Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-09-08


five deaths resulted.
Two women and a girl were burned
to death in fire which destroyed a
house owned by Warren Fletcher, two
miles east of Ltitleton, Mass.
One negro was killed, two were ia
tally injured and another was seri-
ously hurt by a street car south of
Louisville, KY, while fighting on the
tracks.
A dozen persons were injured when
seven coaches and baggage car of a
westbound Santa Fe passenger train
jumped the track one mile east of
Boone, Col. None of the injuries are
severe.
Fire at Adrianople caused serious
damage. Seven thousand houses
were destroyed in the Greek, Arme-
man. Bulgarian and Jewish quarters.
There were many victims.
A rain and wind storm of unusual
velocity swept over New York and
wrought much damage in the way of
flooded cellars, delayed traffic and the
crumbling of the walls of a number
of buildings under construction.
The British steamer Umzumbi,
bound for London from Cape Town,
struck on the reefs west of Brest,
France. The passengers and crew,
numbering IS persons, were rescued
by life boats manned by fisherfolk.
A severe wind and rain storm struck
the camp of the visiting riflemen at
Sea Girt, N. ]. Half of the tents were
blown down and it was only by the
hardest kind of work on the part of
the militiamen that the others were
saved.
Four young women, two of whom
were returning from their fathers
funeral, were drowned in the Hudson
river at Hudson. N. Y, when the small
pleasure steamer Young America was
run down and sunk by the ferryboat
George H. Power.
Jose Aymar's residence in New
York City has been plundered of
! jewelry, ic-a-brac, paintings, silver,
etc, worth more than 100000. Ay-
mar is millionaire lawyer who mar
ried one of the Vanderbilts.
President Roosevelt has received
from the emperor of Japan a mes
sage of thanks and appreciation for
the part played by the president in
! the negotiations which have resulted
in a cessation of hostilities in the far
east.
The amateur drivers gold challenge
cup which was won last year by the
Cleveland mare Aerolite, owned by H.
NJ. Hanna, was captured at Washing
ton park, Chicago, by S. A. Pickering,
of Pittsburg, with the gray gelding Dr..
Strong in two straight heats.
Two skeletons, each measuring
mere than seven feet in length. were
discovered in a gravel pit at Forest,
near Fon Du Lac, Wis. The skulls
are twice as large as those of an or
binary adult and the thigh bones are
almost six inches longer than those
of a siX-foot man.
Peter j. Wagner, Philadelphia as
SCISSOR, was held in S1,5O0 bail and
Lewis j. l.. Buck, William G. Turner
and Lawrence Farrell, election officers
were each held in $1,000 bail, charged
with conspiring to make false returns
of the February election.
Frank Weakley alias Harry Park
er, and Tom Sherman, alias Harry
Johnson, of Independence, Mo-, We're
found guilty of numbering Pawn
broker Joseph Meyer in his shop at
Detroit, Mich, and sentenced to life
| imprisonment.
A terrible railway accident occurred
at Witham, England. Ten persons
were killed and 20 seriously injured
when the express from London to Gro
mer dashed into the platform of the
Witham station of the Great Eastern
railway.
Mrs. l.. w. Waldron, wife of a ply
sician of Louisville, Ky, was robbed
of jewels valued at $1,000 at the
! Wayne hotel Detroit, Mich. One bell
boy is missing and another is under
arrest, charged with completely in the
| crime.
About $4,000 in prizes and the
honor of being one of the five archi-
tects who plan the peace palace for
use of the permanent court of arbitra-
tion at The Hague is offered to the
architects of all nations in a pros
pectus issued by the Carnegie found
alton
The departure of reservists at Lii
bau, Russia, was marked by socialis-
| tic rioting in which ten persons were
killed and so wounded. The agitators
fired from a house upon the military
who replied with yolleys. The cav
airy then charged, using their sabres
on the crowd.
Thebes Farthing, cashier of the
State bank at Haubstadt, Ind, left
that place and his whereabouts are
not known. Before leaving he chang.
ed the combination of the bank safe
and an expert was employed to open
it. An apparent shortage of $1,000
has been found.
A bomb exploded with terrific force
at Barcelona, on the marine park
which was thronged with holiday
makers. A panic ensued and the ali
was rent with the shrieks and groans
of the victims, who numbered between
80 and GO, including one woman killed
and five persons mortally wounded.
w. l.. West, one of the commission
ers of the District of Columbia, has
notified President Roosevelt of the