Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-07-12


them under guise OF a Fourth of July
celebration, most of the Ice men with
the American Ice company In New
York abandoned their wagons.
William w. Johnson, wealthy lum-
herman of Petoskey, Mich, was killed
while racing with dummy train with
his automobile. While trying to turn
his machine at a dangerous crossing
he. was thrown under the wheels Of
the train.
A tornado in western Wisconsin
partly wrecked several towns and in
jured number of persons.
An automobile driven by William j..
Fortune, millionaire brewer, ran down
and killed c. A. Cornish in Lincoln
park Chicago.
Raisuli, the bandit chief of Moroc-
co, captured Caid Gen. Sir Harry
MacLean, commander of the sultans
bodyguard, and said he would hold
him until the SULTAN paid 100000
and appointed Raisuli governor Of
Tangier and commander of police.
One man was killed and 80 injured
when a trolley car on an interurban
road near Washington collided with
two cars loaded with steel rails.
King Edward has decorated Enrico
Caruso, the Italian tenor, with the
Victorian order.
A riot occurred at the jamestown
exposition, following an attempt Of
500 members of the South Carolina
and Kentucky regiments to take
charge of the War PATH" which at
tempt the Powhattan guards resisted.
Several were injured.
Japanese proprietors Of restaur-
ant and bath house have sued San
Francisco for $2,575 for damages
caused by mob
Charles Murray, who shot and
killed his wife, Nellie Murray, Octo-
ber 2, 1906, because she refused to
return home with him, was sentenced
at Peoria, ILL.,, to % years in the peni-
tentiary.
The jury in the trial of former AS
sociate Statistician E. S. Holmes, Jr.,
of the department of agriculture, on
the charge of conspiring to defraud
the government by giving out the de-
partment's crop information, failed to
agree and was discharged.
Stockholders of the Minneapolis &
st. Louis and the Iowa Central roads
filed suit in the federal court at Des
Moines, Ia, to enjoin the railroad
companies from putting into effect the
two-cent fare.
The gunboat Don Juan de Austria,
one of Admiral Dewey's trophies of
the Spanish war, has been assigned to
the use of the Michigan naval militia
and will be located. on Lake Superior.
Former Judge John T. Healy of
Elgin, ILL.,, was found dead in bath
establishment in Chicago.
The Buena Vista lake levee near
Bakersfield, Cal, broke, flooding 30,-
900 acres and doing $1,0O0,000 dam
age.
President Amador of Panama ar.
rived in New York on his way to Eu-
rope.
Martha Washington, wife of George
Washington, colored farm hand liv-
ing near Terre Haute, Ind, gave birth
to three boys and two girls. All are
expected to live.
/. d. Rideout, president of the Mer-
camille Trust company of San Fran
cisco and prominently identified with
number of banks throughout central
California, died in San Francisco.
After 81 years of service in the nli-
nois National guard, Gen. James B.
Culver, of Springfield, commanding
the Second brigade, was placed on the
retired list at his request on account
of private business.
kilograms were received at the
state department in Washington from
Manuel Sarabia, who was arrested at
Douglas, Ariz., on a charge preferred
by Mexican officials and was held for
extradition proceedings, protesting
against his arrest as political.
Gov Deneen, of Illinois, appointed
Gen. G. M. Moulton as major general
commanding the Illinois National
guard, under the reorganization law.
Col. j. E. Stuart, of the Second in
ldHlly, ouCCceuS MOulIOn
general of the First brigade.
A man giving the name of G. U.
Hall and claiming to be from st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, but recently a practicing
physician at Lennox, Ia, was arrested
at Albuquerque, N. M, while in the
very act, it is charged, of making
counterfeit money.
Philip X. Green, instructor of Eng
lish and mathematics, and Prof David
A. Durward, assistant in the agricul-
tural department at the Mount Her
mon school for boys. were drowned
while canoeing in the Connecticut
river.
Two carloads of giant powder stand
ing on side track of the Oregon
Short Line at Beck's Hot Springs, five
miles from Salt Lake City. caught fire
from burning grass and exploded,
jarring heavy buildings and breaking
windows for miles around.
The First National bank of Hicks