Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-07-27

ance was adopted ousting George o.
Purdy as chief of police, and appoint
ing Lieut. Michael Doyle as his sue.
cessor.
At South Framingham, Mass, the
front of partially constructed three
story brick and cement building col
lnpsed and more than score of
workmen were carried down in the
wreck. Only nine men were taken
out alive, and some of these were
badly injured. Eight bodies were re-
covered.
The house of commons passed to
its third reading the Irish laborers'
cottages bill by a vote of 1876 to 10.
The bill authorizes loan of $22,-
100000 to provide laborers cottages
in Ireland.
Lieut.. Williams commanding, encoun-
tered a band of 600 Pulajanes near
Buraen, on the island of Leyte. Lieut..
Worswick, IL privates and Civilian
Scout Mcbride were killed.
There is no foundation for the re-
port that Count Leo Tolstoi is i'll.
Impressive services were held at
Simla in honor of Lady Curzon, wife
of the former Viceroy of India, wife
earl of Mimic, viceroy of India, the
countess of Mimic and Gen. Kitchen
err commander-in-chief of the British
forces in India, were present.
Russell Sage died suddenly at his
country home, "Cedercroft," at Law
renee, l.. |. The immediate cause Of
death was heart failure, resulting
from a complication of diseases Incl
dent to old age. The veteran flnan-
cier would have celebrated his nine
tieth birthday on August 4.
Just before a ball game between a
local team and a Plymouth, Wis, nine
Mt Manitowoc, Wis, fierce electrical
storm swept over tho city and bolt
of lightning hit the grandstand, where
the spectators and players had sought
shelter. Five persons were killed out
right and score or two injured by
the shock.
The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor made good
its declaration of several months ago
to enter the field of politics in the in
terest OF trade union movement and
to exhort all members and friends OF
organized labor to work for the elec-
ton to political Office of men known
to be favorable to labors cause.
The insurance companies doing
business in New York issued 1896
fewer policies in 1905 than in 1904,
the amount of insurance written last
year showing a decrease of $151, ,724,-
S54.
The value of canned meats export
ed from the United States in June,
1906, was $461 100. against $797, ,127
IN June, 1905. and in the fiscal year
1906, $9,233,410, against $9,577,O4 in
1905. The figures for the fiscal year
1906 include canned beef, $6,430,446;
canned pork, $1,215,S57, and other
canned meats, $1,5S7107.
The labor situation in the anthra-
cite region is one of profound peace.
In all the active collieries mining is
progressing satisfactorily.
The United States geological sur
vey states that the total output of
zinc during 1905 amounted to 203,S49
short tons, an increase of 17,147 short
tons over 1904.
No statement will be made by Mrs.
c. j. Holman, mother of Mrs. Harry
K. Thaw, relative to the letters found
in the effects of Architect Stanford
White and alleged to have been writ
ten by Mrs. Holman to White before
the marriage of her daughter to
young Thaw.
Military investigation and a grand
jury inquiry have been ordered into
the mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of nine wagon loads of Ii
quors dispatched from the Moulder
depot warehouse to the Jefferson
Park hospital storeroom at San Fran
cisco.
Charles d. Schmidt, an assistant
bookkeeper for the Helena (Mont.)
Water Works company, shot and
killed his wife and tried to kill him
self. 1t is said that Schmidt discov-
cred a letter duplicating his wife
with man at Fort Assinniboine.
Unless his present plans are
changed John d. Rockefeller is going
to Cleveland, to spend the latter part
of the summer
With the heel of his heavy shoe, AL
bert Rierson, 2S years old, a patient
at the Racine county insane asylum,
beat out the life of John Ladrach,
aged 6S years, another patient.
The overturning of a boat resulted
in the drowning of two persons in the
Sioux river, near Riverside park,
Sioux City, Iowa. The dead are: Carl
X. Carrick, aged 81; Joseph Berries,
aged 25.
Representative James S. Sherman
and his associates on the Republican
national congressional committee have
decided to appeal to Republicans to
contribute one dollar each to it's cam
paign fund.
Miss Eva Osborn, Chicago young
woman was drowned yUhiIa hathino al