Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-03-15


Henry Leeds, archdeacon of the
Kansas diocese OF the Episcopal
church, died in Topeka, Kan, of heart
failure, aged As years.
The French line steamer La Savoie
encountered severe gales and was
swept by monster wave that forced
the captain to lie to for eight hours.
The Milwaukee Gas Light company
reduced the price of gas to so cents.
]. T. Haviland, a New York stock
broker, was arrested on a charge of
embezzling $4,000 belonging to Scran.
ton (Pa.) clients.
Michael Bower and his ten-year-old
daughter were killed by train at
Lancaster, N. Y.
The anti-suicide bureau of the Sal
vation Army in New York has saved
many persons from self-destruction
and will be made permanent
John Turner, who was an intimate
friend of Charles Dickens, died at Pa
ola, Kan.
The Danube river overflowed its
banks and did great damage.
The springs of Pullman car on
the Pennsylvania Chicago special
broke and the passengers were Sc
verely shaken up.
Leonidas NJ. Preston, who commit
ted suicide in New York Thursday, is
said to have forged notes aggregating
nearly 100000 and to have lost all
his money betting on horse races.
The grand jury at Peoria, ILL.,, re-
turned indictments against ex-Sheriff
Daniel E. Potter, Deputies w. e. Pc
| ters, Robert Conkey and Sherman
Hunt and City Clerk Robert Joos the
latter being charged with embezzle-
ment of city funds and malfeasance in
Office. EX-Sheriff Potter and his depu-
ties, it is said, misused the county
funds to the extent of $4,000.
Two German steamships foundered
| in the North sea and "a men were
drowned.
Robert C. George, chief deputy
clerk of the federal courts at Cincin-
natl for 26 years, is dead.
Katherine Eleanor Conway, editor
of the Boston Pilot, was awarded the
Laetare medal by Notre Dame univer-
sity.
Roscoe p Miller, of Beaver Dam,
Wis. shot and killed his wife and his
stepmother and then committed sui
eide.
United States Minister Merry was
driven out of Managua, Nicaragua. by
soldiers and his dispatches and mail
| were seized.
Abraham Ruef, the political boss Of
San Francisco, who had been fugi-
tive from court, was arrested at a
suburban resort by the courts elisor,
w. j. Biggy.
The conductors and trainmen of the
Santa Fe system are likely to strike
unless the road comedies their de-
mand of nine-hour day and II per
cent. increase in pay.
Leonidas Preston, the millionaire
who died suddenly in the Hotel Cum
berland, is believed to have commit
ted suicide, the autopsy revealing in
his stomach enough hydrocyanic acid
to kill six men.
A sudden, virtually unanimous and
unexpected strike on the part of prac-
tically all the electricians of Paris re-
suited in the almost complete paraly-
sis of the business of the city.
Repulsed by the woman with whom
he was madly in love, Henry De Burt,
prominent contractor, fired bull
let into his head while standing in the
doorway of the woman's home, 1416
Prospect avenue, one of Cleveland S
fashionable residence streets. He was
removed to hospital in dying con-
dition.
The Nebraska house passed the
senate employers liability bill, af-
fecting railway trainmen, and it now
goes to the governor. Under the pro-
vision of the bill railroads are not
permitted to plead contributory negli-
gence as bar to recovery, nor can
they claim exemption from damage
suits under the fellow-servant prin-
ciple.
Two persons were killed and sew
eral injured in the wreck of a Great
| Northern passenger train near Ojata,
N. d.
Isaac Freeman Rasin, who for near
ly 40 years had been the acknowl-
edged leader of the Democratic organ
ization in Baltimore, died of heart
failure following an attack of apo
pleXy.
In the trial at Danville, ILL.,, of Will
j. Davis, charged with manslaughter
in connection with the Iroquois the
ater fire in Chicago, Attorney Levy
Mayer, for the defense, took up the
entire day addressing the court in an
attack upon the validity of the Chi
cago ordinance alleged to have been
violated.
The legislatures of North and
South Dakota adjourned after passing
much important legislation.
The bill to extend the right of suf-
frage to women was defeated in the
house of commons, where it was
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