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


American Ice Co.
Three men were burned to death
in wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio
short line at Smithfleld, w. Va.
Santa Fe passenger train No. 1,
westbound, was wrecked at Toltec, N.
M. Eleven persons were injured,
several seriously.
A fire which was caused by gas
explosion in the core room of the
United States radiator works at Dun
kirk, N. Y, destroyed about half the
plant.
Disastrous prairie fires which have
swept the extreme western part of the
Pan Handle near Austin, Tex, have
caused loss of $1,000,000. Some
100000 acres were burned over.
The death is announced at London
Of Maj. Gen. Sir William Gatacre,
aged 63. Gen. Gatacre served with
distinction in the Soudan, but his per-
sistent i'll fortune in the Boer war
dimmed his reputation as soldier.
The loss of the schooner Millie, of
Parrsboro, N. s., and four of her men,
in Machias Bay, became known at
Machiasport, Me-, when Capt. Gibson,
of the vessel arrived with his first and
second mates and the cook.
At the village of Fucecchio, % miles
west of Florence, Italy, house where
dance was in progress took fire. In
the panic which ensued the floor gave
way and 16 persons perished, while
many others were injured.
The Forty-second street car barns
of the Metropolitan Railway Co., New
York City, were destroyed by fire.
One man, said to have been employed
by the company, lost his life and sew.
eral persons were injured, fireman
seriously.
The steamer Mariposa, which has
arrived from Tahiti, brings news that
on February and destructive tor
nado swept the Society Islands, caus-
fng damage to the amount of S1,000,-
600 at Tahiti and presumably a SINH
lar amount in the Tuamotu Islands.
Joseph Medill Patterson, wealthy
young representative of one of Chi
cago's old families, has resigned his
position as commissioner of public
works, explaining in letter to
Mayor Dunno that his views have
crystallized into socialism.
The city health department of Chi
cago is justified in forcibly interfer-
ing in cases of extreme sickness
where the services of physician are
refused by relatives of the invalid,
according to an opinion rendered by
Corporation Counsel Lewis.
Fire destroyed several store rooms,
saloon and a number of shacks at
Norwood, w. Va. The fire was started
by an exploding lamp, miner whose
name is not known shooting at it
rather than get out Of bed and put it
out. The man was burned to death.
AS step towards stamping out
crime in Chicago, the city council
passed an ordinance making the price
of saloon licenses $1,000 instead of
$500 as heretofore. The law is ef-
fective on May 1 unless Mayor Dunno
should veto the ordinance.
The charter of the Northwestern
Guaranty Co., of Chicago, with a
capital stock of 100000, has been
revoked by Judge Windes, of the su-
perior court, on the petition of the
state insurance commissioner and a
receiver has been named to take
charge of the company.
President Roosevelt has sent a
ing plans for coast defense pre-
pared by joint board of army and
navy officers in which he emphasizes
the necessity for further defenses and
reviews the history of the defensive
works in this country.
The trial of David E. Sherrick, ex-
auditor of state, who is charged with
grand larceny and the embezzlement
of $145,000 of state funds, began in
the Marion county, Ind, criminal
court. Mr.. Sherrick resigned his .
flee September Ia, 1905, on demand of
the governor.
Two deaths at New York by stab
bing were charged against Josephine
Terranova, a 17-year-old Italian girl,
when her aunt died from wounds in
:, fiicted by her niece. The girl stabbed
both her uncle and her aunt recently
because she said her uncle had mis-
treated her with the aunt's consent.
Because of failure of air brakes to
work two engines and "a loaded coal
cars ran away for distance of three
miles on the Loop Creek branch Of the
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, finally
crashing into 20 empty cars at Thur
mond, w. Va, wrecking 13 coal cars.
demolishing both locomotives and
killing Engineer M. A. Perkins.
The voting at Algeciras on the prop
osition of Sir Arthur Nicholson, chief
of the British delegation, to proceed
to the immediate discussion of the
Moroccan police question gives great
satisfaction at Paris, chiefly because
France has arrayed with her a large
majority of the powers, while Ger
many is among the small minority.
A boldly planned attempt on the
life of Vice Admiral Doubasoff, gov
ernor general of Moscow and member
of the council of the empire, was
frustrated recently. AS in the case
of Vice Admiral Chouknin, who on
February was the object of a terror
ist attack, the would-be assassin was
| a woman