Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-11-29

Indiana district Is aiding a campaign
in favor of canal from Toledo, o.,
| to Chicago, and will introduce a bill
providing for government aid.
War on saloons in Chicago and
East st. Louis that violate the law
was planned at the closing session of
the State Anti-Saloon league conven-
tion at East st. Louis.
Oklahoma's corporation commission
notified the Fort Smith & Western
railroad to comply with the two-cent-
fare provision of the state constitu-
tion.
President Roosevelt was commend
ed and congratulated generally on the
wisdom and success of the financial
relief measures launched by the ad-
ministration. Speaking in Lafayette,
Ind, w. ]. Bryan said the Wall street
gamblers and not the president, were
responsible for the financial strin-
gency.
President Gompers told the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor that last Oc-
tober a man giving the name of
Charles Brandenburg and represent
ing himself as acting for the Manu-
facturers' association, tried to bribe
him to betray organized labor. In
New York Broughton Brandenburg
president of the National Institute of
immigration and magazine writer
said he was the man referred to by
President Gompers, denied that he had
attempted to bribe Gompers and de-
clared that he had no connection with
the National Manufacturers associa.
ton.
Eli Gross, OF lions View, was prob
ably fatally injured and eight other
persons were hurt in panic in
Quickel's church, six miles north of
York, Pa.
United States Senator Joseph Ben
son Foraker, of Ohio, was endorsed
for both reelection to the senate and
the Republican nomination for presi-
dent, at a joint meeting of the execu-
tive and advisory committees of the
Ohio League of Republican clubs at
Columbus, o.
j. II. Fowlkes, a farmer, was muir
dered and robbed of $1,000 in box
car at Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Speaker Cannon was in railroad
wreck at Bismarck, Ill. He escaped
injury, although his life was in great
danger.
The army transport Crook sailed
from San Francisco for Manila with
over 700 sacks of Christmas mail and
200 packages of gifts for the men of
the army and their wives stationed in
and about Manila.
Five thousand enlisted men of the
navy presented Miss Helen Gould with
a loving cup because she gave S450,000
for their new Y. M. c. A. home in
Brooklyn.
Six men were killed, one fatally in
jured and number seriously hurt, as
the result of the explosion of a boiler
at the John L. Roper lumber mills at
Gilmerton, Va.
One trainman was killed and seven
persons injured when an Alton pas
senger train and a Vandalia freight
collided at Farmdale, Ill.
That Mrs. Bradley did not go to
Washington with any intention of kill
ing former Senator Arthur M. Brown,
of Utah, and that she did not even re-
member shooting him, she told the
jury in her trial.
Another trial for Kemp v. Bigelow,
the Ohio youth who sent dynamite
bombs to number of prominent Den
yer citizens, was ordered by Judge
Bliss and he may be sent to the peni-
tentiary.
Col. Atherton Thayer, aged 81, for
merly well known in dramatic and
fraternal circles in the east, died at
Butte, Mont, of apoplexy.
John Hall, of Camden, N. c., while
driving to Elizabeth City with Miss
Maggie Sawyer to be married, was
shot by Edmund Daily, his rival, who
then kidnapped the young woman.
The Missouri railroad and ware
house board ordered 20 per cent. re-
duction in express rates.
At Gaylord, Mich, Frank Valot.
aged 81 years, shot and killed his sis |
ter Laura, aged Is, and then ended his
own life.
Aud McMunn, charged with killing
Arch Brown, was acquitted by jury
at Kennett, Mo. The verdict was
based on the "unwritten law"
Floods have done great damage at |
Lockhart and other points in southern
Texas. Fourteen inches of rain fell,
sending the rivers out of their banks.
Unprecedented scenes were enacted
in the senate chamber of the capitol
Of Alabama when the statutory pro.
hibition bill was passed. Women and
thronged the corridor and
gallery giving vent to their enthusi.
asm by shouts and cheers. Senators
who opposed the bill were Kissed
down when they arose to speak.
In head-on collision between a
freight train and an engine running
light on the Wheeling & Lake Erie
'ailroad, just south of Steubenville, o.,
engineer Martin Gilday WAS killed