Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-10-28
IN EW S NOTES.
lpoiNes IN THE BUSY WORLD
cHRoNlcLED.
Items Gathered from the Different
Sections of the United
States and For
elen Lands.

luuS ONSl puDllC lllEIlN dJ .
has been taken by the Automobile
khat organization have indefinitely
suspended a well known New York
hutomoblist who established a record,
I'm June last, between Boston and New
York, negotiating 245 miles in six
hours, 55 minutes.
The Russian authorities have been
nnofficlally assured that the report
that the United States contemplated
rendering its good offices in the inter-
est of the restoration of peace in the
FAR east is untrue. The assurance was
received with satisfaction.
Fire at Nashville, Tenn, destroyed
the new freight sheds of the Nash
yille, Chattanooga & st. Louis rail-
way and their contents, entailing a
loss estimated at 100000, with no in
Burance.
A definite step has been taken to-
wards the amalgamation of the Free
baptist church of America with the
Disciples of Christ, the Christian
church.
A theft of jewelry valued at $4,000
has been reported to the Chicago po-
lice by H. D. Hirsch, of San Francisco
He said the jewels were stolen from
his wife while coming to Chicago
from Cleveland. Mrs. Hirsch carried
her jewels in a chamois bag which
was fastened about her throat. The
car in which the couple were travel
ang was searched, but no trace of the
gems was found.
After Il search which lasted four
days and was taken up by the police
OF the five Doroughs OF Greater New
York, Miss Ray Singer, ~ years old
was found locked in q closet within
less than a block of her home in
East New York. She had been I'M
prisoned four days without food or
water.
The business of buying Oregon and
Washington wheat for shipment to
Chicago and other eastern markets
has ceased The railroad companies
cannot supply enough cars to handle
the traffic and consequently business
practically is at a standStill. 1t is es-
fimated that from 12,500000 to 15,000,-
600 bushels already have been sold.
Unconsolable over the loss of his
1avorite son, and an exile from the
fatherland because he had shot and
wounded a German army officer, who,
he believed, caused his sons ueath,
Adam Engelhart, a veteran of the
Franco-Prussian war, shot himself
dead in a tenement house where he
lived in New York City Engelhart
was 81 years old. Before taking his
life he pinned on his breast all of his
five medals received for bravery dur
ing the Franco-P -Prussian war.
George SDoor, aged 16 years, of
Galeton. Pa, was shot and instantly
killed at that place by Carl Carlson, a
friend. Carlson was an Indian and
Sroor a cowboy in Wild West show.
Rev. Charles G. Adams, whose
death by suicide is reported from San
Francisco, was at one time pulpit
orator of prominence in the east. He
was born 81 years ago and was Or
rdained an Episcopal minister in 1875
at Catsllll, N. Y. Owing to his bril-
liant oratorical powers his rise was
rapid, but reports that he had become
a drug victim finally led to Ada:as'
leaving the pulpit and his removal TO
California.
Margaret Gallagher, residing three
miles south of Pittsford, N. " died
recently at the age of 104 years. The
cause of death was old age.
Because her husband chilled at the
altar rail and she proposed a platonic
alliance with her husband, Viola Son.
dine, an heiress to millions, has REIN
bursed Irvine Flickling for the money
he spent in furnishing home for her
The supreme court of New York has
declared their marriage annuled, on
the ground that the bride committed a
fraud in the marriage contract. Thus
for the first time in New York state
and the second time in the United
States husband is awarded damages
for marital expenses.
"Othello, Moor of Venice" the only
known complete copy of the first issue
of Charles Lambs juvenile tale, has
been sold at auction in New York
City. 1t brought $3.50. This story
combined with others, was reprinted
to form the Tales from Shakespeare
written by Lamb and his sister Mary
Eleanora Woodcock, II years old
daughter of Richard Woodcolk, a
wealthy farmer living near Waterloo
ILL.,, has been murdered by an uniden-
titled man, who, finding her alone al
hone, cut her throat and dragged heI
body to nearby field, where he
placed 1t under a pile of straw, tc
4he corpse. The girls body was partly
destroyed when found.
A portion of the store of the Durand
& Kasper Co., wholesale grocers, al
Chicago, was destroyed by fire the
other night, entaiing loss of $780,,
900. Two firemen were seriously but
not fatally injured.
Maurice c. Pike. G7 years old, once
widely known as an actor, is dead or
Hart's Island, N. Y, where he was
serving sentence of six months fol
vagrancy His first role was played IN
a Bowery theatre so years ago. Three
months ago the old man was found
sleeping in hallway and was sen.
fenced to six months Imprisonment.
Because of drought planters and
stock raisers near Montgomery, Ala.
are In serious plight. No rain has
fallen since September and in some
places wells and springs have run dry
necessitating the hauling OF water foI