Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-02

| a lively QeDaJe euSueu III lnS TTGS-
byterian general assembly, in session
at Winona Lake, Ind. when they dis
cussed resolutions relating to temper
ance. A declaration was also made
against tobacco.
A small 10th century drinking cup
carved of rock crystal and mounted
with gold was sold at auction in Lon
don, Eng, for $S1,S75. 1t is said the
cup was purchased for j. Pierpont
Morgan, of New York.
Gess!er Rosseau, who was ccnTict-
ed of sending an internal machine to
the pier of the steamship Umbria at
New Pork City, in May, 1903, was
sent to state prison for not less than
three nor more than five years.
The motion of Franklin B. Lord,
which sought to restrain the directors
of the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety from mutualizing the company
was granted by Justice Maddox in the
supreme court in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The German racing yacht Hamburg
! led the Endymion and the Ailsa by
! !3G miles In the transatlantic race
| for Emperor Williams cup on May
%. All three of the yachts were sight
| ed by the steamer st. Louis on that
day.
A locomotive and coach ran from
| Tuscumbia to Decatur, Ala. on the
Southern railway, "A miles, in SO
minutes. A citizen of Decatur was
the only passenger, having chartered
the train to hurry to the bedside of
his sick wife.
The Prairie Oil and Gas Co., which
10 ctr fnr niuht
inch auxiliary pipe line from Bartles-
Vile to the storage tanks in Kansas,
and upon which line it discontinued
work under the famous shut down"
order, has resumed the work of con-
structon.
Mrs. William Lark, living near
Winfield, w. Va, was shot from am
bush while running with her husband
from their burning house. Mrs Lark
was wounded in the foot. Suspicion
attaches to a man who had been in
dicted, upon the testimony of Mr..
Lark, for operating an illegal saloon.
William Stembler is dead and 35
persons are injured as a result of the
! collision of two trolley cars returning
from Westport. suburban resort near
Baltimore Others of the victims of
the accident are expected to die.
While resisting a robber who had
entered her home in Brooklyn, N. Y,
when she was alone and demanded her
| ;ewelry, Mrs. Jennie Meisel, wife of
shirr. waist manufacturer, was shot
and probably mortally wounded.
Very Rev. Thomas F. Hickey, vicar
| general of the diocese of Rochester,
N. Y, was consecrated in st. Patricks S
cathedral as titular bishop of Bere-
uice and coadiutor with right of sue
cession to Bishop McQuade, bishop of
Rochester.
The entire plant of the National
Fireworks Co. at West Hanover,
Mass, consisting of ten wooden build
ings of one story each, was destroyed
by an explosion in the mixing room.
OF the 90 employees at the plant only
five were injured. one seriously.
Announcement was made in New
York City from an official source that
g final settlement of all the difficulties
growing out of the old corner in Nor
thern Pacific railway stock had been
reached and that henceforth there
would be harmony between the Hill
and Hartman forces.
William Stevens, who lived at Ross
Valley, Marin county, Cal, murdered
his wife, shot lis five children and
FILLED himsel after he had pursued
into the road and had attempted to
murder a passing milk man. Three of
the children died instantly, the others
cannon live.
AT the May meeting of the Carnegie
Hero Fund Commission which was
held in the board rooms of the Car
negie Steel Co. in Pittsburg, the in
tal awards were made. Nine cases
were acted favorably upon by the com
mission. Three silver medals and six
bronze medals were awarded.
book written by Jay Gould has
been sold at auction in New York
City for $5.75. 1t was the financier's
only contribution to literature, written
when he was 90 years old, and en-
titled "a History of Delaware County
and the Border Wars of New York. u
The book was printed in 1856.
Holman e Co., bankers and brok-
: ers in the Union Trust building al
J Cincinnati, and members of the New
York stock exchange, have assigned
Alfred Holman, member of the firm
says their assets and liabilities are
about equal-$5O0 000
Boutwell, Pulford, reputed to be the
wealthiest citizen of Savanna, Ill.
l committed suicide after being ques.
toned regarding the whereabouts Of
| revolver with which he waa sus
1 pected of having slain Attorney DAME
S. Perry. formerly a leading member
! of the Illinois legislature.
e President Castro signalized the
4 opening of congress and the beginning
= of his constitutional presidency fer 81!
: years by decreeing amnesty to al
VeneZuelans who for political reasons
= have been eXpatriated and they arr
= permitted to return to their country.
= Seventy-one banks and trust com
t panies, most of them in Massachu
e sets, but several located in othe
parts of the country, are among tn,