Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-12-29

trict of Los Angeles, CAL, was almost
completely destroyed by fire.
Charles o. Bader was murdered In
the bar of his hotel at Minneapolis by
one of two holdup men, who stole $500
and escaped.
News has reached Victoria, B. c.,
of the wreck of the %barkentine La Bel
la hear Weinaboolon, on the Austral-
ian coast, involving the loss of seven
lives.
Eight mer were killed by a fall of
1000 tons of iron ore from a slip on
the 1900 foo. level of the Newport
mine in Ironw 4, Mich.
The shaft building of the Marquette
Third Vein Coal Co., three miles from
Spring Valley, ILL.,, was destroyed by
fire and 100 mules suffocated. Loss
$685. 600.
Miss Lulu Bolen, a clerk employed
at substation No. 1, Oakland, Cal,
postofice, has been taken into custody,
charged with embezzlement. Her ac-
counts, 1t is alleged, are short $1,000.
Mrs. A. B. Dibble, first president of
the National Christian Temperance
union, who with Miss Frances F.. VIII
lard founded the organization, died
at her home in Grass Valley, Cal.
James E. Martin, prominent in New
York society, was instantly killed ear
Flushing, Long Island, when his auto
mobile plowed into a strip of loose
dirt on the side of the road and turned
completely over.
Fred S. Harlow, of Saratoga, aged
about so, and his wife, about the same
aun orn Inal nc Tho rng,t1t ,t &c hn
lieved, of a mutual agreement carried
out by shooting in their rooms in AL
bany, N. Y.
At Pineville, KY, Antony Broughton
was shot and fatally wounded by AS
sistant Chief of Police Joel Smith,
who was assisting Chief of Police
Slusher in an attempt to arrest
Broughton.
The 900 hundred public school
teachers of Schuylkill county at a
meeting in Mahanoy City, Pa, voted to
~unionize the profession and to become
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton OF Labor.
A shifting engine backing up a train
of empty cars at the loading platform
Of the Adams Express Co. on the ele-
waited section of the Pennsylvania rail-
road at Philadelphia, jumped the track
and 16 men were injured.
Advices received from M~ontevideo
say the British steamer Bellanoch,
outward bound for London, and the
British steamer Canning, from Buenos
Ayres for New York, were in collision
there. The former sank.
For years one of the most noted in
structors of the German language in
Chicago and a teacher of French of in
ternational reputation, Carlos Esco-
hey, died of injuries received when he
was run over by a street car December
10.
Two men were killed, a third was
probably fatally injured and every
window was shot out of a passenger
coach on the Southern railway ear
Mt. Carmel, ILL.,, when WI men in GUS
tody for larceny tried to escape by
killing a constable.
George NJ. McKelvey, one of the
most prominent men of Youngstown,
o., committed suicide by shooting
himself with a revolver in his bed
room while his family was at church.
Mr.. McKelvey has been in i'll health
for a long time.
An exciting meeting of the parish
toner's held in st. Casimir's Polish
Catholic church, st. Louis, to protest
against the pastor appointed by Arch
bishop Glennon, eliminated in a riot
which required the presence of a pa
troll wagon load of policemen to quell.
The boiler of a locomotive drawing
a southbound Lehigh Valley freight
train running between Van Etten and
Sayre, exploded at Swamp Siding"
one-half mile east of the village of
Van Etten, N. Y, killing one man and
fatally injuring four.
Joseph H. Choate, who recently was
succeeded at the Court of st. James as
United States ambassador by White
law Reid, in all likelihood will be
named by President Roosevelt as
chairman of the American delegation
to the second Hague peace conference.
Capt. John w. Hoffman, of Smiths
Island, Somerset county, was shot and
instantly killed at st. Jeromes, st.
Mary's county, Md. His father was
shot and seriously wounded at the
same time. The shooting was done by
a mulatto dredger known as Will
Young.
At a Christmas carousal in an Ital-
ian boarding house in North Scranton,
Pa, a quarrel started between Samuel
Curcia and Nicholas Ferrias, two
young miners. Curcia drew a re-
volver and Ferrias ran out of the
house. AS Ferrias was fleeing through
the yard, Curcia emptied a five-cham-
Der revolver at him and he died.
A terrific explosion of 5000 pounds
of dynamite stored in the powder
house of Mccoy & Nugent's camp near
Magnolia, w. Va, where the contrac-
tors are finishing the tunnel of the
Western Maryland railroad extension,
wiped out the powder house and
wrecked the blacksmith shop, eight
cars and part of the track. One mar
is missing.
The railroad stations at st. Peters
burg are in possession of the military,
Wholesale arrests of the leaders OF
tba workman have haan mazda Tn