Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-10-21
NEWS NOTES.
polNGs IN THE BUSY WORLD
cHRoNicLED.
items Gathered from the Different
Sections Of the United
States and For-
eisn Lands.

ITulJ uealeT, was run over anu kllleu
by street car in North Montgomery,
Ala. Eye witnesses say the man de-
liberately walked upon the tracks. The
body was horribly mangled.
Jealousy on the part of boy 2h
years old against his baby sister, one
month old, led to the death of the lat
ter at the hands of the boy. The trag-
edy occurred in the family of Nicholas
Robinson at Nyack, N. Y. The boy
crushed his sisters head with a
blow from statuette.
Winnipeg, Man, was visited recent
ly by the worst fire in it's history. In
two hours two of the most important
business blocks were destroyed, en-
failing losses estimated at nearly
100000. No lives were lost.
DR.. Leo Vogel, secretary of the
Swiss legation at Berlin, who has
been appointed Swiss minister at
Washington, will be the youngest
diplomat of his rank at the American
capital. He is Al years old.
Employees of the Jeffersonville, Ind,
branch of the American Car and Foun-
dry Co. have been notified that the
plant will be closed indefinitely on No.
vember 1. About 800 men are affected.
A triple tragedy was enacted near
Plano, Tex. William Cochran, aged
81, blind, and separated from his wife,
called at the home of his mother-in-
law and met his wife in the front yard.
Cochran grabbed her and stabbed her
to death with dirk. Mrs. Jane Skel-
ten, the wife's mother, hearing the
screams of her daughter, rushed to her
and was killed in similar manner.
Cochran then killed himself with re-
volver.
The revolution in Santo Domingo is
extending. Azua De Compostela (near
the south coast) and all the depart
ments of the south have declared in
favor of Isidoro Jiminez.
Edmund Burke, 67 years old, re-
tired capitalist, shot and killed himself
at his home in Chicago. For two years
Mr.. Burke had been mentally unbal-
anced and had twice attempted sui
eide.
Passaic, N. j., has a sleepless won
der. He is Jacob Casteline, 67 years
old, who says he has not slept in 20
years. Casteline's family, neighbors
and physicians testify to the truth of
his statement.
A monument erected by the late
Cyrus w. Field at Tappan, N. Y, to
the memory of Maj. Andre has been
sold for the non-payment of taxes The
monument stands on Andre Hill, over
the spot where the British officer was
buried after he was hanged. Since the
death of Mr.. Field taxes on the plot of
ground, 100 feet square, have accrued
in the sum of $6.3S.
Mrs. Nellie Ferguson, aged So, form
erly of Baltimore, was burned to
death, a man said to be of local promi-
nence who gave his name as John
Smith leaped from window and sus-
tained injuries which will make him a
cripple for life, and several other per-
sons had thrilling escapes from death
or injury in a fire in house in West
Fifty-fourth street. New York City.
The Lewis and Clark exposition has
voted $4,000 for premiums for a big
live stock display from all trans
Rocky Mountain states during the next
summer.
Advices received from Venezuela
are to the effect that many arrests are
being made there to check a revolu-
tionary movement on a large scale
which is being directed against Presi-
dent Castro's administration.
With two Chinese under arrest at
Lansing, Mich, and two white men ar
rested with them, detained at Adrian,
Mich, the Chinese inspectors believe
they have broken up a system of Chi
nese smugglers that has long been
causing the inspectors considerable
trouble. A third white man has been
in jail at Detroit for month awaiting
trial for aiding a Mongolian to illegal
1y enter the United States. Windsor,
opt., just across the river from De-
troit, was the headquarters of the
smugglers.
Frank Hadsell, aged rs, who a
couple of years ago sold his wife to
Robert Bailey, of New Marlboro,
he could drink" is in custody, charged
with bigamy, it being alleged he re-
Gently married a young woman in
Lynn, Mass. Hadsell says he supposed
he was free to marry after having dis
posed of his first wife.
The entire racing stable of w. C.
Whitney, which has been racing this
year under the name and colors of H.
B. Duryea, was sold at Morris Park, N.
Y, recently. Twenty-six horses sold
for total of sSS.500.
Fifteen persons were injured, two of
them perhaps fatally, in a collision
between the eastbound California lin
ited passenger train and a westbound
freight train on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, mile and half
west of Portland. Col.
Coins belonging to collection from
Portland, Ore, have been sold at auc
tion in New York City for nearly
$1,000. There were only SCI pieces in
all, the prize of the collection being an
American silver dollar coined in 1904.
Collectors came from many cities to
bid ON this rare piece and it fell into
the possession of Chicago man for
iS1,100.
Accompanied by three detectives
Secret Service Agent Bell raided a