a highwayman who
held him up on a street in Chicago.
Emperor William has invited Miss
Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the pres
ident, to christen his new racing yacht,
now under construction on Staten Is
land.
In the first ice yacht race of the
season three persons were injured, one
fatally, at Madison, Wis.
An increase of from to 12 per cent.
in the wages of $4,000 trainmen is soon
TO be announced by the Pennsylvania
Railroad company.
Seth Low took charge of the Office
of mayor of New York, the change
of administrations being without
special ceremony.
Marconi hopes soon to have wire
lac ;,a l,a4 ,1, 4
and America.
The San Francisco mint in 1901
converted $s1 ,O72, 800 from bullion in
TO coin, breaking all previous rec
ords.
The public debt statement issued
on the Cd shows that the debt de-
creased Ss,643,1 1872 during the month
of December. The cash balance in
the treasury was 1921 ,6O3,27s. The
total debt, less the cash in the treas
ury, amounts to $1,011 ,62S,2S6.
Five persons were killed by an ex-
plosion in railroad roundhouse at
Macon, Ga.
Judge L. S. Elliott, of Milwaukee,
aged so, dropped dead while playing
whist.
w. Murray Crane took the oath of
office as governor of Massachusetts
for his third term.
One of the new compound locomo-
tives used by the Chicago, Nilwau-
kee & st. Paul railway made the run
from Chicago to Milwaukee, SIS 2-10
miles, in 81 minutes.
The circulation of national bank
notes on December 81 was S360,2S9,-
726, being an increase of $40, ,551
during the IL months ended that
date.
The Rochester (N. " theological
seminary earned n gift of 100000 by
J. ID. Rockefeller by duplicating it.
The Search,ight hotel al Searchlight,
New, was destroyed by fire and Mrs.
Bullock and two children were ere
mated
The total coinage at the mints dur
ing the past year was $134 ,G93,770, of
which $101,735,1s7 was gold, $50 0,s3s, 400
silver and 50 800 1872 minor coins.
The Naval Register just issued makes
the strength of the navy 225 ships,
with GO under construction.
The Eyerett-Moore syndicate, con-
trolling many electric railway lines
and telephone companies in Ohio and
Michigan, has passed into the control
of committee of Cleveland bankers.
President Roosevelt gave his first
state dinner at the white house.
\ Memphis undertaken Claims to
have discovered embalming fluid which
will keep bodies forever.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the seven days ended on the Sd aggre-
gated 5000 ,613, ,162, against 81 1,s4O616,-
446 the previous week. The increase
compared with the corresponding week
of last year was 9.4.
There were 210 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sd, against $50 the week
previous and 237 the corresponding pc.
riod of last year.
John Robinson, a negro, was hanged
at Dublin, Ga, for assaulting and mur'
dering negro woman.
Fire at Catoosa, l. T., burned nearly
every business building in the town.
Capt. Leary, former governor OF
Guam, was promoted to rear admira
the day before his death, but he never
knew ii.
The sheriff of Natrona county
Wyo., was killed in battle with four
outlaws who had escaped from jail
at Casper.
Bradstreet's review of trade says
traders are highly pleased with the
business of the old year and have
much confidence in the new.
The will of Frank II. Peavey, the
Minneapolis elevator king, disposes OF
an estate estimated at $2,350000 in
hundreds of bequests.