Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-16

221, rgainst 244 last year, and in Can
ada "a, compared with 25 year ago.
Archbishop O'Brien, of the Roman
Catholic diocese of Nova Scotia,
Prince Edward Island and Bermuda,
died at Halifax, N. s.
l.. Stuckey, editor of the Peoples
Demands, was shot and killed at Col
fax, La, by A. NJ. Goodwin, editor Of
the Colfax Chronicle.
A crusade against the spread Of
the government in Washington has
been directed by President Roosevelt
BY the collapse of the gallery stag
ing in Earl's mine at Baibl, district
of Jarvis, Germany, 40 miners and
one engineer were killed.
An earthquake on the eastern shore
of Halifax county, N. s., was felt. The
ground trembled violently for several
seconds. Houses shook and doors and
windows ratified.
The directors of the American Base
ball association met at Chicago and
decided to open the season on April
Is, with the western clubs in the east
ern cities.
Thomas e. McKenna, managing edi-
tor of the Rocky Mountain News and
of the Denver Times, died at a hospi-
tai in Denver, Col, aged 45. He was
born in Montreal, Que.
The sentence Of death imposed up
on Mrs. Antoinette Tolla, the Bergen
county murderess, for the killing Of
Joseph Sonta, was commuted to tx
years Imprisonment by the court Of
pardons of New Jersey.
The London Daily Nails cores
pondent at Tangier says that failure
of the wheat and barley harvest is
threatened throughout Morocco and
terrible famine seems to be impend-
ing.
j. w. Tarbell, wealthy young man
while driving his automobile in Gin
cinnati, o., ran over and killed Mrs.
Mary Johns, gypsy belonging to a
wandering band. Tarbell was arrest
ed on charge of manslaughter.
Two Burlington passenger trains
collided head on near Akron, Col, on
a curve in a deep cut, killing mail
weigher, and injuring four trainmen.
Two locomotives, a mail car and a
baggage care were reduced to wreck
age. No passengers were injured.
The correspondent of the London
Daily Mail at Algeciras represents
France as having been coerced by the
neutral powers into making conces-
sions on the police question, probably
as the result of apprehension that fail
uye of the conference would mean war.
Two people were killed and Is 9TH
ers were injured in a wreck of two
| freight trains and a fast passenger
train, No. T. on the Baltimore G. Ohio
railroad which occurred about two
miles from Bloomdale, o.
A Mount Hamilton Click observa-
tory stage was held up recently at
Grand View, Cal. Eastern tourists
occupied the stage. The two high
waymen secured Sc in cash, and some
jewelry.
Judge Phillips in the United States
district court at Topeka, Kan, quash-
ed the indictments against State Sena-
tor Fred Smith, Roscoe Wilson and T.
e. Ryan, charged with land frauds in
| Kansas.
James Walker, jr,, was hanged at
Birmingham, Ala, for the murder of
w. d. Hill. prominent citizen.
Walker confessed and declared that
his father, who was given a life SEN
tence for completely in the murder,
was innocent.
While adjusting a target at prize
shoot for dressed beef at the farm of
Robert Shuey, three miles from
Greensburg, Pa, Edward Hogan, S5
years old, was shot through the head
by L. p. Wentzell, one of the con-
testants.
The jury in the case of DR.. Oliver
G. Haugh, accused of the murder of
his father, mother and brother and the
destruction of their home by fire to
conceal the crime, found him guilty of
murder in the first degree at Dayton,
o. The verdict contained no recon-
mendation for mercy.
| President Haager, of the American
Bowling association, and Secretary
Smithers have completed the sched-
ule for the national tournament which
will open in Louisville on March IT..
The final report of entries shows 217
five-men teams, G7 two-men teams
and SS1 individual bowlers.
One of the most far-reaching prose-
cutions ever instituted against rail
| iOou
ations for granting and receiving re-
bates and infractions of the inter
state commerce law has been under
taken by the federal government up
on the complaint of William Randolph
Hearst.
The proposition of the United Mine
Workers of America for a readjust-
ment of wages and conditions in the
anthracite coal fields has been denied
by the committee representing the
anthracite operators. AS counter
proposition the operators suggest that
the awards made by the anthracite
coal strike commission shall be con-
tinued for further term of three
years from April /, 1906. The pres
ent agreement terminates March 81.
George e. Green, a former state
senator from Binghamton, NJ Y, who
has been on trial in the district su-
preme court at Washington, on
charges of conspiracy to commit an
offense against the United States and