Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-11-01

The $4,000 steam yacht recently
purchased by the Canadian govern
ment for fishery service, struck a
sunken crib in the harbor at Goode-
rich, Ont, and it is thought she will
be q total loss.
Lieut.. Shackleton, of England, has
made preparations for motor car
trip to the South Pole.
Miss Marion Gray, the affinity
agent" of Elgin, ILL.,, pleaded guilty to
misuse of the mails, threw herself on
the mercy of the court and was pa
rolled until the next term.
Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army,
collapsed on a train on his way to
Pittsburg, Pa.
Maj. Don G. Lowell, of Tacoma,
Wash, prominent in G. A. r. circles,
dropped dead.
Mrs. Oscar Wock was burned to
death at Little Falls, N. Y, and Bert
Rapp was terribly injured in trying to
save her.
Charged with having aided his wife
Laura to commit suicide James War
dell was convicted in New York of
manslaughter in the first degree.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse broke her
rudder while just east of the Grand
Banks of New Foundland, but pro-
ceeded, steering with her screws.
King Alfonso of Spain has tubercu-
losis and will go to London to consult
a specialist.
Sergt. Baker, in charge of the dis
tribution of rations to the Ute Indians
on the Cheyenne river reservation,
was killed by the Indians.
A horse valued at $4,000 by its own
er, II. Vervack, of Buffalo, N. Y, sent
to Pittsburg. Pa, for the horse show,
had to be shot after an automobile had
str6ck it, breaking both hind legs.
Adolphus Busch announced that he
will offer a cup valued at 81 900 as the
trophy for balloon race to be held in
st. Louis annually.
Col Stephen l.. Litter, capitalist,
died in Springfield, ILL.,, of typhoid
fever, aged 81 years.
The Iowa Central railway shops at
Marshalltown, Ia, were destroyed by
fire, the loss being 100000.
The arrest of Ensign Charles B. Ull-
mo of the French navy at Toulon on
the charge of being a spy, and who
later confessed to having abstracted a
secret naval signal book and the naval
cipher code, was followed by the ar
rest at Vendome of an officer named
Berton, who is charged with negotia-
tions with an agent of foreign power
for the sale of military secrets. The
arrests are creating a great stir and,
as Ullmo is Jew, the papers term his
case a second Dreyfus affair.
Hanson Penn Dilts, aged so, novel
ist, poet and journalist, died at Hop
kinsville, KY, of an accidental over
dose of chloral, taken to relieve pain.
James Kelly Cole, the poet-counter-
feiter of Chicago, was given three
concurrent 20-month sentences in the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth
Kan, by Judge Dyer in the United
States district court at st. Louis.
j. c. McAllister, white, aged 70, was
attacked by mob of about 100 ne
groes in Columbus o., when he had
been pointed out by Mrs. Henry Pace,
colored, as the man who had attempt
ed to assault her 13-year-old daugh-
ter.
Samuel F. Whitlow was held in $1O,-
900 bail for trial for the murder of
Miss May Sapp at Moran, Kan.
Telegraphers in convention at Mil
waukee elected w. w. Beattie of
Washington president and he named
committee to go east and negotiate
for settlement of the strike.
Thirty-three suits against the South
ern Pacific company have been filed
in the United States circuit court at
San Francisco for violating an act of
congress to prevent cruelty to ami
mails in transit ON the cars.
Two men grabbed $4,000 in the sub
treasury at Philadelphia and fed, but
were captured and the money recov-
cred.
The British steamer Pampico, Bal
timore to Rotterdam, has been aban-
doned in latitude AZ north longitude 32
west. The crew was saved.
Three armed men held up freight
train five miles from Los Angeles, shot
the fireman, who resisted, and took
$3.50 and two watches from the crew.
William Durgal, of Lake Placid, N.
Y, was killed by George Martin, of
Averyville, N. Y, who mistook him for
a deer in the Adirondacks.
The first conviction in the cases
based on the disclosures in the New
York legislative investigation of insur-
ance affairs in 1905-1906 was obtained
when a jury in the criminal branch
of the supreme court found DR.. Walter
r. Gillette, former vice president of the
Mutual Life Insurance company, guilty
of perjury in the third degree.
The Cunard line steamer Lusitania
made new record from New York to
Queenstown. Her time of passage was
four days, % hours and 46 minutes.
DR.. f. o. Gross, of Oregon, a prom