Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-25
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 Few
Minutes.
MISCELLANE EOUS.

John j. Forney, proprietor of a
hotel in Camden, N. j., committed
suicide by shooting himself.
In feud fight on Black Creek in
Powell county, KY, Campbell Ander-
son was killed and Tom and Gale Nor
ton, brothers, were seriously wounded.
James Norheet, John Champion and
General Bone, three negro murderers,
were hanged at Memphis, Tenn. They
killed women of their own race.
Liabilities of $292,677 and assets of
$50 were scheduled in a petition in
bankruptcy filed in Boston by George
b. Appleton, of Cambridge.
Failures for the week ended August
1S in the United States number 21S,
against 226 the corresponding week
last year. Failures in Canada num-
Der %, against "a last year.
Confirmation Of the report that the
Marshall Islands were visited by a
hurricane and tidal wave on June 30
has been received at Sydney, N. S.
w. One hundred lives were lost.
The strike of the telegraphers on
the Great Northern railway system
IS officially called off, the men on
at line having voted by large ma
Irity to return to work.
Robert Murphy, deputy sheriff
from buckingham county, Va, was
shot from anguish and instantly
killed while riding on a railroad We
locipede between Logan and Holden,
w. Va.
A sensation has been created in
London by the arrest of Hugh Watt, a
financier and formerly a member of
parliament, on the charge of attempt
ing to procure a detective to assist in
the murder of his former wife.
Charges have been filed in the de-
partment of justice at Washington by
citizens of Globe, Ariz., against AS
sociate Justice Tucker, of the terri
torial court, which involve his judicial
and personal conduct.
District Attorney McGovern,
through Sheriff Cary, made whole
sale attack on gambling houses in
Milwaukee, capturing large number
of inmates and a large amount of
paraphernalia.
Seaman James E. Smith, of the tor
pedo station at Newport, r. l., who
jumped into the harbor after a tor
pedo which had slipped over board
during practice, died as the result of
his act.
The police raided the track during
the Lake Erie trotting races at James
town, N. Y, and arrested four men
charged with running a paddle wheel.
The police seized the wheel and 81 400
in money.
Chairman Shonts, of the Panama
canal commission, says that work on
the canal was suspended because Of
the necessity for building railroads to
carry away the dirt and in order to
build houses for employees.
In Westminster church in Buffalo
it was announced that the churchs
missionary physician, Joseph Plum
Cochran, NJ. D., had died of typhoid
fever in Uramia, Persia.
Mayor Edward f. Dunno, of Chi
cago, was arrested in the suburb of
Evanston for violation of the ordi-
nance regulating the speed of auto
mobiles.
Gus Bobbs, messenger employed
by the dry goods house of Charles A.
Stevens & Bros, of Chicago, has dis
appeared with $4,000 of the firms
money and reward of $500 has been
offered for his capture.
Mrs. Julia Hackley died at Mus
kegon, Mich, after long illness. She
was the widow of the late Charles H.
Hackley, capitalist and lumberman,
whose benefactions greatly enriched
that city's public institutions.
Mrs. Joseph Yorker and Mrs. Edgar
Cox were drowned by the capsizing of
sail boat on Lake Netpessing, near
Lapeer, Mich, and Mrs. William Boy
Ian is not expected to live, having
been pulled out of the water in a
dying condition.
Archibald Y. Jameson. of Detroit,
formerly Of Jackson, Mich, is under
arrest at Detroit, charged with at
tempting to procure under false pre-
lenses $lOl.250 worth of stocks from
DR.. NJ. l.. limerick, of Hickory Cor
ners, Pa.
Confessing in two letters that he
mad llVed under an assumed name for
quarter of century and revealing
the fact that he was related to wealthy
people of Pittsburg, Joseph A. Thomp-
son, OF Philadelphia, swallowed poi
son, laid himself on a bench in Fair
mount park and died.
Fire destroyed the extensive plant
of the New Castle, Pa, forge and Bolt
Co. The loss is estimated at 100000
Six hundred men will be thrown out OF
employment.
Milton Brown, OF Buffalo, N. Y.
chief special agent of the United
States treasury exhibit at the Lewis
and Clark exposition, died at Portland
Ore, of typhoid fever
Word has been received at Boston
OF the death at Florence Italy, OF
Oreste Blmboni, the composer ant
conductor. Bimbuni was director ol
grand opera school in Boston and
went abroad last fall to undergo an
operation for cancerous growth.