Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-24

Daniel II. Mccarthy, at one time
one of the best known cartoonists in
the country, is dead at New York City.
He established school of carlcature.
f. Goodman and Michael Lipshitz,
statesmen, and Robert Washington, a
colored porter, all employed by the
clothing firm of Bowershock &c Mey-
er, at Chicago, have been arrested
on a charge of embezzlement.
Three children were burned to
death at Springdale, Mich, and their
father, Frank Pearsons, was so badly
burned and also frozen while fight
ing the fire and trying to rescue his
children that he will probably die.
r. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of
Trade says: Weather conditions still
dominate the trade situation. Fail
ures this week numbered 25S in the
United States, against 2S7 last year,
and 80 in Canada, compared with 20
a year ago.
Ex-President Eugene A. Georger
and President Richard Emery, of the
suspended German bank OF Buffalo,
through counsel in police court en-
tered pleas of not guilty and were
held for the grand jury. e
r. r. Bennett, of Pittsburg, at the
Rusch House traps in Detroit, Mich,
won the title of champion live bird
shot of North America and the hand
some Gilman G. Barnes trophy that
goes with it.
Christopher Smith, alias San
drock," the young man who commit
ted series of daring robberies in
New York City, has been sentenced
to % years in state prison.
AS a climax to a series of charges
and counter charges the West Vir-
ginia state senate adopted resolu-
ton providing for the investigation
of charges made against Gov. White
by Senator Caldwell on the floor Of
the senate.
AS the result of recent trouble at
lege at Amherst the senior class voted
to withdraw from the college.
John K. Taggart, former real es-
tate agent of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Co., who confessed that he had
embezzled several thousand dollars
of the company's money. was SEN
fenced to two years Imprisonment at
Philadelphia.
The $4,000 breach of promise case
of Emma Tompkins against Willis
Mecherle came to sudden ending at
Bloomington, ILL.,, when the princi-
pals agreed to be married, Mecherle
deciding Miss Tompkins so acres of
land.
Judge Cook, of San Francisco, has
decided that Japanese photograph
marriages are illegal in the United
States.
John Nichols, colored, aged IS
years, a newsboy, drank quart of
whisky on wager in Cincinnati and
died at the hospital, after lying in a
stupor for several hours.
John O'Neil blew the top of his
head off with revolver which he had
hidden from the officers at Hot
Springs, Ark.
The committee of the directors of
the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford railroad met in New York City
and considered the grievances pre-
sented by the Firemen's association
An announcement was made that a
decision had been reached to the eff
feet that the position of President
Mellen, who rejected the firemen's
demands. had been sustained.
Northwestern Pennsylvania suffered
from heavy snowfall. Rural free de-
livery service was interfered with and
trolley lines also suffered.
Lieut.. Arthur French, the 26-year-
old son of Lord De Freyne, an Irish
baron, who arrived in New York City
from England more than a month ago
has disappeared.
An injunction was granted by Judge
Wilkinson in the circuit court al
Huntington, w. Va, restraining the
officials of the Triple State Gas Co
from merging that company with the
United States Natural Gas Co.
Confessing that she had forged
many checks and drawn on her EN-.
ployers bank account since last Oc.
tober, Margaret Connolly, Is years
old, has been arrested at New York
City. The child said she had used the
money to play philanthropist among
the poor children living near hel
home.
John A. Hart, an engineer employ.
ed last summer on H. H. Rogers
boat, the Vixen, was murdered on the
steamer Larchmont, while a passen
ger from New York to Providence
R. l.
A brother and sister died from star
walton and exposure at Germantown
| Pa.
! The Right Rev. William E. Nc
Laren, Protestant Episcopal bishop o
Chicago died in New York City
Death was due to heart failure.
His hands tied and his clothing
saturated with kerosene and then Sc
on fire, was the treatment accorded
to Max Spitz, car cleaner, by fellow
workmen in the yards of the New
York Central railroad, according to ;
statement made by Spitz to the New
York police. Escaping from his tor
mentors he ran away with his cloth
ing ablaze and rolled in the snow unit
the flames were extinguished
In a fight between Bulgarians ant
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