Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-01-04
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The grand jury in New York, which
has been investigating the affairs of
the New York Life Insurance COM
pany, returned indictments charging
forgery in the third degree against
George w. Perkins, former vice presi-
dent of the. New York Life and a
member of the firm of ] p. Morgan
& Co., and Charles S. Fairchild, for
mer secretary of the treasury, presi-
dent of the New York Security &
Trust company (now out of existence)
and a member Of the finance commit
tee of the insurance company.
Alexander j. Cassatt, president OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad company,
and one of the leading financiers of
America, died suddenly in his resi-
dence in Philadelphia of heart disease.
Gen. Litvinoff, governor of the prov
ince of Akmolinsk, Asiatic Russia,
was assassinated in the streets by two
unknown men.
Raisuli has refused TO resign his
governorship of Tangier, has sent his
harem to the mountains under the
protection of a detachment of Kabyles,
and is preparing to meet the forces
OF War Minister Gabbas at Zinat.
The Spanish fishing steamer Pri.
nero foundered in storm and all OF
its crew were lost with the exception
of one.
Sixteen persons were killed and
more than 80 injured in a railway
collision near Arbroath, Scotland,
caused by the heavy snow storm.
Wintry weather almost unprecedent-
ed for severity has caused many
deaths and great suffering in Great
Britain and throughout central Eu-
rope.
A verdict declaring invalid the will
of Father Thomas Macklin, Catholic
priest who left an estate worth $780,
600, was set aside by Judge Gest at
Rock Island, ILL.,, on the ground that
the verdict was not in accordance with
the evidence.
Simon A. Sherman, aged S3 years,
died at Stevens Point, Wis. He was
known throughout the state as his
torian of Fox river valley and as a
pioneer .umberman.
Business men of Sonora. Mex, re-
Gently arriving at Phoenix, Ariz., say
that within the last two months 16
Americans have been killed by Yaqui
Indians at one point or another in
Mexico.
Two men were killed and a third
so badly injured that he has since
died, by the explosion of dynamite
which was being thawed at Muskoday,
80 miles east of Fargo, N. d.
Secretary Shaw has rejected the
offer of big commercial combination
to become its treasurer with head
quarters in New York at salary of
100000 year under a five years
contract.
w. S. Keyes, vice president of the
Humboldt Savings bank, and pion-
eer business man of San Francisco,
was found dead.
A negro wearing United States
army uniform shot Chinese laundry
man at FL Reno, Okla, and escaped
Mrs. Russell Sage, widow of the
financier, gave out statement in
which she declared that it is not her
iQ 3ention to distribute Immediately
the money left to her by her husband
and much less does she intend to dis
tribute it everywhere and to every
body.
Five merchants of Alton, ILL.,, were
fined five dollars each for violating
the child labor law.
Rev. B. l.. Holder, Presbyterian
minister, was murdered at Troy, Tenn.
Emperor William has bestowed on
Hugo Muensterberg, professor of phys
iology at Harvard university, the
crown order of the second class.
Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the Meth.
odist Episcopal church, south died at
Asheville, N. c.
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand and
family left Washington, Secretaries
Root, Taft and Metcalf, Justice Moody
and more than a hundred members of
the diplomatic corps being at the sta
tion to bid them farewell.
The Modern Language Association
of America, in session at Yale uniyer-
sity, indorsed simplified spelling.
Col. w. d. Mann, editor of Town
Topics, was acquitted by New York
jury of the charge of perjury.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., formerly
Miss Martha Hichborn. who secured
divorce in South Dakota several
days ago, announced that she would
soon be married to Paul s. Pearsall
of New York, lieutenant in the regi-
ment of rough riders during the war
with Spain.
Neil Florence. an actor as years old,
was found deah in his room at a New
York boarding house. The apartment
was filled with Illuminating gas which
was escaptlng from two open Jets.
r. i. i-arrinore of Atlanta. Ga, &C
cidentally shot and killed his niece,
Mss Tymenf 4. Freeman.