Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-10-12

inc Rummelhart, aged 40 years, was
found in dying condition in vacant
lot at Omaha, and died at the Omaha
General hospital without regaining
consciousness. Her throat was cut
and her face had been beaten to pulp
with a club found near her.
Casper G. Clemens, a native of Ohio,
one of the most able constitutional
lawyers in the west, died o. pneumo.
MIA at Topeka, Kan, aged So He was
once prominent in state Populist poll
tics, and was Gov. Lewellyn's legal ad-
wiser during the famous legislature
war of 1895.
Measures will be taken by the Mexi.
can government to prevent boarding
of corn in anticipation of higher prices
and 1t is probable that the duty on
foreign corn will be temporarily re-
moved.
Depositors of the Spring Valley, ILL.,,
National bank, which it is alleged was
wrecked by it's president, Charles ].
Devlin, in July, 1905, appointed COM
mittee to call on L. M. Eckert states
attorney of Bureau county, and en-
deavor to secure the indictment of
those responsible for the banks col
lapse.
An emphatic official denial of the
reported betrothal of Grand Duke Mi
chael, brother of the emperor of Rus.
sia, and Princess Patricia of Con-
naught, niece of King Edward, was
issued at London.
Sir Robert Hart, director-genera of
Chinese imperial customs, has issued
circular saying he has received as
surances that his status with regard
to Chinese customs will not be
changed.
Eight men were killed and nearly
two score of persons we're injured by
the explosion of illuminating gas in
the Market street subway at Sixth
street, Philadelphia.
Twenty-Five bodies have been re-
covered from the west fork of the Po-
cahontas Galleries company mine at
Pocahontas, Va, and conservative
estimate places the. total number of
dead at 70.
Clutched in each others arms, two
young men fell from the fourth story
of the Lake Shore railroad office build
ing at Cleveland, and were hurled to
their death on the pavement.
Announcement was made by E. A.
Ford, general traffic manager of the
Pennsylvania lines west, that on No
vember l next the local passenger
fares in Indiana, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania would be reduced to a
basis of 21s cents mile.
Believing the board of health ply
sicians were cutting the throats of
their children in public school in
the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn,
1,500 women, nearly all Italians,
stormed the school building.
Three of the seven children of the
family of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Vanier,
of Portland, Me-, were burned to death
in fire caused by the explosion of
lamp which had been accidentally
overthrown.
Humiliated because he was forced
to drink whisky, when he is known
all over Buchanan county as a stanch
friend of the temperance movement,
Will Hite, wealthy and highly re-
spected farmer living near Jessup,
Ia, committed suicide by hanging
himself in his barn.
The sultan officially received Am
credentials as first ambassador of the
United States to Turkey.
James ]. Hill, president of the
Great Northern railway, sold 750, ,O00,,
900 tons of ore to the United States
Steel corporation for $400,0Oo,0 700.
While a party of 25 students of
Oconto. Wis. high school were stand.
ing on foot-bridge at Oconto Falls,
Wis, watching the falls, the structure
collapsed, hurting the whole party 40
feet into the stream. William Ballou
aged IA years, was killed and Viga
Sentil, Hazel Denizen and Frank Don
levy seriously injured.
Mrs. E. j. Carroll, wife of the CHIEF
clerk of motive power of the Chicago
& Alton railroad at Bloomington, Ill
was fatally injured at the Union sta
ton in Kansas City as the result OF
falling from trolley car.
Mrs. Elizabeth Zorn, a well-known
artist of Danville, ILL.,, died from in
juries sustained when she was struch
by bicycle ridden by Harry Jordan
For more than three hours New
York firemen fought an exceedingly
stubborn blaze in the metropolitan
boarding and livery stables in West
Thirtieth street. When the fire
broke out, 300 horses were in the
stables, but they were saved.
Frank II, Hughes, who recently was
found guilty of perjury in swearing
that he was injured in the Colorado
Midland wreck at Culbert's Siding, in
June, 1908, when in fact he was min
ing 20 miles from the scene, was Civ
en- sentence of from three to five
years in the Colorado penitentiary.
George b. Schooley, of Philadelphia
cousin of the late James L. Crawford
a millionaire coal operator, has begur
a contest of the latter's will, In the