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

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stroyed by fire recently. Two dwelling
houses were also destroyed.
| Equinotical tides destroyed wharves
and flooded warehouses at Antwerp.
The damage is estimated at several
millions OF dollars.
Train No. z, westbound on the
Canadian Pacific railroad, was derail
ed near Nairn Station, Ont One pas
senger was killed and 1S injured.
The mining companies operating in
the Lake Superior iron region have
voluntarily agreed to readjust all
wages. The new scale will raise the
pay of thousands of men.
The long and eventful life of Susan
B. Anthony closed at Rochester, N. Y.
She was Sc years old. Miss Anthony
had been unconscious practically for
% hours.
District Attorney Jerome, OF New
York, has brought two libel suits for
100000 each, one against the New
York American and the other against
the New York Evening Journal.
The Caleb Powers case was decided
by the supreme court Of the United
| States against Powers. The opinion
held that the case was not removable
from the state to the federal courts.
The postmaster general at Wash
ington has reaffirmed his position with
respect to rural free delivery carriers
that they cannot take subscriptions
| for newspapers.
Eight tons of dynamite at the plant
of the Great Northern Power Co., at
Duluth, Minn., exploded. demolishing a
large portion of the works now under
construction and injuring a number
of men.
Joseph Kolaski, Slav, was shot and
killed by Jasper Freeman, watchman
at the general store of the Ellsworth,
Pa, Coal and Coke Co. Kolaski was
detected in the act of robbing the
store. Freeman was not arrested.
Giovanni Romano was murdered in
New York recently and Guiseppi San
toros was arrested on suspicion. Ro-
mano was found standing up with a
knife sticking in his back. There
were seven other wounds.
| Hon. Newton w. Gilbert, represent
ative in congress from the Twelfth
Indiana district, will shortly resign his
seat to accept judgeship in the Phil
ippines, which position has been Of
fered him by the president.
The fighting society of the League
of Russian People" held a meeting at
S. Petersburg at which the orators
openly summoned their followers, the
Black Hundreds, to kill the Jews and
hang Count Witte.
| A dispatch from Paris says that NJ.
Sarrien has accepted the task of form
ing ministry, after securing the con-
sent of Messrs. Borgeois and Poin-
care to take portfolios, and has noti-
fed the president of his acceptance of
the task.
Miss Bella Fenwick, who is under
arrest in Denver, Col, was indicted
by the Middlesex county, Mass, grand
jury on the charge of kidnapping.
She is charged with forcibly removing
Riga and Mabel Sully, aged 8 and 13
years, of Maiden. to the west.
| Heavily armed officers are hurrying
from all parts Of Indian Territory to
place 20 miles southeast of Vinita,
1. T., in the Cherokee nation, where
the Wickliffe outlaws, Cherokee In
dians, laid an ambush and killed three
deputy marshals.
| Col. William d. Mann, editor of
Town Topics, was indicted for per-
jury by the grand jury at New York.
The indictment was based on his tes-
timony in the recent trial of Norman
Hapgood, editor of Golfers Weekly,
on a charge of criminal libel
A mining horror has stricken the
great coal center of northern France.
An explosion of firedamp carried
death and destruction throughout the
network of coal mines centered at
Courrieres, and fire followed the ex-
plosion. The death list numbers LOO.
The tobacco trust" cases, involving
the right of witnesses to refrain from
testifying before federal grand juries
in proceedings under the antitrust
law, have been decided by the su-
preme court of the United States
against the witnesses.
1t was announced at Scranton, Pa,
from the conference between the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
railroad officials and the joint griev-
ance committee of the conductors and
trainmen that all matters of difference
between them had been amicably ad-
justed.
The supreme court of the United
States has decided the case against
the witnesses In the paper trust
cases against them, holding that they
should answer the questions pro-
pounded to them in the proceeding
against the alleged trust brought by
the government. The cases originated
in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
A unique blue book has been pub
lished in London recording in 300
pages 40 years growth of the British
empire as revealed by the census of
1901. The book shows that since 1861
the area of the empire has increased
from S,500,000 to nearly 100000
square miles and the population from
250,0OO,OOO to 4O0,000,00O, of which
only 54,000,000 are whites and $4,000
006 Christians.
By the decision of the United States
supreme court the city of Chicago OBJ
tains almost complete control of the
Chicago traction situation. The de-