Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-05-18

condemned Dy Dr. lnOnldS W. bd'ilol
of New Yorkuniversity in an address
before the national conference on char
tiles and corrections in Philadelphia.
The Springfield, Ill.,, city council
voted against increasing saloon IL
rcnses from $500 to $1,000
j. M. Shuster of Chicago, while UNI
pirlng ball game at Punxsutawney,
Pa, was struck with bat by an irate
player and seriously injured
Frank Rockefeller, of Cleveland, bro
ther of John d. Rockefeller, declared
that his father was not dead, despite
the alleged statement of the oil mag
nate.
The London colonial Office has been
advised that Sir Robert Bromley, adj
ministrator of the Island of st. Kits,
British West Indies, died there.
The Grand Trunk railway has de-
cided to consolidate it's fast freight
lines.
Gov. Higgins of New York, granted
an additional respite of 80 days, until
June II, to Albert T. Patrick, under
sentence of death for the murder or
William M. Rice.
In the house of lords the earl OF
Wemyss and March, conservative, as
sertes that the country was practically
without an army and that there were
not 60 up-to-date guns in the country.
Former Premier Witte took prom
inent part in the conference of men,
bers of the council of the empire, sue
cessfully insisting that the reply to
the speech from the throne should be
postponed until meeting of the coun-
ell. at which the press shall be repre-
sented, so the country may be in
formed as to the arguments advanced
on either side.
Though Col. d. Frank Powell
("White Beaver") was buried in Los
Angeles, a monument will be erected
in La Crosse. Wis. movement is un-
der way to procure a large marble i'm
age of a beaver.
Serious fighting is progressing in
Zululand.
Several natives tribes on the Natal
side of the Tugela river are reported
to be ready to rise.
A strike has broken out at the
Zenica coal and Iron works, Sarayevo,
Russia. Strikers attacked the gend-
armes with stones and revolvers and
the gesdarmes killed three and wound
ed five strikers.
John Alexander Dowie was mobbed
by a crowd of Voliva followers when
he tried to preach in the tabernacle at
Zion City Eight were injured in
scrimmage during services.
Age is held to be no bar to the as
pirations of Speaker Cannon to be
president by member of the Illinois
delegation who mentions a number of
European statesmen who achieved
most long after they had lost their
youth.
The North British and Mercantile
Insurance company took over S45,-
100000 worth of British holders Mu-
tual Life policies and may take more.
The governor and natives of Samar
have proposed to Gov. Gen. Ide war of
determination against the Pulajanes.
A body identified as that of Father
Gapon, was found hanging on the wall
of deserted house in a town in Fin
land.
The douma almost decided by storm
to demand of the czar immediate po-
litical amnesty. Leaders sidetracked
the plan.
New York had a flood of funerals,
resulting from the settlement of the
funeral drivers strike, in which the
men were granted all their demands.
A menagerie broke loose during a
storm ON the voyage across the At
lantic and made things lively for the
crew of the vessel.
Fire insurance companies doing
business in the state of New York re-
ported to the insurance commissioner
at Albany, estimating their losses at
S113, ,441, ,595.
Germ which causes rheumatism is
discovered by New York physician
after many years Cf unavailing search
by scientists over the world.
Champ Clark, of Missouri, declares
it is time a southerner was seated in
the White House and says if no one
else will run he will undertake the
task himself.
The funeral of Sidi Mohammed El
Hadj, bey of Tunis, took place before
ELI enormous gathering of natives and
Europeans and the French military and
civil authorities. The ceremony was q
magnificent display of Mohammedan
rites.
The ceremony of the beatiflcation of
jules Billiart, the French founder OF
'hc Congregation of Our Lady, who
assisted the wounded in the battle of
Waterloo, took place in st. Peters,
Rome. The congregation has house
in Philadelphia.
Ill report on trade of the United
States with South American countries,
the department of commerce and labor
says that the total trade in 1905 was
S2G1 100000 The total imports from
all South America in 1905 were $780,
100000 in value and the exports to all
South America were valued at $57 7,0O0,-
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