Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-12-07

of the United Commercial Travellers,
died suddenly of paralysis at La
Crosse, Wis.
1t is rumored that the Australian
government will prosecute the Aus
tralian representatives of the Ameri-
can oil combine under the antitrust
act.
The members-elect of the Hawaiian
legislature will ask the United States
to raise their pay to $1,000 a session.
Vincent Spilner and wife and two
children, of Eastern Wells county,
North Dakota, lost their way while
driving home from neighbor's, and
Mr.. Spilner and one child we're frozen
to death.
William Fisher, an inventor of
steam contrivances in use in every
civilized country on the globe, is
dead at Marshalltown, Ia.
Ten thousand dollars worth of Jew
elry was stolen from two boarders in
a fashionable boarding house at 33
Twenty-second street, New York.
Brig. Gen. George w. Baird, u. S.
A., retired, is dead at Asheville, N. G.
Gen. Baird was born in Connecticut
in December, 1889. He served in the
| civil war and on the western frontier,
| participating with gallantry in several
Indian campaigns.
Eugene Motz, Chilian consul to
| Mexico City, has received an official
notice from his government to the
effect that the report circulated last
August at the time of the. disastrous
earthquake saying that Juan Fernan-
dez island had sunk into the ocean
was untrue.
So far as can be ascertained, "a
persons were killed, 90 were seriously
wounded and several hundred were
slightly injured as result of the ex-
plogion of the Roburit factory near
Amen, Germany.
The cathedral of the Sacred Heart,
the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F.
Ryan, TSs dedicated at Richmond, Va.
The interstate commerce commits
sion recommends to President Roose.
welt that the public coal lands be with
drawn permanently from entry and
developed under government control,
thereby breaking up the coal monop-
oily and producing revenue which
it is estimated, would pay the ex-
penses of the government.
Ethel Smith, Is years old, defended
her home against man who broke
into the house at Thornton, r. l.,
arrested, but the chief of police kept
her in his own home, giving her a
Thanksgiving dinner.
Sweet Marie, noted trotting mare,
was bought for $4,000 by Philadel-
phia banker at auction sale in New
York.
Engineer O'Brien was found dead by
bound Rock Island passenger train
which was running SO miles an hour
O'Briens skull was crushed, supposed
ly by some projecting timber.
Billy Melody won welter-weight
boxing title in a 12-round fight with
Joe Walcott at Chelsea, Mass.
Secretary Wilson's annual report
shows the value of farm crops is in
creasing enormously with the progress
in the science of agriculture.
Mayor Elisha Dyer, OF Providence.
R. l., former governor of Rhode Island,
died of heart disease.
Seven soldiers were killed and an
officer and six men were wounded in
an encounter in New Dutch Guinea
between detachment of Dutch troops
and strong band of Alfours.
One man was killed, two seriously
injured and a score of wedding guests,
including women, slightly hurt early
yesterday morning in riot following
a Polish feast in Chicago.
Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco,
was put under arrest at Truckee, Cal,
on a charge of eXtortion found by the
grand jury.
1t is reported that the federal grand
jury at Salt Lake City has voted sew
eral indictments in the coal land
fraud case.
Many persons were killed by the
blowing up of Roburit factory near
Witten, Westphalia.
The grand jury at ST. Louis re-
turned two indictments against the
Waters-Plerce Oll company, said to be
branch of the Standard, for receiv-
ing rebates from railroads.
Six men were killed and 35 injured
in fire in Salvation Army hotel at
st. Louis.
A desperate but unsuccessful effort
was made to blow open the safe and
vault of the Mendon, o., bank, in
which more than $4,000 was depos-
tied. The detonation aroused the cit
izens and the three masked men fed,
followed by posses.
Philadelphia police charged Bridget
Carey with poisoning her husband, her
two children and two tenants, all with
in few months, for their insurance.
La Patrie. Lee Baudy's dirigible war
balloon, which has been formally nc.
cepted by the French government,
made its first ascension under the au-
spices of the Aerostatic division of the