Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-01-25

Severe earthquake shocks were re-
ported from Alexandrovsk, the port OF
Sakhalin and Elizabethpol.
By the explosion of the boiler OF
Reading engine attached to one of
the Atlantic City flyers at Blue An
chor, N. j., the engineer, Edward Nc
Conaghy, the fireman, Frederick Ar
thur, and an exHa fireman named
Clark were instantly killed.
Joseph N Good, motorman, was
killed and Willard Bradhurst, conduc-
tor, was severely injured at Bryan, o.
when a passenger car on the Toledo
and Indiana Traction line ran into
box car.
Railroads are practically at stand
still in Oregon and Washington be-
cause of the inability of the companies
to obtain fuel for locomotives.
An appropriation of $2,600,000 will
be asked from the legislature by the
University of Illinois. OF this sum,
S1,600,000 is for running expenses and
the remaining $1,O0O,OOO for new
buildings.
Frantic because she believed her
husband was dying, Mrs Walter
Mills rushed from her home at Zanes-
vile. o., and her body was found on
the banks of the Muskingum river.
Her husband died.
The dreaded nun butterfly is appear
ing everywhere in Bohemia, threaten
ing the devastation of the forests. The
woods of SaXony and SILICA are also
| threatened. The ministry of agricul-
ture has appointed a commission of
investigation.
Many persons are dying in Indian
Territory of a strange disease that re-
| sembles meningitis.
Plantations in the Salto district of
Uruguay have been laid waste by d
plague of locusts.
Mohammed Ali Mira was crowned
shah of Persia, the ceremony being
most elaborate.
The Illinois board of charities has
condemned the insane asylum at Ches-
ter, used for demented criminals,
The Dundee steamer Naworth Cas-
tie was run into and sunk by the Red
Star liner Vaderland off the British
coast.
Five large steamers were driven
aground and $1,50000O damage done
by terrific gale that swept Buffalo
N. Y, for many hours.
Fire destroyed several large build
ings in Youngstown, O., the loss being
about $700,000
Five Indians were burned to death
in the Jail at the Umatilla agency, in
Oregon.
The Atlantic Creosoting works at
Norfolk, Va, second largest in the
world, was destroyed by fire.
The secretary of the treasury Sc
| lected for the site of the new post of
| fee building in Pittsburg the prop
erty at the corner OF Fifteenth and
| Penn avenue.
| David P. Dyer, Jr., son of the United
States district attorney at st. Louis,
and teller in the sub-treasury there,
was acquitted by a jury in the United
States district court on charge of
having embezzled $61,5OO of govern
ment funds.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
| presented its report on the indict-
| ment of John R. Walsh, the indictment
covering 1872 different counts, chief of
which is the alleged misapplication
of funds of the Chicago National
| bank.
The chief of the rural administra-
| tion at Smolensk, Russia, was killed
| by schooIhoy.
Senor Coronado and members of his
staff in Havana were challenged to
| fight duels because of the publication
by Senior Coronado's paper, Discus
| sion, of police raid ON a cock fight
at Marianao, Cuba, Sunday.
c. H. Grubb, of Macon, Mo-, and P.
B. Robinson, of Cameron, Mo-, en-
ployed as linemen on the Burlington
railway were struck by train No. 49,
near Eola, Ill. Grubb cannot live.
The Idaho house in committee of
bill effective Immediately after it's
passe~9 and approval by the governor
About 1000 feet of the Franklin
tunne. on the main line of the Santa
Fe re- in California caved in follow
ing tho burning out of the timbers by
fire which is supposed to have been
started from the sparks of Iocomo-
tive.
The training squadron which sailed
for Honolulu January Is, turned back
to Yokosuka. The squadron encoun-
tered a severe storm lasting three
days. The masts of the vessels were
broken and other damage was sus-
tanned.
Business men of Finley, y. D., have
sent an appeal to the Great Northern
railway for coal. The towE had not
had local freight train since De-
cember 81, although there were
freight trains on the road nearly
every day.
Santa Fe passenger train No 4,
east-bound, the Chicago Limited. was
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