Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest from All Parts of
the Globe-Latest Home and For
eiqn Items.

The federal grand jury at San Fran
cisco returned indictments against
the Southern Pacific Railway com
pany and the Pacific Mail Steamship
company for secret cutting of rates.
The armored cruisers West Vir
ginia, Colorado, Maryland and Penn
sylvania arrived at San Francisco
from the Philippines.
Two army surgeons were named to
physically examine every officer re-
quired to make the 15-mile test ride.
Those not healthy enough will not
take the test
Secretary of State Root, on his way
10 Mexico, declared that President
Roosevelt would not be candidate
for denomination.
The steamer Minnesota, with Secre-
tary of War Taft on board, arrived at
Yokohama
Rev. Wilbert p. Ferguson of Lin
coin, Neb., resigned from the state
Methodist conference rather than pro-
ceed with the church trial in which
he was being tried for unbecoming
conduct with Mrs. Z. A. Cross.
The directors of the Toledo, st.
Louis & Western railway at a meet
ing in New York voted to sign a con-
tract for the purchase of the Chicago
& Alton railway from the Rock Island
interests
Methodists of Indiana refused to
elect Vice President Fairbanks a lay
delegate to the general conference be-
cause he served cocktails at dinner
in honor of President Roosevelt.
Mrs. Marguerite Bower, the leading
lady in the broadway After Dark"
company, playing at a Washington
theater, was found dead in bed at
hotel.
President Roosevelt defeated the
Bishop of London at tennis and then
gave dinner in his honor
Richard Walton, colored, confessed
to the murder of Mrs. Lillian White
Grant in Chicago.
Six hundred lives were lost by the
Overlooking of the river Otonashiga-
wa in Japan.
Hundreds of houses and boats were
destroyed by fire in Wuchow, China,
and it is feared many lives were lost
Theodore F. Rice, resident of Chi
cago for over 40 years and we'll
known in the wholesale paper trade,
died after months illness.
Eight persons were injured in a
wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad
at Duncannon. Pa, when the Altoona
accommodation train ran into a
freight.
Henry T. Scott, builder of the Ore
gon, said in a New York interview
that in future warships could not be
built on the Pacific coast owing to the
high prices of labor and material.
Three men-James Cooper, James
Reilly and Richard Smith-who were
loading a sprinkling cart with oil for
use on the Morris park automobile
track at New York, were killed by an
explosion of oil at tank in the
Bronx.
Children playing with matches in a
hay shed on the Trafford farm, near
New Haven, ILL.,, started fire that re-
suited in the loss of four lives.
Two hundred railway clerks in To-
ledo. o., representing six roads,
struck, demanding a working agree
ment with the roads. More than that
many remained at their desks.
President Roosevelt announced at
the White House that he assumed
there would be no objection to the
appointment of WI Ting-fang as min
lister from China to the United States.
The handsome home of Francis G.
Landon, eX-secretary of the American
embassy at Vienna, was robbed by
two men at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
High officials of the Persian army
have signed document presented to
the shah saying that unless full ac-
ceptance Is given to their demands |
for a constitutional government they
will resign in body.
The union labor city and county |
convention of San Francisco nominal.
ed ticket headed by p II. McCar.
thy, president of the Building Trades |
council, for mayor.
The bishop of London preached in |
Trinity church, New York, to a great
throng of financiers and business men,
hhh oNOiSO thS ulDuOHGbAJ VI lut |
wealthy.
Gov Folk of Missouri, was the guest
of honor at Nashville, Tenn, on home.
cDS?er's day.
Trinity Episcopal cathedral at
Cleveland, o., was dedicated with
elaborate ceremonies. The edifice cost
$l,0O0,000 and has been under con-
struction five years.
Gov Folk lost his suit against the
city of st. Louis for back pay as cir
cult attorney.
George w. Beavers. who was sen.
fenced to imprisonment in connec-
tion with the postal frauds several
years ago, was released from the peni-
tentiary at Moundsville, w. Va. /