Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-06
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about so injured in a head-on collision
between an Interurban express train,
consisting of motor car and trailer,
and traction car on the Mattoon and
Charleston electric line. The crash oc-
CURED on sharp curve one mile west
of Charleston, Ill. A confusion of or
ders received over the telephone is
said to have been the cause of the
terrible accident.
Richard Mansfield, the best known
actor on the American stage, passed
away at his summer residence, Seven
Oaks, Ocean avenue, New London,
Conn. Death was directly due to dis
case of the liver, aggravated by compli-
cations. He had been i'll since last
spring when he broke down while
playing at Scranton, Pa.
Most Rev. John j. Williams, arch.
bishop of the Boston diocese, dean of
the Hierarchy of the Roman Catholic
church in America, and for a genera
tion or more the spiritual head of that
faith in New England, died at his
home in Boston.
BY a decision rendered by Judge
Cochran at Clinton, ILL.,, Mrs Warner
widow of John Warner, millionaire,
gains fortune of $350,000 to be paid
Immediately, an annual income of $780,
900 a year, dover rights, and the fam
lily homestead, worth 100000. With
her two daughters, Mrs. Mettler and
Mrs. Bell, Chicago society women, she
is also freed by the judgment from the
stigma of having negro blood in her
veins, which Vespasian Warner, Unit
ed States commissioner of pensions
and former congressman, endeavored,
in his capacity as executor of his ia
ther's will, to establish in order to de-
feat her suit
Myron Severhill, wealthy tobacco
buyer, aged 10, died in Janesville,
Wis. He was the first man to grow
tobacco in Wisconsin.
BY authority of President Roosevelt,
James R. Garfield, secretary of the in
terror, announced that no further eff
fort will be made by the administra-
tion to bring up in congress the ques-
tion of joint statehood for Arizona and
New Mexico.
Ominous rumblings are coming from
Mt. Vesuvius, and smoke is issuing
from the crater. AS result, the in
habitants of the villages surrounding
the volcano are in a state of great
alarm.
The United States Naval academy
team won the national trophy in the
national rifle match at Camp Perry,
o. The Massachusetts team was Sec
ond and Ohio third.
William Howard Metcalf, youngest
son of Secretary of the Navy Victor
H. Metcalf, social favorite and Oak
land bank clerk, eloped to San Rafael
and was married to Mrs. Vida Bevans,
a widow.
perate attacks on the French troops at
Casablanca and were repulsed after
several hours fighting.
James Money, Jr., was shot and al
most instantly killed and his father,
James Money, Sr., was mortally
wounded at their place of business at
Money, Miss, by DR.. Grover Kirky.
Miss Sutton won the international
tennis championship at Niagara-on-
tHe-Ldht, oul,, ny uclSdtluS hlSS
Rotch, of Boston, in two well contest
ed games.
DR.. Villaldo in an official report to
the war department says the Ameri-
can soldiers at Cienfuegos, Cuba, are
not in danger of yellow fever.
King Edward, shocked by an indeli
cate song in a cafe chantant in Mari
enbad, got up in his box and left the
theater, followed by all the English
and Americans present
President Nicholas Murray Butler of
Columbia university has announced
the program for the trust conference
to be held in Chicago October 1925.
The four days discussion will cover
every phase of the present agitation.
Steps are being taken to save st.
Pauls cathedral in London, which has
been gradually sinking for two cen
turies.
The Southern Pacific railroad is con.
sidering plan to electrize the Sacra-
mento division of its line, which runs
over the mountains and presents hard
problems in winter.
Two persons were killed and several
others injured when a motor car on
the Chicago, Milwaukee Electric rail
way crashed into an ice wagon In
Glencoe, a Chicago suburb.
Albert Stemmelen, of Detroit, we.t
crazy over religion and drowned his
two-year-old daughter.
Little nine-year-old Ella Schrader.
daughter of John Schrader a railroad
construction worker of Gary, Ind was
brutally murdered and the whole town
sought in vain for her slayer
Kingsbury Batchelder, professor of
Greek in Hillsdale college. Michigan.
died at Ocean Park, Me.