Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-09-20
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mot even respectable nonsense"
was the way former Ambassador Luke
Wright, who just returned from Toxic
to resume private life, characterized
the war talk between the United
States and japan.
Walter Wellman started for home
after a disastrous attempt to start for
the north pole in his airship. The bal
loon was driven back by violent
storm and landed on top of glacier,
where the party took it to pieces
Wellman said he would return to
Spitzbergen and make another start
next year.
The Illinois board of pardons decid-
ed that the time was not at hand for
them to grant release from the peni-
tentiary for Paul o. Stensland, former
president of the collapsed Milwaukee
Avenue State bank of Chicago, and he
was sent back to prison to serve the
balance of his term.
The Lusitania lowered the record
for the trip from Queenstown to New
York to five days and 81 minutes.
lower the hourly speed average of
23.5S knots made by the Kaiser Will
helm ii. of the North German Lloyd
line, or the average of 2351 knots
made by the Deutschland, though it
covered the distance between ports in
an average of 23.01 knots, which is a
record for maiden voyages.
LII, .,,;- - fyf,, ,,rf
ated after he had been knocked down
by a passing automobile at Michigan
avenue and Sixteenth street, Chicago,
leaped into the machine and stabbed
the chauffeur, H. +. Almeney, in the
arm and breast.
The mines of the Amalgamated Cop
per company will not be closed be-
cause of the glut of the copper mar
ket. General Superintendent John
Gillis says that while work will be
abandoned on Sundays there will be
no general close down.
Sir Thomas Upton mailed to the
New York Yacht club a challenge for
the Americas cup.
Three bandits broke into the First
State bank at Leola, S. D., wrecked
the safe and escaped with $1,200
An explosion of dynamite placed in
a bundle of grain injured five men
and wrecked threshing machine on
the farm of Peter Peterson near Chip
pewa Falls, Wis. Investigation devel-
oped the fact that sticks of dynamite
had been placed in several bundles of
grain.
In riot between Purdue university
students and city toughs at Lafayette,
Ind, six students were seriously in
jured and Is others were badly
beaten.
Virginia Reed, the negro woman
who, according to Charles E. Letten,
the defaulting tax clerk of New Or |
leans, received about $4,000 out of |
the 100000 or more he stole from
the state, attempted to commit suicide |
by jumping into the Bayou st. John. |
She was fished out.
Eight former striking operators, in
cluding the vice president of the local
union, returned to work |
with the Postal Telegraph & Cable |
in Cleveland, o.
AS a result of strikes declared in
several shops 60 or more of the lead |
ng manufacturers of furs in New
York decided, it is stated, to lock out |
heir employees. The lockout will af-
'ect about 1000 men.
The census bureau announced that |
he total population of the territories |
IF Oklahoma and Indian Territory, as
made public, is an increase of rs per
cent. over 1900, and that the aggregate |
population is larger than any state at
he time of admission into the union.
Andrew Carnegie has begun suit in
he New York supreme court to have
he taxes reduced on his residence in
Fifth avenue and on Carnegie hall.
Mrs. Gertrude G. Clinton, of Read
ng, Pa, was slain by Frank Palmer,
'or whom she deserted her husband.
Forty miners were hurt by an explo-
sion in mine No. 10, owned by the
Union Pacific Coal company, at Rock
Springs, Wyo.
More arrests have been made in
Prussia on charges of betraying mill
-ary secrets. One of the men under
arrest charged with high treason is I
noble
NJ. II. Saville, professor of ethnology
at Columbia university. has returned
from trip of exploration to Ecuador,
where he discovered a ruined city,
supposed to have belonged to race
of high development, now unknown,
but which existed 500 or more years
ago.
Judges Wilson and Audendried of
he common pleas court in Philadel.
'hia declared unconstitutional the
.wo-cent railroad fare law passed by
ast legislature they offered important
,ase upon which the decision was rem
Tered win be taken to the supreme
;ourt.