Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-02-19

ously estimated at from $5OO,0o0 to
$2,000,000. She was president of sew
eral banks in southern Iowa and %
director in many others.
While digging for their stolen
treasure on the shore of Lake Michi-
gan, Henry Germur, Is years old, and
George Jensen, 16 years old, were ur-
rested by South Chicago police for
stealing 1000 pounds of silver bullion
| from the National Smelling and Re-
| fining Co. A foot berow the surface
| seven ingots of silver, each weighing
100 pounds, were found.
While experimenting with gasoline
| and volantile chemicals in an en-
dcavor to perfect an invention, A. j.
Brunson, president of the First ma
tional bank, of Plainheld, n. j., lost
the sight of both eyes.
Minister Powell has cabled the
state department that American
property interests in San Domingo
are suffering heavily as n result of
the insurrection.
William A. MCGOWAN, the default
| ing secretary of the University of
California, has been sentenced to
serve six years and IL months in San
Quentin prison.
At Butte, Mont, as the judge was
| delivering his instructions to the
| jury in the case of Alfred Beclman,
accused of murder, the accused drew
n razor and cut his throat. He fell
to the floor, fatally wounded.
Fire at Topeka, Kan, destroyed the
Parkhurst-Davis Mercantile Co.'S
building and stock, the Sells building
adjoining, occupied by the McCor-
mick Harvester Co. and w. 1. Schick
and some smaller property. Total
loss estimated at 100000. The prin-
cipal loss was sustained by the Park
hurst-Davis Co.
The officers of the Western Fedora
tion of Miners have decided to with
draw all suits now pending against
officers of the Colorado national
guard, in consequence of their acts in
connection with the strikes, and to
I bring action against Gov. Peabody at
| once.
With Lake Michigan practically
frozen over, seagulls by the tens of
thousands are starving to death be-
cause they cannot find open water in
which to catch their food. At the
| few little open patches around the
harbors they are so weakened by
| lack of food that many of them are
helpless.
William Rudolph who with George
| Collins, robbed the bank at Union,
Mo-, December &c, 1902, and who after
arrest made a sensational escape
from the officers at the Four Courts
in st. Louis, July 6, 1903, has been To-
Gated in the Kansas penitentiary,
having being sentenced for safe
robbery at Louisburg, Kan, under
the name of Albert Cory.
| The senate committee on military
affairs has ordered favorable re-
port on n bill introduced by Sena-
tor Warren authorizing 5000 medals
of honor to be presented to such Off
GERS and enlisted men as have most
distinguished themselves, or hereaf-
ter may distinguish themselves by
gallantry in action.
An attempt was made the other
night to blow up the railroad bridge
being erected for the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad across the
Naugatuck river at Ansonia, Conn.
Apparently the object was to wreck
one of the abutments and also big
travelling crane, which the contrac-
tors have placed in position for
handling girders. Little damage was
done.
The executive committee of the
Red Cross Society has issued call
for donations to be sent to the treas
urer of the American National Rel
Cross, Washington, d. c., for relief
work in the Russo-Japanese war.
Sixty Chicagoans, many of them
veterans of the SpanIsh-Americau
war, will leave this week for Japan.
Three men were killed in a land
slide and cavein of portion of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Co.'s snow
sheds a few miles from Truckec,
Cal.
Proof that anti-toxin saves hum
dreds of lives in Chicago each year is
offered by the health department in
it's weekly bulletin. The use of anti
toxin in the treatment of diphtheria
was begun by the city nine years ago,
and since that time the morality has
been 6,OSS, while during the nine
years before lass persons died. The
decrease has been 5,40O, or Al per
cent, while the population has in
creased nearly 100000, or SO per cent.
Three men were killed by the fall
of wall of building in course of
construction on East Twenty-frst
street, New York City, the victims,
who were masons, working on the
-cornice brickwork, being precipitated
13 stories to the bottom of the sub
cellar.
The Standard Oil Co. of New Jer-
sey has declared a dividend for the
last quarter of SIG share, reduc-
tion of $4 IA share from the rate paid
,at this time last year. The previous
dividend, paid on December Is last
was $12 share. The last dividend
is payable March 15.
|, The union of North Atlantic steam.
ship lines has decided to establish a
regular passenger service between
| Scandinavian ports and New York
and Boston. Eight steamers will be
auUnna1 in II and fha b,,r