Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-01-19

TO send to congress q message which
will favor lock canal.
Two more murders were added re-
Gently to the long list of crimes that
has taken place in Chicago of late
James Brown Scott, of California,
professor of law at Columbia univers-
ity, New York, has been appointed So
licitor of the state department to sue
ceed Judge Penfeld, resigned.
All the shops of the Reading Rail
road Co. in Reading, Pa, have gone
on a nine-hour day schedule instead
of ten hours. About 5000 men are af.
fected.
Over GOO delegates were present in
Washington recently at the opening
of the national rivers and harbors
congress. 1t was announced that 80
states were represented.
Maj. Gen. Lisoviki, who was said
to be under sentence of death by the
fighting section of the social revolu-
tionaries, was killed at Penza, Rus
sia. The assassin escaped.
A seven-story warehouse in course
of construction at the intersection of
Fortieth street and Calumet avenue,
Chicago, partially collapsed, injuring
three workmen, one of them seriously.
Football has been abolished at Har-
ward, pending a reform in the game
that will be acceptable to the board
of overseers, according to an official
announcement from the university.
In a 500-point billiard match at
Paris for the championship of the
world between Maurice Vignaux, of
Paris, and Willie Hoppe, Of New York,
the latter won by III points.
What seems to be an organized ef-
fort to pass off bills of the American
Confederacy has come to notice late
ly in Vienna, the shopkeepers of
which have been victimized to a con-
siderable amount.
Two children of Thomas Feeley, a
fire boss for the Philadelphia G. Read
ing Coal and Iron Co., were burned
to death in a fire which destroyed
Feeley's home and the residence Of
George Campbell at Maple Hill, Pa.
A band of revolutionaries at Riga,
Russia, fell upon three lieutenants of
police and killed them with revolvers.
The assassins escaped. The lieu
tenants were returning from a con-
ference at the palace of the governor
general.
Albert T. Patrick, the New York
lawyer convicted and awaiting exc
cution in Sing Sing prison for the
murder of William Marsh Rice in
New York City in September, 1900,
has been reprieved by Gov. Higgins
until March ia space of sc days.
The city of Chicago and the Chicago
City Railway Co., which operates all
of the street railways on the South
Side of the city, have reached a dead
lock on the terms upon which the
franchises of the company are to be
renewed.
A report on Records of Dairy Cows
in the United States" issued by the
department of agriculture, says tha
the records of dairymen and farmers
show that there is no business which
has a greater range of profit than that
Of dairy farmers.
Edward R. Tufts, reputed to be
millionaire and owner of a number of
valuable mines in Montana, was
found guilty of perjury at Chicago and
unless he obtains new trial will be
compelled to serve an indeterminate
sentence of from one to IA years in
the penitentiary.
The suit for divorce brought by
Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha against his wife, Princess
Louise, eldest daughter of King Leo
pold of Belgium, which has been be-
fore the court for many months, was
concluded when the divorce court
rendered a decision providing for an
absolute divorce.
The Venezuelan government having
continued to abstain from renewing
relations with France through NJ.
Taigny, the French charge d'affairs,
Mr.. Russell, the American minister,
recently delivered note to
Venezuela on behalf of France sever
ing relations between the two coun-
| tries.
A statement prepared by P. V. De-
Graw. fourth assistant postmaster
general, regarding the operations of
the rural free delivery service. since
it's establishment up to January 1,
1906, shows that the total number Of
petitions received was 81 $50, of which
1925 were acted upon adversely. The
number of routes in operation on the
date named was 34,G77.
| FOllOWlHS Tie arrest dL NeW loIh
of Samuel Humphreys, newspaper
writer" on a charge of selling bo-
gus certificate of 100 shares of the
Norfolk & Western Railway Co. to q
dealer in securities in that city, 1t
was learned that 500 of the bogus
certificates were printed and that the
operations appear to have been
planned on a large scale.
After conference with Gov. Curtis
Guild, Warren F. Locke and James O..
Otis, two of the three savings bank
commissioners of Massachusetts sent
their designations to the chief execu-
tive. Gov. Guild accepted them in a
letter in which he said that the two
commissioners had frankly admitted
that until last September they had
neglected to inspect certain corpora
tions.
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