Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-11-08

USlu, HBeu 10, was instantly kllleu ana
his father, Charles Harshfield, badly
burned by contact with an electric
light wire which had blown down.
DIR. P, McF Allen, a prominent
physician, was shot and killed at West
Nashville, Tenn, by Thomas S. Bush.
The main office building of the
Nelson Morris packing plant at East
st. Louis, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being 100000.
John Mitchell, president of the
United Mine Workers of America,
was reported to be in critical condi-
tion in the hospital at La Sale, Ill.
Two Catholic papers in Brussels
asserted that King Leopold had given
S6,000,000 to Baroness Vaughan.
The president has decided to ap-
point Roswell P. Bishop of Michigan,
formerly a congressman from that
state, to the vacant place in the Span
ish treaty claims commission.
William II. Higgie, who was for
many years lake captain, with a
residence in Chicago, died at the
Mercy hospital there after undergo
ing amputation of limb.
Dispatches from Batavia say that
100 armed natives attacked Dutch
patrol of 19 men on the Island of
Flores and killed all of them. After
wards the same band of natives mas
sacred eight women and children.
English mountain climbers and ad-
mirers of Alpine scenery have taken
up the protest made by many Swiss
against the building of railway on
the Matterhorn.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will not be a
witness for the defense in the second
trial of her husband for the murder
of Stanford White.
The executive committee OF the
Amalgamated Society of Railway
Servants of Great Britain voted to call
a general strike and 1t was thought
the trouble was unavoidable, despite
the efforts of the president OF the
board of trade and others to effect a
settlement.
Dynamite in trunk exploded in the
Union depot at Pittsburg, Pa, and
two men we're seriously injured.
Police headquarters at Buffalo, N.
Y, was destroyed by an incendiary
fire, all the records were burned and
eight firemen were badly injured.
A life convict at Rawlins, Wyo.,
killed keeper, tried to effect his es-
cape with dynamite and failing, killed
himself.
The G. B. Rickmans Wine company
cellars at Brocton, N. Y, the largest
and oldest plant in the Chautauqua
grape belt, were destroyed by fire.
After travelling around attired in
mans clothes for six weeks, a girl,
giving her name as Rosa Moore, of
Newark, o., was arrested at Kanka-
kee, Ill.
Ten male inmates and one woman
nurse were attacked by diphtheria at
the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the
Insane at Kankakee.
Cows. Glenn, of North Carolina;
Cooper, of Alabama, and Smith, of
Georgia, reached a complete agree
ment on the question of railroad rates
within their states.
Deeds were filed with the secretary
of state of Minnesota conveying to
the Great Northern Railroad company
all the subsidiary lines of that system
in Minnesota.
Huntington Smith, a wealthy resi-
dent of St. Louis, died in his summer
home in Castleton, VT, following a
stroke OF apopleXy.
Papers in a suit for 100000 in sal
airy and commissions were served up
on Mrs. L. 2. Letter, of Chicago, as
she landed from transatlantic
steamer in New York. The suit is
brought by Hugh Crabbe, of Chicago,
who declared he was Mrs. Letters
confidential agent.
Cotton growers in all parts of Okla
homa and Indian Territory held secret
meetings and decided to hold the
1907 pick until cotton prices have ad-
vanced to a certain point.
Ernest Saunders, aged 21 years, was
found guilty at Pana, ILL.,. of the MUIR
der of John Lundak and his sentence
fixed at 25 years in the penitentiary.
The Illinois senate passed the Ogles-
by direct plurality primary bill as
mutilated by it's amendments.
Pope Plus was reported to be con-
fined to his bed with heart trouble.
Lieut.. Gov. Sanders, of Louisiana,
refused to fight a duel with Donelson
Caffery, son of the former United
States senator
Wages of Grand Fork (B. c.
miners and smelter employees were
cut by the CRANKY Smelter company
so cents day. A strike may follow.
Mystery surrounds the death OF
Princess Shun, sister of the dowager
empress of China. Women connected
with the foreign legations are stirred
up over the princess death.
Physicians say bubonic plague
caused the death of Mrs. George Os-
borne at Seattle, Wash This is said
to be the third death from the plague
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