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

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every outward indication confirms this
view.
Entombed for six days under tons OF
volcanic debris, two women were res
cued alive from the ruins of Ottajano.
Both were speechless from terror, and
1t is doubtful If they will ever fully
recover their mental faculties.
President Roosevelt, 1t is said, de-
sires to represent New York state in
the senate after the expiration of his
term as executive.
Thomas G. Hoag, formerly business
manager and trustee of Northwestern
university, died at Pasadena, Cal,
where he had lived several years. He
was born in Concord, N. H., September
| z, 1925, settling in Chicago when the
city was a town of only $500 inhab-
itants.
Judge Hook handed down an opin-
! ion in the United States circuit court
of appeals at st. Paul, Mimi, uphold
ing the Chicago board of trade in its
suit to enjoin the Celia Commission
company and others from surrept-
| itiously acquiring and using the
| boards continuous market quotations.
All the police of Connellsville, Pa,
went on strike after the refusal of the
town council to grant an increase of
ten dollars a month in salaries.
Nine men have been killed in a riot
in the southern part of Phillips count,
| Arkansas.
President Bicknell, of the Illinois
state board of charities, says the state
should conduct poorhouse instead of
counties.
John Willems, under arrest at La
porte, Ind, on many charges of forg-
cry, is said to have four wives. The
police say he lost $4,000 which be-
longed to one of the women in
scheme to establish a brewery in Mil
waukee.
The Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance inquiry at Milwaukee reveals
vast business in private loans on pat
rons policies done by officials and en-
ployes.
Two officers and five gunners were
killed and IA men injured, eight of
them seriously, by an explosion of
powder in one of the forward turrets
of the battleship Kearsarge at Culebra
island, off the coast of Porto Rico.
Most of the London newspapers de-
vote their leading articles to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's speech at the cere-
mony of the laying of the cornerstone
of the new office building of the house
of representatives at Washington.
Their comment generally is favorable
to the presidents words.
The American federation of Labor
is preparing bill designed to prevent
interference of courts in labor dis
putes. Legislation opposed by the
president.
John Allen Gordon, Of Scotland, met
sorrowful countryman in railroad
station in Chicago and was swindled
out of $100 in English sovereigns.
Petrunkevitch, who is leader of the
Constitutional Democrats, will be pres
ident of the Russian douma.
Clifford Stokes. aged IA, and Louis
]. Schultz, aged %, were drowned in
lake near Taylorville, III. They at
tempted to row across the lake in an
old boat, which sunk with them a few
feet from the shore.
United States trade with North
American countries exclusive of Can.
ada, Mexico and Cuba, reaches $780,
100000 year.
The Vatican sees new hope in
France. The Catholics, together with
the old nobility, are making a hard
fight in the elections.
Henry j. Gebhard, a truck farmer
of Long Island, has sold his 25-acre
truck patch for 100000, the largest
price ever paid for such property.
Services of peculiar interest were
held at the English Lutheran church
of Alexandria, Ind, when a tablet was
unveiled commemorative of the men,
ory of the unknown donor in German |
town, Pa, who six years ago donated
sum sufficient to erect a handsome
$4,000 church
statement issued by the Equitable |
Life Assurance society showed that |
27,3S5 small policies had lapsed. Few
of larger amounts are allowed to de-
fault.
Miss Nellie Grant, a granddaughter |
of President U. S. Grant and daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Grant of New
York, is seriously i'll in sanitarium,
where she was operated upon for ap-
pendicitis.
Yaqui Indians have ambushed a par
ty of American mining men in So |
nora. Samuel Williams, of Ell Paso, |
Tex, was killed and his body found |
after the ambush, but other members |
of the party are missing.
b. Mollett, street car conductor,
was struck by an automobile at |
Cleveland, o., and so badly injured
that he died an hour later. The auto
list was held on charge of man
slaughter.
Two officers and five men were killed
and IA men injured, eight seriously,
when charge of powder exploded in |