Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-02-16

Der OF cttleS Oh the united states.
Maj John w. Thomas, president Of
the Nashville, Chattanooga & st.
Louis railroad, is dead at his home in
Nashville, Tenn, aged 76.
The steam trawler Veronica, be-
longing to Stavanger, Norway, has
been lost off Losslemouth, Scotland,
with a crew of ten.
Thomas Nolan, believing that he
had carried out his intention of talk
ing the life of Mrs. Jane Mccarthy,
turned his revolver on himself and
committed suicide at Chicago.
Daniel Leads was burned to death
and loss of 100000 was caused by a
fire which originated in room in
the Lewis building at st. Albans, w.
Va.
Victor Demogeot, the winner at Or
mond, Fla, of the title of worlds
speed king, earned another triumph at
Havana by winning the Cuban cup in
the second international road race.
Four persons lost their lives in a
fire that swept the east end of the
Morrison street bridge spanning the
willamette river at Portland, Ore. A
dozen persons We're seriously injured.
While ice yachting on the Navesink
river, New Jersey, Charles Hendrick-
son, Fair Haven boatman, lost his
life by the boat breaking through the
ice.
The car barn of the International
Railway Co., located on the Canadian
side of Niagara Falls, was burned re-
Gently, together with 81 cars. Loss
100000.
Midshipman Minor Meriwether, jr.,
of Louisiana, a member of the third
class, convicted and sentenced to dis
missal for hazing, has been pardoned
by the president
A theatre train on the Pennsylvania
railroad, running at the rate of 20
street car in South Chicago, killing
three persons and injuring IL.
Twenty one bodies have been recov-
cred from the Parral mine in Fayette
county, West Virginia. 1t is supposed
that only one body remains to be re-
covered, making the total fatalities %.
A serious fight has occurred in Old
Servia between Turkish troops and
two Servian bands. The Turks, who
were the attackers, lost 40 men killed
or wounded. The Servians lost 18
killed or wounded.
The annual report of Mine Inspector
James Martin, of the Seventh anthra-
cite district Uuzern county, Pa.) for
the year 1905 shows that the produc-
ton of coal amounted to 5,445,99S
tons.
The career of the class of 1906 at
the naval academy at Annapolis, Md,
was brought to it's close officially in
the magnificent new armory recently
when Secretary of the Navy Bona
parte delivered to 101 members Of the
class their diplomas.
e. H. Hartman, Epes Randolph and
their associates, who are interested in
an Arizona and Colorado railway en-
terprse that will eventually become a
Southern Pacific branch, have bought
vast coal land area near Durango,
Col.
The formal opening of the James
town exposition has been set for April
&c, 1907, instead of May 13, 1906, as
originally planned. 1t was on April 26,
1907, that the English settlers in the
London Co. first debarked at Cape
Henry.
AS lue IGSulJ Vi d Dltdh III lhS ldl 6V
gas main of the Peoples Natural Gas
Co., near the West Virginia state
line, in Greene county, Pa, one man
was killed, an ther seriously injured
and the bref * caused a shortage OF
gas in Pittsburg.
The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
says that controlling interest ia the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton rail-
road has passed into the hands of the
Standard Oil Co. and the route which
has long been the ambition of the old
Northern Securities contingent has
been secured.
Fire broke out in Littleton, an oil
town near New Martinsville, w. Va,
and before it could be extinguished
nearly every business house was de-
stroyed, about 500 of the 1,500 inhabi-
tants were without homes and finan-
cial loss of more than 100000 was
sustained.
Strife of several weeks standing
among the members of st. James
African Methodist Episcopal church
at st. Paul, Mimi, broke into strug-
gle that laid two trustees and the pas
tor, Rev. Seymour, on the church floor
at the close of sermon on "Brotherly
Love-"
Gen. Kaulbars, governor general OF
} Odessa, Russia, has issued procla-
nation declaring that every one at
tempting to kill or killing an official
by means of explosives, arms or 9th
erwise, or who is found in possession
of deadly implements will be con-
demned to capital punishment with
out trial.
Gen. John Eaton, a noted educator
died in Washington, aged n years
He entered the war as a captain OF
the Twenty ninth Ohio volunteer in
fantry. At one time he was editor OF
} the Memphis Post. He also was SUI
perintendent of schools for Tennessee
and in 1870 became United States
commissioner of education.
The special committee appointed by