Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-18
Happenings Of the Last Five Days
Narrated in Few Words
as Possible.
AT HOME AND IN FOREIGN LANDS
ltems Arranged for the Readers In
This Busy World So that They
Can Digest the Con-
tents In Few
Minuteo.
MISCELLANEOUS.

mis- l9-year-Old vile at Portage, NlS',
by cutting her throat and stabbing her
In the back.
In freight wreck on the Rock
Island railway near Limon Junction,
Col, DIR. Wright Andyman and Joseph
Miller. both of Omaha. were killed.
A number of alleged bucket shops
we're raided by the police in Chicago.
Both men and women found in the
places raided were arrested.
Failures for the week ended August
II numbered 222 in the United States,
compared with 222 year ago, and
10 in Canada, against 33. last year.
A negro charged with assaulting the
daughter OF widow was caught and
burned at the stake in the court house
square at Sulphur Springs, Tex.
The death of Rear Admiral Andrew
Benham, retired, at Lake Mahopac, N.
Y, has been reported to the navy de-
partment. He was a member of the
Schley court of inquiry.
Mrs. Naomi Adrich, of Frederic,
has been arrested and Is in the coun-
ty Jail at Grayling, Mich, charged
with the murder of her two boys, aged
10 and IL years.
The police were busy recently fill
Ing the Warsaw, Poland, jails with
Jewish socialists. They captured 250
armed with revolvers and daggers in
synagogue.
After Systematically robbing Lynne
wood Hall, the home of George d.
Widener. for ten months, John George,
a valet in the employ of Mr.. Widener,
has been arrested in Philadelphia.
At Detroit, Mich, Harry Johnson
has confessed to Detective Mcdonnell
that Harry Parker murdered Pawn
broker Meyer on July 2S, while John
son rifled the pawnshop.
Secretary Bonaparte announces that
the formal exercises accompanying
the interment of the body of John
Paul Jones in the United States will
be held next spring.
James Russell, negro who has
served four terms in the penitentiary,
confessed at indianapolis to stealing
diamonds and jewelry to the value of
$4,000 from the residence of Clinton
Hare, last April.
The condition of the farming COM
munity in Seville, Spain, is desperate.
Thousands of laborers being without
bread or other food, have been re-
duced to eating the roots of wild
plants.
Aaron Osborn and Dan Fisher, well
diggers, were killed by choke damp
or carbon oxide gas while entering a
well to make reuairs at Matthias
Jonas farm, five miles from Belding,
Mich.
James Britt and Battling Nelson
have signed articles to fight 25 rounds
at San Francisco on September for
a purse of $4,000, or G5 per cent. of
the gross receipts and a $4,000 side
bet. the winner to take all.
Twenty firemen were carried, burn
ed and unconscious from boiling soap
five of them very badly parboiled
from a fire in w. II. Daggits Sons
soap factory in West Twelfth street
New York City.
AT Philadelphia William Henry My
ers, chauffeur, has been convicted of
involuntary manslaughter and SEN
fenced to Is months Imprisonment for
running down and killing 5-year-old
Eldon Sarver.
Details of the capture of four i'm
migrant smugglers near Niagara Falls
received at the department of com
merce and labor in Washington. The
leader of the gang Is named Snyder
During storm in Pittsburg light
ming struck the flagpole on top of the
postoffice building and created a
small-sized panic among the so mai
distributors who were at work. For
tunately no one was severely injured
The coroner's jury found that Jacob
N. Peyton, of Fairmount, W. Va, who
died suddenly on July II, had beer
poisoned by strychnine and held his
wife and Frank Wright responsible
Both were held for the grand jury.
Insurance Commissioner Folk, o.
Tennessee, announces that an inter
state examination of life insurance
companies will commence on October
/. The New York Life Insurance Co
will be examined first.
The Arctic steamer Terra Nova
which went to the relief fo the Flala
Zeigler Polar expedition, has rescued
Anthony Fiala and all the others con
nected with the expedition, with th'
exception of one Norwegian seaman
who died from natural causes.
A volcano throwing out molten law
and in active operation has been dis
covered in Humboldt county, Ne
yada.
Tenders have been asked for tn
construction of a great railway fror
africa, in Chile, to La Paz, in Bolivia
This great enterprise will give enor
nous impulse to export trade Il
Bolivia.
The treasure box owned by Herman
s. Cheney of Southbridge, Mass, wit
contents intact, which had been miss
ing since February, has been returne
as mysteriously as it disappeared
The box contained s25S,00O of securi
ties.