Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-04-11

spending week of last year was 23.1.
There were 176 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 4th, against 206 the
week previous and 1873 the CORE
spending week of last year.
The Virginia constitutional conven-
tion adopted clause barring ne
groes from registration.
The Iowa house voted to grant
pardon to John Wesley Elkins, who
killed his father and mother in 1880.
Clinton Dotson was hanged at Deer
Lodge, Mont, for participation in the
murder of his father.
Harry Preston, plumber shot and
killed his wife and then killed himself
at Toledo, o. He was under the infiu
ence of liquor.
The president has ordered an inquiry
into the alleged British military camp
at New Orleans.
Earl Kohl and Lily and Lizzie Ship
man were killed by the cars near Kilt
ridge, Ill.
Fifty railroads for the third week of
March show an increase of 5.S1 per
cent. in gross earnings.
A new merger suit against the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific roads
has been begun by the state of Minne-
sofa in the state courts.
Weekly trade reviews report that la
Dor disturbances interrupt production
and delay new enterprises.
Clyde Felt, Is years old, confessed
to killing Samuel Collins, watchman
at mines near Warm Springs, Utah.
The watchman wished to die and
forced Felt to cut his throat.
The Massachusetts, supreme court
rules that losers in bucket-shop trans
actions may recover.
Frank Sargent, president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
has accepted the position of commits
sioner general of immigration.
The United States Savings and Loan
company, with headquarters at st.
Paul, has gone into liquidation. Liza
bilities and assets are Ss00,000 each.
Moses Robertson, a negro, who killed
Deputy Sheriff jenkins at Pablo Beach,
Fla, was hanged. at Jacksonville.
Burglars got away with jewels
valued at $4,000 belonging to Mrs. L.
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| The excise law was enforced more
vigorously in Greater New York than
on any Sunday since Theodore Roose-
velt's time. Over $500 saloons were
closed, but 1900 Raines law hotels re-
mained open and obeyed the law.
Cardinal Gibbons, at the silver ju-
bilee celebration of the pope in Bal
timore, said the strength of the
United States is due to Providence
and love of free institutions.
President Draper, of the University
of Illinois, and his wife were thrown
from their carriage by runaway ac-
cident at Champaign and the former
had his leg broken.
A negro at Tuscumbia, Ala, sought
by the sheriff killed two persons, IA
tally wounded three and seriously
wounded four more. He was then
shot and thrown into burning build
ing.
One man was killed and five injured
in n wreck on the Grand Trunk near
Lansing, Mich.
Rich gold strikes are reported in
three mines near Pony, Mont, where
ore assaying from $50 to S175 n ton
is said to have been uncovered.
Treaties with Nicaragua and Costa
Rica authorizing the United States to
build the isthmian canal and convey
ing a perpetual lease of a strip of ter
ritory are expected to be signed in
Washington this week.
A statement of the department OF
agriculture shows that American
farm products to the value of $685.,
100000 were exported in 1901, while
agricultural imports amounted to
$392 100000
A summary of special reports from
the entire wheat region shows that
an enormous area has been seeded
and crop condition indicates that
even last years record-brealling yield
may be surpassed.
Lawton (Okla.) tried to expel ne
groes. White and black residents
collected in two armies. Forty ne
groes were driven out and battle
is expected. Fort Sill troops may bs
sent.
The plant of the Albert Schindel
carriage works at Cincinnati burned
causing $4,000 loss.
Jewels valued at over 81, 900 lost 10y
Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beal, of Wash
ington, on train en- route to Flor
ida, have been returned to her.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Democrats in the Thirteenth In
diana district have nominated Franl
L. Herring for congress.
Junius Henri Browne, widely
known author and journalist, died il
New York.
Mrs. Esther Morris, the first woman
justice of the peace in Wyoming, dice
at Cheyenne, aged IS years.
Under the name of the allied people
party of the United States a new polit
, ical organization has been formed il
Louisville, KY, composed of reform
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