Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-02-08

of the suspended Home bank of Good
land, Ind, was found guilty of en-
bez2ling the funds of the institution.
The woodworking plant of the
Wilts-veneer company at Plymouth,
N. c., was destroyed by fire. The
loss is S250,000, on which there is
partial insurance
The railroad commission at Austin,
Tex, issued an order requiring the
five railroads entering the city of Gal
weston to build causeway across the
Galveston bay.
A newspaper fight which has been
waged between the Daily Herald and
Daily Courier at Bristol, Tenn, was
ended with the purchase of the Cour-
ier by the Herald,
Sergeant James Lynch, who refused
to obey orders to attend church serv-
ices at Columbus army post, Column
bus, o., was ordered stripped of his
chevrons and transferred to Fort
Thomas, Ky.
H. II. Harvey manager of the Han
cock Buggy company was shot twice
by E. A. Murphy at Lynchburg, Va,
after he had knocked Murphy down
for calling him vile name. Harvey
will recover.
President Roosevelt approved Ad-
miral Davis entire action in connec-
tion with his visit to Kingston, ia
maica, to render aid to the stricken
city, and in addition requested the
Of hn In
Admiral Davis his heartiest COM
mendation on all that he did.
In an address delivered before the
National Geographic society, Senator
Perkins, of California, declared a con-
fiict between the United States and
Japan was inevitable.
Edward P. Nipple, brother of the
late F. A. Nipple, who ended his life
after the wreck of the Real Estate
Trust company, of which he was
president, committed suicide at his
home in Philadelphia with a revolver.
The Nebraska senate killed the anti
Christian Science bill. The bill made
it necessary for Christian Science
practitioners to secure a physicians
license.
Eight buildings in the center of the
business district of Harrisburg, Pa,
were either destroyed or badly dam
aged by a fire, involving a loss esti-
mated at $250,OOO.
The six-story building of the Troy
Waste Manufacturing company, of
Troy, N. Y, was burned, the loss be-
ing 100000.
Mrs Russell Sage gave $1,000,C00 to
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute at
Troy, N. Y.
Capt. Arthur Jackman, well-known
Arctic navigator, died at st. John, n.
F., aged Ga. He was in command of
the ship which carried Commander
Robert E. Peary to Greenland in the
latter's first expedition in 1886.
Enest G. Krause, one of the wealth.
lest men of Cleveland, o., died sud-
denly following stroke of apoplexy,
aged so years.
The Missouri senate committee re-
ported favorably bill providing for a
stamp tax of 25 cents on every trans
action in stocks, grain, cotton and
provisions for future delivery.
Col. j. c. Edmonds, superintendent
of schools of Bastrop, Tex, was as
sassinated on the street and R. A.
Brooks, an attorney, was arrested for
the killing.
Charles H. Everly, formerly teller in
the st. Louis Union Trust company,
pleaded guilty to charge of embez-
zling $4,000 from the trust company,
and was sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary.
oleomargarine was begun By st. Louis
internal revenue officers and more
than 1000 pounds of the product has
been confiscated.
Henry Magruder. son of the confed-
crate general, John Bankhead Ma
gruder, is dead in Rome.
Henry Bradley, an aged negro who
said he once belonged to Davy Crock
ett, is dead at Nashville, Tenn.
In the will of George B. Mutt, who
died in Pittsburg recently, a bequest
is made that his entire estate, esti-
ma ed at 1000, is to be spent for
toy and gifts for the poor children of
Allegheny county at the death of his
wife.
The Arizona legislative assembly
passed and the governor signed a bill
previously passed by the council re-
pealing the statute permitting the
licensing of gambling in Arizona.
Henry c. Sergeant, an inventor of
international reputation, died at his
home in Westfield, n. ]. The United
States patent Office had issued to him
more than so patents.
Mrs. John McCausland, her brother
in-law and her children, were killed by
escaping gas in their home in Day
ton, o.
The British steamship Clavering
went ashore near Hartlepool, England,
and 20 of the crew were drowned.
Thirty masked men horsewhipped
Jesse Phelps. of Morgantown, Ky,
who is accused of cruelty to his three
year-old child.
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