Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-11-22

Missouri, committed suicide at the
Midland hotel in Kansas City, leaving
no message to explain his action.
There was no evidence that the af-
fairs of the Bank of Albany were in
volved in the tragedy.
Charles Tracy Barney, the deposed
president of the Knickerbocker Trust
Company of New York, and until re-
Gently power in the financial world,
shot and killed himself. The deed was
attributed to dependency over the
loss of his large fortune and high
| business standing.
Bankers and merchants in session
at Sioux City, Ia, adopted system of
grain checks which it was agreed
should be accepted as currency. The
Merchants National bank of Portland,
Ore; the California bank of Oakland,
CAL; the Farmers and Merchants
bank of Sapulpa, l. T., and the Ravens
wood Exchange bank in Chicago
suburb suspended. The Royal Motor
Car company of Cleveland, o., and the
Gary wholesale grocery house of
| Selma, Ala, went into the hands of
| receivers.
Secretary Cortelyou made the an
| nouncement that as means of af-
| fording relief to the financial situation
the treasury would issue $50, 100000 of
Panama bonds, and S100,00O,000 GER
| tificates of Indebtedness, or so much
thereof as may be necessary. The
certificates will run for one year and
will bear three per cent. interest.
Prince Charles of Bourbon was mar
ried to Princess Louise of France at
Wood Norton England, in the pres
ence of about 40 members of royal
families.
Charles H. Seitz, formerly general
manager of the Michigan Telephone
company at Detroit, died in Chicago
from pneumonia.
Mrs. Evelyn Romadka, the Milwau-
kee woman burglar, was sentenced to
the Joliet penitentiary for an in
determinate period of from one to
twenty years by Judge Brentano of
Chicago on her plea of guilty to the
charge of burglary.
Louis H. Krehl young civil en-
gineer on the Rock Island railroad,
shot himself in the head at Topeka,
Kan.
The $4,000 worth of pay checks for
the miners of the Carbon Coal & Coke
company, which were lost from the
stage that runs between Longsdale
and Cokedale, Col, were found by
boys and returned to the company.
]. Ballin, a stock broker of Ham
burg and a brother of Albert Balm,
director general of the Hamburg-Amer-
ican Steamship line, committed sui
eide.
Alexander Fries, head of the firm
of Alexander Fries & Bro, New York
and Cincinnati. and one of the most
eminent chemists of the country, died
in Cincinnati.
Harry Waters and his son Walter
were struck by the fast mail train on
the Vandalia and instantly killed at
the village of Almeda, Ind.
The safe in the post Office at Seneca,
S. c. was blown open and $500 in
stamps and 5000 in currency taken.
The Endorsement of William H. Taft
for the presidency, and demand for
home rule were the salient features
of the platform reported to the Alas
kan Republican convention.
William Wilcox, former superin-
tendent of the municipal lighting plant
of Columbus, o., was found guilty by
a jury on the charge of defrauding the
city out of $1,170.
A fatal wreck occurred on the Mis-
souri, River G Northwestern railroad |
between Mystic, S. D., and Rapid City. |
An extra engine and three cars, one
filed with passengers, plunged into
Rapid creek, where a bridge had |
burned. Fireman Martin was pinned |
under the engine and died.
The fiscal year for the state of |
Ohio closed with cash balance in |
the treasury of $5,0S1 ,S50.95, an in
crease of $1,335,S17 compared with the
previous year, which was record |
breaker for revenues.
While running at the rate of GO
miles an hour, westbound train No. 13 |
on the Wabash road jumped the track |
near Dillon, Laporte county, Ind. Four
passengers and three trainmen were |
seriously injured and scores of pas
sengers slightly hurt.
Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi was
prevailed upon to take a ride in Bald
wins airship at Jackson, Miss. Ten
feet above the ground was the limit |
and the trip was very short.
John c. Jeans, day laborer of
Ludington, Mich, has been bequeathed
S1,000,000 by his aunt, Anna r. Jeans
of Philadelphia.
William E. Shiebler, the telegraph
operator who received the first mes
sage over the Atlantic cable, sent to
President Buchanan by Queen Vic
toria, died in Brooklyn.
One man was blown to pieces and
property loss of $4,000 resulted when