Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-08-30

state university, was sold at the
Whitehall, ILL.,, hog sale to residents Of
Krksville, ILL.,, for $500.
DR.. James c. Monaghan, of Wash
ington, has. been appointed to the
chair of economics at Notre Dame uni
versity. He is at present chief of tho
consular reports of the bureau of sta
tistics at Washington.
With the arrest of four Mexicans In
Los Angeles, Cal, the revolutionary
movement, which under the name of
La Junta has for three years been a
source of endless trouble and annoy.
ance to the administration of Presi-
dent Diaz, of Mexico, it is believed
has been stamped out.
John Porter Stollings and William
j. Sewer, prosperous farmers, engaged
in street duel with pistols in Lib
erty, Mo-, resulting in the death of
Stollings.
King Charles of Roumanla granted
amnesty to all those who were i'm
plicated in the recent agrarian revolt,
with the exception of about 200 mill
tant priests and those already SEN
fenced for murders committed dur
ing the uprising. The prisoners total
about 5000.
The American minister at Madrid,
Mr.. Collier, is negotiating an extradi
ton treaty between the United States
and Spain.
William j. Bryan said in the Com
moner: 1T is the trust magnate, not
the opponents of the trust, who is
striking at property rights. He tres
passes upon the property rights of
the small manufacturer and the re-
taller, and heartlessly drives him
into bankruptcy"
Information has come from Rome
that Pope Plus X. has bestowed the
title of countess on Mrs. Thomas +.
Ryan, wife of the well-known finan-
and benefactions to the church.
Advices from Macon, Ca, state that
John F. Gaynor, the Syracuse con-
tractor, who was convicted of COM
plicity in the Savannah frauds, is
critically i'll.
The forest fires which broke out
August II in the neighborhood of the
forts at Toulon, France, have again
become menacing. A large force of
colonial infantry is engaged in fight
ing the flames.
Announcement was made that the
heads of the Interborough Metropoli-
tan company, the traction combina-
In, hnUn
open their books to the public-service
commission.
Evander McIver, a wealthy con-
tractor of Chicago, was found dead
in a basement, and is believed to have.
been murdered.
Fred Kersters, aged IL, was burned
to death in a fire that destroyed his
home at La Crosse, Wis.
Robert E. Bundy has begun quo
warranto action in the circuit court of
Pepin county, Wisconsin, to remove
Frank l.. Taylor, sheriff of the county,
from Office on the ground that Sheriff
Taylor was deserter from the
United States military service on two
occasions, once in 1862 and again in
1868.
Nelson Morris, the Chicago packer,
has leased 100000 acres of grazing
land in the Standing Rock reserva-
tion, South Dakota, comprising one of
the finest cattle tracts in the north
west.
A receiver was appointed for the
big Wholesale grocery firm of e. c.
Hazard & Co., of New York, with IL
abilities placed at S260,000,
Della Fox, the comedienne, is seri-
ously i'll at the Hotel Lincoln in Pitts
burg of appendicitis and peritonitis.
All her engagements have been can
celed.
Central Illinois distillers paid into
the collectors office at Peoria during
the fiscal year ended July more than
S35 100000, an average daily collec-
ton of 100000.
Sensational disclosures, involving
padding of accounts to the extent of
the Interborough company, headed by
August Belmont, were made by the
New York public service commissi-l.
The Nebraska railway commission
rescinded it's action advancing the
minimum charge on small shipments
on the Burlington from 25 cents to 80
cents.
William H. Edwards, aged 60, of
Utica, N. Y, who was lost in the
Adirondack woods Aug. 12, was found
in pitiful plight. He had been living
on berries and roots.
Corporal James A. McLain, Jr., an
army recruiting officer, committed
suicide at hotel at Rutland, VT, by
drinking carbolic acid.
Moors made an advance on the
French camp under cover pf fog,
but the fog lifted and the fanatics
were driven back with heavy losses.
William w. Prosser, 1921 West
Belle street, st. Louis, city passenger
agent of the Glover Leaf route, died at
La Porte, Ind, while visiting rela-
tiYes