Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-10-07
m EWS NOTES.
DoINGS IN THE BUSY WORLD
cHRoNlcLED.
Items Gathered from the Different
= Sections of the United
States and For
eign Lands.

Methodist bishop in Africa, has deliv-
cred a striking address at Richmond,
Ind. Bishop Hartzell declared he
hoped to see the time when the Amer
fcan flag should float over a portion of
African territory and that Africa can
be divided by the great nations OF the
earth without war.
The supreme court of Wisconsin has
rendered a decision holding that, un-
der Wisconsin laws, the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks is not a
benevolent organization, and here
fore any property 1t holds is not ex-
empt from taxation under the statu-
tory provisions exempting benevolent
associations.
Eighty negroes, 80 of them women,
have arrived at Harrodsburg, KY,
from South Fork, KY, which place
they were ordered by the whites to
leave because one of the negroes
stabbed farmers wife. 1t is report
ed that the white woman is dead. The
negro men were working on a railroad
near South Fork.
Acting Secretary of State Loomis
has cabled Consul General John Good
NOW, at Shanghai, China, permission
to return Immediately to the United
States to answer charges preferred
against him Of maladministration of
the affairs in his office.
George Ehle, an American engineer,
with a party OF young college gradu-
ates, in four months has made discov-
cries about the Panama canal which
the French engineers failed to make
in Is years. His information makes
1t possible to solve the battling prob
lem of the Chagres river freshets by
diverting the stream to the Pacific
coast. 1t also releases $20,000,0G0 for
excavating sea level waterway.
There has been plentiful fall OF
fine ashes or sand in southern Italy,
which is attributed to the eruption of
Mount Vesuyius or to the strong winds
from the African desert.
serious scourge of typhoid fever
is reported from Finleyville, Pa, 10
miles from Pittsburg. Out of a total
population Of 1000, 40 cases are re-
ported.
Once wealth and with a host of
friends among prominent and wealthy
men in this country, Charles Y. Yea
ton, the inventor, is dead at the New
York Home for Incurables, charity
patient. Paralysis, from which he had
suffered two years. caused death.
kYeaton invented number of ma
chimes, among which was a typeset-
ting machine-the first ever offered
dor sale.
Survivors of the General Slocum ex-
cursion steamer fire and those who
were bereaved by the horror of last
June to the number of 800, have held
a meeting to protest against the de-
cision rendered by the steamboat in
spectors in their recent investigation.
Resolutions were adopted denouncing
the report of Inspectors James A. Du-
mont and Thomas H. Barrett and call
ing for the punishment of those re-
sponsible. The organization repre-
Sents 300 survivors and the families
of 600 dead.
Reports from the Clearwater river
country in Montana indicate that the
havoc wrought by the recent forest
fires in that district are greater than
was at first supposed. Considerable
timber and mine property was destroy
ed. Deer, bear and other game, driven
from their haunts in the mountains by
smoke and fire, were suffocated and
hundreds of their carcasses are strewn
in the valleys
The American government has been
formally requested to extend it's recog-
milton to new state on this hemi-
sphere, the same being ''the Free State
of the Counani." This is the small bit
of territory wedged between the bor-
der of French Guiana and Brazil,
claimed by both nations, but decided
Inv n q arhit trat 10 ha1nnu m
The state entomologist of Minnesota
has discovered in shipment of Caro-
lima poplars from New York state
the beetle known as the alder and will
low borer, introduced from England
some years ago. He says every means
should be taken by nurserymen and
others interested to stamp out this
pest before it gains a foothold.
Married to the secretary of the first
vice president of the Philadelphia &
Reading railroad three weeks ago,
with their honeymoon trip just ended,
Mrs. Mary Lands met death by falling
from the third story of her home in
Philadelphia. She was arranging a
lace curtain, lost her balance and
plunged head first, striking the fence.
Just previous to the closing of its
annual meeting the Missouri grand
lodge of Masons sustained the action
OF its subordinate lodge in expelling
from membership certain former
members of the st. Louis municipal
assembly who have been convicted of
boodling. The grand lodge officers de-
clined TO make public the names of
the men whose cases were acted upon.
The Japanese refugees who lived in
Russian territory at the outbreak of
the war will be sent across the Ger
man frontier October ] on their way
to Japan. The refugees consist mainly
of merchants and laborcrs from East
Siberia. They have been detained un-
der surveillance since the war broke
out, but the Russian government did
not interpose difficulties to their pres
ent movement homewards.