Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

Han Eung, the KoreGn charge d'af-
faires at London, committed suicide
by hanging at the legation.
The Cornell team won in the Penn
sylvania- Cornell dual meet at Frank
lin field in Philadelphia.
President Roosevelt has approved
the recommendation of Secretary Nor
ton that the body of John Paul Jones
be buried at Annapolis, Md.
Henry M. Loud, one of the pioneer
Iumbermen of Michigan and father of
Congressman George A. Loud, is dead
at sanitarium in Flint. Mich.
A. Brightman shot and killed Mrs.
Charles H. Gurney and then commit
ted suicide at Los Angeles, Cal. In
requited love is the cause.
Two coaches of a Weatherford,
Mineral Wells & Northwestern pas
senger train went through a broken
trestle at Dry creek, Tex, and about
20 persons were hurt.
A score of passengers were injured
when a suburban train on the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad ran into a
freight locomotive in Chicago. Two
passenger coaches were demolished.
A highly priced statue of the Madon-
ma has been stolen from a private
chapel at Ponte Stolli, a suburb of
Florence, Italy. The statue was val
ued at SIT 900 and weights 500 pounds.
Five business agents of labor unions
In Chicago were declared guilty by
Judge Chytraus of forming a con-
spiracy to drive John NJ. Stiles, con-
tractor and painter. out of business.
The members of the national board
of fire underwriters who met in New
York City recently were told by Presi-
dent Washburn that last years losses
aggregated $229,19S,O5O and were
greater than in any other year on
record.
Wallace McCreery, aged 53, and dur
ing his time one of the best comic
opera tenors, committed suicide in
New York City by jumping into the
Hudson river from ferryboat.
William Tullis, Of Lowell, O., was
Killed by lightning which struck side
show tent of circus. James Lacey,
Mrs. w. II. Mcfarland, Myrtle Cossett
and farmer were injured.
Two men were killed, one was ia
tally injured and two score others
were more or less seriously burned by
the collapse of an immense gas holder
at the Point Breeze, Pa, works of the
United Gas Improvement Co.
The annual oratorical contest of the
Northwestern Oratorical association
was held in Findlay, o. Several hund-
red students were in attendance from
neighboring towns. John McCabe, OF
Delphos. won first prize.
terrific storm of wind and rain
has created havoc around and near
Huntington, w. Va. Rumors of loss
OF life cannot be verified. Above Cat.
lettsburg torrent washed out 30C
feet of the big pipe line of the Triple
State Gas Co.
George Hackenscnmidt, worlds
champion wrestler, in an exhibition al
st, Louis threw George Baptiste, OF
Louis, three times and Ali Murulah
OF Chicago, once in II minutes So 81
seconds actual wrestling.
Tom Witherspoon, negro, charged
with robbing Assemblyman Fred Hes!
by duress, was taken from officers a
Belmont, Mo-, and lynched by a mol
o1 several hundred persons, who hang
ed the negro in the public square.
John Hewitt, white man of Adel
Ga, shot and killed his wife, shot he,
sister and brother, wounding then
slightly, and when surrounded by
posse of citizens shot and killed him
self.
The annual convention of the Orde
OF Railroad Telegraphers has ended a
Buffalo, N. Y. Next years convention
will be held in Minneapolis. Officers
were elected.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius Fl
more active. There have been heav,
explosions and the quantity of Law;
emitted produces a magnificent spec
tac;e at night.
AT the bi-monthly wage conferenc,
between representatives of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel ant
Tin Workers and the Republic IroI
and Steel Co. at Youngstown, O., tn,
rate for pudding was advanced 2I
cents ton.