Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-02-15

a torpedo boat of the French navy nine
men are dead and two men are In.
jured.
The Seuth Dakota house killed the
two-cent rate bill.
Col. w. Warder, poet, novelist and
builder of the Kansas City Auditori.
um, is dead.
Congressman-elect George K. Fav-
rot was indicted at Baton Rouge, La,
for the murder of DR.. Harry Aldrich.
Smiley N. Chambers, who was fed
eral district attorney for Indiana dur
ing President Harrison's administra-
ton. died in Indianapolis.
James Stillman, president of the
National City bank. New York, is Sc.
riously i'll in Paris.
Three Cinnamon were convicted in
Philadelphia of numbering another
oriental.
Rear Admiral William w. Mead was
retired on account of age.
Fred G, Gilman, the Goodland Qnd.)
banker who was arrested for embez-
element, was sentenced to the Indiana
state prison for term of one to three
years.
John d. Rockefeller announced q
gift of S32 100000 in income bearing
securities to the general education
board. He had previously given the
board $11,000,000.
Three men were killed and four
badly injured when the Great West
ern Omaha fast mail jumped the
track at German Valley, Ill.
Pittsburg citizens were forced to- go
to bed to keep warm, the temperature
being very low and the natural gas
supply short.
BY a party vote of 20 to II the
Jim Grow" bill was passed in the
Missouri senate.
Edinburg, N. D., appealed to the In
terstate commerce commission. say
ing it was in urgent need of fuel and
food supplies and had had no mail
trains in three weeks.
Thomas Lowry, president of the
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Ste. Marie
railroad, donated $4,000 to the Lom-
bard Universalist college at Gales
burg, Ill. This completed an endow-
ment fund of 100000.
The house committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia made a favorable
report on the Murphy bill which
makes it unlawful to either give or
receive tips in any hotel or eating
house in the District of Columbia
Troops and gendarmes participated
in the expulsion of the students from
seminary at Nice, France.
j. w. Simpson, the dentist of Riv-
erhead, L. l., was acquitted of the
murder of his father-in-law.
Six Japanese were drowned at Sac
ramento Cal, when a gasoline launch
struck the draw of the railroad bridge
across the Sacramento river and cap
sized.
In high quarters in Stockholm the
tends to abdicate in favor of Crown
Prince Gustaf June 6.
Eight employees of the Insurance
Stove, Range &c Foundry company
Covington and Cincinnati, were terri
bly, burned by a shower of molten
iron, following a gas explosion.
John NJ. Egan. president of the
Union Depot company of Kansas City
has resigned his position, to which a
salary of $4,000 was attached, and
has accepted position with a South
American railroad company.
Fifteen woodcutters were over
whelmed by an avalanche in the Mus
eel district of the Pennsylvania noun.
tains, Roumania. All the men were
dead when they were dug out of the
snow.
Ex-Congressman Benjamin w. Har.
ris died at his home in Bridgewater
Mass, aged SO years. He was known
as the father of the new navy"
Rt. Hon. George ]. Goshen (Vis-
count Goshen, former chancellor OF
the exchequer, died in England.
Preston Fl. Leslie died at his home
in Helena, Mont, aged IS years He
had been governor of Kentucky and OF
the territory of Montana.
An unknown three-masted schooner
mond shoals off Cape Hatteras.
1t was reported that John F. Stew
ems, chief engineer Of the Panama
canal, threatened to resign if the gov
ernment decides to build the canal by
contract.
The London Pilgrims gave fare
we'll banquet to James Bryce, new am
bassador of Great Britain to the Unit
ed States.
Senator Richard w. Morgan was ex
PEELED from the Colorado senate for ac
cepting bribe.
France conferred on Edward P. AL
lis, Jr., of Milwaukee, the knighthood
of the Legion of Honor for his re
searches in science.
Frank p. Nantz. of the firm oi
Lane e Nantz, Minneapolis lawyers
has been appointed collector of rev
enue of Porto Rico, with headquarters
at San Juan, at salary of $4,000 pei