Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-05-03

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coach of Wabash train jumped the
track and plunged into CHARTERS
creek, near Pittsburg, Pa. The en-
gineer and fireman were killed and
the escape of the passengers was con-
sidered marvellous.
Secretary of War Taft laid the cor
ner stone of the new Y. NJ. c. A. build
ing at Dayton, o., and delivered the
principal address.
Frank Kenworthy, of Winchester,
Ind, was thrown from an automobile
and killed as he was going to see the
wreck of a Grand Rapids & Indiana
railroad train at Collett, Ind.
Maude Harrison, the actress, died
suddenly of paralysis in New York.
The volcano on the Island of Strom-
boil was in violent eruption, damaging
vineyards and terrifying the peas
ants.
President Cipriano Castro, of Ven
ezuela, according to information re-
ceived in New York from two indie
pendent sources, is planning to retire
from office on May 23. The reason is
his continued i'll health. He will seek
recuperation in the mountains of
Switzerland.
Mayor Schmitz made a partial con-
fession concerning graft in San Fran
cisco, in the hope of securing lenient
treatment.
While fishing in Fox river, near FL
gin, ILL.,, Stephen Boras hooked a
bundle of clothing which he pulled
ho
of three infants, twin boys and girl.
People in Mexico were wildly eX-
cited by report that mob had
stoned the American and Mexican lega-
tions in Guatemala City, and Mexican
troops were mcbilized on the Guate-
malan frontier.
DR.. George Nichols, formerly secre.
tary of state of Vermont and for sew.
eral years a member of the national
Republican committee, died at the age
of so years.
Pietro Pintinello, fruit dealer, was
arrested in New York, charged with
being the head of a gang of kidnapers.
w. T. Stead revisited Chicago and
said he found it had reformed greatly
since he was there IA years ago.
Frank Fitzmaurice, president of the
Citizens bank of Eagle Grove, Ia.
eloped with and married Miss Nellie
Ferguson, nurse who attended him
in recent Illness.
Congressman Waldo, of New York
charged that in warships built by pri'
vate concerns rivet holes had been
found filled with soap putty and wood
Eddie" Tate, the safe-blower, who
escaped from a Peoria hospital, was
arrested in Chicago and told a story
making serious charges against for.
mer Chief of Police Collins, of that
city.
Mrs. Mate L. Chester, of Chicago
grand secretary of the Order of the
Eastern Star, was instantly killed by
fall down an elevator shaft in a
Peoria hotel.
Eight workmen were drowned at
Locust Point, Baltimore, by the col
lapse of a new railroad pier.
Rufus b. Bullock, former governor
of Georgia. died at Albion, N. Y, aged
73 years.
The Central Trades and Labor
union of st. Louis refused to indorse
a resolution attacking President
Roosevelt for his denunciation OF
Meyer and Haywood, officers of the
Western Federation of Miners.
Binger Herman, former congress
man from Oregon and former commits
sioner of the general land office, was
acquitted of the charge of destroying
snuNlin dc hxy tho unrlint nf q
jury.
Albert Zimmerman and John Beck
er were killed and eight men were in
jured at Luxembourg, a suburb of St
Louis, by an explosion of dynamite
while they were attempting to extin
guish Il fire.
Lack of money-about 10000 to
finance the expedition, may mean the
abandonment of the dash to the north
pole which Commander Robert e
Peary has planned for this summer.
Excise Commissioner Thomas f
Mulyihill announced his intention tc
proceed Immediately to close 200 sa
looms located near public parks in st
Louis.
Dennis Kearney, who in 1870 head
ed the sand lot" agitation against the
Chinese in California, died at Bradley
Cal
The fishing letter Searchlight o
Harbor Beach, Mich, was believed {,
have sunk in Lake Huron with he
crew of six men.
Fire in Allegheny, Pa. destroyed
the plant of the zoeiler Packing com
pany. the loss being about $500,000.
Ed Tate. safe-blower, who was helt
In Peoria. H., on the charge of blow
1ng the school board safe and destroy
dpg tho N. c. Dougherty script, 81
capped from the st. Francis hospital.