Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-27

SlduudTu VII COlupduy IL was uioSlOoSu
that John d. Rockefeller owned 247,-
692 shares of its stock. or nearly five
times as much as any other individ-
ual stockholder. The methods by
which the trust coerced the independ.
ent refineries were srelated.
Judge Lochren at st. Paul tenn
porarily enjoined enforcement of the
new commodity rates and called the
recent rate legislation in Minnesota
vicious and disgraceful.
Mrs. Lillian White Grant, Chicago
kindergarten principal, was strangled
20 death in her room by robber.
Eleven men were killed and seven
fatally injured by the falling of cage
$50 feet down a mine shaft at Negau-
nee, Mich.
Five members of the Parkamite sect
at Zion City, ILL.,, were arrested for
torturing to death an aged woman in
an effort to drive out the devil with
which they believed her possessed
Gov. Deneen of Illinois appointed
DR.. Cyrus H. Anderson, of McLeans-
boro, superintendent of the asylum
for insane criminals at Chester in
place of DR.. Walter E. Singer, who
died.
The Wisconsin railway commission
ordered the La Crosse Gas & Electric
company to raise its rates for elec-
trio lighting.
Frederick Mcleod, of the Midlothian
club of Chicago, won the annual tour
nament of the Western Professional
Golfers association on the Normandie
clubs links at st. Louis. His total
for the 70 holes was 305 strokes.
Advices from Peking intimated that
Wu Ting Fang will be sent back as
minister to Washington.
The South Dakota board of railroad
commissioners adopted resolution
reducing fares in South Dakota from
three to two and one-half cents a
mile, to become effective October 15.
John Hustis, pioneer of Wiscon-
the development of the state, died at
Hustis Ford, in the ninety-seventh
year of his age.
The will of Robert A. Pinkerton. the
detective, left an estate of $3,000,00
to his widow and children.
An angry mob of citizens of Whit
ing, Ind, prevented the granting of a
50-year franchise to a street car COM
pany by driving the aldermen from
the council chamber.
Capt. James r. Lindsay and Capt
Henry S. Wygant, both of the Thir-
teenth infantry, have been arrested by
their colonel for indulging in a fist
fight while on board an army trans
port en- route to San Francisco from
the Philippines.
The American government has in
vestigated the ill-treatment of Hindoos
at Bellingham and Everett, Wash, in
response to a note from the British
government, and the local authorities
insist that they are entirely capable
of dealing with the situation.
The new law providing an eight
hour day for telegraphers has been
declared unconstitutional by the cir
cult court of Cass county, Missouri.
The court ruled that the law is class
legislation.
Nine. Emma Calve, who arrived in
New York on the Pannonia, devoted a
large share of her time during the
voyage from Gibraltar to making rag
dolls and hats for children in the
steerage.
Col. William Goddard, chancellor of
Brown university, and one of the best
known residents of Rhode Island, died
Mt Providence
Joseph Labrioia, said to be the last
murderer to be put to death in New
Jersey by use of the moose. was hang
ed at Cape May, N. j., for the killing
of John Buiglio, his brother-in-law.
The First National bank of Gary,
Ind, organized a year ago by Elkhart
men and established at Gary last
March, has been sold to steel men at
handsome profit,
DR.. H. l.. Getz, former president of
the International Association of Rail-
way Surgeons and city physician of
Marshalltown, Ia, attempted suicide
at the railway station at West Liberty
by stabbing himself over the heart. He
is believed to be insane.
Japan claims the right to occupy
Pratas island, near the Philippines,
because 1t is mo mans land" having
hitherto been unclaimed.
The marriage of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle and Miss Jean Leckie took place
in London. Only relatives of the cou.
pie attended.
Nurse, bride and widow all within
a few hours was the experience of
Mrs. Adler of New York. Her fiance,
a glove manufacturer, was stricken
with typhoid fever She nursed him
in a hospital, at his request they were
married as he lay dying and three
, hours after no was dead.