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

John d. Rockefeller, William Rock
-efeller and other officials of the Stand
ard Oil company, arrived in Chicago
to answer questions by Federal Judge
Landis relative to the Standard Oil
company of Indiana.
Chester B. RuTIyan, the deifRultfng
teller of the Windsor Trust company,
was arrested in New York and $54 ,410
of the money stolen from the bank
was recovered. He was betrayed to
the police by Mrs. Laura M. Carter, in
whose fiat he had been hiding.
Twenty-one persons are known to
have perished IN the tornado that
swept through pant of Wisconsin.
Flour shippers of Oklahoma, Kan
sas and Missouri filed charges with
the interstate commerce commission
against several western railroads, al
1eging that they raised the rates on
-four to the Atlantic seaboard in re-
venge.
An entire afternoon sitting OF the
committee on the Geneva convention
was given over tn IN discussion of the
American proposition, presented by
Joseph H. Choate un June "a, regard
ing the inviolabiliw of private proper
'ty on the high sens. Some of the
delegates said they would support the
proposal but many said they We're OPP
posed to it.
The New YORK Central Railroad
company was fined $15,000 by Judge
Hazel in the federal court at Roches-
ter, N. Y, for failure ITO file rates on "a
shipment of oil for the Standard On
company.
j. G. McMaken, q unominent politi-
clan of Ohio died suddenly at a SAN
itarium in MartinsViIle, Ind. He was
81 years old.
The business portion of North
Lawrence, N. Y, WAS wiped out by a
fire that destroyed Is business houses,
eight residences, the post Office,
Dunnss and the Commercial hotels,
and the telephone exchange. The loss
lis $4,000.
Harry A. Garfield, SON of the late
President Garfield, and occupying the
chair of politics at Princeton, was
chosen president of Williams college.
He will succeed Henry Hopkins in
June, 1908.
A severe earth shock was recorded
at the university of Florence. Italy.
Tt began at four o'clock and lasted
antfl $3.50. The distance was esti-
mated at ,6,775 miles.
Nicholas iDeidrich, of Sioux City, Ia,
shot q woman who refused TO marry
him and then committed suicide.
Most Rev. John ]. Glennon, arch
bishop of st. Louis, has been appoint
ed by the United States census bureau
as special agent to compile complete
statistics of the Catholic population
Of the country estimated at 15,000,000.
A motorman was killed and about
30 passengers &njured in a collision
Of interurHbHn tnolley cars at North
Tonawanda, n. Y.
MiAs Ethel Bah of Findlay, O..
some time ago helped Mrs. Mary NJ.
Kendall OF Osweso, who was hurt in
a street accident, and received $780,
600 as a legacy from the woman she
aided.
President Small. Of the Commercial
Telegraphers' union. ordered the OPP
orators strike extended to another
city, but would not gay what one.
The emperor Of Japan has bestowed
war medals on ten American women
who served as volunteer nurses and
10 American war correspondents.
The National German-American
Teachers association. in session at
Cincinnati, adjourned after selecting
Milwaukee as the next meeting place.
-Four mon were killed and large
number received dangerous injuries
as result OF an explosion in a dyna-
mite factory at Muelheim, Prussia.