Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-02-16

mira, N. Y, in fire which destroyed
Webb & Lidbeck's saloon.
The plant and equipment Of the
Poughkeepsie City and Wappingers
Falls Electric Railway Co. at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, was destroyed by fire.
Twenty-Five electric cars were burned.
Bunk Richardson, negro charged
with the assault and murder of Mrs.
Sarah Smith, was forcibly taken from
the jail at Gadsden, Ala, and hanged
to bridge.
The official report of the accident on
the Southern railway at Greensboro,
N. c., received at the offices of the
company in Washington states that
four employees were killed.
More than $250,0OO worth of prop
erty was destroyed and several fire
men were injured, one of them seri-
ously, by a fire in a six-story factory
building at New York City.
The Granite Manufacturers associ-
alton at Quincy, Mass, has decided to
suspend work in the 120 shops repre-
sented in the association. The lock-
out will directly affect 1900 granite
cutters.
Miss Toresa Hart, 70 years old,
burned to death at Erie, Pa. while
| firemen, unable to reach her, stood by
powerless to relieve her agony. A
spark had set fire to the woman's
clothing.
OF rare value and beauty is the gift
of the king of Italy to Miss Roosevelt
| upon the occasion of her marriage.
1t is table of Italian mosaic work,
showing scenes from Italian cities and
towns.
At Detroit John Witt, aged 2S, shot
and killed himself after killing his
14-year-old child, shooting his father
in-law, August Whiting, through the
stomach and shooting his mother in
law, Mrs. Whiting. in the shoulder.
George Carter, Slav, was arrested
for attempting to blow up boarding
house with dynamite at Whitset, a
mining settlement in Fayette county,
Pa. Carter had quarreled with two
fellow countrymen.
Three men were struck and killed
by an accommodation train on the
Northern Central railroad, near Seitz-
land, 16 miles south of York, Pa. The
men who were killed comprised part
of the crew of freight train.
The Illinois Central railroads Chi
cago and Florida limited was wrecked
at Chapmansboro, "a miles west OF
Nashville, Tenn. Conductor Cherry
Engineer McGee and two passengers
were injured.
Methodists throughout the United
States celebrated the 9th anniver-
sary of Lincoln's birthday, and 100,-
600 Epworth League societies and co.
600 congregations held song service in
connection with the celebration.
The blue jackets of the British sec.
ond cruiser squadron will shortly pre-.
sent the American Atlantic fleet with
handsome silver cup as a souvenir
of the formers recent visit to the
United States.
Epes Randall, acting as agent of q
H. Hartman, of the Southern Pacific
has secured concessions from the
Mexican government to construct {
line through the western coast state!
of Mexico.
Sarah Jones, a 70-year-old woman
was convicted of murder in the frs
degree in the court of oyer and ter
miner at Philadelphia for the killing o
her foster daughters child within ;
few hours after it was born.
Paul Laurence Dunbar, the poet o
the negro race, died at his home il
Dayton, o., of consumption, compli
Gated with stomach trouble of Ions
standing. Mr.. Dunbar was born il
) Dayton, June 81. 1872.
st. Pauls Methodist Episcopa
church, Ashland avenue and Wes
Harrison street, Chicago, was de
stroyed by fire. The fire started from
an overheated furnace. The loss. il
$1250O0.
A punitive expedition has captured
large band of revolutionists on the
Dahlan estate in the vicinity of Riga
Russia. Fifty of them were tried b!
court-martial and shot. The Others
were flogged with knouts.
! At Rickmer's shipyard at Bremen
haven there was launched the bigges
! sailing ship in the world. The lengtl
of the craft is 43S feet, her breadtl
| Is 81 feet and she is of 5000 ton
burden.
Miss Ethel Johnson, aged 1S, es
capped from attendants at the sani
tarium in Battle Creek, Mich, ant
/ plunged into the river, swimming ;
: quarter of mile before being cap
tured.
/ Twenty five persons on Wisconsin
[ Central limited train at Milwaukee
f, narrowly escaped death when
t broken locomotive wheel threw six o
the eight coaches of the train over
/ 15-foot embankment. Six passenger
J were slightly bruised.
Judge Burlington in the United
States circuit court at Pittsburg af
firmed the decision of the lower cour
that the Union bridge over the ALE
! gheny river was an unreasonable OBJ
struction to navigation and must b.
raised 72 feet above pool level.
! At least 27 men are supposed t
have met death in terrible mine eX
plosion in the Parallel mine of tn
: Stewart Golfers Co. near Oak Hill
w. Va Thirty-nine men were EN-