Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-03-08

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The Y. M. c. A. building at Utica, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire. The loss
will be upward of S150,000
Orson ID. Mum, head of Mum & Co.,
publishers of the Scientific Americon,
died at his home in New York in his
eighty-third year.
Sir Henry Hozier, formerly secre-
tary of Lloyds, London, died at An.
con, Panama, after long illness.
The gasoline schooner Bessie X.
of San Francisco, has been reported
bottom up 13 miles northwest of Cape
Blanco, off the coast of Oregon.
The Dutch mail steamer Konigin
Wilhelmina, from Queensborough,
England, went ashore during thick
fog on dyke near Flushing. She
had 30 passengers on board.
Sir Francis Plunkett, former Brit
ish ambassador at Vienna, died in
Paris. He was born in 1895.
The town of Washington, Ark, was
partially destroyed by tornado and
two persons were killed.
Wilhelm Rapp, editor of the Illi-
uoiS otddtS-LeltuuS, ultU III SulCh5o,
aged 80.
The mixing mill at the Rand Pow
der company's plant at Dossett, Tenn,
blew up, killing four men.
Joseph Letter, owner of the town OF
zeigler, ILL.,, and coal mines at that
place, was found guilty of allowing
his mines to be inspected by a per-
son not having certificate of COM
potency. The case grew out OF an ex-
plosion in ono of Letters mines, kill
ing 52 miners.
The Nebraska house passed the
anti-pass bill.
Six persons were injured In rush
to escape from a burning trolley car
in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Street car traffic and telegraph and
telephone service in Des Moines, Ia,
we're tied up by heavy sleet storm.
A Baltimore & Ohio passenger train
went into the ditch near Connellsville,
Pa, and was entirely burned. The
engineer was killed. the fireman fatal
ly injured and the baggagemaster, ex-
press messenger, conductor and six
passengers were seriously injured.
About 80 passengers were more or
less cut and bruised.
The lower house of the California
legislature passed the "anti-alien prop
erty holding BILL" intended to prevent
Japanese and Chinese from acquiring
and holding property for longer than
FIVE years.
The Salvation Army opened anti
suicide bureaus in the large cities, to
assist and advise those who are con-
templating self-destruction.
Senator Bailey was denounced as
an abusive, insulting liar by the
Texas legislators whom he scored
after his eXoneration.
j. A. Pitkin, bank president, manu-
facturer and capitalist, died at Kala-
mazoo, Mich.
Eddie Tate, under arrest, implicated
three Peoria residents in the robbery
of the school board vault when evil
dence against N. c. Dougherty was
stolen.
Samuel Beatty, of Wellston, o.. was
awarded S101 for the loss of luxuriant
whiskers in gas explosion.
Three trainmen were killed in a COL
lision on the Burlington at Charlton,
la.
The San Francisco board of super
visors declared forfeited to the city
and county of San Francisco the fran
chise and works of the Spring Valley
Water company.
Rev. Joseph M. Ardia, the Oldest
member of the Society of Jesus in the
more, aged 81 years.
A Michigan Central engine blew up
at Hammond, Ind, killing the fireman
and injuring the engineer.
A bomb exploded in the cathedral
at Madrid while service was being
held. There was great panic among
the congregation and ten persons sus-
tained serious injuries.
BY an explosion of dynamite at
Carmi, ILL.,. Rev. ]. B. Title, his father,
his wife and baby were killed, and two
children of the family were fatally in
| jured.
John Schaber's picture moulding fac
tory at Cleveland, o., burned and Scha-
ber attempted suicide, saying he was
| too old to start anew.
Brig. Gen. u. B. Pearsall, a distin-
guished veteran of the civil war, died
| at Leavenworth, Kan.
Thomas Foley, a member of the
railway contracting firm of Foley Bro
theirs G. Guthrie, and rated as q mil
lionaire, died at st. Paul, MINI.
Charles Simpson, a rich farmer,
hanged himself near Litchfield, Ill.
Matthew Powderly, recently ap-
pointed member of the police force
at Bloomington, ILL.,. was found dead
in an alley on his beat with bullet
wound in the head and his revolver
laid five feet away.
Advices from Panama are to the
effect that there will be a general
conflict throughout Central America
unless the United States or Mexico
intervenes.
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