Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-11-17


chased the famous solid iron noun
tain at Durango.
Mary Americans have secured high
awards at the international exposi-
tion which has just been brought to
a successful close at Liege, Belgium.
Three children of August Pell, aged
2, and . years respectively, were
burned to death at their parents
home near Metz, 80 miles north of AL
pena, Mich.
One hundred and ten summer cot
tages with their contents were de-
stroyed by fire which swept the Acton
park, Ia miles southeast of Indian
apols, Ind
From the present outlook the cleo
trical exposition to be held in Chica-
go in January promises to surpass
anything of the kind ever attempted
in this country. The exposition will
be held in the Coliseum.
George W. Buttrick and William
Jackson were burned 10 keath in the
city Jail at Lake City, Ia, by a fire
started by Buttrick. These, with j.
|. Nipple and Isaac Allen, were ar
rested for carousing on the streets.
Midshipman Minor Meriwether has
been placed under arrest at Annapolis,
Md, to await his trial by court-mar-
tial for engaging in a fistic combat
with Midshipman James r. Branch,
who died of his injuries.
Dan Patch, champion PAGER, in an
exhibition mile on the track of the
Memphis (Tenn.) Trotting association
lowered the worlds pacing record
without wind shield by 1 "A seconds,
covering the mile in 1858.
Secretary Hitchcock has directed
the officials of the pension office to
hereafter refuse applications for lists
of persons drawing pensions from the
government, on the ground that the
practice may lead to abuse.
There were five large meetings of
Jews in Philadelphia recently for the
purpose of raising funds for the suf-
fering Jews in Russia. The most i'm
portant gathering of the day was that
which met at Mercantile hall, where
100000 was raised in half an hour.
A mob of 20 men broke into the Jail
at Henderson, Tex, and, overpower-
ing the officers, took therefrom John
Reed, Robert Askew and one other
negro, whom they hanged in the pub
lie square. The negroes were arrested
for the murder of farmer.
President Roosevelt has made two
new rules for the regulation of the
consular service. Hereafter any ap-
plicant for appointment as secretary
of legation must possess a knowledge
of at least one other language than
Enguish
The appellate division of the New
York state supreme court recently
handed down a decision dismissing
Hannah Elias, negress, to recover
$6S5,000 which Plat asserted he had
given to her under coercion.
Northern Pacific Passenger train
No. 4, eastbound, running 80 miles an
hour, crashed into the rear of an east
bound freight train two miles west of
Missoula, Mont. A score of passen-
gers and trainmen were injured. The
two engineers probably will die.
Confession to the robbery of $780,
600 worth of gems from fashionable
New York homes in the last two years
was made recently by Harold Pres
colt, a painter. His profit on pawn
ing the jewelry, Prescott said, was
but little over $4,000.
Judge Purnell, in the United States
court at Wilmington, N. c., sentenced
Arthur Adams and Robert Sawyer,
convicted of mutiny and murder on
the schooner Harry A. Berwind, off
the North Carolina coast in October,
to be hanged January 26.
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prolonged struggle, during which the
priest used his fists to such effect that
the thief cried enough" Father John
K. Watson, assistant pastor of st.
Matthew'S church of st. Louis, cap
tured a man who had robbed the
church's poor box of S21.
Michael McDermott, who was serv
ing a sentence for drunkenness, burned
himself to death in a padded cell of
the county Jail at Newark, n. j., the
smoke from the fire and the odor of
the burning flesh creating a panic
among the hundred prisoners in the
jail.
Capt. John Hardy, who was we'll
known vessel owner in Chicago Is
years ago, was given a penitentiary
sentence of two to IA years for forg-
cry at Laporte, Ind. George McKain,
an accomplice, received a like SEN
tence. Hardy and McKain operated
extensively.
Thousands stood and watched on
the banks of the Hudson river in New
York recently while six British war
ships in unison with double that num-
ber of American men-of- war fired a
national salute of 21 guns in honor of
King Edward, who celebrated his
siXty-fourth birthday.
Both Count Witte and the emperor
of Russia have made another surrend
eT. Gen. Trepoff has been removed
from the powerful position which he
occupied, that of governor general of
st. Petersburg and assistant minister
of the interior, and Russia's premier
has agreed to immediate universal
suffrage.
Allegations that high officials in the
Venezuelan government deliberately
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