Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-30

versity voted to suspend intercollegi-
ate football contests for five years
Democratic leaders face the prob
| lem of 1908. in which Hearst and
Bryan seem likely to be the principal
| factors.
Chattanooga people appealed to Pres
i6ent Roosevelt to prevent federal
prosecution of the lynchers of the
negro hanged after the supreme court
had granted stay.
An insane man opened fire on
mourners gathered to attend the
funeral of his brothers. child in Bal
| timore, Md, wounded nine, burned
the house and met death in battle.
President Roosevelt has begun
crusade to rid the departments of all
corruption, clumsiness and needless
red tape.
A victory for Germany and COM
plete defeat of every French Morocco
contention is regarded by an English
publication as the Algeciras confer
ence outcome.
Judge O'Sullivan nullifled District
Attorney Jerome's opinion that polit-
ical contributions by life insurance
companies are no crime, holding that
they may be indicted for larceny.
Anton F. Mispagel, former cashier
of the st. Charles, Mo-, Savings bank,
has been found guilty of embezzle-
ment and sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment.
The Mutual Life has begun suit
against Richard A. McCurdy and asks
damages of $3,250,000 on the grounds
of wastefulness and neglect of duty.
Fearing an attempt of the beef
packers to secure control of the cured
fish business, four of the largest con-
Germs in Gloucester, Mass, entered
| into an agreement to work together
in resisting competition.
Two miners were killed and a third
probably fatally injured by fall of
shell-rock in new slope of the H. q.
Frick Coke company, near Uniontown,
Pa.
Frank E. Moores, mayor of Omaha,
Neb., died at his home in that city.
Mayor Moores was &C years of age. He
was serving the last year of his third
term as mayor, and had long been
III lhc INSpuDilSah PuiNy Va
the city and state.
DR.. Jessie NJ. McGregor, a noted
Scotch physician, died at her home in
Denver, Col, after five days illness
of cerebro-spinal meningitis. Dr. Nc
Gregor was possessor of the highest
degree ever attained by a feminine
physician.
MI ~ Il Itn = I'M on a
California millionaire, was granted a
divorce decree after hearing lasting
seven minutes in San Francisco.
John D. Rockefeller ILL.,, the new
son of John d. Jr., is the richest baby
in the world, as, if he lives, he will
inherit the fortune of the head Of
Standard Oil.
The Russian officials are alarmed by
plans of the revolutionists to establish
government of their own.
The present famine in Japan is de-
clared by the New York Red Cross So
ciety to be among the worst in mod
ern history. 1t is claimed 100000
persons are starving.
New York Life trustees deny that
Andrew Hamilton's vouchers show
how and for what he had spent ST.
100000. They say 100000 is still un-
: accounted for.
Andrew Hamilton is absolved from
all blame in letter written by John
A. Mccall, former president of the
New York Life, the day before the lat
ter's death.
President Roosevelt has offere. a
new. solution of the Morocco problem
1t amends the Austrian plan. 1t is
not wholly acceptable to France, but
is the best in sight.
: The administration will continue
the prosecution of trusts in spite oi
the setback in the Chicago beef case
and the president may ask congress:
for a law to overcome the obstacle:
encountered in that proceeding.
The death list of the train catas
:. trophe at Adobe, COL, it is admitted
: will reach between 40 and So
Attorneys for David Sherrick, forme
4. Indiana auditor of state, convicted il
n the criminal court, few days ago, o
:, the embezzlement of 100000 of stat,
funds, filed their motion for a nev
trial in Indianapolis.
The union depot of the Chesapeake 4
. Ohio and the Louisville e. Nashville
!. Railway companies at Winchester Ky
burned with all contents. Loss, $50.
q 900.
s A double-header freight train on tn
: Grand Trunk railroad collided head
a on a few miles from Sarnia, Ontario
t with a passenger train. Two firemel
e were killed.
o An enormous snowslide came dow
in the Winfield and Clear Creek min
o ing district in Colorado, killing, 1t i
e reported, at least half a dozen men.
: Prof. H. Ogden Doremus, the note
chemist, died at his home in Ne,
p York, aged go years. 1t was as an ex