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

tion OF the extension Of the civil and
religious rights and privileges OF Jews,
theh American Jewish committee, COM
posed Of prominent members OF the
race from all parts Of the United
States, organized at New York.
Fire that started at Ottawa, Kan,
from a gas explosion totally destroyed
the John Nelson building, the largest
structure in the city.
Mrs. Esther Sumner Damon, said to
be the last surviving widow of a SOL
dier of the revolutionary war, died at
her home In Plymouth Union. VT, at
the age of SO years.
Marine engineers employed on the
| tug boats and the ferry boats of the
Erie railroad have formulated a petit
tion asking for an increase in pay of
| $40 month.
The Dominion steamer Kensington
Is reported ashore at Matan, 1876 miles
below Quebec. The Kensington was
bound from Liverpool to Montreal. A
snowstorm was raging when the
steamer struck.
| A serious split has occurred in the
ranks of the liberal party in Cuba,
due to the belief of the more radical
element, largely composed of negroes.
that Alfredo Zayas is too friendly
with the Americans, even to the ex-
tent of secretly favoring annexation
of the island by the Unitetd States.
A state of panic exists in the town
of Maria and the vicinity in, Precsidio
county, Texas. Twelve deaths have
occurred in the town of a few hun
dred population from an unknown and
malignant disease which recently
made it's appearance.
Before a number of medical men
and scientists at San Francisco Drs.
Albert j. Atkins and q. j. Lewis sue
ceeded in charging an electric cir
cult with human electricity to such
a degree that external sound waves
were transmitted and heard through
an ordinary telephone receiver.
Clarence Igenfitz, aged 20 years,
shot his sweetheart, Mary Kutz, and
then committed suicide at Drytown,
Pa. Because they were first cousins
Miss Kutz refused to marry him.
Henry Firth Smith, 25 years old, son
of Joseph Smith, a prominent and
wealthy business man of Pittsburg,
Pa, was shot twice and almost in
stantly killed by burglar whom he
surprised in the dining-room of his
fathers residence.
Thomas Dougherty, a prominent
young man of Dunmore, Pa, died as
the result of being stabbed by an un-
known woman. Dougherty declared
that he was visiting woman and that
she stuck needle or hatpin in him,
after which he was taken ill.
A north-bound Frisco passenger
train collided with an engine standing
on a curve at the edge of Fort Worth
killing Fireman Joseph D. Wilkinson
and probably fatally injuring Engineer
Robert Fowler
While attention was directed to the
outskirts of Hillsboro, Tex, by two
destructive fires, the hardware store
of Smith & Thomas, located in the
center of the business district was
dynamited and partly wrecked by rob
bers.
James A. Guest, head of the Guest
t Piano company at Burlington, Ia, dice
, after long illness at the age of 81
/ years. He was civil war veteran anG
) prominent in Free Masonry.
: Charles Feeney, 40 years old, knowr
, in baseball circles as Fat" died sud
denly at Springfield, ILL., He weighed
$50 pounds.
, At least II workmen are believed tc
have been killed in the collapse of the
: new Bixby hotel at Long Beach, Cal
A score of other persons were in
: jured and taken from the mass ol
wreckage. One man is missing and
eight bodies have been recovered.
l The Russian ministry of marine Is
: considering the desirability of organ
/. izing an expedition for the discovery
i of sea route to Bering straits
through the Arctic ocean,
? John Price Wetherill, one of Phila
delphia's richest men, who accumu
: lated his wealth in the zinc business
is dead. He was about 63 years O
. age.
P. T. Powers, who was recently re
= elected to the presidency of the East
: ern Baseball league of baseball clubs
sold the controlling interest in the
r Providence team of the league t.
Hugh Duffy and A. G. Doc.
= Dr. Walter ]. Marcley, superintend
ent of the Massachusetts state sani
d torium at Rutland, resigned to becom,
!. superintendent of the Minnesota stat,
|. sanitorium for tubercular patients
d now being built at Walker, MINI.
A plot hatched in Cripple Creek b,
J. band of desperadoes to hold III
Short Line train No. on its arriva
at Rosemont was foiled
d. o. Smart, one of the wealthies
o pioneer citizens of Kansas City, Mo
n died of apoplexy while participatin
r in revival service at the Indepent
/ ence Avenue Christian church.
An automobile containing Sir Thon