Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-08-02

dren and then shot and killed himself.
A naval parade by United States
war vessels on the great lakes will be
feature of the ceremonies attending
the unwilling of the Victory monument
at Put-in-Bay, o., August 8, In memory
of Perry's victory.
William ]. Bryan rescued Mrs. r.
B. Stillman in an auto accident at
Storm Lake, Ia
Cleveland voters rejected Mayor j.
Tom Johnson's plan to issue $750,000
bonds for the rebuilding of Central
viaduct.
A bolt of lightning started fire in
the Augusta cotton factory at Augusta,
Ga, but another bolt turned ON the
automatic sprinlling apparatus and
quenched it.
John d. O'Shea of Boston, a grand
trustee of the Elks, left in his will
legacy TO Miss Hattie M. Evans, who
was his sweetheart 25 years ago.
Two workmen in the powder mills
five miles north of Birmingham, Ala,
were blown to atoms in an explosion.
Jose Antonio Ostes, a Mexican stu
dent at Cornell university, has invent
ed bicycle that runs on water.
Mrs. Lillian Cora Rand, widow of
Burlington (Ia.) business man, will
contest the will of her father, the late
Hiram Higgins, who left $1,000,000.
She also will sue her mother and bro
Their, William r. Higgins, for defama-
jtion of character.
Newton A. Berry, wealthy farmer
who lived near Covington, Ga, was
gored TO death by q mad bull from a
neighborlng farm.
Frank Cousins of Salem, Mass, a
clerk in the finance department of
the Boston post Office, was arrested
by post office inspectors charged with
embezzlement of S4,725.
Helena, Ida and Ida Conley, sis
ters, and Wyandotte Indians, began
an armed guard over the graves of
their ancestors in Huron cemetery in
Kansas City, Kan, recently ordered
sold by the government, and threat
en- to shoot the first person who may
attempt to remove the bodies.
Jewish women attacked kosher
butcher shops in Philadelphia's ghetto
because the price of meat was raised,
and in the resulting riots many per-
sons were clubbed and arrested.
Third Officer Hawse of the wrecked
steamer Columbia, whose sworn re-
port of the disaster, filed with the fed
eral inspectors, charged Capt. Hansen
of the San Pedro with refusing to aid
in the rescue of the stricken pas
sengers, is now charged by survivors
who occupied the same boat with him
with conduct more cruel than that
specified by him in his formal report.
Margaret Magill at Clinton, ILL.,, said
her mother committed suicide, and
exonerated her father and stepmother
from all blame.
Jacob Steiner, one of the prominent
pioneers of the head of the lakes re-
gion, is dead at his home in Superior,
Wis, aged 6S.
Gov. Johnson, of Minnesota, visited
the strike centers in the Mesaba coun-
try and decided that state troops were
not yet needed.
Henry A. Hutchings, of Illinois, was
appointed a special agent of the In
dian bureau to aid in the suppression
of the liquor traffic among the Indians.
Despondent because he was hope
lessly afflicted with locomotor ataXia,
Henry C. Jones, of Nashville, Tenn,
formerly auditor of the Nashville
Chattanooga & ST. Louis railroad,
committed suicide in st. Louis by
shooting.
Angered because her husband re-
fused to praise her for saving money
on purchases for their store and for
recent heavy sales, Mrs. Anna Lowe,
of Little Rock, Ark, poured a gallon
OF coal oil on her head and burned
herself to death.
At Otter Lake, Mich, three persons
lost their lives when lightning struck
way, exploding quantity of dynamite.
An attempt to blow up the residence
OF Mont Tennes, of Chicago, the pro-
fessional operator of gambling houses,
WAS made with bomb which did lit
tie damage
Ten thousand residents Of the st.
Elizabeth district, Jamaica, are suffer
ing from the lack of sufficient food and
the government officials are under
censme.
Chester b. Runyan, the paying teller
of the Windsor Trust company, who
defaulted in the amount of 500 900,
pleaded guilty at New York to the
indictment charging him with grand
larceny and was remanded for SEN
tence.
The Missouri board of railroad and
warehouse commissioners announced
that its recent order, limiting the
speed of trains on the Missouri Pacific
line to 80 miles an hour, would be
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad has officially opened its
Hills line, distance of
1870 miles.