Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-05-12

Inere is marked ACTIVITY IN tne VOL
cano of Kilauea at Honolulu The
flow of lava is increasing and rising
in the crater gives indications that
there may be an overflow.
Mrs. j. w. Gray, the widow OF a
Chicago broker, and who was a re-
markaply beautiful woman, committed
suicide in the Hotel Imperial at New
York City by shooting.
San Franciscos board of education
has taken determined stand against
the admission of Chinese and Japan
csc pupils to schools where white
children are educated
In revenge for the death of work
man who was drowned in attempting
to escape from a patrol, mob Of
workmen at Ekaterinburg, Russia,
gathered and tore to pieces two police
officers.
The steamer Aransas, Capt. Rood,
of the Joy line, was sunk in COLI
sion with the barge Glendower one
and nalf miles southeast of Pollock
Rip Lightship near Vineyard Haven,
Mass. One life was lost.
Chief of Police Donahue, of Omaha,
Neb., has personally offered reward
of 5000 for the capture of Pat Grove,
wanted on a charge of highway rob
berry In connection with the Cudahy
kidnapping. The chief believes Grove
is near Omaha or Council Bluffs.
Statistics recently received by the
state department of labor show that
only three foreign countries have as
many organized working people as
New York state, and in proportion to
population New York leads these.
All records were broken recently in
the number of immigrants passed
Quarantine. Within IL hours 1909
foreigners, arriving in the steerage,
were permitted to enter New York.
Ten Atlantic liners brought
this army of immigrants.
Because several men who were
playing accordions and singing in
front of his home would not stop when
ssked to do so, Peter Novelino, of
Williamsburg, N. Y, shot Patrick
Ketchwa, the leader of the serenaders,
| through the heart.
John B. Laughlin shot and killed
William j. Hemphill at SaXonburg,
two miles south of Butler, Pa. The
men are prominent farmers and the
trouble arose over Hemphill's chick
ems trcspassing on Laughlin's farm
James Britt, of California, and ia
bez White, of England, met in the ring
at Woodward's Pavilion at San Fran
cisco to settle the international light
weight championship. White was
knocked out in the goth round.
A tornado struck Owl, l. T., recently
and damaged the business part of the
town $4,000. Two persons were
killed and ten injured, four fatally
Nearly every business house was de-
stroyed and about so dwellings were
carried away.
The appellate court of Chicago has
handed down a decision ordering pay
ment of $4,000 to George Hinchliff,
whose business as a brick manufac-
turer was ruined, it is declared, by
certain Chicago manufacturers. who
agreed to undersell the plaintiff in the
price of bricks.
r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review of
Trade says: Weather Irregularities
provide the only check to business.
Failures this week in the United
States are 212. against 207 the cor
responding week last year. Failures
in Canada number %, against 81 last
year.
Proceeding under a section of the
Iowa code prohibiting the formation
of combinations to regulate prices of
commodities, County Attorney Miller,
of Clinton, Ia, caused the arrest of l6
! special agents of fire insurance com
panies operating in Iowa on charge
of conspiracy.
James Hunter, farmer living near
Bridgeman, Mimi, put some dynamite
with which he intended to blow out
some stumps in the kitchen stove oven
to thaw. He then forgot about it and
went to town. Shortly afterward an
explosion wrecked the house and
killed his wife and two children.
In an opinion handed down in the
supreme court of Kansas, Justice
Burch has decided that whisky is not
property" in the usual sense of the
term and that in deprtvinga citizen of
the right to sell it the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of the
United States is not violated.
Mrs. Media Kempter, of Syracuse,
N. Y, has identified the body of a
woman found on Cutler Mountain,
Col, as that of her daughter, Bessie
Bouton. The body of Bessie Bouton
was found on Cutler Mountain, south
of Colorado Springs, on December H.
1904. The woman had been shot in
the head and every article of hel
clothing removed.
Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, the Chi
nese minister, has issued confiden-
tlal circular to all Chinese in the Uni
ted States requesting that he be fur
nished with reports of all cases OF
applicants who have been denied ad-
mission to this country and of all de
portations on the ground of non-regi.
stration which have been decided
since the expiration of the exclusion
treaty of 1894.
The jury in the conspiracy case
against e. d. Conger, publisher of the
Grand Rapids Herald, returned yer
dict of not guilty Mr. Conger was in.