Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-12-28

of the Junior partners" of Andrew
Carnegie, died at his home In Wilkins.
burg, PIT.
Louis p, Koeken, Of Philadelphia,
through counsel served notice upon
Corporation Counsel Ellison and
Comptroller Metz, of New York, laying
claim to the major portion of the
property in upper Manhattan borough
and the Bronx, the value of which
runs up into the hundreds of millions.
Whisky men protested to Secretary
Wilson against his ruling on blended
whisky.
On hundred prominent men through
out the country have consented to the
use of their names as members of
committee to further the movement
for a national department of health,
which was launched by Prof. ] Pease
Norton.
Bishop Charles c. McCabe died of
apoplexy in New York.
John Barrett, minister to Colombia,
was elected director of the bureau of
American republics.
The steamer w. T. Scovil blew up
near Vicksburg, Miss, and four white
men and about ten negroes were
killed.
George A. Marden, for several years
| assistant treasurer at Boston, died at
his home in Lowell, Mass.
The school authorities of Washing
ton, have been called upon to decide
whether a Filipino is white or col
| ored.
Prof w. w. Borden, widely-lknown
capitalist, died at his home at Borden,
Ind. He was SO years old.
A son has been born to DR.. and Mrs.
Gerald Webb Mrs. Webb is a grand
daughter of the late Jefferson Davis,
and the newcomer is the only great
grandson of the confederate president.
| Four persons were burned to death
and one was fatally burned in fire at
the Zenobia apartment house in Buff
falo, N. Y.
Charles Rodman. a graduate of the
University of Illinois, where he at
tanned fame as an athlete and discus
thrower, was taken to the Central hos
pital for the insane at Jacksonville,
! Ill.
The bank of Horatio, Ark, was loot
ed by two robbers who covered the
cashier with pistols and took about
| $4,000.
By the explosion of dynamite in a
fireworks factory at Savannah, Ga,
one fireman was burned to death and
several dangerously hurt.
John Annoy Knox once widely
known as the editor and proprietor of
Texas Siftings, died suddenly of heart
disease.
A gigantic merger of all coal mining
properties in Illinois within a radius
of 60 miles of East st. Louis has been
planned by eastern capitalists.
Judge Choadle, of Montana, has SEN
fenced Bill" Hedican, horse thief,
to the penitentiary for IA years. the
maximum punishment.
Fire in Harbin, Manchuria, destroy
ed the huge building situated in the
center Of the town occupied by the
general staff of the Russian army.
The fire also consumed the museum,
library and number of shops and
warehouses.
Terrorists threw a bomb and fired
revolvers at Chief of Police Cheshan-
owski at Lodz, Russian Poland. He
was only slightly injured, but his car
riage was wrecked.
George w. Harris, a prisoner for
forgery in the county jail at Goshen,
Ind, declares he is the man who mur-
dered Miss Sarah Schafer at Bedford,
Ind, three years ago.
Fire destroyed the main business
portion of Mexia. Tex. including six
large business houses, with their con.
tents, entailing loss of over 100000
The Citizens bank at Felicity, o..
was blown omen and between 5000 and
$500 In cash taken from the wooden
box in the outer portion of the big
safe.
Frank 3. Sargent, commissioner OF
immigration. may have to pay fine
for being passenger on Japanese
steamer from Honolulu to San Fran
cisco. The Nippon Maru was fined
$1,000 for violating the law prohibit
: ing foreign boat from carrying pas
sengers between American ports.
Thieves looted the residence of c
V. Stein. at Hinsdale, near Chicago
of $4,000 worth of silver and jewelry
About 100000 ballots were cast in
) the election of trustees of the New
York and Mutual Life insurance com
panies and both sides claimed the
} victory
2 Proceedings brought by the state
: of Missouri to oust the Standard OF
I company, of Indiana, the Waters
Pierce Oil company and the Republic
4 OIL company from Missouri were re
: sumed before Commissioner Rober
. A. Anthony in New York.
e The interstate commerce commits
sion received reports from 20 towns
b in the northwest revealing fuel fam
y Inc which imperils scores of lives.
d George S. McReynolds of Chicago
s was convicted of fraud ulently remov
ing grain from warehouses.