Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-09-15
Happenings 81 the Last Five Days
Narrated in Few Words
as Possible.
AT HOME AND IN FOREIGN LANDS
Items Arranged for the Readers In
This Busy World So that They
Can Digest the Con-
tents in Few
Minutes.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the business portion of Forestport, N.
y, entailing loss of about $4,000.
is The criminal prosecution of Morris
Busch, contractor, and Robert Charl-
ton, inspector, has been ordered by
Acting Secretary of War Oliver.
Engineer Peter Neusen. of Holland,
was killed and Brakeman Hans and
Trout were fatally injured in a Pere
Marquette wreck near iceland, Mich.
The second annual reunion of the
United Spanish War Veterans and the
ladies auxiliary of that organization
has begun at Milwaukee.
Iowa railways are preparing to
handle the largest corn crop in the
history of Iowa. The total corn output
will be about 375,OOO,OOO bushels.
Roberts Jacobs, 81 years old, of De
troit, Mich, was drowned while
canoeing in the Ossipee river, at Ce-
dar Falls, Me.
The southern cotton growers con-
vehtion at Nashville Tenn, establish
ed minimum price of II cents for
the incoming cotton crop.
Failures for the week ended Sep
tember numbered $50 in the United
CNdNtS, dSilll0I -'V ldSl Ntt!, tbIlN
In Canada compared with 16 Il year
ago.
Alonzo A. Lewis killed his divorced
wife. Nora Lewis. with a razor at In
dianapolis and then slashed his own
throat, inhicting wounds which will
prove fatal.
1t is reported that the Brazilian
government has offered $2,000,OO0 to
anyone who finds cure for tuberCu-
losis. The disease is one of the worst
scourges of tropical ports.
James Lynch and Joseph Toresa
We're burned to death at Safe HarbOr,
Pa, and four others were injured by
jumping from upper story windows of
boarding house.
A dispatch from the French minister
to Morocco announces that the Mo
roccan government has yielded to the
French demands and given complete
satisfaction.
At Denver the daughters of Veter-
ans elected Mrs. Bertha Martin, of
Massillon, o., president to succeed
Mrs. Ida e. Warren, of Worcester,
Mass
Wallace W. Hunter, for many years
city treasurer, of Norfolk, Va, at
tempted suicide in Elmwood cemetery
by shooting. His recovery is thought
to be impossible.
While trying to save the life of one
of his employees who had Rrasped a
Tive" wire, Manager Alex II. Howie
of the Howie Refining Co., of Detroit
was himself killed at Algonac, Mich
One man was killed and seven bad
ly injured by the premature explosion
of a charge of dynamite at a sand
plant owned by the Standard plate
glass works at Saxon, Pa.
In head-on collision of two freight
trains at Obion river bridge, % miles
below Paducah, Ky, in Tennessee, one
man was killed, three are missing and
four others We're hurt, three seriously
The Erie railroad recently gave an
order for the construction of $500
steel underframe box cars of 10000
pounds capacity. All will be equipped
with air brakes, automatic couplers
and all modern safety appliances.
Fast passenger train No. 20l, west
bound, on the Pennsylvania railroad
ran into party of five workmen al
Homewood station, near Pittsburg
Three men were killed outright and
the others were seriously injured.
John E, Lanning, receiver Of the
Monmouth Trust and Safe Deposit Co
of Asbury Park, n. j., has instituted
suit in the court of chancery against q
number of directors of that company
to recover 100000.
Frederic G. Rossler, a Chicago civil
engineer, was struck and killed by q
train as he was trying to get his chain
from the track near Hammond, Ind
His son Robert, who was assisting
him, saw the accident.
At Cedar Rapids, Ia, the nationa
convention of postofIlce clerks split il
two factions when delegates from 81
branches withdrew from the hall
some tearing off their association bad
ges and trampling them under foo
as they LETT.
The Chinese gunboat Hsinghang ap
peared before the American consulate
on the water front in Annoy, China
with the American flag at it's mast
head and fired salute of II guns az
amends for an act of an insulting ma
ture committed in connection with the
flagpole of the consulate.
Maj. Gen. Ovanoysky, Quartermaste
general of Gen. Lineyitch's staff, ha
been appointed plenipotentiary t.
meet the Japanese representative anC
rrange the terms OF an armlstice
The monthly bulletin just issued b!
.ne department of agriculture give
the condition of corn at S9.5, sprinl
wheat 87.3 oats 9O.3, barley SIS, rye
Dos, buckwheat 91.S, flax 94.2, tobacco
e5.1, potatoes 500, rice 922.
dispatch from Godzyadani, only {
small portion of which was alloweC
to pass the St. Petersburg censor, says
that on August II here were 2O,5GC
sick and wounded officers and men iI
the Russian military hospitals.