Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-05-02

ing the seven days ended on the 25th
aggregated $2,6s5, 5,159,526, against
81, ,541, ,S41, ,707 the previous week. The
decrease, compared with the corre-
spending week of last year, was SO.
Fire almost wiped out the village of
Hobbs, Ind.
The senate committee on Cuba has
decided to investigate the charge
that the sugar trust holds the great
er portion of the Cuban sugar crop.
A strike of gold ore in Montana is
said to assay from $5t to $2s,000 to
the ton.
Severe windstorms in several states
in the Missouri valley cause losses
of life and destruction of property
Three were killed ut Joplin, Mo-, and
five fatally injured. Omaha reports
one fatality.
Custar, o., an oil town of 500 inhab
itants, has been totally dstroyed by
fire.
William Rogers, aged 72, killed his
granddaughter, Miss Mary Awfield,
aged 30, and committed suicide near
Butler, Tex.
Berry Howard, alleged principal in
the Goebel assassination, has been de-
clared not guilty by the jury at Frank
fort, Ky.
Four men charged with flooding the
country with spurious dollars, dimes
and nickels have been arrested in Cald-
WE'LL Kan.
Frank Miller, George Moore and
Frank Halster were asphyxiated in a
room in a hotel at Coney Island, n. Y.
Julius Gibbs, a negro, was hanged
at Florence, S. c., for assault on a
young married woman month ago.
Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade
reports that railway earnings for
April increased 5.2 per cent. over last
year.
Gen. ]. S. Clarkson, of Iowa, has
taken the oath of office as surveyor of
customs of the port of New York.
Congressman HIT has asked the
house for an appropriation for minis
| ter, consul general and consuls in Cuba,
the salary of the minister to be $1O,-
900.
Senator Mooney, of Mississippi, was
arrested in Washington, charged with
assault upon street car conductor.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended April 81 were: Pittsburg, .77s;
Chicago, 667; Philadelphia, $50; Bos-
ton, 500; New York, 500; Cincinnati,
300; st. Louis. $50.
Patrick H. O'Donnell, James l. Brady
and Cyrus S. Simons, Chicago attor-
neys, have been indicted for jury brib-
ing.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the American league for the
week ended April 81 We're: Washing
ton, $50; Chicago, .667; Detroit, .667;
Baltimore, $50; Boston, 400; Cleve-
land, 400; st. Louis, 400; Philadel-
phia, 1888.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, in
an address before the Americus club
at Pittsburg, predicted a Greater
United States.
Four more bodies have been taken
from the steamer City of Pittsburg
wreck near Cairo, ILL.,, making 40
bodies removed to date.
The spotted fever scourge in the
Bitter Root valley in Montana has re-
suited in eight deaths in week.
On Long Island 105 miles in two
hours and 90 minutes is the automo-
bile record established by j. E. Wing.
A wireless telegraph test at Roanoke
island by the American system showed
| that messages can be sent 200 miles out
| to sea.
In Boston dentists and photogra-
piers have been added to the list of
on Sunday.
Thorough inquiry into conditions in
the meat industry shows that cattle
shortage is slight.
Statistics prepared by Carroll d.
Wright show a marked increase in the
cost of living during the last three
years.
Secretary Root has returned to
Washington from Cuba after making
arrangements for the transfer of the
island May 90.
Fire in the business district of Glens
Falls, N. Y, caused loss of $500,o0O.
The schooner Barllow foundered in
Lake Erie near Put-in-Bay and Capt.
Robert Pardy, of Marine City, and his
wife and stepson were drowned.
The eightieth anniversary of the
birthday of Gen. U. S. Grant was cele-
brated in many places throughout the
country.
Five men were bIown to atoms by
a powder explosion at Krebs, Pa.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Robert II. Hit has been renominat-
ed by acclamation for congress by the