Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-11
GENERAL NEWS.

Germany's policy in the Morocco al
fair has annoyed British officials ex-
cessively, and they feel that the kaiser
is trying to secure an advantage over
the other powers. Great Britain in
tends to recognize Mulai Hafid after
he has pledged himself to accept all
the obligations of the former sultan.
Col. Henry NJ. Nevius of Red Bank,
N j., was elected commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
and Mrs. w. L. Gilman of RoXbury,
Mass, was chosen president of the
Womans' Relief Corps.
The forest fire which threatened the
famous Calaveras big tree grove was
brought under control and the great
trees were saved
Chester Jordan, an actor, killed his
wife Honorah, an actress, during a
quarrel in their home in Somerville,
a suburb of Boston, and then dismem-
bered her body and tried to take it
away in trunk.
The special grand jury at Spring
field, ILL.,, returned III indictments in
connection with the race riots, and
made a final report in which it COM
mended certain officials and severely
condemned some of the police for
their cowardice.
Late returns from the Michigan
primaries put Gov Fred Warner in the
lead for denomination.
More than $4,000,000 was left to
charitable institutions, the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art and Yale univer-
sity by the will of Frederick Cooper
Hewitt, who died at his home in
Owego, n. Y.
Orville Wright made a fairly sue
cessful test of his aeroplane built for
the army at Fort Myer. Near Ithaca,
N. Y, two Cornell students made a
good flight of several miles in an
aeroplane of their own construction.
Spanish war veterans voted to hold
next encampment at Tacoma, Wash.
The territorial supreme court at
Manila decided that the sultan of
Dunaharra must hang for the part he
took as a leader of the raid on Par
1906, wherein j. w. Mcdonald of that
place was killed by the raiders.
Judge Vandeventer in the United
States circuit court at st. Paul en-
Joined the Arkansas railway commits
sion from enforcing the two-cent-fare
law.
Chief of Detectives Gill of East st.
Louis and Patrolman Ransome Paine
were shot while trying to trap bur
glars in the home of Philip Wolff,
treasurer of st. Clair county.
The condition of the natives of the
Aleutian Indian village in Akutan har-
Dor, Bering sea is most deplorable
according to the report of DR.. Robert
Olsen, assistant surgeon on the rev
enue cutter McCuloch.
The First National bank of Niles
o., failed and a receiver was ap
pointed.
The United Spanish war veterans
drew the color line by declaring the
Charles M. Thomas camp of Washing
ton unattached"
Daniel Walser, a Detroit confec-
tioner, was shot and killed by burg
lars at his store.
The Nevada Democratic state con
yention nominated Francis G. New
lands for United States senator and
George A. Bartlett for congressman
A new comet was discovered at the
Yerke's observatory at Lake Genev-
Wis, by Prof. d. w. Morehouse OF
Drake university.
Seven summer visitors out OF a
party of ten were drowned by the
capsizing of 35-foot sloop in Penob-
scot bay. on Deer Isle.
The cruisers of the Pacific feet
each towing a torpedo boat destroyer
reached Honolulu without any acct
dent worth mention.