Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-11-14

touuticS III NlthlBuns
The Grand opera house, one of the
leading playhouses at Nashville,
Tenn, has been destroyed by fire.
Judge John II. Baker, of the United
States district court of Indiana, has
resigned
Burglars wrecked the safe and
robbed the post office at Culver, Ind,
of $1,000 in stamps.
Eleven Cuban children imported for
instruction in a school at Point Iona,
Cal, have been ordered sent back by
the New York immigration officials.
President Roosevelt is pleased at
the progress of the commission in
vestigatipg the coal strike.
Adit. Gen. Corbin in his annual re-
port favors a return to the old army
canteen, saying it is conducive to So
briefly among the soldiers.
Superintendent Machen of the rural
free mail delivery service tells of rap
id extensions, and says S24 100000 will
be needed to carry out the work now
in contemplation
Henry Watterson predicts n victory
ahead for democrats if old leaders are
shelved. Bryan he regards as sutfi-
GENTLY dead, and he comes out as fav-
oring Arthur Pue German, of Mary
land, for president.
Burglars broke into Schefer Bros
store at Sigourney, Ia, and stole $500
worth of silk and $500 worth of furs.
Nellie Corcoran, who for 20 days lay
in a mysterious state of coma in st.
Vincent's hospital, New York, is dead.
At Forest, o., James Young wound
ed Marshal John Handehy, who at
tempted to arrest him, and when pur-
sued by a crowd, thrust the muzzle of
his gun into his mouth and blew off
his head
4 man and two boys were drowned
in White Fish bay, near Alpena, Mich.
by the capsizing of sailboat.
Fearing separation and hardship,
and with the certainty of the poor
house before them, George Clark and
his wife deliberately bound them
selves together with straps and threw
themselves into the Oswego canal at
lonely spot three miles from SYRIA
cuse, n. Y.
The extensive plant of the Keystone
Driller company was almost totally
destroyed by fire at Beaver Falls, Pa.
The loss will be fully 100000.
An Indianapolis grand jury has been
instructed to investigate an alleged
coal dealers combine.
Compared with ten years ago, ex-
ports, from the United States show a
gain of nearly 200 per cent.
Composer Mascagni has been ar
rested in Boston upon complaint of
his managers, who are seeking judg-
ment for $4,000.
Harry Wilfred Dupuy, a Yale senior,
whose automobile killed Ditmas
Thorpe Munroe, of New Haven, Conn,
is said to have paid the heirs $4,000 in
settlement.
State Superintendent of Insurance
Yates filed suits against 81 fire insur-
ance concerns in Illinois on the
ground that they have not complied
with the law.
The j. p. Morgan interests took S4,-
900, 900 of unstable bonds of the
United States Shipbuilding company
to save the Trust Company of the Re-
public, of New York, from failure.
| President Roosevelt's annual mes
sage will be ready by December l. The
election results will be treated as in
dorsing his policy and demanding that
campaign promises be fulfilled. Con-
gress will be urged to consider the
trust question with view to legisla-
ton against evils. A permanent tariff
commission is TO be advised,
l. o. Perry, a Boston negro boy,
identified Alan G, Mason as the man
who gave him Miss Clara A. Morton's
watch to pawn after the latter's MUIR
der. Mason denies ever seeing Perry
before.
Superintendent Egan, of the Great
Northern railroad, who disappeared
on Tuesday while hunting near Belton,
Mont, is still missing, and friends sus-
pect train robbers have abducted him
The tracks are patrolled by locomo-
tive while search is being made by
railroad employees. The snow is three
feet deep.
The railroads of the country face a
car famine of grave proportions
threatening seriously to Interfere
with the enormous business now be.
ing transacted. Large equipment or.
ders have been placed, but the manu-
facturers are unable to meet the de.
mand for cars and locomotives.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Roswell Beardsley, of North Ian
sing, who was the oldest postmaster
in point of service in the United States
having held that position "A years
died at his home in Ithaca, n. Y, a,
the age of 93 years.
Prof. Robert C. Kedzie, dean of tn,
Michigan agricultural college and in