Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-02-26

all Mr.. Creighton has given to the in
stitution in cash and valuable prop
erty about S75O,00o.
About $1,000 worth of jewelry and
$50 in cash has been stolen from the
hotel apartments of Postmaster Gen
eral Payne at Washington.
A supply of whisky smuggled into
ColfaX, ILL.,, to be used in political
celebration was discovered by the
temperance women of that place.
They marched into restaurant
where the liquor was stored and emp
tied it into the gutter. ColfaX is
prohibition community.
Diamond dealers at New York have
been advised from Amsterdam and
Antwerp that, owing to the strike of
5000 polishers, stones are likely to be
scarce and higher prices are expect
ed.
An explosion at the Latin & Rand
powder mills at Wayne, n. j., caused
the death of three men. Three mills
were wrecked.
Fourteen employees of celluloid
comb factory at Paris lost their lives
in fire which was started by an eX-
plosion of gas. About 20 other en-
ployes were injured.
The Abbot, 2:O3A, John j. Scan
nell's celebrated 10-year-old trotter,
is dead at the Scannell stock farm at
Fishllill Landing, n. y, after being
sick two days.
The postotfice department has be-
gun crusade against the printing of
Objectionable advertisements and
stories in newspapers and periodicals
throughout the country.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, Samuel C.
Hazard, alias Hargreave, West
Pointer and former army officer, who
was convicted of bigamy, has been
sentenced to two years in the peni
tentiary.
The siX-story buildings at 424 to
1870 Main street, Cincinnati, occupied
by the Baron-Boyle Co., dealers in
glass and painters supplies, and by
&. S. Ellis & Sons, dealers in sad
dlery and ehicles, were burned with
a total loss of 100000.
The Iowa supreme court has de-
cided that n tramp has rights which
a trainman must respect, affirming
decision i'll which Joseph Johnson Sc
cured Judgment for injuries sustain
ed by reason of forcible ejectment
from a moving train.
After escaping n death sentence on
the ground of alleged insanity.
Nathan Breen, of Chicago, convicted
of the murder of his sweetheart,
Irene Donner, admitted that his APP
parently insane actions during the
trial were all sham. Breen was SEN
n I ~, hA
tiary.
Postmaster General Payne has re-
ceived the resignation of Perry S.
Heath as secretary of the republican
national committee and accepted it.
The duties of Secretary Heath will
devolve on Elmer Dover, the assist
ant secretary of the committee, until
the committee meets a few days be-
fore the national convention.
President Roosevelt was the re-
cipient of the last letter written by
Senator Hanna. 1t was written on
| the Tuesday prior to his death and
was a personal note acknowledging
the presidents thoughtruiness in eX-
pressing his personal interest in the
senator's sickness. The letter is to
be photogra phed for preservation.
Both England and France are try
ing to buy four or five warships,
says dispatch from Valparaiso. The
English bid is the better one. 1t is
also rumored that England has made
proposal to buy all the Chilean
squadron excepting three French
built ships.
The populist party will nominate
| presidential candidate. 1t has de-
cided not to fuse with another great
party in 1904, and agreed to eliminate
Bryan and ignore Roosevelt. This de-
cision was reached at the recent con-
ference of the middle of the road.
ers" and fusion" branches of the
party, held at St. Louis.
\ telegram from Tsinan-Fu, China,
says that hundreds of lives have been
lost by the bursting of a dam on the
HoangHo river.
Work to aid miners in locating
radium in America has begun in the
! laboratory at the University of Chi
cago. Prof. Robert A. Mllkan,
known among American scientists as
an authority on this rare metal, is
the eNperimenter.
George a. Hall, for 25 years New
York state secretary of the Young
Mems Christian Association, died at
Montclair, n. j., recently, aged G6
years. He had for several years been
"A member of the international COM
mittee of the y. NJ. c. \.
Fred Sigler, an Omaha carpenter
who shot Mrs. Julia Smith because
she would not marry him, died at II
hospital in st. Louis as the result of
self-intlicted wounds. Mrs. Smith
will probably recover.
The battleship Kentucky, flagship
of the American Asiatic fleet, has
been ordered to Hong Kong, where
she will be docked for the purpose Of
making minor repairs. 1t is prob
able that Admiral Evans will have the
remainder of the battleship squad
ron accompany him to Hong Kong.
Cyrus Il. McCrady, cashier of the
First national bank and treasurer of
the Cooperative Building and Loan
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