Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-21


congregated in Little Italy," New
York City, to celebrate the feast of
Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
James Breen (white) and Charles
Jackson (colored) were put to death
in the electric chair at Sing Sing
prison.
The body of Mrs. Mary Carlton, the
second wife of Frederick e. Carlton,
of Brooklyn, to die of lockjaw, is to be
exhumed and subjected to eXamina-
tion for traces of poison.
Heavy rain storms are reported in
various parts of Germany. Along the
Rhine above Cologne enormous dam
age was done to vineyards, while sew
eral factories were undermined and
fell in.
Mrs. Caroline Monnell died sudden
ly at her home in Fishkill Landing.
N. Y. She was 80 years of age and
was the granddaughter of John Ad-
ans, second president of the United
States.
kilograms from Beattyville, KY,
say that John Miller, of Breathitt
county. shot and killed James Grees
and wounded James M. Thopaas. dur
ing a fight in church on Frsley
creek, Lee county.
Owing to numerous robberies by
armed bandits near Fairbanks, Alas
ka, recently, the Miners ana Pros
pectors' association has asked the
secretary of war to send troops to
Fairbanks from Fort Gibbons.
The steamboat Clyde, of Saltwater,
Mimi, was struck by a tornado op-
posite Minneiska, half way between
Winona and Wabasha. She turned
completely over and sank in 1S feet
of water. The crew escaped.
By the discharge of a shotgun
which he had loaded for the purpose
of shooting stray cats, Thomas L.
Hagar, cousin of Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood, was instantly killed at Weston,
Mass.
The heavy rains of the last two
weeks have seriously injured crops in
eastern Virginia and North Carolina,
particularly cotton in eastern North
Carolina, and 1t is feared that cotton
growers In that section will lose
heavily.
AS result of advice received from
Elihu Root, special counsel for May
or Weaver. 1t Is probable that the
mayor will within a few days insti-
tute criminal prosecution against
certain persons who are prominent in
municipal affairs of Philadelphia
District Attorney John O. Bell, AS
sistant City Solicitor Harry T. Kings
ton and William Born, OF Ceilings
wood, N. j., were seriously injured
recently by fall of an eievNter in
the Land Title building, the highest
building in Philadelphia.
Carlisle D. Graham. of Niagara
Falls. N. Y. and William ]. Glover.
jr, of Baltimore, successfully swan
the lower rapids of the Niagara river
from the American side of the whiTl-
pool to Lewiston. The distance OF
four miles was covered in &c minutes
by Glover.
San Juan Hill," the district boWnd-
ed by Amsterdam and West End ave-
nues and Sixty-first and Sixty-ci1frd
streets, New York City, was the scene
of a furious race riot which required
$50 policemen to quell after many
shots had been fired and several per-
sons had been seriously injured.
L. D. Burr. paymaster of the Sloss-
Sheffield Steel and Iron Co., was held
up by two masked highwaymen ON
the railroad between Littieton and
Flat Top, Ala, and relieved of $4,000
which was to be used in paying of the
men. One Of the highwaymen was
killed.
A crowd Of over 1000 persons
fought with the police in St Louis in
a wild scramble to gain admittance to
the dedication services of the new
synagogue of the Congregation Sharis
Sphard. A number were clubbed,
women's dresses were torn, hats were
smashed and several women tainted.
From a director of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society It Is learned
that Thomas F. Ryan. who recently
purchased the stock holdings of
James H. Hyde, has agreed with the
three trustees OF the Ryan holdings
and the newly elected director to sell
the stock he purchased back to the
Equitable Society.
Rev. Charles Pearson, pastor of the
Unitarian church of Quincy, ILL.,, is
dead in London, England, where he
was visiting his daughter. He was
for 81 years professor of literature at
Northwestern university, Chicago,
and was the central figure of famous
heresy trial in the Methodist church.
He afterwards affiliated with the Uni
tarians.
The body of an unknown woman
about 80 years of age was found by
farmland in gully on the Arlington
golf links near Belmont, Mass The
head had been nearly severed from
the body and numerous other injuries
indicated beyond question that a muir
der had been committed. The police
found near the spot mans cuff and
part of a watch chain.
Railroad accidents In the United
States during the months of January.
February and March, 1905, shows that
during that quarter there were 2S
passengers and 204 employees killed
and 1851 passengers and 2,062 en-
ployes injured in train accidents,