Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-02


charity in recognition Of the imperial
wedding anniversary.
Failures for the week ended Febru-
ary "a were 210 in the United States.
against 252 last year, and 1S in Cana
da, as compared with 20 a year ago.
The supreme court of Missouri held
that witnesses were compelled to
answer questions in the Standard Oil
hearing in st. Louis.
About 500 carpenters and 1000 9th
er men identified with the building
trades at East st. Louis, H., went on
strike to enforce demands for in
creased wages.
Ten men forced an entrance into the
Russian state bank at Helsingfors,
Finland, shot the guardian and Sc
cured S37,500. The robbers have not
been captured.
EX-State Senator Frank French, of
Sacramento, Cal, accused of accept
ing a bribe, was acquitted by a jury
in the supreme court. The jury was
out 80 minutes.
! The trial of Joseph Letter, owner of
the Zeigler coal mines where some GO
lives were lost in an explosion last
April, on charge of criminal negli-
gence was begun at Duqouin, Ill.
One trainman was killed, another in
jured and nine passengers bruised in
collision or the New Orleans &
Northeastern railroad IL miles from
Meridian, Miss.
The office building and part of No.
machine shop of the Bethlehem
! (Pa.) Steel Co. were destroyed by fire
recently, entailing a loss of about
| 100000.
Representative Keifer, of Ohio, has
| introduced bill in congress to reduce
the number of representatives in the
house from southern states, because of
the disfranchisement of negro voters.
The state convention of the United
Mine Workers of Illinois has adopted
resolutions strongly condemning
President Dolan, of the Pittsburg dis
trict, owing to his action regarding
| the scale.
Arthur Dixon, president of the
Dixon Transfer Co., of Chicago, has
been awarded gold medal for A
years continuous attendance at the
Sunday school of the First Methodist
Episcopal church.
The supreme court of Michigan held
unconstitutional the Galbraith law
which provides for the equalization by
state board of assessors of the as
sessment of railroad property and
that of other properties in the state.
Somewhat confused reports have
reached Shanghai of a massacre Of
missionaries at Nauchang, province
of Kiangsi. AS nearly as can be as
certained, six missionaries were
killed and one child of an English
missionary was wounded.
At st. Louis after an expert account
ants examination of the books of AL
len C. Bates, secretary of the Missis-
sippi Valley Elevator and Grain Co.,
who committed suicide February IA,
$4,000 had been revealed.
Mrs. William ]. Crossthwaite, of
Buffalo, n. Y, sustained fracture of
the skull by jumping from a closed
carriage when the horses started to
run away at Bay City, Mich. Her
death ensued three hours after the
accident.
Joseph Boyd, a passenger on Fort
Wayne railroad train, narrowly escap.
ed death from bullet which crashed
through the car window as the train
was passing Glenfield, Pa The missile
struck Boyd in the head and inflicted
a bad scalp wound.
Two masked men, one white and
one colored, seized Frederick Radel
baker, while he was in the stable
near his house at Millville, N. j., and
after gagging the baker marched him
into his home. The men compelled
Radel to open his safe, from which
they took nearly $1,000 in cash.
County Treasurer R. ]. Hynicka has
received about $4,000 in gratuities
for deposit of public funds from vari.
Gus banks, according to his testimony
before the committee appointed by the
state senate to investigate the public
funds of Cincinnati and Hamilton
county, o.
Recently the police suddenly
ly raided the residence of three anar.
chists at Odessa. who in turn threw
bombs which exploded, killing police
, commissary and the janitor of the
building and his wife. Thereupon
Cossacks were summoned and bom-
barded the house, killing all three OF
, the anarchists.
Foreign laborers engaged on rail.
road construction work between AL.
toona and Lewiston, Pa, are being
: daily terrorized and robbed by ne.
groes under the leadership of Frank.
lin Jones, fugitive from justice
Shanties have been burglarized and
the amount of plunder already
amounts to thousands of dollars.
At the meeting in Atlanta, March
1929, of the National Society of the
, Blue and the Gray, Veterans of 61-'G5
national rally in Washington in the
near future of all soldiers and sailors
who participated in the Mexican war
the war with Spain, the campaigns in
China and the Philippines, together
with all the sons of veterans will be
, considered, the plan including grand
r review before the president.
President Roosevelt has again in.
tervened as peacemaker between the