Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

Secretary of War Taft and party
have arrived at Honolulu.
A negro who assaulted Mrs. Benja-
min Roberts near Golinda, Tex, has
been lynched by mob of 500 men.
State Representative George F.
Chaplin, of Monroe county, Ark, has
been convicted of conspiracy to bribe.
Announcement of a new combina-
tion of actors in America against what
is known as the theatrical trust has
been made.
Failures for the week ended July IA
were 223 in the United States, against
225 last year, and 26 in Canada, COM
pared with 20 year ago.
Three trainmen were killed and
two more were probably fatally in
jured in freight wreck on the Iowa
Central railroad near Richland la.
e. w. Warield, cashier of the st.
Louis county bank at Clayton, Mo-,
shot himself through the head while
seated at his desk and sank lifeless.
William Dwyer and seven Chinese
were killed by an explosion at the
Giant powder works, ten miles from
Oakland. Cal.
Miss Ethel M. Cram, of New York,
was thrown from a pony wagon at
LenoX, Mass, and dragged some dis
tance. her skull being fractured.
Thirteen deaths attributed to the
hot weather were recorded in New
York in one day. In addition a score
or more of persons were overcome
by the heat.
Af 4
glass jobbers in Chicago the retail
price of window glass was advanced
10 per cent, the raise to take effect
at once.
John, the 12-year- son of John
ID. Bowen, Cumberland, Md, died of
lockjaw resulting from injuries sus-
tanned while firing a toy pistol on
July 4.
Twenty four leaders of the recent
'isturbahces in Odessa were hanged
II various prisons. Another batch of
IT will be publicly executed upon the
arrival of Gen. Ignatieff.
Raymond V. Slough, bricklayer
who came to St. Louis from Concord
N. c., a few months ago, was shot
and killed during quarrel over
Benjamin Webb Williams, who a
generation ago was a pioneer in con
ducting lecturing tours in the United
States, died at his home in Dorches.
ter. Mass. He was 81 years of age.
At Paris Senator Prevet was
severely wounded in the forearm in g
sword duel with Senator Delpech, as
the result of dispute over the ques.
tions involved in the government
amnesty bill.
Herman Bartels is the first Fourth
of July lockjaw victim in Bay City
Mich. The boy died from lockjaW
which developed seven days after hC
injured his hand with toy pistol
He suffered terribly.
The Arkansas antitrust law has
been declared valid by the supreme
court of the state. II is agreed thar
the effect of the decision will be tC
shut out from the state all old line in
surance companies that maintain
rating agreement
II is announced that the coal anC
coke railroad running from Charleston
TO Elkins, w. Va, owned by Henry G
Davis and Senator Elkins, has beel
sold to the Vanderbilts, who intend t,
develop the road and make it trunl
line through the north central portion
of West Virginia.
Emil Arton, one of the principal fig
iures In the old Panama canal scandal
was recently found dead in his apart
ments at Paris under circumstance
indicating suicide.
For the first time in years ther
have been no deaths from locljaw du
TO the Fourth of July celebration Ii
the vicinity of Pittsburg. Last yea
from 10 to 20 deaths occurred
BY the accidental overturning of
rowboat on Keuka Lake, N. Y, Mis-
Maude Maston, of Penn Yam, and Mis-
Remer Faulkner of Mansfield, Pa
were drowned. Four others of tn
party were rescued, after much dif
Ificulty.