Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-06
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A WEEKS EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST lMPoR.
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
lied FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar-
ters of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal of the
Busy Man.

Congress assembled with the mem
bers and even the party leaders at
sea as to the prospects for legislation.
The financial situation engaged the
attention of all to the exclusion OF
other topics.
DR.. Artemis o. Wotring, aged 40
years, was instantly killed and several
others were injured by the explosion
of gas plant at his home in Ogden
Center Mich.
Charles L. Ferguson, Jr.. was
drowned in bath tub at his home in
Ossining, N. Y. The coroner decided
that Ferguson had tainted and his
head slipped below the water
Congressman George w. Smith died
suddenly of typho-malaria at his home
in Murphysboro, III. He was serving
his twentieth year in congress-
Secretary Taft visited the kremlin
in Moscow and was given a banquet
by the American colony in that city.
Capt Frank e. Bent, company /,
Twentieth Wisconsin National Guard,
of Marinette, was instantly killed in
an automobile accident near Escanaba,
Mich, and four others were injured.
Between so and 60 miners were en-
tombed in the Naomi mine of the
United Mine Coal company at Fayette
City, Pa, as the result of an explosion
of black damp. 1t was thought many
were killed.
Melvin Powell, aged II, shot and in
stantly killed his sweetheart Lillian
Humphreys, aged 16, near Hopkins
vile, Ky.
George Bea, of Brownsville, Pa,
was waylaid and murdered on his we'd
ding night, presumably by rejected
suitors of the bride.
With 100000 pounds of ammuni-
tion slowed away in her magazine
rooms and with nearly 1000 men and
officers aboard, the 10000 ton battle
ship Louisiana sailed from the Brook
lyn navy yard for Hampton roads, the
rendezvous of the Pacific-bound At
lantic fleet.
Judge Joseph 1. Landis, one of the
best known attorneys in western Ken
lucky, died at his home in Hopkins
vile at the age of II years.
If the amount lost by fire, burglary,
ETC., is added to the ordinary excess
of expenditures over receipts the
gross deficit in the postal service dur
ing 1907 will aggregate $6,692, ,031.47,
according to Third Assistant Post
master General A. L. Lawshe.
Secretary Metcalf recommends that
congress appropriate $69,270,000 for
new warships.
1t was reported that H. Gassaway
Davis, multimillionaire and Demo
cratic candidate for vice president in
the last campaign, would wed Miss
Mabel Ashford, poor girl.
The Royal Swedish Yacht club de-
cided to drop the challenge for the
Americas cup.
George Edalii, wrongfully convicted
in England of manning cattle, has |
been restored to all his rights through |
the efforts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. |
Mrs. Lucy Hagenow, midwife, of |
Chicago, was given 20 years in the |
penitentiary for causing the death of |
Mrs. Anna Horavitch.
Two persons were killed and eight
badly hurt by the falling of an ele- |
vator in a clothing house in Chicago. |
Discouraged by long. illness, Mrs.
Sadie Anderson of Chicago burned her |
self to death. Her husband made |
heroic but unsuccessful efforts to save |
her life, putting out the fire with his
hands and burning them to the bone.
AS the result of suicide pact, five
young women of Bristol, Va, made
unsuccessful attempts to kill them
selves with bichloride of mercury.
David Ranken, Jr., capitalist and
philanthropist, decided to the David
Ranken, Jr., School of Mechnical
Trades in ST. Louis titles to real es-
tate and railroad stock valued at more
than $2,0OO,O0O.
A woman on horseback held up four
New Workers in an automobile near
Torrington, Conn, and took away their
money.
Charles S. Harpel, aged 73 years, a
pioneer resident of Chicago, died
while planning 10 celebrate his golden
wedding
DR.. George F, shrady of New York,
a noted physician and surgeon, is
dead.
State Senator j. A. Henson of De.
catur and Representative David E.
Sanahan of Chicago had fist fight OF
the floor of the Illinois senate.
The New York school board adopted
a resolution placing itself on record as
not opposed to the traditional celebra-
tion of Christmas in the schools.
Being hampered by lack of ready
funds with which to continue its Dusi-
ness, the American Silk company,
which has capital stock of 81. 1.000,-
600 and operates mills in several
cities, was placed in the hands OF re-
ceiyers by Judge Ward of the United
States circuit court at New York.