Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-06-16

pensions from the SlOUUu,OUo Carnegie
fund are two members of tho faculty
of Ripon college. They are DR.. E. II.
Merrill, former president of the col
lege and Prof. G. II. Chandler.
tornado at Dewey, /. T., demol-
ished several residences and wrecked
200 oil derricks.
A terrific wind and rain storm swept
over Ontario from one end of the
southern peninsula to the other, demol
ishing buildings, uprooting trees and
leaving the telegraph and telephone
lines in a tangled mass of wires
An unusually severe rain and wind
storm did mnch damage to crops and
farm property in various Indiana coun-
ties. In South Bend and Peru the wind
unroofed buildings and caused loss of
thousands of dollars.
Following spell of very oppressive
weather throughout central New York,
word comes of violent storms which
did considerable damage at number
of points.
AS result of the strike at Cananea,
Mexico mines of Col. w. G.. Greene,
line now in droves.
The strike in the Indiana coal fields
ended when the joint convention of
operators and miners voted unani-
mously to report Of the joint scale
committee. Work will be resumed at
once.
Gov Warfield, of Maryland, has ap-
hn
noted lawyer and former governor and
United States senator, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of United
States Senator German.
Purchasing Agent Charles Armitage.
of the Illinois Eastern hospital, was
summoned before the grand jury at
Kankakee with the records of coal
purchases made by the state institu-
ton for three years.
Daniel Szelig, a refugee from San
Francisco, shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself in the presence
of his two children at st. Louis. See
lig had been separated from his wife
for two years.
There were rumors that charges
the Illinois supreme bench and that
the secret night session of the court
in itself an extraordinary proceeding
was held to consider the evidence in
the case.
The number killed in the riots at
Cananea will probably never be
known. The Mexican authorities bur-
led the dead without any attempt at
Identification.
The Miners International Congress
held its closing sitting at London un
der he presidency of ]. P. White, pres
ident of the American Miners associa-
tion. Resolutions were adopted in fa
vor OF miners old age pensions and the
naturalization of miners.
F. l.. McKoy and Chester Ogle,
miners, were blown to atoms in a
shaft by premature explosion in a
mine near Carterville, Mo. Scott Al
frey and H. G. Bishop were injured
when a freight train backed into the
ambulance.
All the Ohio troops in the Jefferson
county mining region have been or
dered home.
The Stockholm Bladet asserts that
Russia has sent military detachment
to the Aland islands lin the Gulf of
Bothnia) to do patrol service against
Finland, and that this section is a
breach of the treaty of Paris.
Six dead, many seriously injured and
thousands of dollars worth of prop
erty blown away, briefly summarizes
the effects of the storms which devas-
tated sections of Minnesota and Wis
consln.
Thunder showers, electric storms and
heavy downpours of rain that have
prevailed throughout western Pennsyl-
vania during the entire week cul-
minated in cloudbursts in Cambria,
Westmoreland, Somerset and Butler
counties, that caused the rivers and
creeks to overflow, flooding the streets
in many communities and disseminat-
ing general flood scare.
Sweeping path one mile and a
quarter wide for a distance of three
miles a tornado that struck the viii
lagos of Martin and Monteith, Mich,
,
aged 54.
Representative Charles E. Fuller, of
Illinois, while on his way to his hotel
at Washington, was overcome by the
heat and fell unconscious to the pave
ment. He was removed to the hos
| pital where he was pronounced out OF
danger.
A tornado passed a section of Win
nesheik county, Iowa, doing much
damage and injuring number of peo-
pie.
The Illinois Central mixed train was
wrecked two miles out of Benton, Ill
The engine rolled down an embank-
ment, killing the engineer, S. T. Gent
and injuring the fireman slightly.
Ina Martinue and his wife, Hungar-
ians, while walking along the railroad
track four miles south of Ludlow, Ky.
were struck by a Cincinnati Southern
| train and instantly killed.