Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-03-31


men we're building dyke on the Kan
sas side of the river.
The little town of Louisburg, in the
extreme western portion of Minnesota,
has been practically wiped out by a
tornado and seven persons seriously
injured.
Judge Taylor, in the federal court
at Cleveland, o., overruled the motion
for new trial for Mrs. Chadwick and
sentenced her to ten years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary. A stay of
execution will be asked for from the
federal court of appeals at Cincinnati.
A new plan by which creditors
other than those from the United
States would collect revenues at GUS
tom houses and retain 55 per cent. of
the proceeds has been mapped out by
the government of San Domingo.
The Mohawk river, which has been
gorged with ice about six miles west
of Schenectady, NJ Y, overhowed into
the Erie canal. Steets in the city of
Schenectady adjacent to the canal
were flooded, boats were carried away
and many houses rendered uninhabit-
able.
Four men were killed when a
string of freight cars running wild on
the Louisville & Nashville railroad
crashed into freight train at Clarks-
vile, Tenn. The locomotive and ten
loaded cars were totally wrecked.
Five concerns allied with the Book
Lovers and Tabard Inn Libraries, of
which Seymour Eaton is president,
were placed in the hands of receiver
at Philadelphia by the United States
circuit court.
DR.. A. A. Ames, eX-mayor of Min
neapolis, Mimi, who was tried several
times on charges of alleged illegal
acceptance of money while in office,
but was acquitted, has filed suit
against the city for $3.50 back salary
alleged to be due him.
Gessler Rosseau was convicted be-
fore Recorder Golf of having sent
with malicious intent an Internal ma
chine to the Cunard steamer Umbria
in New York City on May 5, 1908. The
prisoner was remanded to the Tombs
for sentence.
A tornado struck the business por-
tion of Eldorado, Kan, unroofing sew
eral business houses and wrecking a
hotel and a school house. Mrs. Ida
Madison was seriously injured by her
house falling and catching her in the
ruins.
Judge James Hargis, his nephew,
Elbert Hargis, and Sheriff Edward
Callahan, of Breathitt county, were
held without bail in Lexington, KY,
on charges of completely in the feud
which resulted in the murder of Jas.
| Cnnlyril1 OF To three
ago.
Secretary Taft has notified Presi-
dent Roosevelt that the census of the
Philippine Islands had been complet-
ed, and under the law of July 1, 1902,
two years from this date the presi-
dent shall direct the Philippine COM
mission to call general election for
delegates to a popular assembly.
Two men supposed to be William
Gober and Samuel Fastow, of New
York, were arrested at the point of
revolver in a boarding house at New
Haven, Conn. In their rooms was
found a new counterfeiting outfit
which had turned out several spurious
81 bills, the police assert, almost as
good as the genuine.
President Diaz, of Mexico has is
sued a decree for the reform of the
monetary system authorized by con-
gress. The decree establishes the
peso" or silver dollar at value of
80 cents gold, and the theoretical unit
of the Mexican currency is the gold
dollar.
Two great transatlantic liners,
the Partisan, of the Allan line, and
tthe Albano, a Hamburg American
boat, both bound in, heavily loaded
with passengers, collided off Halifax,
N. S. Both were seriously damaged,
but reached their docks and landed
their passengers safely.
R. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review
of Trade says: Spring trade responds
to seasonable weather, and shipments
of merchandise have increased so rap
idly that railway facilities are severe
ly taxed. Failures this week num-
bered 255 in the United States against
226 last year, and 16 in Canada COM
pared with Is year ago.
A squad of policemen was sum-
moned from a station in Brooklyn, N.
Y, to rescue policeman and the
motorman of a surface car from an
angry mob of 1000 persons who were
trying to punish the motorman for the
death of little boy. The child ran
in front of the car as it was passing
through Park avenue and was struck
and instantly killed
During a heavy fog William Hig-
gins, ferryman at Lock No. 4, at
tempted to row five men across the
Monongahela river in skiff at Char
leroi, Pa. When in mid-stream the
ferryman lost his way and the boat
was carried over the dam and cap
sized. 1t is believed the occupants
we're drowned.
The American Anti-Saloon league
has declared for the redemption of
the Fourth of July from its preva-
lent misuse" 1t is proposed to in