Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-07-26

Cox, of Kentucky, by instruction of the
court, the state being unable to pro-
duce its witnesses.
Lieut.. Col. Charles G. Ayres will be
retired from the army for physical dis
ability.
While feudists from the Ozarks
were fighting on the Frisco tracks at
Stanton, Mo-, fast train, running at
the rate of SO miles an hour, plowed
into the group, killing William Will
ligs, % years old.
The Farmers National bank, of
Boyertown, Pa, was ordered closed by
the controller of the currency upon a
report of National Bank Examiner
Bingham showing 1t to be insolvent.
Fifteen thousand men employed by
the United States Steel corporation
and Independent mine owners on the
Vermilion and Mesaba ranges went
out on a strike for a wage increase,
paralyzing the entire iron ore industry
of the upper Lake Superior region.
Judge Mccall of the federal court
at Memphis. Tenn, decided that the
federal grand jury, which returned an
indictment of 1,524 counts against the
Standard Oil company, was acting
within it's Jurisdiction.
Sonora Quesada, known as the
Cuban Joan of Arc, died, aged 70
years.
Cyrus j. Williams, of Los Angeles,
Cal, and Fred H. Wallihan, of Engle-
wood, Cal, have been arrested upon
indictments returned by the federal
grand jury in Denver charging them
with completely in coal land frauds in
Glenwood Springs, Col
At meeting held in Oakland the
telegraphers' union voted unanimously
to accept the terms of settlement pro.
posed by the Western Union and Pos
tai Telegraph companies. The teleg-
raphers will return to work and then
both telegraph companies will receive
a committee of arbitration to discuss
and settle matters affecting the teleg-
raphers.
After the emperor of Korea had alb
dicated a company of Korean troops
mutinied. escaped from the barracks
and fought with the Japanese. Many
were killed and wounded on both
sides before the revolt was quelled.
William January, alias Charles w.
Anderson, for whose pardon a petition
containing the signatures of $4,000
persons was presented to President
Roosevelt, was released from the fed
eral prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
The Southern Railway company was
fined $4,000, and Thomas j. Green,
ticket agent of the company, fined five
dollars in the state court at Raleigh,
N. c., for selling railroad tickets at
rate in excess of that provided by the
recent state law for uniform rate
of two and one-fourth cents mile in
North Carolina.
Thomas B. Mcpherson, of Omaha,
was elected president of the National
Livestock Exchange association to
succeed James c. Swift, of Kansas
City, Mo.
Adolph Ruegger, former treasurer of
Madison county, ILL.,, committed sui
eide owing to the intense heat, which
In the United States district court
at Cheyenne, Wyo., E. M. Holbrook,
millionaire, E. e. Lonabaugh, promi-
nent attorney, and Robert McPhil-
lamey, a well known business man of
Sheridan, were found guilty of con-
spiracy to defraud the United States
government of coal lands in Sheridan
county.
Said Kali Haick, the Syrian drago-
man, who announced that he was go
ing to marry Miss Elsie Ellwood, of
De Kalb, ILL.,, gave up his plan because
of the opposition of Miss Ellwood's
family.
1t was announced by President Mel
len, of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad company that John
F. Stevens, former chief engineer of
the Panama canal. had been appoint
ed vice president of the road.
Midshipman James F. Cruise, of the
battleship Georgia. died at the naval
hospital in Chelsea. He is the tenth
man to die, as a result of the powder
explosion in the after turret of the
Georgia.
Great damage to property in st.
Joseph. Mo-. and vicinity was done by
a tornado and a terrific rainstorm.
Many houses were wrecked, cellars
flooded and street railway tracks
washed away.
Capt August Azzali, leader of the
Mexican band, which organization ac-
companied the Ell Paso, Tex, lodge of
Elks to Philadelphia, was drowned
while bathing at Atlantic City, N. j.
Churchill j. White, pioneer bank
er, of Kansas City, Mo-, died at his
home there, aged so years. lie form
erly was president of the National
Bank of Commerce, the leading finan-
cial concern of that city.
In rearend collision on the Chi
cago & Northwestern railway at
Belle Plaine, Ia, Engineer William FL
liOtt was killed and q 6ran,an waa