Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-02

The directors of the Calumet and
Hecla Mining Co, have declared a
quarterly dividend of $40 share.
Fred Lee, Frank Gray, Miss Lou
Rhodes and Miss Sarah Gates, all Of
springfield, Mo-, were drowned in the
James river.
d. j. O'Day, general superintendent
of the Standard Oil Co.'S interests
west of Pennsylvania, died at Lima,
o., after an Illness of several weeks.
A half million dollars is a conserva-
tive estimate of the damage done by
the overflow of the Rio Grande north
of El Paso Tex, in the Mesilla valley.
Fire at Kewanna, Ind, partly de-
stroyed the Vandalia station and de-
pot, a grain elevator, the Heinz pickle
plant and several business buildings
and homes.
James Francis O'Brien, nationalist
member of parliament for Cork, died
in London, Eng. His death was sud-
den. Mr.. O'Brien was born in 1881.
Baron Alphonse De Rothschild, head
of the French branch of the banking
house bearing the name of Rothschild,
and governor of the Bank of France,
is dead, aged rs years.
Judge Francis c. Randolph, we'll
known in Alabama as slayer of two
men, was shot and instantly killed by
John Rudolph, a second cousin, in
front of the latter's office at Mont
gomery, Ala.
Benjamin Quinette, a painter, fell
from building in Chicago and broke
his neck. He then walked a mile and
a half to his home, holding his head
in his hands the entire distance.
Confirmation has been received in
Washington from Shanghai of the
press report that the Russian war
ships have sunk an unknown Ameri-
can merchant ship off the Chinese
coast.
Following a carousal at the board
ing house of Herman Faunter at
Smithtcn, Pa, murder was committed
and Andy Haydo, a Finlander, is un-
der arrest charged with the killing
of Fainter.
The country around Yankton, S. D.,
has been flooded recently with count
erfeit half dollars, so skillfully made
as to impose on experts. A man has
been arrested passing one of them
and a number were found on his per-
son.
Mount Vesuvius has reached new
phase of activity. Explosions are
heard ten miles distant from the vol
cano, while burning stones thrown
1000 feet above the crater produce
magnificent spectacles, especially at
night.
Express Messenger Laub and Engi-
neer Wilson received 1000 each for
capturing a man who held up the
eastbound North Coast Limited train
on the Northern Pacific railroad near
Bearmouth, Mont.
Norton Goddard, of New York, died
suddenly at his country home in
Litchfield, Conn. He was about "A
years old and was prominently iden-
New York, especially devoting his at
tention to attacks on policy gamblers.
The Russky Slovo, of Moscow,
prints a dispatch from Vladivostoll
which indicates that the inhabitants
of the whole maritime region of east
ern Siberia, including the island of
Sakhalin and the Kamchatka peninsu-
| Ia, are facing starvation on account
of the sitution produced by the war.
Indictments for alleged conspiracy
and grand larceny in the handling Of
| the Weissert estate for David Roths-
child, former president of the defunct
| Federal bank, We're found by the
grand jury in New York City against
Armitage Mathews, secretary of the
republican county committee, John w
|
are lawyers
R. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review OF
Trade says: Improvement is reported
in retail trade, although weather con-
ditions are still far from ideal and
excessive rain retards agricultural
progress sufficiently to cause con.
servatism among dealers. Failures
this week numbered 211 in the United
States, against 226 last year, and Is
in Canada compared with II a year
ago.
The Ohio republicans in convention
at Columbus nominated the follwinG
ticket: Governor Myron T.'Herrick
lieutenant governor, Andrew l.. Har
ris; judge of the supreme court, viii
lam C. Davis; attorney general, Wade
Kinnon; member of board Of public
works, William Kirtley.
Judge Morrow of the United State!
circuit court at San Francisco, ha:
granted restraining order against th'
California Federation of Labor anC
the San Francisco labor unions from
boycotting a firm of hat manufactur
ers OF Danbury. Conn.
"A reward of $1,000 has been Offered
by Welton Stanford, of Schenectady
N. Y, for information leading to tn
arrest and conviction of the parties re
sporsible for the death Of the lat
lane Lathrop Stanford. Welton Stan
ford is nephew of the late Senate
LELAND Stamford and a beneficiar
under his will to the etxent of 100000
NJ. e. Valley was killed by an eX
plosion of nitro -glycerine on vacan
lot in Denver, Col. Whether it was
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