Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-13

MIS- DalllS douglass, WIG OF VIII.
! liam J. Douglass, was shot and mortal
/ ly wounded by Oscar Howard at New
Castle, Pa.
The barge Noquebay, in tow of the
steamer Lizzie Madden, caught fire
when 20 miles east of Bayfield,, Mich.
and was burned to the waters edge.
Perry Wheeler, aged so years, a
well-to-do farmer of Wyalusing town
ship, shot and killed his wife ana lhen
committed suicide at Towanda. Pa.
Charles Il. Hughes, counsel for the
insurance investigating committee,
has declined the republican nomina-
tion for mayor OF New York City.
/ The treaty of peace between Rus
sia and Japan will become effective
upon its approval, without waiting the
I formal exchange of ratifications at
| Washington.
! A tugboat ran down fruit sellers
punt in the Danube near Buda Pest,
Hungary. Fourteen women were
drowned six were saved and many
were seriously injured.
Jefferson p. Raplee, once a wealthy
New York banker and business as
sociate of Jay Gould, Commodore
Vanderbilt and John p. Blair, went to
the poor house at New York City re-
Gently.
In a head-on collision between fast
freights on the Louisville e Nashville,
near Hopkinsville, KY, Engineer Jas.
Handy and Fireman L. G. Drake, both
of Nashville, Tenn. were killed.
The sealing schooner City of San
Diego has returned from Bering Sea
with 792 sealskins and reports that
the seasons catch will exceed that of
last year and be better than for some
years.
Cranberries will be scarce and high
in price during the coming fall and
winter, according to reports which
have been received by the state au-
thorities from the Jersey bogs and
other producing centers.
John O'Donnell, nationalist mem
Der of parliament for South Mayo, has
been ordered by the high court of
Dublin to find $1,000 surety for his
good behavior or go to Jail for three
months. Mr.. O'Donnell elected to go
to Jail.
John f. Gaynor and B. D. Greene,
the men who fought extradition to the
United States from Canada for so
many years, arrived at Savannah re-
Gently. Their wives met them at the
depot. The prisoners were at once
taken to Jail.
Justice Brown, of the Pennsylvania
supreme court, has handed down an
opinion in which he decided that a
theatre proprietor is a private indi-
vidual, engaged in a strictly private
business and is under no obligation to
serve the public.
The grand jury at Peoria, ILL.,, has
reported 81 indictments against New
ton C. Dougherty in addition to the
13 already found. Forty-five of these
are for forgery, each containing eight
counts. Thirty nine are for embez-
element, each containing six counts.
The bodies of Miss Margaret Lynd-
say, a school teacher and Joseph B.
Young, a barber, were found in the
road three miles north of Haskell, |.
t. There were marks of violence on
the bodies and a revolver was found
near the scene.
Pat Grove, alleged kidnapper of
Eddie Cudahy, arrived in Omaha re-
Gently from Butte, Mont, in custody
of Detectives Dunn and Heitfeld, of
Omaha. An immense throng greeted
Grove with cheers at the Union sta
tion. The prisoner was rushed to Jail
in patrol wagon.
Because of a peculiar freak of ma
ture Robert Gardiner, prisoner in
the county Jail in Chicago charged
with the murder of Agnes Morrison,
may escape the death penalty 1t ap-
pears that the prisoner is suffering
from Justification of the vertebrae and
tissues of the neck.
Three men were killed, one man
was injured and a carload of race
horses were either killed or hurt so
badly that they had to be shot as a
result of a wreck at the junction of
the Lykens Valley branch of the Penn
sylvania railroad, quarter mile south
of Millersburg. Pa.
Nine officers of the Retail Coal
Dealers association of Illinois and
Wisconsin, who were fined 500 each
on charges of conspiracy to raise the
price of coal, will be obliged to pay
their fines, according to a decision
handed down by Judge Henry V.
Freeman, of the appellate court at
Chicago.
In broad daylight and with hundreds
of people on the street, Louis Brown,
a negro, made an attempt to rob a
Maiden Lane jewelry store of $4,000 |
worth of gems in New York City. His |
attempt was frustrated by Oscar Win
dorf clerk, who grappled with the
would-be thief and who was stabbed |
by the negro during the fight.
Mastery pitching by Christy Ma
thewson, backed by the men behind |
him, gave the New York National |
league champions a victory over the
Philadelphia American league pennant
winners in the first of the series of |
seven games for the worlds cham
pionship. Philadelphia failed to score, |
Mathewson allowing the home team |
only four hits, while the New Workers |
managed to score three runs of Plank. |