Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-10-16

| spicuous part in the Russo-Japanese
war and who is now governor general
of Turkestan, was wounded in sham
battle. A revolutionist plot is sus.
pected.
Hongkong dispatches asserted the
real reason for Sir Robert Hart's re.
cent visit to England was to bring
about an alliance between China, the
| United States and Great Britain to
conserve the interests of the nations
in the far east.
The Atlantic fleet sailed from Ma
Mia for Japan.
Gov. Wilson of Kentucky sent a
company of state troops to Hickman,
KY, to prevent an attack by night rid
ers.
Fire destroyed the business section
of Inkster, N. D., the loss being $119,-
900.
A 15,000-gallon water tank supply
ing Tombstone (Ariz.) Consolidated
Mines Company was blown up with
dynamite and the pipe lines supplying
the mill damaged.
Mrs. Rose d. Rittman of Memphis,
Tenn, leader of the so.called anti-ad-
ministration element in the Woman's
Catholic Order of Foresters, was
elected president Of the order by
majority of one vote over Mrs. Eliza
beth Rodgers of Chicago.
Chicago won the National league
baseball pennant by defeating New
York in game witnessed by record
breaking crowd.
The jury in the case of Abe Raymer,
alleged mob leader, charged with de-
struction of property during the re-
cent riots in Springfield, ILL.,, returned
a verdict of not guilty.
Charles H. Trotter, an American,
and Vicente Toledo and Jose Canayan,
Spaniards, were killed in the province
of Pampagna by party of Filipinos.
The Liberal party held its first ma
tional convention in Chattanooga,
Tenn, and the following nominations
were made: For president, Sydney G.
Tapp of Atlanta, Ga; for vice-presi-
dent, John Maddox of Minnesota.
Comptroller of the Currency Muir
ray announced that he would put into
immediate action a plan for the for
nation Of II districts of national bank
examiners, with chairman examiner
in charge at each of the following
cities: Boston, New York, Philadel-
phia, Pittsburg, Nashville, Chicago,
Minneapolis, Kansas City, Fort Worth,
Denver and San Francisco.
The arbitration treaty between the
United States and China was signed
in Washington.
The strike Of Iowa Central railway
shopmen was settled, the shops re-
naming union
Salvatore Sallina was convicted of
throwing a bomb in New York and
sentenced to nine years imprison-
ment.
P. T. Ecker and S. Ecker were SEN
fenced at Clarksburg, w. Va, to four
years in the penitentiary for making
spurious nickels, which were used to
work slot machines.
Five Harvard men who sailed in the
old cup defender Mayfiower to recover
the treasure from a long-ago wrecked |
Spanish galleon, were wrecked in the |
hurricane that swept the West Indies
and were rescued with difficulty.
With concussion which shook the
entire village of Richford, VT, large
grain elevator having a capacity of |
5OO,O 900 bushels, exploded, causing the
death Of IL men and a woman.
The French fishing schooner Juanita
'oundered on the Grand Banks and 25
Of her crew drowned.
Six Mexican miners were killed by
! cave-in at Gananea, Mexico.
John w. Richardson, Virginia far
ner, killed his fatherin-law, his sister
n-law and himself
Perry Roger, marshal of Morrill,,
Kan, shot and killed j. H. Schmucker,
editor of the Morrill, News, and then
suicide.
Leaking gas in an Italian boarding
house at Waterbury, Conn, killed four
persons and made six others uncon-
,cious.
In an attempt to escape after being
lrrested. Lucian Ferriss was shot and
instantly killed by Sergt. George
smith at Nashville, Tenn.
After rescuing an aged woman from
burning house Policeman Nicholas
Nestor of Jersey City plunged again
nto the blazing building and met
leath by suffocation.
One fireman was killed and eight
we're injured by the falling walls of a
'urning grain elevator in Buffalo,
Y. Y.
Messages of congratulation from
PRESIDENT Roosevelt and Messrs. Bry-
n and Taft were read in the trans
fississippi congress in San Fran
isco.
A woman, believed to have been
drs. l.. d. Draper of Saginaw, Mich,
ommitted suicide by leaping over
Niagara Falls.
The janitor of one of the largest
'ublic schools in the Bronx, New York
ity, discovered a charge of dynamite
n the foundation walls.
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