Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-03-09


ton from Cuba.
Lieut.. Gen. John NJ. Schofield. u. s.
A., retired, former head of the army,
died at st. Augustine, Fla.
Tacloban, capital of the island of
Leyte, p. l., has been destroyed by
fire. The financial loss is reported
to be 100000.
Henry l.. Whitbeck a physician and
dentist, killed his wife with ham,
mer at Buffalo, N. Y, and then blew
his brains out with a rifle.
Mrs. Isaac H. Weikert, residing near
Gettysburg, Pa, accidentally shot and
killed her sister, Miss Eliza Weaver,
aged 35 years.
At Greensburg, Pa, three foreigners
were fatally injured and house de-
stroyed by an explosion of can of
powder.
Albert Veltner and Edmund Bury
were killed by the explosion of cast
| ing at the Bury compressor works at
Erie, Pa.
The Wheeler elevator on Buffalo
river at Buffalo, N. Y, was destroyed
by fire. The loss on the building and
it's contents is estimated at S175,000.
|
Portland, Me. In several parts of the
| city the shock was accompanied by
rumbling which lasted several Sec
onds.
The president has accepted the
resignation of Maj. Cassius Gillette,
engineer corps, U. S. A. Gillette has
been appointed superintendent Of the
Philadelphia filtration plant.
Failures for the week ended March
3 in the United States are 236, against
245 the corresponding week last year.
Failures in Canada number Al, against
35 last year.
A deal was completed at Wheeling,
w. Va, by which the La Belle iron
works, of Wheeling and Steubenville,
acquires the controlling interest in
the Pope Tin Plate Co., located in
Steubenville. o.
Samuel c. Wallace, president Of the
United Engineering and Foundry Co.
of Vandergrift, Pa, is under arrest at
Chicago on a charge of having en-
bezzled more than $4,000 belonging
to the firm.
A new feature of the Chinese ma
tional movement first indicated by the
boycott is the establishment of Chi
nese independent Christian church,
the movement being organized to oust
entirely the foreign missionaries.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt shows that at the close of
business February % the total debt,
less cash in the treasury, amounted to
$9S7, ,521 ,555, which is a decrease for
the month of S4.003.041.
The village of Tavernola, Italy,
built on the perpendicular cliffs
above Lake Iseo, was almost entirely
destroyed by the rocks suddenly CIV
ing way, apparently because the lake
mad eaten, into the base of the cliffs.
On the heels of Steven Adams con-
fession comes the startling news that
between 600 and 800 pounds of dyna-
mite and dynamite caps have been
stolen at the Star powder house, To-
Gated in the hills east of Boise, Idaho
Detectives at East st. Louis, ILL.,, ar
rested James Sapp and his brother
Jesse on a charge of counterfeiting.
1t is said that when the detectives en-
tered the room James held ladle of
molten metal in his hand ready to
pour into plaster mold.
have been killed as a result of the
tornado which swept over section
of Meridian, Miss. Forty-six persons
were injured and property with an es-
timated value of s1,000,000 was de-
molished or otherwise damaged.
In consequence of the strike of the
weavers at Dundee, Scotland, because
they did not share in the recent ad-
vance granted to the spinners, the
employers have decided to close the
factories on March 8. The lockout
will affect $4,000 workmen.
The hearing upon the motion for a
new trial in the case of Albert T.
Patrick, of New York, convicted OF
the murder of William Marsh Rice, an
aged millionaire, has been adjourned
until April 3. This will make neces-
sary a further reprieve by Gov. Hig-
gins.
Suits have been instituted in New
York by the trustees of the Mutual
Life Insurance Co. against ex-Presi.
dent Richard A. McCurdy, ex-Genera,
Manager Robert H. McCurdy and the
firKI of Charles H. Raymond & Co.
formerly general agents for the Mu.
tual.
Gustave A. Closson, of Morrisville
pleaded guilty in court at Doylestown
Pa, to the murder of his young son
last May. He was sentenced to death
Closson confessed that he wished to
get rid of the boy because he was
weak minded and that he had given
him rough on rats.
Pittsburg's street railways and gas
supply, both natural and artificial
have practically passed from the con
troll of the Philadelphia Company to
the United Railways Improvement
Company of San Francisco and deal
that involves nearly $40,00O,000 is
about completed.
The pursuit of the bandits who re-
Gently entered the Russian state bank
at Helsingfors, Finland, killed the
guardian and secured $37,500 resulted
I'm annthar hiphlv dramatic incident