Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-12-08


vessels have gone ashore.
The steel steamer German grounded
on a reef off Glencoe, north of Chica-
go, in snow storm. The crew of 20
men was taken off in safety.
The thirteenth annual international
six-day bicycle race was started in
Madison Square Garden, New York
City, recently with 16 teams of two
riders each competing.
Sir Clinton Edward Dawkins, part
ner of the banking house of j. w. Nor
gan & Co., died in London recently He
was one of the most noted English
financiers.
The strike of the New York team
sters has been declared off. Thomas
Orr, the team owner whose men ini-
tiated the strike, signed an agreement
for a closed shop with his former en-
ployes.
After shooting Mrs. Mary Chard,
aged AZ years, in the neck with a re-
volver while on her way to a store,
near her home at Harrisburg, Pa, Roy
c. McCurdy, aged 19 years, fatally
shot himself.
Col. Thomas G.. Sample died at his
home in Pittsburg after an illness of
II months, suffering with cancer of
the stomach. He was born in Tusea-
loosa Ala, in 1874, but was raised
from childhood in Harrisburg, Pa.
The Dominion Coal Co.'s steam tug
Douglas H. Thomas has arrived at
Halifax, N. s., and reports the loss of
her tow, the big coal carrying barge
Rembrandt, which carried crew of
IL men.
Eighteen miners lost their lives in
an explosion in the Diamond Coal and
Coke Co.'S mine at Diamondville, Wyo.
Miners believe that "blow out" shot
caused the explosion which wrecked
the mine.
The steamer Twilight sank In 20
feet of water at lock No. 2 in the
Monongahela river at Pittsburg, the
crew of II men escaping with their
lives by hurrying to the roof of the
boat, then being taken off in skiffs.
The lifeless bodies of Henry Nc
Caffery, George Carpenter, laborer,
and Miss Capitola Gilmet, a domestic,
were found in the home of McCaffery
| in Harrietstown, four miles from
Saranac Inn, N. Y. They had all been
shot
There has been serious street fight
ing between mutinous sappers and
Cassacks and between workmen and
bands of the BLACK Hundred" at Kief,
Russia. Scores of persons have been
killed or wounded. The American
embassy is guarded.
The Texas Oil Co. has begun a six
inch pipe line from Jennings, La, to
Beaumont and tidewater, distance of
80 miles. The steady decline in pro-
duction of the various Texas fields has
made it necessary to reach the i'm
mense stocks of oil at Jennings.
Jewels worth from $4,000 to $4,000
were found on an alleged pickpocket
| by detectives at Buffalo, N. Y. The
prisoner gave the name of Walter
Dixon" and boasted that he was we'll
known to the police of the west The
| jewelry found on him was stolen from
the home of eX-Mayor White, of Wood
! stock, Ont
Two indictments were returned at
st. Louis by the federal grand jury
against E. G. Lewis, president of the
Peoples United States bank and pub
Usher of the Woman's Magazine and
Woman's Farm Journal. One indict-
ment charges scheme TO defraud in
using the mails to induce persons to
subscribe for stock and deposit money
in the bank.
The resignation of Richard A. Nc
Curdy as president Of the Mutual Life
Insurance Co., of New York, was the
most important development OF the
life insurance situation. Mr. McCurdy
is succeeded temporarily by Freder-
lck Cromwell, treasurer of the CON-
pany, but it is understood that the
position has been offered to James H.
Eckels.
Far more serious than any previous
development of the many land frauds
perpetrated in Oregon are charges
made in letter to Gov. George e.
Chamberlain by State Land Agent
Oswald West, who asserts that by the
means of forged certificates of sale of
school lands, eastern bankers have
been swindled out of large sums of
money.
The life saving crews in the United
States last year saved and assisted in
saving AGA imperiled vessels and their
cargoes, beside affording assistance of
more or less importance to CIT other
to which aid was furnished. No less
than 3G5 disasters to documented YES
sells occurred during the period stated,
involving the lives Of 4,0S9 persons, of
whom 81 were lost.
Mrs. William Gardner and her s.
year-old son were killed at Au Sable,
Mich. With another lady and the lat
ters child they were driving when a
wheel of their carriage became en-
tangled in a wire attached to flag
pole. Before the carriage could be
stopped the pole was pulled over,
striking Mrs. Gardner and her child
as it fell on the carriage and crushing
the heads of both mother and child.
The annual report OF Commissioner
Yerkes, of the internal revenue bu.
reau, shows that the receipts of the
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