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

by fire. Loss 100000.
John Corrigan and George Barri-
chers, boys, were drowned while
swimming in Otter creek at Ellsworth,
Ind.
In n fight at a picnic near Lee City,
Ky, two men were killed, two NOR
tally wounded and three were slightly
wounded.
During a thunder storm in Chicago
three churches were struck by light
ming and two of them were destroyed.
Several other buildings were struck
and damaged.
The law making business of New
York state for the regular session of
1905 came to an end recently with
760 new laws added to the statute
books, as against $50 added last year.
Peter-L Kimberly died in Chicago
of apoplexy. Mr., Kimberly's wealth
is estimated at $10,000,000. He was a
pioneer in copper mining in the Lake
Superior regions. He lived at Sharon,
Pa.
In accordance with the strike order
issued by National Organizer Dill
worth, of the Street Railway Mems
union, the employees of the street rail-
way systems of Saginaw and Bay City,
Mich, and the interurban line be-
tween those cities went on strike.
Three deaths resulting from acci-
dent occurred in Washington. Law
renee Owens and Jettie Darlington
were drowned in a pond. Alice Hur
ley died from the effects of burns re-
ceived in an explosion of gasoline
stove.
During a fog off Dungeness, Eng,
the British battleship Caesar collided
with the British bark Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan sank two minutes
after the collision. 1t is feared that
% men on board the bark were
drowned.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. will
shortly establish the fastest long dis
tance train in the world. 1t will be
new limited between New York and
Chicago and will make the run in
each direction in Is hours.
Representative Benjamin F. Marsh,
republican member of the United
States house of representatives from
the Fourteenth district of Illinois, died
at his home in Warsaw. He had serv-
ed eight terms in congress and had
been elected to a ninth term.
Workmen engaged in unloading a
car load of sand at Bedford, Ind,
found hidden in it securities valued at
100000. They were identified as the
property of the Wilmington, ILL.,, bank
which was robbed of the papers and
$2,500 cash on May 8.
Louis r. Smith, of North Carolina,
formerly an employe in the general
land office, was indicted by the grand
jury OF the District of Columbia, on
charge of abstracting and selling 80
land warrants worth about $4,000.
Smith made a confession.
R. G.. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review
of Trade says: Warmer weather is
needed to restore normal conditions,
both in trade circles and on the farms.
Failures this week in the United
States are 19S, against 220 the cor
responding week last year. Failures
in Canada number %, against 20 last
year.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of bust
ness May 81, 1905 the debt, less cash
in the treasury, amounted to $1,OOO,-
24G,12S, which is an increase for the
month of S3,12S,1S7.
Without a dissenting vote both
branches of the Philadelphia city
councils withdrew the ordinance au-
thorizing the lease of the city gas
works to the United Gas Improvement
Co for a period of rs years, for which
privilege the company was to pay the
city S25.OOO.0OO.
At Revere. Mass, fire broke out in
the amusement building known as
THE Land of Midnight Sun" and
quickly spread to the "Johnstown
Flood" building. Three tenement
houses, an amusement resort called
"The Palace of Wonders" and shoot
ing gallery were also burned. The
total loss is estimated at 100000.
President Roosevelt, in the pres
ence of the members of his cabinet,
members of the diplomatic corps and
distinguished guests, pressed the but
ton in the east room of the White
House recently which formally opened
the Lewis and Clark exposition at
Portland. Ore.
George ID. Kindel, a manufacturer,
was arrested in Denver on charge of
having criminally libeled Henry B..
Hyde, founder of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society, by printing his
picture in a circular between those
of two outlaws, over the inscription
"Kindels gallery of dead cheaters.
The monthly statement of the gov
ernment receipts and expenditures
shows that for the month of May, 1905
the total receipts were $43,75S,9 ,933 and
the expenditures $46,719,055, leaving
deficit for the monh Of $2,9GO,122
and deficit for the II months of the
present fiscal year of $36,G49,G ESQ.
Samuel Lobley, who has been on
trial in the supreme court in Brook
lyn, charged with fraudulently OBJ
tanning money on life insurance
policy which is alleged to have been
stolen from the vaults of the Equit-
able Life Assurance Society in New
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