Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-16

MAJ. zen. William n. bnhIJeF, u.
8. A., retired. Is seriously III with
pneumonia at his ranch IA miles south
of Bakersfield, Cal.
The secretary of the navy will ask
congress at the next session for more
money to clothe the blue jackets than
they are now allowed.
The New Foundland government
has dispatched lawyer to Bay of
Islands to direct the prosecution of
colonial fishermen who have shipped
aboard American vessels,
The feeling of insecurity through
out Cuba is shown by numerous ap-
plicaions by proprietors of sugar
plantations for details of American
troops to guard the sugar mills dur
ing the approaching cutting season.
Indictments were returned by the
federal grand jury in Pittsburg, Pa,
against ]. Jay Dunn, Charles T. Close
and Frank T. Emmett, officials and
employees of the Shelby Steel Tube
company, charging them with con-
spiracy to defraud the government in
connection with the boiler tubes fur
nished for a number of battleships.
The town of Warrentown, capital Of
Warren county, Ca, was the scene of
a destructive fire, the loss amounting
to more than 100000.
Direct evidence of Standard Oil con-
troll of the Waters-Pierce Oil company
TO fix the prices and crush competi-
tion in Missouri was given at st.
Louis by Charles T. Ackert, general
manager of the Waters-Pierce COM
pany.
In a dramatic manner the murder
trial of William Crockett, white man
charged with the murder of Lum Hen
derson, a negro, came to an end at
Dothan, Ala, when Judge Henry
Pearce dismissed the jury, declaring
Crockett was acquitted because he
was a white man.
George M. Nolan, mayor Of Jackson
vile, Fla, died after long illness,
aged 72 years. He served throughout
the civil war in the armies of the con-
federacy.
The Haskell Indians of Lawrence,
Kan, were defeated by the football
team of the University of Texas, at
Austin, by score of % to 0.
Negro laborers on a southbound
Milwaukee train near Huron, S. D.,
quarreled over a game of cards. Rev.
John Phelan, Catholic priest of Sib-
ley, Ia, tried to quiet the trouble when
one of the negroes drew revolver
and fired, one shot taking effect in the
right side of the priests head.
Giovanni Bruno, Sicilian, believed
to be one of the most dangerous and
daring Italian anarchists, was arrest
ed at Keon, Col. He will be returned
to Sicily.
81 want to see how they are going
to dig that ditch; how they are going
to build that lock; how they are going
trip l want to be able to tell people
through this congress as much as l
can about that canal" That is what
President Roosevelt said just as he
sailed for Panama.
The United States circuit court of
appeals at st. Paul handed down a
decision upholding the validity of con-
tracts for the purchase and sale of
grain for future delivery, as 1t is prac-
ticed by the Chicago Board of Trade
and the Merchants Exchange of st.
Louis.
Indictments in IL cases were hand.
ed to Judge Lochren in the United
States district court at Minneapolis,
covering the giving of rebates by Ger.
tain railroads and the receiving of
the same by grain firms and individu,
} ais.
J A message from Claremont, CAL
announced the death there of Lasalle
A. Maynard, of Oneonta, N. Y, associ
ate editor of Leslie's Weekly and a
prominent figure at Lake Mohonb
peace conferences.
Orders have been received at the
: headquarters of the department of the
Missouri to dispatch pack train ol
about 80 animals from Fort Riley tc
Cuba, via Newport News.
Mrs. Henry Williams, about so years
old, was found murdered in her home
+, near Stafford Springs, Col. Robbery
apparently was the motive and the
murderer is believed to be tramp.
: With scores of children nearby. al
: Italian was stabbed IL times in the
!, back and his watch and $3.50 in bills
3 We're taken from him opposite public
} school No. at Mosholtu Parkway ant
briggs avenue, Bronx. New York.
: Jet Hicks, negro, was lynched a
: Sale City, Ga, for the murder of JohI
e Akridge.
e Edwin Stone, of Brooklyn, who diet
s in Saratoga, left half of his estate
valued at 100000 to various educa
: tional and charitable institutions.
p e. H. Hartman, at meeting of tn,
i Illinois Central board in New Yorl
ousted and humiliated Presiden
It Stuyvesant Fish and had ]. T. Hara
:, han elected as his successor. Cour
g proceedings to invalidate the actiol
|. are threatened.
The executive committee of the ney
l. Louisville Jockey club, after confer