Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-11-01
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The financial crisis in New York
was declared to be safely passed. An
association of trust companies anala-
gous to a clearing house was formed;
secretary of the treasury directed the
deposit in New York banks of $25,-
900 700 of government funds, ana
John D. Rockefeller said he would
lend the banks large sums.
Three minor banks closed in New
York but the general financial situa-
tion was vastly improved. A pool
headed by j. p. Morgan lent millions
of dollars in the stock exchange, there
by preventing a ruinous sacrihce OF
securities. The Trust Company OF
America successfully withstood an all
day run.
Six minor banking institutions In
New York closed their doors, but all
were believed to be solvent al the
general financial condition was i'm
proved. The Morgan pool lent $l5,-
100000 in the stock exchange and
stocks moved up. The Union Trust
company of Providence, r. l., suspend
ed and there was a run on all the
banks of Pawtucket, r. l.
In order to prevent the draining of
their supplies of currency the banks
of many cities followed the example
of New York and Chicago and adopted
the clearing house loan certificate
system and made the withdrawal of
savings deposits subject to the legal
notice.
A negro at Byron, Ca, was lynched
because he stole rs cents.
James Reddick, one of the foremost
Republican politicians of Chicago, was
killed in an automobile accident at
Half Day, village about 2S miles
from Chicago.
President Roosevelt passed his
forty-ninth birthday without special
celebration of any sort.
Skeleton railway tickets valued at
SIS, 900, with the stamps, punches and
ink-pads to make them out, were
stolen at Santa Monica Cal.
A monument to the memory of the
late Brig. Gen. John M. Thayer, erect
ed by the state of Nebraska, was dedi-
Gated at Lincoln.
The historic home of the late Gen.
Don Carlos Buel at Airdrie, KY, on
the Green river, was destroyed by fire.
Fire at Nome, Alaska, caused prop
erty loss of about 100000.
One man was killed and 40 were in
jured in a wreck ON the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railway near Dallas,
Tex.
The railway commission of Mexico
gave the roads of that country per-
mission to raise their rates IL per
cent.
Denis j. Hogan, secretary of the
Illinois Democratic committee, died
suddenly at his home in Geneva, Ill.
Joseph Cenino of Perry, Pa, was
arrested for killing his baby with
miners pick
The Peking Gazette, the worlds old
est newspaper and Chinas official
bulletin for memorials and edicts, has
been superseded by modern newspa-
per.
The balloon known as Ben Franklin,
having gas capacity of $4,000 cubic
feet and said to be the largest in the
world, landed in Belchertown, Mass,
after a successful trip from Philadel-
phia.
Mrs. e. T. Molzalin was shot and
killed, her husband, DR.. Molzalin, was
shot and seriously wounded and
Charles McElvain was slightly wound
ed in a pistol duel between McElvain
and DR.. Molzalin at Ravenwood, Mo.
John Welborn, member of the fifty
ninth congress from the Seventh Mis-
souri, district died at his home in
Lexington, Mo.
T. N. Moorehouse, a travelling sales
man of Chicago, was killed by the
wreck of the Roseburg-Myrtle Point
stage on Monties hill in Oregon.
Capt. Harry b. Weaver, one of the
best-known and most popular sea cap
tains on the Pacific coast, died in Seat
tie, Wash, from typhoid fever.
Miss Loa Mather, of Steuben, o.,
confessed that she set fire to her own
house three times to obtain the insur-
ance.
Three persons were killed and a
dozen injured in a collision on the
London underground railway.
The emperor of Japan has conferred
upon Thomas Burke, head of the Alas
ka-Yukon-Pacific Exposition commits
sion of Seattle, the Order of the Third
Class of the Rising Sun.
r. e. Lockwood, a well-known Idaho
newspaper man, accidentally shot and
killed himself at Reggin.
Mrs. Ellen e. Kenyon-Warner, au-
thor and educator, who sued DR.. Flaw
ius Packer and Dr. Sidney d. Wilgus
at New York city, NJ Y, for $4,000
damages because they adjudged her
insane and caused her commitment TO
the Middletown insane asylum, was
awarded verdict of $4,000.