Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

was killed Dy DelnB InTOWn lTOm all
automobile in Atlanta, Ga.
Margaret Virgins, aged II, was
killed in collision of two iceboats on
Lake Calhoun, MINI.
Gov. Harris, of Ohio, pardoned VIII
liam Houck, serving life sentence on
conviction of the murder of Mrs
Sarah Hess, at Bladensburg.
DR.. v. A. Moore, bacteriologlst of
Cornell university, says investigation
shows that of 100000 milch cows in
New York state, 100000 are infected
with tuberculosis.
Wireless telephone messages were
transmitted between Berlin and Copen-
hagen, distance of 200 miles.
Mrs. Mary e. Wilkins Freeman, the
well known novelist, is i'll in Ran
| dolph, Mass, while her husband, DR..
Charles M. Freeman, is in a Boston
hospital, too sick to go to the bedside
of his wife.
! John Roberts, of White Pigeon,
Mich, gave his bed-ridden wife tea
spoonful of carbolic acid by mistake
and she would have died but for the
fact that young son had just been
taught at school that milk Is an anti
| dote.
Rev. L. L. Conrady, the successor to
Father Damien at the leper colony at
Molokai, Hawaiian islands, is Ill with
the grip in New York. His condition
is serious.
Gus Ringing, head of the circus
combination which controls the shows
of Ringing Bros, Barnum & Bailey
and FCrepaugh-Sells died Wednesday
in New Orleans sanitarium, of a
complication of diseases.
| One of the civil war bombs found in
the old custom house at New York ex-
| ploded and nearly killed M. ]. Howell,
an employe of the bureau of COM
bustibles, while on its way to be
dumped into the sea.
Unfair" and I'VE Don't Patronize"
lists used by the American Federation
of Labor in it's warfare against open
shop employees were declared unlaw-
full and their further publication en-
| Joined so far as the Bucks Stove and
Range company of st. Louis is con-
cerned, by Justice Gould of the court
of equity of the District of Columbia.
decision was handed down in the
St Louis court of appeals against Miss
Lille Belle Pierce, who laid claim to
the 100000 estate of the late Luther
E. Imboden as his widow.
| Lord Kelvin, the noted scientist, died
at Glasgow, aged SO years.
Frederick E. Sergeant, cashier and
| Iyinn of q Inwnlnrc'
al bank of North Attleboro, Mass, and
prominently identified with Provi-
dence, r. l., and North Attleboro busi-
ness firms, was found dead in the
bathtub of his home.
Smallpox broke out in Chadbourne
hall, dormitory for women students
at the University of Wisconsin, and
100 young women who live in the
dormitory were ordered vaccinated
and to leave for their homes.
Col. William Crookes, assistant to
the general manager of the Hartman
lines in the Pacific northwest, died at
Portland, Ore, aged 76 years.
An attempt was made to hold up the
west-bound Northern Pacific train IL
miles east of Spokane. Three men at
tempted to flag the train, but the en-
gineer refused to stop. One man was
arrested by posse.
The hundredth anniversary of the
| birth of John Greenleaf Whittier was
celebrated by largely attended meet
ings at Amesbury and Haverhill,
Mass, and other places.
A rough count of the census of
Cuba was cabled to the war depart
ment by Gov. Magoon, showing the
total population of the island to be
2,O2S,2S2.
Leslie NJ. Shaw said he had been
asked to assume the presidency of the
Kansas City National Bank of Com
merce, in process of reorganization.
The Republican state committee of
Missouri indorsed Taft for the presi-
dency.
William R. Coyne, st. Louis poll
tician, was convicted of perjury and
sentenced to two years in prison.
William Bayard, M. D., LII. d., one
of the oldest practicing physicians in
the world, and the Oldest graduate of
Edinburgh university, died at his home
| in ST. John, N. b., aged "a.
On behalf of the nation the Persian
parliament has issued manifesto to
the world explaining the present con-
stitutional crisis and appealing for as
sistance.
A package of diamond jewelry val
ued at more than $4,000 was stolen
from wagon of the United States
Express company in New York.
Mrs. Nellie G. Cochran of Chicago,
3S years old, was shot and probably
fatally wounded by M. L. Dillon, a
salesman, who then killed himself.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Tartar broke all records in fast
steaming in her final trials over the
official course, attaining speed of
37.037 knots.
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