Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-09-22

Ulld, pHllduluTOplSL anu SClSHJlSJ,
died at his summer home in Clay
mont, Del. He was as years old
/ Two men were killed recently near
Houghton Lake, 25 miles from Ros-
common, Mich, as a result of Mrs.
Kate Tgden's perfidy to her husband.
/ Sixty buildings were destroyed by
fire at Nome, Alaska, causing a loss
of S200,0O0 according to advices re-
ceived at Seattle, Wash.
President Harper, of the University
of Chicago, has undergone another
operation and according to a state
ment issued by his family he is rest
ing comfortably.
Disagreeable weather conditions
marked the formal opening in Phila-
delphia of the eighty-frst annual ses-
sion of the sovereign grand lodge of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
One of the worst floods that has
ever been experienced is raging at
Madison, Kan. The Verdigris river
has overfowed half OF Madison,
which has a population of 1000.
During a wind storm at Mayville,
Mo-, large circus tent was blown
down and so persons in the audience
were injured. All the tents OF the
circus were torn to shreds.
Heavy rains and swollen tributaries
have caused rise of over ten feet
in the Mississippi river and resulted
in damage along the st. Louis river
front amounting to many thousands
of dollars.
A mob of 1000 persons attacked a
mail train at the Abasha station, Tiff
lis, and detached the engine. The
troops and police fired and drove off
the rioters, who had many killed or
wounded.
A man said to be George C. Atwood
travelling representative for the Chi
cago straw works, of Chicago, COM
mitted suicide on a wharf boat on the
Monongahela river at Pittsburg by
shooting himself through the heart.
James w. Boyd, clerk in the pub
lie health and marine hospital SER
vice at Washington, was arrested on
a warrant sworn out by Chief Clerk
w. p Worcester, of that Office charg-
ing him with embeZZlement.
Rain-iu- -the-Face, who was one Of
the leading chiefs in the Custer mas
sacre and is said to have killed Gen.
Custer, died at the Standing Rock
reservation, S. d. Rain-in- the Face
was GO years old.
More than a dozen passengers in a
parlor car on the Boston express over
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
and Boston 6, Albany tracks were in
jured when the car jumped the track
in the New York Central tunnel at
New York City.
The turn of the tide of gold toward
New York is exciting the attention of
bankers and other financiers, who say
that this restores the natural move
ment which has been abnormally re-
versed for the last two years, partly
owing to the war in the far east
Emperor Nicholas again appears
before the world as a promoter of
universal peace. No sooner is the
Russo-Japanese war over and even
before the peace treaty has been rati-
fed, than his majesty issues invita-
tions to foreign powers to a second
peace conference at The Hague.
The removal of retaliatory duties
on American imports already has
proved great stimulus to American
trade in ST. Petersburg. The agents
of American houses have wired di-
rections for the shipment of engines,
pumps and other machinery as soon
as the order resembling the duties
takes effect.
Large pieces of iron placed on the
track, supposedly by wreckers, de-
rallied the San Antonio 6, Arkansas
Pass railways "Davy Crockett" spe-
cial as the train was nearing San An
tonic, Tex. The engine, baggage car
and two coaches were turned COM
pletely over in the ditch. John Wolf,
the fireman, was killed.
The fourth of the fish tug incidents
in one week took place in Mid-lake
Erie when the Canadian cruiser Vigi-
liant riddled the big steam tug Harry
G. Barnhurst with small shells from
the rifle on the patrol boat. Capt.
Nick Easel. of the tug, admitted after
he escaped that the Vigilant could
have sent her to tho bottom if Capt.
Dunn had so desired.
| Alleging that David E. Sherrick,
auditor of Indiana, is guilty of "a
plain and ineXcusable violation of the
law and a gross betrayal of public
trust" in that he invested funds be-
longing to the state in private affairs,
to the extent of about S135,000, Gov.
Hanly has issued an order in which
he took cognizancc of a vacancy in
the office and appointed Warren Big
Ter, of Wabash, as his successor
While fishing near the boundary line
in Lake Erie the fish tug William j.
McCarter, small boat of Is tons, was
struck twice by shots from the Cana
dian cruiser Vigilant in the efforts of
the Canadians to compel the tug TO
stop and surrender. Capt. Frank
Handy, the engineer and four other
men were on the tug, but they deter
mined to escape and made the run to
Erie Pa. in their damaged boat.
The body of the young woman found
under what is known as the Haunted
Oak" just off Pelham road, in the
Bronx, has been identified as that OF
Augusta Pfeiffer % years old. An
autopsy showed that the woman had