Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-09-29

voluntary liquidation.
Four men were injured, three IA
tally, in the old court house at Chi
cago, which is being torn down TO
make place for new structure.
Fire destroyed Mcdaniel Brothers
livery stables at Wilmington, Del.
Sixty-fve horses were burned to death
and about $50 carriages and wagons.
Loss $4,000.
Henry Edwards, aged 90, was shot
and killed at Lewisburg, KY, by Clar-
ence Turner, aged 20. They quarieled
about a girl at dance. Turner is in
Jail.
James p. Hennessy, a clerk who re-
Gently confessed to stealing $4,000
from the estate of Percy Morgan, of
New York, was sentenced to prison
for seven years. He lost the $4,000
in race track pool rooms.
One man was killed and 81 were in
jured in a collision between a freight
train on the Alabama Great Southern
and the Blockton accommodation on
the Birmingham Mineral railroad at
Woodstock crossing, 20 miles south
of Birmingham, Ala.
A small fireworks factory in the
Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, N. Y,
was blown up and an Italian named
Spierzo was killed. His wife and
three sons were fatally hurt. Spierzo
was blown through the roof of the
wooden building in which the fire.
works were made.
Francis H. Palmer, the former cash
ier of the Peconic bank of Sag Harbor,
who pleaded guilty to the charge of
embezzling Sal, 900, was sentenced to
not less than one year nor more than
| three years Imprisonment in the
state prison.
A rear-end collision between the
eastbound New York limited express
from st. Louis and a local passenger
train which was standing at the Paoli
station of the Pennsylvania road, 19
miles west of Philadelphia, resulted
in the death of five men and the injur-
ing of msre than 20 others.
Nellie Russbaum, 15 years old, was
accused by her father at New York
| City of writing him letters threaten
| ing death unless he paid her $50. The
! letters were signed "The Black Hand"
The girl confessed to the police that
she wrote such letters to her father,
saying that she did it "just for fun"
The steamer Juniata, which arrived
in Boston, reported that several of her
passengers were injured during a col
lision, 30 miles off Chatham, Mass,
with the five masted schooner Har-
wood Palmer. The Juniata was ex-
tensively damaged in the collision.
The Palmer was somewhat damaged.
With crash that could be heard for
blocks a three-story brick building un-
der course of construction on West
Ferry street, Buffalo, N. Y, collapsed
carrying down with it so bricklayers
and carpenters who were at work in
and on top of the structure. A score
of men were injured, eight of them
seriously.
Official dispatches received from
Cienfuegos, Cuba, announced the kill
ing of Congressman Enrique Villuen-
das, leader of the liberal party and
the most able orator in the lower
house, and the chief of police of Glen
fuegos during conflict between the
two political parties, tho liberals and
moderates.
A general strike in the composing
and job departments of the Rochester,
N. Y, Post-EXpress newspaper was
declared recently and most of the men
responded to the call of the union.
| The strike on the part of the comPos-
ing room men is sympathetic, mas
much as their demand for an eight
hour day and increase in wages has
been granted.
/ A large portion of the remaining
assets of the estate of Frank G. Bige-
low, the defauting bank president, of
Milwaukee, have been disposed Of at
public auction to the highest bidders
by the Wisconsin Trust Co., trustee.
The assets, which consist of stocks
and bonds in mining and industrial
companies, brought about 80 per cent.
of their appraised value.
| Irene Grossman, girl of 16 years,
was found dubbed into insensibility
in the hallway of her home at 542
West One Hundred and Forty-second
street, New York City. The attack
was the elimination Of series of
nightly entries in the Grossman resi-
dence which were intended to enforce
by "Black Hand" methods, payments
of money for immunity from attack.
The identity of the young woman
| whose headless and dsmembered
body was found in suit case, re-
covered from the waters of Boston
harbor, at Winthrop, Mass, has not
been established. The most impor-
tant point established beyond doubt
was that the dead woman had been
the victim of an illegal operation.
| Death was due to peritonitis.
Under the provisions of the will of
| Gen. Isaac j. Wistar, the well known
rnarcier and railroad man. which was
admitted to probate in Philadelphia,
the bulk of the estate, together with
the brain and the right arm of the
| testator, is bequeathed to the Wistar
Institute of Anatomy and Biology of
the University of Pennsylvania, which
he founded.
The report of the commissioner of
pensions for the fiscal year ending
July last shows that during the year
there were 4G,985 allowances under
| tho old age disability order of March