Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-11-03

Tleu ON anu troops are aTTlNluB udlly
at various ports in Japan.
A bulletin issued by the department
of commerce and labor estimates that
the foreign commerce of the United
States for the calendar year 1905 will
amount to more than billion dollars.
For GO minutes recently the Ohio
State and Case football elevens strug-
gled on the university field at Colum-
bus, o., without either side scoring.
Six thousand people witnessed the
game.
The freedom of the city of London,
distinction on which many states
men and warriors have set great store,
has been bestowed on Gen. Booth, Of
the Salvation Army.
An immense subterranean channel,
which promises to surpass in size and
beauty the famous Mammoth Cave,
has been discovered near Glasgow,
Ky.
While awaiting initiation into a
Greek letter fraternity, Stewart L..
Pierson, a freshman at Kenyon col
lege, of Akron, o., was killed by a
Cleveland, Akron & Columbus train.
There was not witness to the accident
so far as known.
At Gloucester Court House, Va, w.
d. Coker killed Il. e. Gressem, con-
cealed the body under the steps of
Gressem's home and sent word to the
police. Just as officers reached Cox
er's house, Coker shot and killed his
wife, his two daughters and himself.
At the end of nine strenuous hours
of varied entertainment in New Or
leans, closing pleasant trip through
the south, President Roosevelt recent
ly boarded the lighthouse tender
Magnolia and began his return jour
ney to Washington.
Two fast passenger trains on the
Rock Island railroad collided head-on
at point one mile south of Fairfield,
la. The wrecked trains were No. II,
westbound, and No. 12, eastbound.
Four persons were killed and between
15 and 20 injured, none fatally.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
the following telegram has been re-
ceived from Vladikavliaz, Northern
Caucausia: "Brigands derailed a mail
train near Grozny. They fired on the
passengers, killing IL and wounding
20, after which they looted the train
and decamped with the mails"
After more than three centuries a
record of the De Soto expedition has
been found on the shore of Lake
Itasca, Mimi, under a huge bowlder.
The record, written on the skin of an
antelope, was found by Chester Gray,
farmer living on the shore of Lake
Itasca.
Three people were seriously in
jured, one of whom subsequently died,
and a dozen others had narrow es-
cape from the flames in a fire that de-
stroyed the priests house at Naza-
reth Orphanage, a Catholic boys in
stitution, three miles from Raleigh,
N. c.
Gus Goodman, a negro, was taken
from the Jail at Bainbridge, La, by a
mob of 800 men and lynched on the
bank of the river a short distance
from the town. Earlier in the night
Goodman shot Sheriff Stegall, who
was attempting to arrest him for the
murder of colored woman.
Fire at San Francisco destroyed the
large building occupied by the Central
Canneries Co. and damaged the works
joining. Loss 100000. Four fire
men eaught under falling walls were
rescued alive after four hours work
and will recover.
Fleeing from Chinese highbinders
in New York, Lucy Rosebury, white,
2G years old, who says she is the wife
of a Chinese cigar merchant in Mott
street, says that she was warned by
the white wife of another Chinaman
that the highbinders had decided that
she knew too much and was to be dis
posed Of
The suit case mystery of September
21, when the dismembered torso of a
woman was found in a dress suit case
tloating in the harbor, was brought
into prominence again when second
suit case was found in the Charles
river at Boston. The case contained
the arms and legs, said by medical ex-
perts to be those of woman.
AS the result of series of special
ministerial councils under the presi-
dency of Count Witte, held in st.
Petersburg to adopt measures to deal
with the situation, the new national
assembly law and laws granting prac-
| tical freedom of the press and of
| speech and meeting will be proclaimed
| forthwith.
Refusing to promise endorsement of
President Roosevelt's policy for the
regulation of railroad rates, about
half of the 800 delegates to the inter
state commerce law convention in
Chicago were barred from the conven-
tion, and thereupon held a separate
meeting to give expression to their
ideas on rate legislation.
The first real gale of the season
swept over the Virginia-C Cai olina coast
recently and at Cape Henry before
the force of the blow prostrated the
governments telegraph system, a
maximum wind velocity of 81 miles
an hour was reported. At Norfolk
streets along the water front were
flooded and street railway traffic was
tied up in some portions of the city.
A dispatch from the governor OF
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