Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-04-06

woods in Pennsylvania killed one man
and fatally injured two others.
Rich New York merchants are said
to. be interested in plan for revolu-
tion in Venezuela, by which 1t is hoped
to overthrow Castro and open the
country to American capital.
Saloon keepers on the North side
of Chicago carried out their threa.
to raise the price of beer by the can
and charged ten cents for a pint, los
ing much trade.
Crop failures are things of the past
in the United States, according to Sec
retary of Agriculture Wilson, who de-
clares that science has triumphed over
nature to such an extent that all va
riations of weather such as usually
are experienced can be set at naught.
Thirteen men, entombed in a French
coal mine 20 days, living on hay and
putrid meat, escape.
Judgments were entered at Cincin-
natl, o., against former county treas
urers, charged with receiving "gratui-
ties" from banks in which public funds
were deposited, amounting to s211,174.
Pat Grove maze his debut as a pub
lie lecturer at Butte, Mont, advocating
prison reform and the abolishment of
contract labor in penal institutions.
Officials of wireless system claim
to have transmitted 572 words across
the Atlantic ocean, distance of 5000
miles.
Albert Johnson, colored, was exc
cuted at Waxahatchie, Tex, for the
murder of j. H. Taylor, white man,
committed last July.
Announcement was made at Rich
mond, Ind, that "the Friends Inter
national Christian Endeavor reunion
would be held at Wilmington, O., July
23 to August l.
Troops were called out at Winnipeg,
Man, to awe mobs which threatened
violence as a result of street railway
strike.
District Attorney Jerome in the
George w. Perkins habeas corpus pro-
ceedings declared the campaign gift
was illegal and immoral and consti-
tuted crime.
The League of Writers of Russia is
sued an appeal to the country to avert
massacres of Jews, which 1t is charged
are plotted by officials for the Easter
tide.
Representative Byrd, of Mississippi,
introduced a bill placing meats on the
free list, believing that this would re-
duce the price to the consumer.
The Christian Herald sent another
oh 1a1r 90, ,tn
ment through the Red Cross for trans
initial to Japan for the relief of fam
inc sufferers. This makes the total re-
mittance from this source Sl25,00O.
Isaac Winder, a negro, executed at
Towson, Nd, made desperate fight
for life on the gallows while a crowd
of 1000 looked on.
Joseph A. Turney, note teller of the
National Bank of North America, was
arraigned in police court in New York
on the charge of stealing $4,000.
The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
g st. Louis (Big Four) railroad issued
general order to contiscate all coal in
transit on all its lines.
Justice Bowling, in the New York
supreme court, granted the application
made by District Attorney Jerome for
special grand jury to investigate in
surance matters.
Charles Thornell died at Baldwin,
Mich, and brother of the dead boy
and Frank Roy may die as the result
of eating wild parsnips.
A Nickel Plate passenger train left
the track near South Whitley, Ind,
and turned over in the ditch, injuring
90 persons, one fatally.
Direct information from the trade
ports and centers of China is to The
effect that the boycott against goods
shipped from the United States is rap
idly dying out and that there is a
prospect OF an early and full resump-
tion of business.
Wisconsin has decided to bring suit
against the Standard Oil company un-
der the state antitrust laws.
Unable to remove the snowslides
from its track, the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad set 200 men at work
near Durango, Col, to tunnel through
the huge masses of snow and thus
open the line.
Attorney General Charles w. Miller
of Indiana has filed suit for 5000 in
Boone county against Americus c.
Daley, former auditor, to recover fees
alleged to have been collected illegally
from the state.
The New York assembly, by decis-
I've vote, ordered that the committee on
elections and privileges has power to
order the ballot boxes used in the last
New York city election opened.
The trial of the beef packing corpor-
ations is fixed for September 10 in Chi
cago.
The first actual election of members
of Russia's parliament resulted in the
choice of IL conservatives.
The Ohio senate passed bill per-
mitting amateur baseball playing on
Sunday There were only five votes
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