Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-09-01
Happenings Of the Last Five Days
Narrated in Few Words
as Possible.
AT HOME AND IN FOREIGN LANDS
Items Arranged for the Readers In
This Busy World So that They
Can Digest the Con-
tents In a Few
Minutes.
MISCELLANEOUS.

BY terrlf1c explosion OF Slahl poM-
der at Paris, Cal. Mrs. A. w. McRae,
wife of a mine owner, her son, George,
and Oscar Duclose, another mine
owner, were instantly killed.
Japanese transport Kinjo was sunk
in a collision with the British steamer
Baralong in the Inland Sea. One
hundred and twenty invalided
Japanese soldiers were drowned.
President Roosevelt made a descent
in Long Island Sound on board the
submarine torpedo boat Plunger. He
was aboard the vessel about three
hours. At one time the boat was sub
merged so minutes
During a dense fog the 97-ton local
freight and passenger steamer Blanche
of Newburn, n. c., was sunk near
Johnson Point, about six miles below
Newburn, through collision between
her and the 720-ton steamer Neuse
A petition by Mrs. Clara S. Hay,
widow of the late Secretary John Hay,
for the probate of Mr.. Hays will has
been filed in the probate court. The
petition states that Mr.. Hay left prop
erty, real and personal, to the value
of more than $250,000.
Medical scientists throughout the
country have had their attention di-
rected to a remarkable case of cata-
epsy in Yonkers, N. Y. where Charles
Canepi, s years old, has been in an
unbroken trance-like sleep for more
than four months.
Partial quarantine of New Orleans
against Louisiana points infected with
yellow fever has been ordered by the
state board of health to enable the fed
eral authorities to stop indiscriThinate
travel between infected points and
New Orleans.
Johann Hoch, the man of many
wives, convicted of the murder of one
of them, has escaped the gallows a
third time. He was to have been
hanged in Chicago but supersedeas
was issued on an order of justice Ma
gruder.
Capt. z. w. Jones, Of Company F,
Seventy first regiment Virginia vol
lnteers, killed Maud Robinson at
Norfolk, Va, by almost severing the
woman's head from her shoulders
with a razor and then attempted sui
eide by cutting his own throat.
Struck by lightning during a ter
rife storm which swept over Staten
Island and the lower part of the upper
bay the ship Marlborough Hill. lader
with case oil and naphtha, lying II
the stream midway between Tomp
kinsville and Stapleton, was burned
The annual report of Chief Wilke, o.
the secret service, shows a total of 53!
arrests, of which Al related to coun
terfeiters of currency. 50 to altered
obligations, 344 to the counterfeitin&
of coin and the others in connection
with various violations of the fedora
statutes.
The long standing war between the
western roads Gulf lines over domes
tic and export grain rates has beer
finally settled and formal agreement
of the agreement will be made as soor
as the vote of the Missouri Kansas &
Texas and Kansas City Southern roads
is received.
Word has been received by the au
thorities of Northwestern university
at Chicago, that Mrs. Sadie x. Coe
wife of DR.. George A. Coe, who hold!
the chair of philosophy at the uni
versity, died in a sanitarium at Sar
Francisco after desperate opera
ton.
The emperor has received the fol
lowing report from Gen. Linevitch
dated August %: Advanced Russian
detachments on August 90 drove bacl
the Japanese from their positions
One detachment in the Tsinche vale,
occupied the village OF La Govtzeakzy
and another operated in the direction
of Schimiadsy."
There is a great interest in tn,
agrarian agitation in various parts O
Russia notably in the Caucasus. Thl
refusal of the peasants in the village
of lnchadedshan to pay Prince Inukh
ransky his portion of the crops led L
conflict between the peasants an,
Cossacks. About so peasants wer,
killed or wounded.
The Canadian Pacific railway ha
entered a strong protest against tn
route selected for the Grand TrunI
Pacific between Portage La Prairl
and Touchdown HILL The claim /
made by the Canadian Pacific that tn
location of the Grand Trunk Pacifi
from Portage La Prairie westward /
a violation of the act constituting tn
company.
Building operations in New Yor
City have increased to such enormou
proportions within the last six month!
says the Herald, that the forces of tn
borough building department are un
able to take care of the work.
Shipments of footwear from Ne,
England factories continue heavy.
Mills making textile fabrics are en-
5oying larger degree of activity an
appear TO have more business i
sight than any other branch of manu-
facture.
The steamer Hanover was destroye
by fire opposite Houstans Landing a
Madison, Ind. The crew and passen
gers escaped in boats.