Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-11-24

AS the result OF an explosion or gas
in his Office at Columbia, S, c., Capt
Wade Hampton Cobb, probate Judge,
is dying at Columbia hospital.
The Norwegian steamer Turbin,
with her captain and crew of about 16
men, is thought to have foundered in
q gale which swept over Nova
Scotia.
The two children, aged respectively
5 and 8 years, belonging 10 Mrs. Dell
Wright, in Lake township, Mich,
were burned to death while locked in
their home.
Many lives were endangered and
property to the value of $4,000 was
destroyed by fire which almost con-
sumed the Commercial building at
9212-921S Commercial avenue, Chi
cago.
In the chancery court at Richmond,
Va, Judge Grinnan dissolved the in
junction obtained several weeks ago
by the Typothetae against the Typo
graphical union and striking printers.
! The Shreveport Ua.) city hall, the
police station, market house, two sa-
| looms and several small frame build
ings were burned and Walter Woods,
an aged cripple, was incinerated.
| BY the will of Stephen Salisbury,
which was filed for probate in Wor-
cester, Mass, more than $S,000,000 is
bequeathed to the Worcester art mu-
scum. His estate is estimated at
$5,000,000.
The eastbound Atlantic express on
the Erie railroad was wrecked at Fal-
| 90 T.,
N. Y. The passengers escaped with
a severe shaking up. Two trainmen
were killed.
| Secretary of War William II. Taft,
guest of honor at the annual banquet
of the Commercial club at Kansas
City, in responding to the toast THE
Philippines" said that the PHILIPPINE
Islands must be ours for more than a
generation.
Frank j. Grutza, a member of the
Skarb Polski Loan and Building So
ciety of Milwaukee, Wis. has sworn
out warrant for the arrest of Frank
j. Heller, secretary of the society,
charging him with absconding with
| $4,000 of the society's funds.
T. P. Shonts, chairman of the 18TH
mian canal commission, has just given
to Monmouth 0ll.) college $4,000 as
part of the $4,000 needed to secure
an additional 100000 which Andrew
Carnegie had promised to give the col
lege for library.
A funeral without a parallel took
place at the Midvale steel works,
Philadelphia, where Acton ingot OF
steel permeated with the flesh, blood
and bones of two workmen was buried
with the solemn rites of the Roman
Catholc church.
James NJ. Stobhar former Joint
agent of the Atlantic Coast Line and
Florida Southern Line in Gainesville,
| Fla, has been arrested at Montreal.
The charge is that of stealing $500,
but auditors who have been through
his books declare that he is short $40,-
| 600.
The racing automobile owned by
James Everard, a New York brewer,
was wrecked at Atlantic City, N. j.,
and one of it's occupants seriously In
! jured. The chauffeur, II trying to
avoid a collision with a wagon, struck
trolley pole, wrecking the ma
chine.
An eye witness of the recent riot at
Vladivostoll, who has arrived at Ma
gasaki, Japan, reports that nearly
half the city was burned and that COO
of the garrison were killed, that the
Jail was thrown open and that Gen.
Kappek is missing. The damage is
estimated at $25,0OO,0O0
Rev. ]. G. Reaser D. D., professor
of the Bible at Wilson college. died
from paralysis at the home OF his son,
! Rev. M. H. Reaser, president Of the
college, at Chambersburg, Pa. De-
ceased, who was so years of age. was
prominent in the civil war period in
the Presbyterian church in Kansas.
Maj. Cassius E. Gillette, of the en-
gineer corps, United States army, has
been appointed chief engineer of the
bureau of filtration by Mayor Weaver,
of Philadelphia, subject to the ap-
proval of the president of the United
States and legislation by the federal
congress authorizing Gillette TO ac-
| cept the place.
By vote of eight to five the board
of consulting engineers of the 18TH
mian canal commission, body which,
| If President Roosevelt realized his
| hopes, embodied the most representa-
tive engineering talent in the world
has placed itself upon record as fa-
voring the construction of the Panama
canal on the sea level.
For the second tirSe within two
years, United States Senator Ralph
Burton, of Kansas, has beQn called
upon to defend himself in the United
| States circuit court at St Louis
against an indictment charging that he
was offered and accepted compensa-
ton from the Rialto Grain and Securi-
ties Co., of st. Louis, now defunct,
for using his influence, while a men,
Der of the United States senate in be-
half of that concern in certain mat
ters pending before the postoffice de-
partment at Washington.
According to State Insurance Com
missioner O'Brien's report to Gov.