Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-01-18


by New York and Mutual Life In
surance companies, although the eX-
pense to policy-holders is heavy daily.
Capital stock of the Standard Oil
Company, an official says in New
York, may be increased to a figure
more in keeping with the dividends,
and it is believed the stock may be
raised to $60O,OO0,O00.
Mrs. Raymond Robins was elected
president of the Woman's Trade I'm
ion League at a meeting in Hull
House, Chicago.
Headless and armless body of
man dug up from the East river, New
murder.
State Treasurer Glazier, of Michi-
gan, led force of 200 men in a raid
on slot machines in saloons at Chel-
sea, and wrecked them.
A college conference at the Auditor
ium, Chicago, voted against all pro-
posed recommendations and reforms
with the exception of that regarding
the time for opening football practice,
September 20 being accepted as the
date.
In a desperate battle between police
and workingmen at st. Petersburg
four officers were killed and three in
jured.
The steamship Ponce, long overdue
at New York, was towed to the Ber-
mudas with broken shaft, by q Ger
man steamer. All on board were we'll
John Smith, one of the men under
Indictment for the murder of DR.. b. D.
Cox in Kentucky has made a confes-
sion in which he said Hargis and Cal
lahan induced him and two others to
kill Cox.
President Harahan, of the Illinois
Central replied to Gov. Deneen's spe-
cial message, saying the charges
against the road were unjust and the
governor ordered sut begun against
the railway at once.
Walter S. Boyle, Jr., son of the mil
lionaire president of the Crescent Coal
company, Chicago, was killed by pis-
tol shot in a room at his home. Mem
bers of the family declare the death
was accidental.
A fire which started in the tobacco
warehouse of S. r. Moss & Co., at
Lancaster, Pa, from the falling of an
electric arc light spread to adjoining
property and caused a loss estimated
at $1,000000.
Congressman Charles Curtis was
nominated for United States senator
to succeed Senator Benson by the
caucus of Republican legislators. The
action of the caucus is equivalent to
election.
Two men were killed and more than
score of persons injured, including
several women, by an explosion of
acetylene gas at card party in Wood
mans hall in Wilmington, Ill.
Elbert w. Gibson, principal of the
schools at Riverdale, Mich, was
drowned while trying to save 14-year-
old Harry Valance, who had broken
through the ice while skating.
The North German Fire Insurance
company, according to decision rem
dered by the Hamburg court in a test
case, must pay the losses incurred as
a result of the San Francisco earth
quake of last year.
The upper house of the Tennessee
legislature adopted a resolution in
dorsing President Roosevelt's stand
on the discharge of the negro soldiers
at Brownsville. Tex. The house had
adopted the same resolution.
hn
there is no case of yellow fever in
Cuba. The last person to suffer from
the disease is dead at Sagua La
Grande
President Roosevelt received let.
ter from the French ambassador at
Washington, stating that the decora-
ton of the Legion of Honor had been
conferred upon Prof. Brander Mat
thews, of Columbia university.
Fourteen Texas senators signed a
resolution demanding an investigation
of Senator Bailey and Attorney Gen
eral Davidson.
The constitutional convention of
Oklafc ma passed an ordinance setting
the date of the election for the ratifi-
cation or the rejection of the consti-
tuition and the election of an entire
corps cf state officers as Tuesday, Sep
tember 8, next.
Hundreds of persons perished in a
tidal wave that devastated some Of the
Dutch East Indian islands.
The assassin of Lieut.. Gen. Pavloff,
military procurator of st. Petersburg,
was executed, dying with cheer for
the revolution.
Sixteen girls and four youths from
Is to Is years old were burned to death
at Ceispolsheim, Germany, in factory
fire started by the explosion of eel
luloid scraps.
Mabel Calvert, 16 years old, was
caught in the machinery of the ven
tilating plant in Chicago school and
instantly killed.
Pope Plus issued an encyclical ad.
dressed to the clergy of France urging
further resistance to the separation