Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-16


A jury at Liberty, Mo-, has found
Mrs. Agnes Myers, of Kansas City,
guilty in the first degree of the mur-
der of her husband, Clarence Myers.
The plant of the Ashland Sulphate
Fibre Co. at Ashland, Wis, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss $4,000, insur-
ance $4,000.
The federal grand jury at Milwau-
kee has returned an indictment con-
tanning ten counts against Henry G.
Coll, ex-assistant cashier of the First
national bank.
A foreigner of distinguished ap-
pearance committed suicide at Inspec-
tion Point, just above Horseshoe Falls,
on the Canadian side of the river.
Nearly 100 automobiles belonging
to various department stores in New
York City were destroyed in fire in
the garage of the Rainier Vehicle
! Equipment Co.
! The United States fish commission,
with the assistance of the Chicago.
Indianapolis &c Louisville Railway Co.,
has established a fish hatchery at
Cedar Lake. Ind.
AT Antigua, British West Indies, the
British bark Andes, loaded with as
phalt in barrels, which was on fire,
The crew are safe.
Fire destroyed the $150000 plant of
the National Flint Glass Co. known as
the Jenkins factory at Kokomo, Ind,
with $4,000 worth of stock. Two
| firemen were severely injured by fall
ling walls.
| For the second time in six months
an automobile filled with men and
women plunged through the open Rush
street bridge in Chicago and two men
and one woman were drowned.
At the annual session of the Ma
tional Editorial association in Guthrie,
Okla, John Dymond, of New Orleans,
was elected president. Indianapolis
was chosen as the place of meeting
in 1906
AT Frenchtown, w. Va, 200 Italians
on the coal and coke railroad of eX-
Senator Henry G. Davis struck and
decided to permit no one else to work.
A riot resulted and six of the leaders
are in Jail.
| The wage conference between rep
resentatives of the Republic Iron and
Steel Co. and the Amalgamated asso-
citation at Detroit has resulted in an
agreement by which wages will be
advanced about per cent.
The contract for granite to be used
in building the mausoleum as a me-
mortal for President Mckinley, at
Canton, o., has been awarded to a
Milford, Mass, company. 1t is esti-
mated that $250,000 worth of pink
granite will be needed
| According to reports received by
Gen. Linevitch from naval officers who
have arrived at Vladivostok, the losses
of Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet we're
from 5000 to 10000 officers and men
killed or drowned and about 5000 pris-
oners.
The court of appeals at Albany, n.
Y, voting four to three, has sustained
the lower courts in adjudging Albert
T. Patrick, the New York lawyer,
guilty of murder in the first degree,
in causing the death of William Marsh
Rice on April 7, 1902.
Judge Peckham, of the United
States supreme court at Albany, N. Y,
has declined to grant a writ of error
which would allow the case of Mrs.
Mary Rogers, of Vermont, now under
sentence for the murder of her hus-
band. to go to the United States court.
Moorish robbers entered the Austri-
an vice consulate at Mazagan, Moroc-
co, on June 6 and murdered Vice Con-
sui Madden, British subject who also
represented Denmark and who had
been established there for many years.
They wounded his wife.
In the fighting at Pantchatin, Eu-
ropean Turkey, on June 2, it is said
that the Greeks lost three killed, while
the Bulgarians lost 2S killed or wound
ed, besides II prisoners who were ex-
ecuted by their captors. On June 8 in
fight at Libadi three Greeks and 16
Bulgarians were killed.
DR.. Edward Courtney, young ply
sician, has been assassinated near the
village of Neave, Ky. Courtney form
ed a partnership with DIR. William
Karney, at Litchfeld, two years ago.
During the partnership DR., Karney
was shot and killed. Since the oc-
currence there has been a feud in the
neighborhood.
The Edgar County national bank at
Paris, Ill, was wrecked by dynamite.
| The charge also demolished Brad
|
shaw's jewelry store and Wetzel's
shoe store, adjacent to the bank. The
vault was wrecked. The smaller safe,
in which were the bank funds, was
overturned, but is intact
Prince Leopold Won Hohenzollern, a
cousin of Emperor William, died sud
denly of apoplexy at Berlin. The
prince will be remembered in history
as the candidate of the Spanish cortes
for the throne of Spain and as having
been unwillingly the cause of the
Franco-Prussian war.
The battle of Elizabethtown, be-
tween the American forces under
Gen. Maxwell and Col. Dayton and
the British forces in their advance on
Springfield in June, 1880, was repeated
in sham fashion at Elizabth, N, j., re-
Gently in celebration of the 12hth an
| IIiVersarV of the renulSa Of tha Bri