Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-18

capped.
John c. Gilbert, of Chicago,
magazine artist, was drowned at
Corey Lake, ten miles west of Three
Rivers, Mich.
Mrs. Mercvy Marvin, so years old,
committed suicide by hanging with
shawl to the banister of q staircase
at Meriden, Conn.
The Norwegian people in refer
endum taken pronounced in favor OF
the dissolution of the union with
Sweden with remarkable unanimity.
Widespread damage was caused by
a thunder storm of unusual violence,
accompanied by a high wind and a
deluge of rain, that burst over New
York and vicinity recently.
An Ashcroft, Man, dispatch re-
ports disastrous landslide on
Thompson river. An Indian village
was engulfed with it's population and
the riverbed was blocked.
While trying to save his wife from
drowning in the Connecticut river at
South Glastonbury, Conn, Columbo
Serrias became the victim of her
death grip and both sank to the bot
tom.
AS a result of the trial of 5S mutt
neers of the training ship Pruth at
Sebastopol, 10 have been acquitted,
four condemned to be shot, three SEN
fenced to penal servitude for life and
the remainder to various shorter
terms.
Fireman William Dayton was killed
and several of the crew of Hook and
Ladder Company No. 8 narrowly es-
caepd death when the truck was
thrown against an elevated railroad
pillar on Third avenue, New York
City, by street car.
BY the explosion of a gasoline tank
on board the ferry boat Phyldia at
South Haven, Mich, several passen-
gers were badly burned and a num-
Der who were blown into the water
narrowly escaped drowning.
Freight train No. 81 was side
swiped by Passenger train No. 4 on
the Nickel Plate at Kishmans, o., be-
tween Lorain and Vermillion. Twelve
people were killed and so injured.
Some of the injured will die.
Rev. Bernard Schultz and his wife,
of New York City, were attacked at
Mechanicsville and probably fatally
injured by a negro, who was later
shot and killed in Saratoga while re-
sisting arrest.
The Simplon tunnel in Switzerland
was the scene of series of accidents
recently. Thirty workmen were suf-
focated by fumes in the tunnel and
were with difficulty restored to con-
Sciousness. Two men were crushed
by falling rock.
Two lions, the property of Black
pool, England, were found loose re-
Gently in the yard adjoining their
cage, together with portions of the
body of workingman. The man on
the previous night boasted that he
would enter the lions cage.
Statistics compiled by the depart
ment of commerce and labor show
that the exports of manufactures in
the fiscal year just ended amounted
to S543,G20,297, as against $452, ,415,-
921 in the preceding year, $433, $751;
756 in 1900, and $1S3, ,595,743 in 1895.
"Bluebeard" Johann Hochs case
may not be appealed and his second
reprieve may have been in vain. The
sum requisite to pay for the printing
of abstracts and briefs required by the
rules of the Illinois supreme court is
stated to be still short
Oscar Benson, policeman, shot
and killed his brother-in-law, Matthew
Manner, so years old, fatally wounded
| Nicholas Ketten, 80 years old, a clerk
in Manners jewelry store at Harrison
and Desplaines streets, Chicago, and
then committed suicide.
AT New Albany, Ind, Mrs. Chester
Winstanley while temporarily insane
drowned her S-year-old daughter
Ruth by holding her under water in a
bath tub. Seizing a pistol she shot
and severely wounded her husband
and then swallowed carbolic acid,
dying an hour later.
Capt. Jerome B. Osier, believed to
be the Oldest resident of Illinois, is
dead at Chicago, aged 105. He was
| lorn in Erie, Pa. Following his father
as a sailor on the lakes, Mr. Osier had
become a master of a small schooner
before he made his first voyage to
Chicago.
According to a report received at
the navy department, ships of the
North Atlantic fleet have communi-
Gated with one another by wireless
telegraph at a distance of about 2G2
miles. This is announced to be the
! greatest distance at which wireless
Messages have been sent from ship tc
ship in the navy.
Let us give President Roosevelt
the Chautauqua salute at it's best
With these words Bishop John Vim
cent recently closed his brief intro.
duction of the president to the Chau.
tauqua, N. Y, assembly. Instantly
10000 white handkerchiefs futtered
in the air over the heads of the vast
audience in the great amphtheatre.
The president of the United States
who came to Wilkesbarre, Pa, re
Gently and made an address to the
delegates attending the annual con
vention of the Catholic Total Absti
nence Union of America and the mem
bers of the United Mine Workers o.
America, was given a most enthusi
astic reception.
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