Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-09-22
Happenings Of the Last Five Days
Narrated in Few Words
as Possible.
AT HOME AND IN FOREIGN LANDS
items Arranged for the Readers In
This Busy World So that They
Can Digest the Con-
tents In Few
Minutes.
MISCELLANEOUS.

NGl. oNdliOShy anu NTtil- l. uhhoIiiiA"
have signed an armistice ordinance
at Gunshu Pass.
Seven Greek sailors of the British
steamship Glenroy, Capt. Sphinx, are
in Jail at Jacksonville, Fla, charged
with mutiny. They attacked the cap
tain with knives.
Through American enterprise the
way has been won to connect the
western continent by direct sub
marine telegraphic lines with Japan
and China.
Four men were killed, six were seri-
ously burned and dozen more were
stunned by lightning which wrecked a
crowded poultry exhibition at the
county fair at Indianola. la.
Failures for the week ended Sep
tember 1G numbered 1914 in the Uni
ted States, against 224 last year, and
20 in Canada, compared with 81 a
year ago.
An unusually heavy rain storm ac-
companied by high wind in western
Missouri and eastern Kansas caused
serious damage to property and the
loss of at least four lives.
W. X. Vanderbilt's steam yacht
Tarantula won from Howard Goulds
steam yacht Niagara W., in a race
over a 40-mile course for a $4,000
purse on Long Island Sound.
According to preliminary figures of
Iowa's state census, Iowa had a total
population on January /, 1905, of
2,201,372. This is a loss of 30,4S1
since the national census of 1900.
During a terrific electrical storm
that swept eastern Nebraska and
western Iowa, panic was caused in
the Dodge hotel at Omaha when
lightning and wind tore off the roof
of the hostelry.
Seventeen persons were cut and
bruised in a collision between two
trolley cars near Leavenworth Kan
The injured had gone to Leavenworth
to attend republican political meet
Ing.
Six passenger coaches, seven freight
cars, the blacksmith shop, carpenter
shop, stables, car barn and other
buildings belonging to the Cornwall
Railroad Co. at West Lebanon, Pa,
were destroyed by fire.
Harry Clifford Brown, stock bro
ker of Boston and a well known resi-
dent of Brookline, Mass, was arrested
by inspectors from the Boston bureau
of criminal investigation on a charge
of forgery.
A large portion of the business sec
tion of Orangeville, Idaho, was de
stroyed by fire, causing a loss esti-
mated at S250,000 Over 40 buildings,
mostly frame structures. were de
stroyed.
The Union Pacific railway gave a
practical test of motor car No. 2, built
by that company. The car ran from
Omaha to Valley, Neb., and return,
carrying 81 persons, reaching a speed
of 50 miles an hour.
Otto Sarge, aged IS; Esther Sarge,
aged 8, and Fritze Strate, aged g. of
New Kensington, Pa, We're smoth-
cred to death by the caving in of a
sand bank in which they were play
ing.
Receiver Bradley, of the defunct
First national bank of Topeka, Kan,
is informed by C. S. Downing that
sufficient capital from New York un-
derwriting corporation has practically
been organized to assume all of the
c. j. Devlin liabilities.
The death of Mayor Patrick A. Col
Inns, of Boston, at Hot Springs, Va,
has been announced. He was one of
the leading democrats of the country.
He served in congress from 1SS3-1SS9
and was United States consul general
at London from 1S93-1S97.
Lewis Crocker, farmer of Green
town, Pa, with his wife and four
children were poisoned by eating
fnn1cfnn1g wi oh
rooms gathered by Crocker. One
child is dead and two others cannot
live.
The Keystone Fish Co., of Erie, Pa,
has received a telegram from Port
Dover. Canada, sent by Capt. Albert
Morrison, of their tug e. C. Oggel,
saying the fish tug had been captured
and towed into port by the Canadian
cruiser Vigilant.
An automobile containing members
of the party accompanying Gov. r.
B. Glenn, of North Carolina, plunged
over a bridge on the road to Royal
ston at Winchendon, Mass, and land
ed at the bottom of ditch, pinionine
the occupants underneath. Four men
were injured none fatally.
Rain has fallen in Kansas City and
vicinity every day excepting one in
September with total downfall tC
date of ten inches in Is days.
The Missouri riveS is rising rapidly
at Jefferson City. Mo-, and people are
moving from the lower part of the city
to higher ground. Several farmers
have been driven from their homes
One farm is under 1G feet of water.
Funeral services over the body OF
the late Mayor Patrick A. Collins were
held at Boston in the Roman Catholic
Cathedral Of the Holy Cross in the
presence of an assemblage thai
crowded the great edlace and over,
flowed iido tho street.