Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-04-13

dent Roosevelt to intercede to prevent
atrocities in Congo Free State.
Labor unions and reform bodies
have launched new political party,
the Chicago Progressive Alliance, to
fight graft and bossism
Reports from the Pacific islands
swept by the recent hurricane tell of
death of $50 persons and destruction
of $1,500,000 in property.
Russian liberals have elected 17S
members of the new national parlia-
ment.
Gov. Hanly, of Indiana, in denying
petitions for the pardon of Sherrick,
again severely scored the convicted
auditor of state.
The city of Philadelphia has brought
suit for s5,OO0,0O0 against the deposed
graft ring for steals in contracts.
Fourteen Russian soldiers have been
butchered for refusing to fire at the
execution of the leader of the Sevasto-
pol mutiny.
Kingdom Gould, heir of George Gould,
was operated upon for appendicitis in
the New York home of his parents.
On suit brought against the
Thompson estate of st. Louis, H. Clay
Pierce seeks to control Tennessee rail-
road property worth nearly S13,000,0 900.
A clerk in the New York registrars
office confessed to certifying to 5000
bogus names on Hearst's nomination
papers.
Sixty thousand people face death in
streams of lava from Mount Vesuvius.
Andrew c. Fields, the yellow dog of
the Mutual Life Insurance company,
denounces officials and promises to tell
Ill he knows, regardless of whom it af-
fects.
A compromise in the Heyl-Schandein
case in Milwaukee, involving nearly
81 100000 has been made in order to
avoid accusations against Mrs. Schan-
dien, now dead.
A dispatch from Dar-Es-S -Salaam re-
ports victory of Capt. Won Haase
over Watagoro natives in German
East Africa. The natives lost 205
killed.
All the partners in the Ties, Smith e
Co bank of Pekin, ILL.,, except Luppe
Luppen, were arrested on warrant
sworn out by August Kranich, a de-
positor, charging them with embezzle-
ment in having received deposits when
they knew that the bank was insolv-
ent.
The Hungarian crisis is settled. The
parliamentary government will be re-
established. Commercial union with
Austria until 1917 is assured.
George e. Easton was hanged at Fol-
som state prison, Sacramento, Cal, for
the murder of Charles Horigan at Dix
on on November 81, 1904.
Fire at Portland, Ore, destroyed the
top story of the Chamber of Commerce
building and caused the death of Ho-
mer H. Hallock.
Rev. DR.. Edward Lathrop, president
of the board of trustees of Vassar col
lege, died at his home in New York,
aged 80 years.
Announcement was made from Sena-
tor r. A. Alger's Office in Detroit,
Mich, that he will not be a candidate
to succeed himself in the senate when
the legislature meets on January l,
next
The supreme court of Kansas grant
ed decree in Topeka ousting w. w.
Rose from the office of mayor of Kan
sas City, Kan, for tolerating joints.
This decision was made in spite of the
fact that Rose had resigned from the
office.
The San Francisco Bulletin says
that the boycott on American goods in
the orient is practically broken. Re-
turning tourists, business men and
Chinese say that it is only q matter of
| time when the discrimination against
wares from this country will entirely
disappear.
The state department has received
an additional $4,000 from the Chris
tian Herald, of New York, for the re-
lief of famine sufferers in Japan. This
makes total of s15O,O0O raised by that
paper for the japanese.
The woman's suffrage bill, providing
that women as well as men may par
ticipate in the election of presidential
electors, has been passed by the Rhode
Island state senate.
Board of directors of the American
mining congress announced the ninth
annual convention of the congress will
be held in Denver. November 13 to II
next.
National board of the Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton fixed on Monday, April 16, for the
convening of the fifteenth continental
congress.
Fifty-five persons lost their lives and
100 were dangerously injured by the
collapse Of the hotel Zum Hirschen
(the Stag hoteD, in the Black Forest,
in Germany, while the guests were at
lunch.
Mrs. Edith Rowsen killed herself
while in the Palmer house, Chicago,
two hours after registering as the
wife of Erno Bardeleben, a wealthy