Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-06-17

house at Nogales, Ariz., as well as the
Southern Pacific and the Sonora rail-
road depots. The Wells, Fargo & Co.'S
express office was gutted. Many
freight cars in the yards were burned.
The total loss is estimated at 100000.
Gilbert p. Dodge, livery keeper, of
Pueblo, Col, shot and killed his wife
and Mrs. Mckinney on the principal
business street of that city.
The National Rife association has
decdeA to return to England the Pal
mh trophy which the American team
won at the Bisley shoot last Septem-
ber, because of the charges made that
the American team violated q rule of
the contest in using a rifle slightly
different from that used by the regu-
lar army of this country.
The project begun by the Chicago
American for the celebration of
sane Fourth of July" by subscription
has been formally abandoned at a
meeting held for this purpose. The
funds raised were insufficient.
One of the Colorado militiamen,
while in La Junta, Col, struck Santa
Fe Ticket Agent Rachrach over the
head with a six shooter, inflicting
very bad scalp wound and threatened
to kill him.
Nine thousand six hundred and
thirty-four barrels of oil were con-
sumed as fuel in bringing the freight
steamer Nebraskan from New York
to San Francisco. The trip occupied
so days and ten hours. The oil burn
ing appliances were never out of Or
der.
Arthur Ray Stewart, wanted at
Washington by the division of insular
affairs on charge of falsifying public
records, has been arrested at San An
tonic, Tex. He was deputy collector
of Iloilo, P. l., when the alleged crime
was committed.
Judge Emory Speer, of the United
States court, has appointed Miss Mel
lie S. Walsh, of Savannah, receiver of
the bankrupt firm of Krouskess & Co.,
Savannah. This is believed to be the
first time a woman was ever appoint
ed to such a position.
The executive committee of the
worlds fair has announced the official
attendance figures for May, as fol-
lows: Paid admissions, 542,02S; ad-
missions by passes, 459,363, making
total of 1,001 ,391 persons attending
the exposition in May. The number
of workmen admitted cannot be
learned.
An award of $1S,5O0 for the loss of
an eye has been secured in the su-
perior court at Boston by Miss Bessie
Dresser of Standish, Me. While she
was a passenger on a railway train
near Taunton, Mass, piece of metal
fell from the tender of an engine,
broke the window and destroyed the
sight of her eye.
At Louisville, KY. an order allow
ing j. H. Morris the administrator of
DR.. James Craik, to sell the historic
George Washington bookcase, be-
longing to the Craik family, has been
entered by Judge Miller. The Mount
Vernon asso citation has offered $1,000
for the bookcase, with the intention OF
putting it in it's old place in the Wash
ington home at Mount Vernon.
Myrtle Berry, aged IS, a member of
the graduating class of the Peoria,
ILL.,, high school, became totally blind
while at her studies. She never was
her affiiction is temporary and could
be relieved by local treatment. This,
however, is refused, her parents not
believing in doctors.
Fifteen warrants against meat deal
ers in Philadelphia have been issued
at the instance of the state food and
dairy commissioner in his campaign
for pure meat. A list has been made
of 100 dealers who are charged with
selling meats preserved with sulphite
of soda.
!, Ralph K. Holden, a we'll known resi-
dent of Elmira, N. Y, went to his boy
hood. home in Mansfield, Pa, and
drowned himself in a creek near the
family homestead.
+ The supreme court of New Jersey
has sustained an ordinance of the
board of health of Hoboken providing
for rules to be obeyed in barber shops
to prevent contagious diseases of the
skin and which fixes the license fee
at 50.
Rodolphus Bingham, inventor of q
wheat food upon which he claimed
life could be maintained at the cost of
six and three quarters cents a day, Is
dead at Camden, n. j. He was so
years old and had spent fortune
in advancing various scientific ideas.
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, has
received official notice that he is to
make the first speech in the republic
an national convention seconding the
| nomination of Roosevelt. He will fol-
low eX-Gov. Black, of New York, who
will place the candidate in nomina-
ton.
Japan will be the ultimate destina-
tion of submarine boat which is now
being carried across the Atlantic on
the deck of the Norwegian steamer
Fortune. The boat was built by an
American firm.
Fire at Spooner, Wis, destroyed a
block and half of business houses.
Loss estimated at 100000.
Seized by sudden illness in street
car at Brooklyn, N. Y, Ruloff Smith
was taken to hospital, where the
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