Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-05-12

Brandson Gardner, aged Go, shot
and killed his wife, aged 60, and then
blew out his own brains at Traverse
City, Mich.
Washington Duke, the millionaire
tobacco manufacturer who had been
dangerously i'll at his home at Dur.
ham, N. c., for several days, is dead
Two automobiles started from New
York recently to race to Portland,
Ore, for cash prize of 1000 offered
by the National Good Roads associa-
tion.
Charles Pease, 1S years; Richard
Meade, 16, and Charles Chappelle, 12,
all of South Windsor, Conn, are mis-
sing and are believed to have been
drowned in the Connecticut river.
Charles Edwins, Huntfield, Mich,
township farmer, was shot and fatal
ly wounded by Deputy Sheriff Cole,
who was trying to arrest Edwins.
Edwins also shot Cole through the
wrist
Henry G. Coll, the former assistant
cashier of the First national bank,
Of Milwaukee, charged with embezz-
ling over 100000 from the bank, has
$4,000.
Profs. Won Glanvell and Petritsch,
of Graz university, Vienna, and an
official named Stopper were killed by
an avalanche, while they were climb
ing the Foelzstein in the Syrian
Alps.
The Illinois Central railroad has
announced a reduction of nearly 100
per cent. in passenger fares between
Chicago and Kankakee, Decatur and
Bloomington. The object is to meet
the competition of the interurban
trolleys.
A heavily loaded gravel car on the
street railway at Nashville, Tenn,
down steep hill, colliding with sew
eral vehicles. One man was killed
and another probably fatally hurt.
The Canadian Pacific express, from
Halifax for Montreal and Boston, was
derailed at Dorchester, N. B. The
locomotive and seven of the eight
coaches were overturned. Engineer
Edward White, of Moncton, was
seriously injured.
A loss estimated at $4,000 has
been caused by the forest fire which
broke out recently on the outskirts
of Wells Beach, Me. Much timber
the town poorhouse, several lumber
camps and 100000 feet of sawed lum-
Der have been destroyed.
Seven United States battleships re-
Gently had a race about 200 miles
south of Cape Henry. The Missouri
outclassed all the other ships. The
Alabama finished last and will be
overharled in the Brooklyn navy
yard on account of her poor showing,
The entertainment of President
Roosevelt by the citizens of Denver
recently was a fitting conclusion of a
cay of royal welcome as he journeyed
through Colorado from Glenwood
Springs to Denver. All the towns
along the Denver & Rio Grande rail.
road over which the presidential
party travelled centered their popula-
ton at the stations to greet tha
president.
Isaac n. Perry, formerly president
of the National Bank of North Ameri-
ca of Chicago, has been acquitted OF
the charge of setting fire to the Chi.
cago Car and Locomotive Co.'S plant
at Hegewisch, ILL.,, to secure the in
surance money.
After a vigorous chase that led
through several Atlantic coast cities
Secret Service officer T. E. Land, OF
Boston, has arrested Thomas Brew.
ster, Charles Fairbanks and Robert
Slack, all of San Francisco, at Ports.
mouth, Va, charged with extensive
counterfeiting operations.
Two robbers entered the home ot
Mrs. Frederick Reitler, at Coulter
| Pa, and forced the woman 70 disclose
the hiding place of between 5000 and
500. After securing the money the
men carried the woman to a potato
patch in the rear of the house, tieC
her feet and hands and left her in ar
unconscious condition on the ground
The severe storm which recently
swept over st. Louis and vicinity re.
suited in the death of two persons, in
juries to eight and considerable dam
age to property.
The cable attached to the passen
ser cage in the Red Jacket shaft o.
the Calumet and Hecla, Mich, copper
mine broke while 34 men were beins
lowered into the mine. The cage will
its load of human freight dropped
| / 400 feet before the safety catches
checked it. Several of the men sus
tanned minor injuries.
At the national headquarters of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters ant
Joiners information has been received
that tha Master Builders association
CT Pittsburg, has abandoned the lock
out of he members of the brotherhood
and about 10000 men will return t.
work at once.
Judge Foster, in the court of gen
eral sessions at New York, has quash
ed the indictments charging conspir
acy against j. Morgan Smith and hi
wife, The Smiths will remain in TIL
Tombs pending the decision of the dis
trict attorney as to whether he will re
submit this case to the grand jury.
Maj. Ralph Dunning, who entere
the engineering department of tn