Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-04-20

dare 10 plunge INTO the SURF on Ten
nessee avenue attired in full street cos
tune.
President Roosevelt's repeated dec
laration that he will not run for the
presidency again have little effect on
those who insist that he must be a
candidate in 1908, and the many as
pirants are puzzled over the situation.
Without any warning 700 mail car
riers struck at Vienna. They had been
receiving about $50 month, and de-
manded an addition of from two to
four dollars. The strike was settled
by partial concession to the drivers.
1t is reported that proposition to
establish bank with capital of
S50,000,000 for the purpose of regulat-
ing money and exchange rates during
times of financial stringency, such as
that recently experienced in Wall
street, is under consideration by inter-
ests connected with the stock ex-
change and by the National City bank
of New York.
While native unrest continues, there
Is an augmentation of the feeling in
the foreign community at Peking that
the European and American govern
ments are unwise in weakening their
positions in the eyes of the Chinese.
In case of local disturbances the bur-
den of the first defense will fall upon
the Americans. The Chinese have
fort on the wall which commands the
American position.
Chief of Police Collins, of Chicago,
urges the death penalty for the burg
lar who carries a deadly weapon, and
the whipping post for the wife beater
and assailers of little girls.
Changes in the Russian laws which
will give more personal liberty to the
people will be recommended to the
lower house of parliament by a COM
mission which has outlined important
alterations.
Judge Speer, at Atlanta, Ca, in sem
fencing Greene and Gaynor to four
years in prison and fine of s575,749
each, scored plunder of the public
through graft and pointed the need of
remedying defects in the laws by
which rich criminals obstruct justice.
Dowie is willing to turn Zion prop
erty over to a board of trustees less
five per cent, which shall be his prop
erty absolutely.
The United States cruiser Pennsyl-
vania broke records with six-inch gun
in practice off New York.
Building is practically brought to a
standstill in st. Louis by strike of
1000 bricklayers.
Secretary Root has informed Russia
that any date later than September
20 will be acceptable for The Hague
peace conference.
Fourteen hundred Russian steerage
passengers cheered Maxim Gorky and
waved a red flag in midocean as the
ship bearing the author-revolutionist
passed their boat.
Prof. Wurtenberger. inventor of a
powerful explosive, was fatally in
jured by an explosion in his labora-
tory near Mount Vernon, N. Y.
The anthracite coal miners gave the
operators choice of two propositions.
Failure to accept either makes strike
order inevitable.
Fire destroyed seven horses and sew
eral barns at old Lexington QKy.)
track
After lying in the dead letter Office
at Washington over 40 years letter
from young soldier lad of the civil
war to a boyhood sweetheart, has just
been delivered to the 92-year-old father
of the dead soldier, Elisha Halves, Of
North Stoughton, Mass, and will
reach the person for whom it was
intended.
Coal is taken out of the mines by a
company owned by the Baltimore G
Ohio, transported over a railroad
owned by the Baltimore & Ohio, and
distributed by retailers by companies
in which the Baltimore & Ohio is in
terested.
Premier Witte of Russia, has finally
succeeded in overthrowing Minister
of the Interior Durnovo.
King Peter of Seryia will not abdi.
cate as demanded and effort will be |
made to dethrone him April &c.
The Chicago Flying Machine Op.
orators union is newest addition to
labor organizations.
The Rev. DR.. Jenkin Lloyd Jones |
rich Chicagoans and wom-
ems clubs as being partly responsible
for civic wrongs in Chicago
Several hundred Chicago school |
children have been exposed to small
poX. One pupil has been taken to the |
hospital.
Prominent church and Sunday |
school workers were arrested in Sioux |
City, Ia, following the discovery of a
plot to rob store.
Only five of the 179 members of the
lower house of the Russian parliament |
are reactionaries, the progressive and
liberal parties winning other contests. |
Miss Mary e. Mcdowell and Miss |
Amelie Hofer, of Chicago, have inter-
ested President Roosevelt in the move
ment to provide national Fairgrounds |
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