Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-05-25

Trade between the United States
and British America in the fiscal
year 1905 aggregated S3S,000000,
against $34,500,000 in the preceding
year. S32,O00,000 in 1900, and $14,-
100000 in 1895.
Fire at Duluth, Mimi, Quilted the
building occupied by the Zenith Paper
ompany, entailing a loss of $4,000.
The tipple power house and genera
tor of the Purslove coal mines, at
Clairsville, o., burned with a loss Of
100000.
The German mail steamer Room, of
the North German Lloyd China line,
which ran ashore near oki island dur
ing a fog May IS, has been floated.
A bomb exploded at st. Chartres,
France. Several persons were danger
ously wounded and several others
slightly injured.
A work train plunged from the West
ern Maryland railway track into the
Chesapeake & Ohio canal at Hagers-
town, Md. Five men were drowned.
Fifteen were injured.
Twenty persons were badly injured
at Rochester,, N. Y, when section of
bleachers collapsed during a ball
game.
A court-martial at Riga sentenced
eight workmen to death for the murder
of three policeman.
Edward d. Harber, of Bloomington.
ILL.,, was killed by train at Kenil-
worth. He had been a patient at the
sanitarium. While out with his
keeper he escaped and ran to the
tracks just in time to be struck by
fast train.
With her baby in her arms, Mrs.
Francis Bobletts dropped dead at Ke-
vance, ILL.,, on hearing that woman
friend was i'll
George Morrison, road overseer near
Aetna, Mont, was shot to death by
boy named Charles Dennis.
Fire, which started from a spark
from the Northwestern MILL destroyed
100 residences and dozen business
buildings at Stanley, Wis. The loss is
estimated at 100000.
With but few exceptions every wit
ness on the stand before the interstate
commerce commission at Philadelphia
revealed facts concerning the close
connection between railroad men and
mine owners, and how the latter for
no apparent reason gave railroad men
valuable blocks of stocks. In few in
stances did any money change hands
in these transactions, the mine own
ers simply bringing the stock into the
Office of the railroad.
The pope has selected a magnificent
triptych, by German painter of the
seventeenth century, as wedding
present for King Alfonso.
Five commissioners to the Presby-
terian general assembly at Des Moines
were bruised and injured by the coll
lapse of the temporary stand which
had been erected for the purpose of
getting a large group photograph of
the assembly.
A large increase in the number of
factories in Illinois and in the value
of their output from 1900 to 1905 is re-
ported by the ceusus bureau at Wash
ington.
DR.. Arnold c. Klebs, of Chicago, at
the meeting of the Association for the
Study of tuberculosis in Washington,
urged government sick benefits for
those suffering from the disease.
The Cuban house accepted the senats
to the bill providing for
the amnesty of persons who have en-
gagged in revolutionary attempts.
A decision which is expected to re-
suit in releasing over 100000 to the
city of Philadelphia for use in build
ing museum and institute in memory
of Thomas w. Evans, was handed
down by the appellate division of tha
supreme court.
The Presbyterian general assembly
at Des Moines voted to declare inop-
erative all amendments to the consti-
tuition adopted since the plan of union
with the Cumberland church was
agreed on in 1904.
Michael Davitt had narrow escape
from death as the result of a compli-
cation of blood poisoning and mild
form of lockjaw. The trouble COM
with bad tooth.
All the present officials of the New
York Central, Lake Shore, Michigan
Central, West Shore, Mohawk 4 Ma
lone and New York G. Putnam rail-
roads were reelected.
Lionel E. G. Garden, British minister
to Cuba since 1903, sailed from Ha-
vana by way of Mobile for his new
post of minister to Guatemala.
In the supreme court at Boston ex-
Senator F. w. Dalliner, of Cambridge,
was appointed receiver for the Ameri-
can Birth Insurance company.
II charge that these three acts of
the president are of the anarchistic
socialism which now threatens the life
Of our country. firmly believe that
they are outside of law, subversive of
law destructive of constitutional gov
ernment." Thus does Chancellor James
r. Day of Syracuse university close his
latest screed against President Roose-
velt.
The Cuban senate passed the house
bill amnestyinP all who have engaged