Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-06

NEWS NOTES
HAPPENINGS IN THIS BUSY
WORLD WHICH WE INHABIT
BOILED DOWN..
AT HOME AND IN
FOREIGN LANDS
Recent Events that Contain the
Pith of the General News
for the PerusaI of
Our Readers.

The negotiations which have been
In progress between Japan and China
tor the occupation of southern Man
churia by Chinese troops in order to
tighten the task of the Japanese
armies have failed because Japan
could not furnish guarantees for the
future.
1t has been decided by President
Roosevelt that Ambassador Tower, at
Berlin, and Ambassador Mccormick,
ut st. Petersburg, will be retained at
r-. o posts in the new administration.
irwin. the actress, has offered
bail in any amount to $780,
The release of Nan Patterson
le Tombs prison, where she is
now .eld charged with the murder of
Caesar Young.
Charles j. Russell, of Chicago, who
pleaded guilty to having used the
mails to promote wild cat" insurance
companies, has been sentenced to one
year in the house of correction and to
pay a fine of $500.
A passenger train on the Choctaw,
Oklahoma & Gulf railway collided
with freight train 80 miles west of
Oklahoma City, Okla Both engines
were demolished and the cars were
piled up. Frank Curry engineer, and
Fireman Butts, Cf the passenger train,
were killed.
The Cincinnati chamber of COM
merce has given William H. Taft, sec
retary of war, the rare honor of an
unanimous election by its board of di-
rectors as an honorary life member
The only other instance of the kind
was the election years ago of Senator
Pendleton to the same membership.
Standing almost in the very spot
where Robert Brennan was shot to
death by Patrolman Mallon last May,
William o'Brien. of New York City,
who gave the most important testi-
mony in the trial which resulted in
Mallon being sent to prison for 20
years, has received a bullet wound
which probably will result in death
Official announcement is made by
the American Window Glass Co. of an
advance of 5 per cent. in prices.
Statistics show that more than
$230,000,000 worth of property in the
United States was destroyed by fire in
1904, making the largest annual ash
heap in the history of the country.
Announcement is made of a reduc-
tion in the wages of the tonnage men
employed by the Howard (Pa) axle
works, of the Carnegie Steel Co. The
cut ranges from 1G 2-3 per cent. down
to per cent.
A fire which destroyed 100000
worth of property in West Van Buren,
street, Chicago, started in the seven
story building occupied by the Cash
Buyers Union. The building was en-
tirely destroyed.
The Oakwood, o., lCckup was blown
to pieces and the ruins scattered all
over town. The man who did it took
the dynamite from hardware store
and left $1.50 to pay for it. The struc-
ture is a complete wreck.
Three hundred and thirty-one vio-
lent deSths classed by the police as
homicides were reported during 1904
in New York county, which comprises
the island of Manhattan and the
Bronx. During the same period the
number of indictments filed in all
cases was only 61.
A mail robbery is reported to have
occurred between Chanteuges and
Prades, France. The contents of
seven sacks are missing, They are
believed to have contained consider
able quantity Of New York mail. The
sacks were found in ditch, rified of
their contents.
A reward of 81 900 has been offered
by relatives for the finding of Owen
Kelly, prominent Irishman of Phila-
delphia, dead or alive. Mr.. Kelly has
been missing since October 2S. He
was a wholesale grocer and a promi-
lnent member of the Clan-Na- Gael and
other Irish organizations.
David E. Thompson, of Nebraska,
now minister to Brazil, will be trans
ferred as ambassador to Mexico, sue
,ceeding Edwin II. Conger, who soon
will go from China to Mexico.
Elias Hatfield, noted for his connec-
tion with one of the bitterest of the
mountain feuds, has been killed by a
train as he was walking through q
tunnel near Bluefield. w. Va.
The submarine tunnel connecting
boston and East Boston has been
opened for public travel The tunnel
is double tracked. Ia miles long. 300
feet of which Is under the harbor
waters The cost of the construction
tWas $S,O00.000.