Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-08-17

northeast of there were drowned.
Charles P. Thurston, who was
killed in San Domingo, is son of
c. e. Thurston, of st. Paul. G. E.
Thurston is storekeeper in the Unit !
ed States customs warehouse.
c. T. Wells, former vice president
of the j. p. Baden Produce company,
of Winfield, Kan, was arrested at
Arkansas City on charge of perjury
in swearing to false statement of
the condition Of the company on June
80, 1904.
The navy department has ordered
a court of inquiry to determine the
responsibility for the grounding of
the collier Nero on Block island.
DR.. George Bailey of Philadelphia
resigned as international treasurer of
the executive committee of the Inter.
national Sunday School association.
F. A. Wells, of Chicago, was ~nani-
mously elected as his successor.
The Toledo (O.) ice trust and the
railroads alleged to be back of it will
be investigated by the federal author
tiles.
Former Senator James X. Jones of
Arkansas denied that he in any man.
ner represented the Standard Oil
company when he visited the presi-
dent at Oyster Bay.
Congressman ]. w. Babcock has
formally announced his candidacy for
denomination.
Frank Leach, sperintendent of the
San Francisco mint, was notified by
the secretary of the treasury that
gold from Alaska aud the Yukon
will be minted this year at the Frisco
mint instead of Philadelphia.
Messrs. T. j. Mueller and George
Holden, of Cleveland, o., and Spring.
field, Mass, left San Francisco on .
motor cycle trip to New York.
| Albert NJ. Crone, charged with kill
ing his former sweetheart, Miss Ber-
tha Bowlin, in Kansas City, was held
on the charge of first degree murder
without bail.
Prosecutions are about to be COM
menced by the state of Kansas
against the alleged miller and lumber
combines of Kansas.
Chinese labor will be given a thor
ough test on the Panama canal. Con-
tracts calling for $500 Cinnamon for
canal work have been prepared and
advertisements will be issued by the
Isthmian canal commission asking for
proposals from labor agents.
Kid Herman, of Chicago, was given
the decision over Benny Yanger in a
glove contest, at the end of the tenth
round before $500 people at the Indi-
annapolis baseball park.
Frank Kowalski, paying teller of the
wrecked Milwaukee avenue bank, at
Chicago, committed suicide by shoot.
ing himself through the head.
For the first time in her his
Persia is to have a national assembly
The claim of Mrs. c. j. Devlin
against the estate of the late c. j
Devlin for the sum of $620.661 was
disallowed by n. H. Loomis, special
referee in bankruptcy, at Topeka
Kan. The amount of the claim is the
equivalent of the life insurance turned
over by G. ]. Devlin, with the consent
of Mrs. Devlin, beneficiary, to the re
ceiver of the First National bank as
collateral security.
Between 40 and so passengers were
injured, none fatally, but several seri
ously, when the north-bound train OF
the Fort Worth & Denver railroad was
wrecked a few miles south of Fruit
land, Tex. The sleeper and chair cal
left the track and rolled down an EN-
bankment.
Acting under authority of the secre
tary of the interior, the director of the
geological survey ordered the confisca
tion of the whole of the contractor
outfit for work on the Corbett tunne
on the irrigation project in northern
Wyoming.
Grain rates for the state of Wiscon
sin will be reduced practically one
cent per bushel by an opinion of the
railway commissioners. This is the
most important decision that has ever
been rendered by the Wisconsin com
mission. The order will affect all o.
the railroads operating in the state o.
Wisconsin.
Republicans in convention at Ma
con, Mo-, nominated DR.. Edward B
Clements for congress in the First dis
trict.
Jane3ville, Wis, was visited by ter
rife rainstorm, causing several thou
sand dollars damage by the washing
of streets. In one place 200 feet or
Washington street was washed way
, for depth of 80 feet and width o.
70 feet. The business streets were
flooded.
|
Capt Truebridge, of the steamship
Northwestern, brings from the nortf
photograph taken by an officer o.
the revenue cutter Perry of the newly
formed island lying 80 miles west o
Dutch Harbor, directly between this
Bogoslof islands.
, Speaker Cannon, of Illinois, and hii
, daughter, Miss Cannon, will visit Mr.
| and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh at theil
| Wolhurst country home, Littleton
Col, between the first and middle o
October, to remain a week or longer