Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-02-23


at Walsenburg, Col, caused the death
of at least 13 miners, and perhaps 16.
Two Italian children, aged respec-
lively and years, were burned to
death in fire that destroyed miners
cabin at Dubois, Pa.
The Hungarian parliament was dis
solved with the use of force. The
floor and corridors of the building
were cleared by the police.
George A. Castor, congressman
from the Third district of Pennsyl-
vania, embracing several wards in
Philadelphia, is dead, aged 81 years.
Robert Hannigan, prominent cat
tleman, has been taken by bandits
from a stage near Silver City, N. NJ,
and carried into the Mogollon Noun
tains to be held presumably for a re-
ward.
The Central Trust Co., of New
York, has filed a foreclosure suit for
100000 in the United States court
in Toledo, O., against the Ohio and
Indiana Consolidated Natural and IL
Eliminating Gas Co.
Advices received from Colombia
state that Tememli, Caucoa and sur
rounding towns suffered severely by
the tidal wave of January 81. The
water rose over 20 feet and SO fami-
lies disappeared in the flood.
John C. Wilson, for many years in
charge of the real estate department
of the Pennsylvania Co., died at Phila-
delphia from apoplexy. Mr.. Wilson,
who was "a years of age, was one of
the best known real estate men in
the United States.
During the centennial celebration at
Colorado Springs on September 10 to
26 of the discovery of Pixies Peak by
Gen Zebulon Pike, government troops
are to play war in the mountains.
One of the features will be a sham
battle involving 10000 regulars.
The president has accepted the res
| ignation of Paymaster Henry e. Jew
EFT, U. S. N, "for the good of the serv-
ice." This officer was tried by court
martial at the Washington navy yard
recently on charges of irregularities in
accounts.
John A. Mccall, until recently presi-
dent of the New York Life Insurance
Co., died at the Laurel house in Lake
wood, N. j., where he had been taken
three weeks ago in the hope that the
change might benefit his health, which
had suffered breakdown.
| Niverton, small mining town in
Somerset county, Pa, was almost en-
tirely burned and sevGral families
are homeless, IS double houses going
up in the flames caused by an over
heated stove. The town was prac-
tically blotted out within an hour af-
ter the blaze started.
The magnificent old gothic church
at Roskilde, Denmark, presented a
brilliant spectacle when King Chris
tian TX, amid the thunder of guns,
the sonorous tones of the organ,
and the blare of trumpets, was laid
to rest with the long line of his prede-
cessors.
With a plain circlet of virgin gold,
in the historic east room of the White
House, Alice Lee Roosevelt, eldest
daughter of the president of the Uni
ted States, and Nicholas Longworth,
the representative in congress from
the First district of Ohio, were united
in marriage.
Light was thrown on the land fraud
investigation by Secretary Hitchcock
at hearing before a subcommittee
of the house appropriations commit
tee In connection with his estimates
of $4,000 for a continuance of the
prosecutions, Mr.. Hitchcock explained
that 600 indictments and 400 convic-
tions already have been obtained by
the interior department in 19 states.
Charles A. Peabody, president of the
Mutual Life Insurance Co., authorizes
the statement that civil suits have
been begun in the supreme court of
New York against Richard A. Nc
Curdy, ex-president of the Mutual
Life; Robert H. McCurdy, ex-general
manager; Charles H. Raymond and
Louis A. Thebaud, constituting the
firm of Charles A. Raymond & Co.,
late general metropolitan agents OF
the Mutual.
President Roosevelt sent to con-
gress the report of the board of con-
sulting engineers on the Panama
canal, together with the letter of
Secretary Taft, the report Of the 18TH
mian canal commission and a letter
by Chief Engineer Stevens. The
president says: "The law now on our
statute books seems to contemplate q
lock canal. In my judgment lock
canal as herein recommended is ad-
visable."
Charles H. Meyer and William d.
Haywood, president and secretary re-
spectively of the Western Federation
of Miners, and G. A. Pettibone, form
er member of the executive board of
that organization, arrested on war
rants charging completely in the MUIR
der of ex-Gov. Frank Steunenberg, of
Idaho, were taken from their cells in
Jail at Denver by ~ armed deputy
sheriffs and placed in a special train
that quickly left over the Union Pa
cifc railroad for Boise, Idaho.
Justice White delivered the opinion
of the supreme court of the United
States in the cases of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.
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