Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-11-15

OKLA, securing all the money and val
liable papers in the vault.
DR., Julian F. Thomas, of New York,
purchased the Pommern, the German
balloon which won the James Gordon
Bennett race at st. Louis.
President Palma in a statement at
Havana called attention to the advan-
tage of American rule and took a
stand for permanent control of Cuba
by the United States.
Yegg men chloroformed the station
agent of the Fort Wayne &c Valley
road at Upper Sandusky, o., and got
away with $100 and 500 railroad tick
cts.
The president announced the fol-
lowing appointments for the new
state of Oklahoma: Western district
John H. Cotteral, Judge; John EN-.
bry, attorney, and John Alternately,
marshal. Eastern district-Ralph e.
Campbell, Judge; William Gregg, at
torney, and Grive A. Porter, marshal
Silas II. Reid was named judge of the
district court of Alaska.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt has offered the
Newport Young Mems Christian as
sociation a new building to be erected
as a memorial to his father, the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt, at cost of
100000.
The losses by fire in the United
States and Canada during the month
of October, as compiled by the Jour
nal of Commerce, aggregate S13,36O,-
ESQ.
Henry u. Warner, of Boston, was ep.
pointed receiver OF the Arnold Print
works of North Adams, Mass, one Of
the largest textile concerns in the
country, by the United States circuit
court at Boston.
A fire in the Sioux City Qa.) Journal
building caused loss estimated at
between S55 900 and $4,000, with $685.
900 insurance. The editorial rooms
and business office were saved.
F. ]. Tygard, president of the Bates
National bank of Butler, Mo-, when 1t
failed September 20, 1906, was SEN
fenced to five years in the penitentiary
by Judge Mcpherson in the federal
court at Kansas Clty.
Albert Nerzlinger, on trial in st.
Louis for binding Mrs. Lena Wunsch
by throwing sulphuric acid in her face,
was found guilty by jury and SEN
fenced to 20 years in the penitentiary,
the maximum sentence.
An estate of approximately $4,000
600 was disposed of in the will of the
late ]. S. Polk, capitalist and steel
railway promoter of Des Moines, la.
The large property was equally divid-
ed among the widow and four chill
dren.
The threatened general railway
strike in Great Britain was averted by
an agreement between the railways
and the union.
The Royal society of Great Britain
awarded the Copley medal to Prof.
Albert A. Nicholson, of the University
of Chicago, for optical investigation,
and the Davy medal to Prof. E. w.
Morley, of West Hartford, Conn.
Guy Condit, cashier of the First Ma
tional bank of Kingfsher Okla, at
tempted to kill himself by slashing his
throat. He will recover. Anxiety
over financial matters preyed upon his
mind.
Three arrests have been made at
Madrid in the case in which it is
charged $4,000 was obtained from the
Bank of Spain through the forging of
a check. Two of the men are officials
of the bank
Attorney General Davidson of Tex
as on behalf of the state of Texas
filed suit against the alleged subsid-
iary concerns of the Standard Oil
company in Texas for penalties for
forfeitures of charter.
The New York banks began prepar-
ations to ship all available currency to
the northwest to aid the movement
of crops. Secretary Cortelyou directed
that $9,O00,OOO of government funds
be deposited in st. Paul and Mime
apolis banks.
The buoyancy of the stock market
reflected the ultimate decision of large
New York bankers to support the two
fnstitutions-the Trust Company of
America and the Lincoln Trust COM
pany-which have been subjected to
the most severe runs. The United
States Steel corporation secured con-
trolling interest in the Tennessee Coal
& Iron company and this, it was be-
lieved, would aid in relieving the
money stringency. Three small banks
in Kansas closed, and Denver bankers
decided to issue scrip.
Gen. Horace Porter and Joseph H.
Choate. two of the American ambassa-
dors to the recent peace conference
at The Hague, returned home. Both
expressed themselves as being entire
ly satisfied with the results of the con-
ference.
The grand jury at Waverly, Ia,
which indicted IA members of the
County Medical association, alleging
of the antitrust law, report