Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-26
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A WEEKS EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST lMPoR-
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
HE'D FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar-
ters OF the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal OF the
Busy Man.

the district attorney had begun the
investigation of a report that one of
the Jurors in the recent trial of Harry
X. Thaw had been approached" by
u policeman before the trial closed.
twenty-five persons are believed to
have been drowned by the laundering
of the river steamer Archangelsk
while she was crossing the Neva near
st. Petersburg. The boat, which was
nnseaworthy and manned by incompe-
tents, struck an ice foe.
The body of Peter j. Kennedy, a
well-known theatrical manager who
disappeared in December last was
found in the water off South Brooklyn.
The grand jury at Toledo, o., re-
turned 245 indictments against promi-
nent citizens and concerns engaged in
the building trades, for conspiring in
restraint of trade.
Rev. DR.. Carter Helm Jones, pastor
of the Broadway Baptist church, Louis
Vile, Ky, and close friend of John
d. Rockefeller, announced during a
mission sermon that Mr.. Rockefeller
had nearly completed his plans for a
gift of $50,000,000 for the education of
the Chinese.
Capt. Piccono, the commander of the
Navigazione Italia line steamer Sirio,
which struck on the rocks of Hormigas
island, Spain, last August, as a result
of which 300 persons were drowned
died at Genoa of a broken heart.
Diamonds valued at from $4,000 to
$4,000 were stolen by burglars, who
blew the safe of John Daynes & Sons,
jewelers., of Salt Lake City.
Four prominent young men of Ell
Paso, Tex, were arrested for gamb-
ling, under the new Texas law that
makes it felony.
An agreement was signed by the
executive committee of the mine own
ers and the officers of Miners union
No. 220, Goldfield district, which term
mated the great lockout and labor
struggle of the past seven weeks.
Thinking he had killed his son,
whom he had floored in a quarrel. Will
liam Robinson, of Stamping Ground,
KY, blew out his brains, dying in
stantly.
James Gilbert, a son of William Gill
bert. wealthy tobacco man of Muir
ray, KY, committed suicide aboard a
train en- route from Memphis by swal-
lowing a half ounce of bromidia.
The Methodist Episcopal church of
Menominee, Mich, was destroyed by
fire. A high wind spread the flames
to the Baptist church and the resi-
dence of DR.. Phillips, and they were
damaged.
Investigation proved that the lad
held by the police of Gloverville, N. Y,
was not the kidnapped son of DR.. Hor-
ace Marvin, of Dover, Del.
John Orson Johnston, president and
general manager of the Columbus
(O) Gas G. Fuel company, fell dead
as he had finished a conversation
with his family physician.
Three burglars locked w. L. Baker,
postmaster of Dyer, Ind, in his house
and then blew open the safe in the
front of the building. They escaped
with $1OO in cash and $40 in stamps.
Louis Meyers, q hide inspector at the
stock yards, shot and killed his friend
and former roommate, John Max
laska. 26 years old, in a boarding
house, mistaking him for a burglar.
An attempt to depose the pastor of
church in Portsmouth, o., resulted
IN riotous fight in the sacred edifice.
Two men were fatally injured and
100000 damage done when big fire.
works factory at Chihuahua, Mexico,
blew up.
Fruit in eastern Colorado was
nipped by sharp drop in temperature
following a snowstorm.
Two trainmen were killed by col
lision between a passenger train and
a freight at Woodlawn Junction, Ala.
Edward l.. Somers, freight traffic
manager of the New York, New Haven
e. Hartford railroad since 1903, died
at his home in New Haven, Conn, of
neuralgia of the heart.
The vice governor of the prison at
Rostor-on-Don, Russia, was assassi-
mated in the street.
William Sander, a student at Co.
lumbia university, was drowned in
the swimming pool of the gymnasium.
A rumored discrepancy of 100000
in the accounts of the University of
Wisconsin was explained by Presi-
dent Van Hse as merely the result
of careless bookkeeping.
Mrs. David Mclean was reelected
president general of the Daughters
of the American Revolution.
The supreme court of Illinois decid-
ed that the ex-treasurers and ex-audi-
tors of the state must make restitu-
tion of fees amounting to $321,000
John Malang, Of Joplin. Mo-. Repub-
Iican, was elected state senator for
the Twenty-eighth district to succeed
the late Thomas Ccnnor.