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

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slaughter for killing w. A. Dowell, a
Minneapolis newspaper man, was SEN
fenced to 10 years in states prison.
Several hundred men and boys at
tempted to lynch a negro in the busi-
ness section Of Pittsburg because he
fought newsboy.
Secretary Loeb announced that the
Panama canal contract had not yet
been let to w. K. oliver or anyone
else, and that all bids might be re-
| jected.
Twenty-Five Catholic soldiers at Co.
lumbus barracks threatened to mutiny
because they were ordered to attend
church services.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, ad-
dressing the Missouri Society of New
York, criticised the pending currency
legislation.
The worst blizzard of the winter
struck North Dakota, adding greatly
| to the difficulties of the food supply
situation.
A band of terrorists shot and killed
Victor Gruen, the chief of the secret
police of Warsaw, Russian Poland as
he was driving in a cab. The murder
ers escaped.
The will of the late Senator r. A.
Alger leaves all of his estate except
ing $4,000 to his widow and five chill
dren.
Evidence tending to show that the
operations of E. H. Hartman on the
coast constitute a violation of the in
terstate commerce law was brought
out before Commissioner Franklin X.
Lane at San Francisco.
An order has been issued directing
an increase of the rural guard of Cuba
from 5000 to 10000 men.
st. Louis post office inspectors ar.
rested Joseph Enisley, aged 25, on
the charge of having robbed the Cot
ter (Ark.) post office of mail pouch
containing more than $4,000 in cash
and valuable jewelry.
Mrs. George Brink, of Evansville,
Ind, was fatally burned by the explo-
sion of can of gasoline.
The Federal Signal works, of Green
ard 800 men, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at about 100000.
Because the Bell Telephone COM
pany insisted on increasing the work.
ing hours of the Toronto telephone
girls from five to eight hours a day,
about 400 girls went on strike.
Fire destroyed the North side car
barns in Chicago and 80 cars were
burned.
Three more jurors in the Thaw case
were summarily excused, two without
explanation and one on a physicians
certificate. Their places were filed
The grand jury at Springfield, o.,
returned an indictment against Ma
tilda Bailey and Martin Myers, on the
charge of assault with intent to kill
in burying alive the baby of their IT
year-old granddaughter, Mary Bailey.
Sir John See, eX-premier and CO.
lonial secretary of New South Wales,
is dead at Sydney.
The bill prohibiting Sunday base
ball was killed by the Kansas senate.
Solomon Turck, the oldest explosive
powder manufacturer in this country,
ocratc mayor of Dubuque, la.
Grover Cleveland was elected chair
man of the Association of Life Insur-
ance Presidents.
Robert e. Gill, a Cleveland, O.,
broker, was convicted of running
bucket shop.
S. C. T. Dodd, solicitor for the Stan
;1l
N. c. He was born in Franklin, Pa,
February 20, 1886.
One man was killed and six injured
when an Omaha street car jumped the
track an dcrashed into a drug store.
Charles l.. Stevens, grand master of
Michigan Masons, died of heart dis
ease at Detroit.
Mrs. Kate Krakoski McKenna of
Niagara Falls, N. Y was robbed of
$4,000 worth of diamonds while at
church.
Byron Webster, former editor of
the Marshalltown Qa.) Statesman,
died at Marshalltown. He was the
first editor to suggest the name of
Grover Cleveland for the presidency
upon the election of Mr.. Cleveland as
governor of New York in 1884.
The heaviest snowfall in years
crippled the transportation and COM
mnnication systems of Berlin and
large surrounding district.
The grand jury in New York re-
turned an indictment against the So
called theatrical trust charging con-
sDiracy and restraint of trade.
Gen. William Shakespeare, soldier,
editor, lawyer and banker, died at his
residence in Kalamazoo. Mich, from
wounds received in the civil war.
President Roosevelt will deliver an
oration at the dedication of the Nc
kinley memorial monument at Canton,
o., the last week in December.
Lieut.. Ralph w. Prury and Private
John Dowd of tts Ninth United
States infantry wee found not guilty
of the murder of W. H. Crowley, at
Pittsburg Pa.