Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-06

SlueS mOuluS ana Otner COunterIeltlnB
machinery, a complete layout of burg
lars tools and two drawers full of
iewelry.
G. +. Billingsley, president of the
Capitol national bank, of Guthrie,
Okla, which failed last June with
nearly $1,000,0O0 deposits, $244 900 of
which belonged to the territory of
Oklahoma, has been indicted on seven
counts by the federal grand jury. Mr..
Billingsley was arrested, gave bond
for $4,000 and was released.
The official record made by the Uni
ted States cruiser Chattanooga on hef
four hours speed run at sea was 1917
knots an hour. The speed called for
by the contract was 16.5 knots.
Bryant B. Brooks has been inaug-
urated governor of Wyoming.
The intensely cold weather which
prevails in the center of Russia has
caused temporary suspension of the
mobilization and movement of troops.
Two children of John McPhee, one 5
years old and the other a babe, were
burned to death in a fire that destroy
ed the McPhee home at Diamondville,
Wyo. The parents were absent at the
time.
Bacash, the chief of the BENIN M'Sur
tribesmen, has been killed while raid
ing a village near Tangier, Morocco.
Bacash led the last attack on the resi-
dence of Walter B. Harris, the Tan
gier correspondent of the London
Times, on December 2.
After an idleness of eight months
the large blast furnace of the Ameri-
can Steel and Wire Co. at Neville ISL
and, Pa, has resumed operations.
Over 400 men were furnished with en-
ployment. The daily capacity of the
| furnace is about 600 tons of pig iron.
Brevet Brig. Gen. Edward r. War
ner, retired, died suddenly at New
York City. He was born in Pennsyl-
vania and served in the civil war as
| lieutenant colonel of the First New
York artillery, retiring from the vol
unteers as brevet brigadier general in
| 1865.
The eastern pottery manufacturers
are about to start a price-cutting war
which promises to be one of the fierc-
est ever waged in that trade and in
wolves the question of supremacy be-
tween eastern and western manufac-
| turerS.
Wholesalers of Iowa, Nebraska and
South Dakota have instituted ar or
ganized movement to support Presi-
dent Roosevelt in his agitation for
more railroad legislation. Congress-
men will be asked to oppose the plan
of legalizing pooling, on the ground
that it will destroy the last vestige of
competition.
The cruiser New Orleans, now on
her way home from the Philippines,
will leave most of her guns at Guam
and Midway Island to protect these
places. The New Orleans was, with
her sister ship, the Albany, purchased
in England at the time of the Spanish
war. She is a serviceable vessel, but
her guns are not of the American type.
The recent advance in the price of
silver calls attention to the increasing
| scarcity of the floating supply of that
metal. Bar silver is quoted at 617s
cents an ounce.
In the wreck of Canadian North
ern snow plow train at Orizona, Man.,
B. Linklater was killed and a dozen
persons injured. The caboose over
turned and burned.
|
were victims of the fact that Christ
mas came on Sunday and was followed
| by holiday. The animals, dropping
suddenly in their tracks under stress
of work, died of spinal paralysis, or
were shot to end their suffering.
The First National Bank of Fari-
bault, Mimi, has been closed and Bank
Examiner Baird appointed receiver.
Diamond dealers have been advised
cost of rough stones, making a tota, of
45 per cent. increase since 1901.
Sewing machine agents to the num-
Der of 200 have decided to inaugurate
a strike at New York City. Nothing
of the kind has ever occurred before
in the profession.
Ollie Cannon, a painter, has been
arrested at Lexington, KY, on a war
rant sworn out by his wife, who
charges him with the murder of their
6-months-old daughter six years ago.
In the case of Abraham Wolfe VS..
the District of Columbia the supreme
court of the United States has decided
that carriage stones or stepping stones
| placed on sidewalks of streets are not
nuisances.
Ex-Attorney General John P. Elkin
has assumed the office of associate
justice of the supreme court of Penn
sylvania, succeeding Samuel Thomp-
son, whom he defeated at the Novem-
ber election.
Jammed with passengers returning
from Brooklyn theatres, two trolley
cars came together in rear-end col
lision Immediately beside shaft of
the subway tunnel Eighteen persons
were wounded.
A shipment of $5,OOOOOO in gold was
recently made from New York City to
Japan. The transaction was so secret
ly managed that news of it did not
leak out until the gold had reached its
destination in safety.
John Hathaway, a negro, who Is
years ago rated high as a jockey has
been hanged at Winchester, KY, for
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