Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-11-24

Secretary Shaw recently received a
conscience contribution of $500 in an
envelope postmarked st. Louis, Mo.
The will of Mrs. Caroline Richmond,
OF. Providence, II. l., who died recently
in Colorado, gives the American Uni
tartan association $4,000.
A total in subscription to the Jew
ish relief fund Of $49S,G51 was an
nounced in New York recently by the
national relief committee.
The plant of the Steelton Electric
Light Co., at Harrisburg, Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire, involving a loss of
100000 on which there was no insur-
ance.
Torpedo boat rs 1876" collided near
Buelk, Germany, with the small cruis-
er Undine. The torpedo boat sank
and one officer and SO seamen are
missing.
William r. Hearst, candidate for
mayor of New York on the municipal
ownership ticket, reported to the
secretary of state that his total cam
paign expenses were $75.S43.
At Milwaukee, Wis, eN-Alderman
Robert l.. Rudolph was found guilty
by jury of soliciting bribe while a
member of the common council in
1900. Sentence was deferred.
The explosion of a moving picture
machine in a small show room at
Pittsburg resulted in the injury of
about 30 people, mostly children rang
ing in age from 12 to 1G years.
Prof. John L. Morris, Of Cornell
died at his home in Ithaca, N. Y.
Until he retired last year Prof. Nor
ris had been the head of the mercan-
tile arts department of Sibley college
since 1868.
AT the A. overholt distillery at
Broadford, Pa, $4,000 gallons of
whisky furnished a spectacular fire
entailing loss of 100000. The main
bonded warehouse was burned to the
ground.
The Bucharest correspondent of the
London Daily Chronicle reports that
anti-Jewish rioting took place at
Kishineff recently, resulting in pill
lage and arson and that many per-
sons were killed.
After suffering for a week from
blood poisoning resulting from a
slight scratch on the leg, DR.. Emil
Preetorius, aged IS years, editor of
the Westliche Post, died at st. Louis.
He was born in Germany in 1927.
The Southwestern railways cross
channel steamer Hilda was wrecked
off st. Malo, on the north coast of
France, and it is believed that 100 or
more of her passengers and crew were
drowned.
Acting Secretary of War Oliver has
accepted the resignation of Lieut..
Granville r. Fortescue, Tenth cavalry.
Fortescue was one of the officers men
toned in the Taggart divorce case at
Wooster, o.
A telegram from Prince Charles Of
Denmark was read in the Norwegian
storthing recently. 1t announced that
he would take the name of Haakon
son the name of Olaf.
Two cars of the Springfield & Hart
ford railroad collided on curve near
Springfield, Mass Motorman G. A.
Charon received injuries from which
he died and 80 passengers were in
iured. some of them seriously.
An eastbound freight train on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad ran into
the rear end of another freight near
Rawlings, Md. Brakeman c. V. Marks
and Fireman Jerry Collins were killed
and Engineer McNanamie was prob
ably fatally scalded.
The most terrible fire that has oc-
Cured in Great Britain for many
years broke out at Glasgow, Scotland,
in a cheap lodging house for men in
Watson street and resulted in the loss
of SO lives and the severe injury of
many others.
The original tally sheets in New
Yorl's recent mayoralty election were
opened by the board of county can
vassers. w. r. Hearst's lawyers pro
tested eight of the first 13 sheets
taken from the envelope, because they
were found to differ from the returns
on which the count electing Mr.. Nc
Clellan mayor was based.
John Shipley and a young man
named Dennis are dead and Lee Jones'
Deputy Sheriff Jim Wisner and City
Marshal Jesse Johnston are seriously
wounded at Biggars, Ark. Shipley
Dennis and Jones were charged with
being members of a gang of cotton
thieves and the trouble arose when
the deputy sheriff and his posse ar
rested them.
Mrs. Charlotte NJ. Weightman, who
recently brought suit against her hus-
band for separate maintenance, told
Judge Brantano, during the hearing of
her case in Chicago, that she believed
that her husband had married her for
money, and that she therefore threw
money and securities valued at $15,-
OG0 into the stove and watched them
burn
In the suit of G. G. Loder against
the National Association of Wholesale
and Retail Druggists and the Phila-
delphia Association of Retail Drug
gists, before Judge Holland in the
United States circuit court in Phila-
delphia statistics We're produced by
counsel for the plaintiff to show that
during the past six years the public
has paid $9G,000,000 in increased
prices for drugs