Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09


New York and Chicago by making the
run of S97 miles in II hours fiat.
Florence Bellinger, 81 years old,
and her mother, Mrs. Anna Meyer, are
dead at their home in Milwaukee after
drinking from bottle ostensibly con-
tanning brandy.
The trial of Mrs. Aggie Myers,
charged with completely in the muir
der of her husband, Clarence Myers,
pressman, in Kansas City, Mo-, May,
1904, has been called at Liberty.
Jimmy" Burns, the alleged negro
postofflce money order forger, who is
charged with operating extensively in
North Carolina, was one OF IL prison.
ers who escaped from the county Jail
at Wilmington.
Samuel Lobley, who confessed to
taking part in an alleged conspiracy
by which the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society was induced to loan
$4,000 on life insurance policy that
had been stolen from it's vaults, has
been sentenced to eight years in Sing
Sing prison.
The worst tornado that ever visited
Binghamton N. Y, blew down a large
number of houses and barns in the
Sixth ward. The storm destroyed
everything in its narrow path for sew
eral blocks, but no one was killed and
only one person badly injured.
Liant X. Salisbury, eX-city attorney
and the peoples chief witness in the
bribery trials of Grand Rapids, Mich,
officials and others implicated by
Salisbury in his confession of the
methods used in an attempt to secure
water contract from the city, was
sentenced by Judge Wolcott in SUI
perior court to pay a fine of $4,000.
Salisbury paid the fine.
Reports received at Detroit, Mich,
from various points in lower Michigan
show that the thumb" district and
the Saginaw valley bore the brunt of
severe electrical storm which swept
lower Michigan recently. Residences,
schools and barns in the path of the
storm were blown down and half
dozen fatalities have already been re-
ported.
The will of William Ziegler, the pa
tron of arctic explorations, was filed
in New York City. The estate is es-
timated to be worth S30,000,O00 and
after provision is made for a $4,000
annuity to Mrs. Zeigler, together with
the use of the Zeigler city and coun-
try homes, the residue of the estate is
bequeathed to Mr.. Zeigler's adopted
son William.
The Tweedmouth collection of pic
lures was sold at auction in London
and realized over $235;000. The sale
lasted an hour and a half. ]. Picrpont
Morgan purchased a portrait of Lady
Raeburn for $45,675.
Gen. H. V. Boynton, president of the
Chiciamauga park commission, is
dead at Atlantic City, n. ]. He suf-
fered from a complication of diseases.
"Bluebeard' Johann Hoch is to die
June 23. Judge Kersten, of Chicago,
who some time ago sentenced Hoch to
be hanged, fixed the date of execution.
Col, Sherwood, chief of the Domin-
ion police, has arrested Everett Cain,
trainmaster, and Chief Train Dis
patcher James Gilhula, of the Pere
Marquette railroad, for the purpose
of deporting them to the United States
under the alien labor law.
John Pete, the Hillsville agent of
the New Castle Brewing Co., was shot
and killed at New Castle, Pa, while
sitting with his wife and four child
rem at luncheon. The shot came
through window at which Pete was
sitting. The murderer is not known.
Adjustment of the teamsters' strike
in Chicago by mediation seems as
remote now as it did two months ago.
Peace negotiations have been aban-
doned for the present and the strike
will be allowed to take it's natural
course" according to President Shea,
of the teamsters.
Michael Haidol and John Yatsko
were killed and Vincent Nehart and
Andrew Nemitz, fellow workmen, were
seriously burned at Pittsburg while
attempting a rescue. Paul Watusko,
who roomed with Haidol, was killed
by falling from a street car while re-
turning from a wedding.
John Title, farmer, and his son,
James, were instantly killed and his
daughter, Bertha, was fatally injured
by being struck by an express train
on the bridge on the Pennsylvania
railroad between Mexico and Port
| Royal. Pa.
According to dispatch from Dur
ban, Natal, the death roll resulting
from the hurricane which recently
swept over Natal and the subsequent
bursting of the reservoir at Pinetown
was nearly 500 Hindoo laborers and so
Europeans.
The story of the land frauds in Ore
gon will be duplicated in California
by the discovery of an elaborate sys-
TEN of robbery under color of law, by
which means, with the help of forgery
great bodies of the public domain in
/ Modoc and other northern counties
have been brought under private own
ership.
Disputed claims of victory by the
conflicting factions in the Equitable
Life Assurance Society and an ap.
parent readjustment of interests
marked the meetings of the directors
of the society held in New York City