Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-07-05

Smith, Ark, and oRe OF the largest in
dividual timber land owners in the
state, died of heart failure, aged 40
years.
Owing TO the action of the Vene-
zuelan congress in condernning the
policy of the minister of finance, the
Caracas cabinet resigned.
The body of Seaman Frank B. Plum
lee, the last of the II men drowned
in the launch of the battleship Mime
sofa, was recovered at Norfolk, Va
Three distinct tornadoes struck
Medicine Lodge, Kan, destroying %
houses. Six persons were injured
seriously and one is missing.
A man and three race horses were
killed in a tornado which struck
Recreation park, at Kalamazoo, Mich.
The Central Labor union of Wash
ington asked President Roosevelt to
order an inquiry as to whether the
telegraph companies were in COM
bination in restraint OF trade. Presi-
dent Small, of the Commercial Teleg-
raphers' union, said he would ask
government aid in settlement OF the
strike.
The general manager of the Erie
railroad said representatives of the
International Association of Machin.
lists had received $4,000 a year from
the road for years and when payment
was stopped they called a strike.
Hal Brewster, 27 years old, the son
Of Col. P. H. Brewster, a prominent
lawyer of Atlanta, Ca, was shot
and almost instantly killed on an ex-
cursion train by negro named
French Early, whom he had been dep
utized by the sheriff to arrest.
Intense heat in Pittsburg caused II
deaths in "a hours.
A suit for 100000 was started in
the United States court at New York
by Henry NJ. Walker, resident of
New Jersey, against Edward H. Harri-
man and other defendants, alleging
breach of contract, and conspiracy to
prevent the construction of the Port
land, Nehalem G. Tillamook railway in
Oregon.
The president instructed the secre-
tary of commerce and labor to have
the census bureau make a special
enumeration of the inhabitants of the
proposed state of Oklahoma.
John Johnson, a wife murderer,
whose execution had been delayed by
legal proceedings advised by Albert T.
Patrick, fellow prisoner, was put to
death in the electric chair in Sing
y,,.igor Nauy
o. S. Brown, former cashier of the
Big Four railroad at Bloomington, ILL.,.
and wanted there for alleged embez-
of $4,000, was taken into Gus
tody at Butte, Mont.
Rendered suddenly insane and
he was pursued by a mob.
Charles Adams, of GAINESVILLE, o., shot
and killed Robert Musgrove, his most
intimate friend.
The Hamburg-American line.
through it's managing director, Herr
Ballin, gave an order to the Harlan &
Wolff firm, of Belfast, for 50000-ton
steamer. The ship will be the largest
vessel afloat.
Joseph Motcovick. aged 3S years,
coal miner, shot and killed his wife at
their home in Sygan, mining town
near Bridgeville, Pa, and then ended
his own life by firing bullet into his
heart.
John Hart. not John De Hart, was
one of the New Jersey signers Of the
declaration of independence, accord
ing to disclosures unearthed by DR..
Charles Godfrey, of Trenton.
Thomas L. Harper, a prominent
Pittsburg politician, was arrested fer
shooting four times at Levi De Wolf,
a well known broker.
Two miles in the interior OF big
swamp near New Orleans the headless
body of Walter Lamana, an Italian
child between seven and eight years
of age, who was kidnapped and held for
$4,000 ransom, was found by police
and vigilants. He had been strangled
to death, according to the confession
of one of several Italians held by the
police.
In a collision on the New York Cen
trail road near PittsfelG, n. T., four
persons were killed and eight in
jured. At Hartford, Conn, passen-
ger train ran into work train, killing
six men and injuring 40.
Clyde Glidden, aged seven years.
has been arrested and placed in Jail
at Parkersburg, W. Va, on a charge
Of incendiarism, it being alleged that
he burned two houses. The houses
were occupied and the families barely
escaped with their lives.
A man and three women who went
boating at Muskegon, Mich, rocked
the boat and all drowned.
By a majority of 104 the French
chamber of deputies voted confidence
n the government and gave the min
sters a free hand to employ the
measures they think best to establish
he sovereignty of the law in the dis
urbed departments of the south. The
uneral of the victims of the Mar
1onne riot was held without disturb