Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-27
NEWS NOTES
OF INTEREST
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 tho Con-
tents In Few
Minutes.

Ex- Congressman John Van Voorhis
IS dead at his home in Rochester, N. Y.
"Cool' Burgess, the well known
minstrel, is dead in a hospital at To-
ronto. Ont.
Failures for the week ended October
20 numbered 233 in the United States,
against 215 last year, and 3S in Can
ada, compared with 80 year ago.
Quantities of valuable pearls are
being found in the Kankakee river,
Indiana. Scores of persons have gone
to the river to hunt for the gems.
Two children of Fred Piel, aged 16
and years, were burned to death and
their mother so badly burned that she
cannot recover in a fire which de-
stroyed their home at Bladen. Neb.
The question of the friar lands pur-
chase was settled recently at Manila
when the commission paid the Domini-
can order S3,225,000, which is the last
payment.
A warrant has been issued in Mon
treal for the arrest of David Hobbs,
customs agent for the Canadian Pa
Cific railroad who is charged with the
defalcation of between $4,000 and
$4,000.
Sooboonagam Animal, one of the
best known Hindoo workers in the
Women's Foreign Missionary society,
who was kidnapped by her people two
months ago. has returned to her mis-
sion in India.
The Standard Oil Co. posted a bull
letin at Lima, o., recently announc-
ing an advance of five cents in the
price offered for Pennsylvania crude
oil and an advance of two cents on
Lima and Indiana oil.
John Goodson, an 11-year- old boy
who on August Is shot and killed
Hannah McQuaid, girl about II
years of age, was acquitted of the
charge of manslaughter by a jury in
the circuit court at Detroit.
Rescued in mid-ocean as their YES
sci was about to sink, Capt. Zacharias-
sen and his crew of eight men of the
Norwegian bark H. w. Palmer were
landed at Sydney. C. b., by the Nor
wegian steamer Christian Bors.
]. j. Kelley, deputy superintendent
of the market house at Cleveland
employed by the board of public SER
vice has been arrested charged with
the embezzlement of $1,000 in city
funds.
The Chadwick jewels which the
government seized were sold at forced
sale in the Office of United States
Marshal Chandler at Cleveland. They
brought $2,l54, The lot was ap-
praised at $4,000.
The town of Strattonville, Pa, was
almost wiped out by fire recently
Among the buildings destroyed were
the borough building, Odd Fellows
hall and two dwellings. The loss
was $4,000.
The payment of $4,000 through
American asphalt companies to sup
port Gen. Matos' revolution in Vene-
zuela was testified to in New York by
Gen. Avery d. Andrews, vice presi-
dent of the National Asphalt Co.
Richard A. McCurdy, president OF
the Mutual Life Insurance Co., made
statement that he had no intention
of resigning, that he was elected to
serve until June and that nothing
can or will drive him out.
The American tug Bertha l.. Cock
re!l, seized in Lake Erie by the
Canadian cruiser Vigilant and con.
demned as lawful prize by the On.
at auction by the Dominion govern
ment.
The former Salvation Army girl
Inga Hanson, who was sent to Joliet
penitentiary for alleged perjury in
connection with personal injury
suit against the Chicago City Railway
Co, will probably be pardoned by
Gov. Deneen.
The robbery of $4,000 worth OF
diamonds from the wife of George w
Ina11au 40 d,
New York City has been announced
while Mr. and Mrs. Hoadley were al
the theatre.
Beside the other great actor, Gar.
rick, and under the shadow of the
statue of Shakespeare, as the inter.
prefer of whose plays he won fame
the ashes of Sir Henry Irving were
given burial in Westminster Abbey
London.
w. B. Smith, former president OF
the Western national bank of Louis
vile, KY, has been indicted by the
federal grand jury on ten counts
charging him with embez2lement
making false entries and the misap
preparation of the funds of the bank
The total defalcation charged in the
Indictment is $198.013.
In 1904 the United States produced
9S per cent. of the worlds known out
put of natural gas, the value of the
production being S3S,49G,7C0.
DR.. Edward Martin, director of the
department of public health and chari
ties. has sent his resignation to Mayor
Weaver, of Philadelphia. The posi-.
ton paid $4,000 year.
The supreme court of the United
States has decided that State Senator
George E. Green. of New York, must
90 TO Washington for trial on the
charge of conspirlng with George w
Beavers and others to defraud the
government In the purchase of sup.
plies for the postofIice department.