Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-07

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s15000O.
net earnings of the United States
Steel corporation were S32,553,995.
1t seems likely that prosecutions
may follow the coroner's inquest into
the Rhoades opera house disaster at
Boyertown, Pa, which cost 169 lives.
In the testimony there were strong
hints of graft as we'll as admissions of
gross negligence.
Ambridge, a little town of IL miles
northwest of Pittsburg, was the scene
of an extraordinary double tragedy in
which two lovers killed each other in
| a quarrel.
Fire in the heart of Chicago's down
town district did about $1,700,000, the
heaviest losers being Alfred Peats &
Co., wall paper; Edison Keith G Co.,
wholesale millinery, and John A..
Colby C Son, furniture.
The Coburn warehouses in Indianap-
oils were burned, the loss being
| $50O,O00.
Flames destroyed a part of Nelson
Morris & Co.'s packing plant in Kan
sas City, half million dollars dam
age being done.
The Partisan laundry building in
Detroit was guttod by fire. the loss
being estimated at over 100000.
Gen. John Coburn, lawyer and for
mer congressman, died suddenly in
Indianapolis from an attack of heart
failure. His age was 83.
The Alva Bank of Commerce of
Enid, Okla, with $4,000 capital stock,
was closed and Cashier Lou Westfall
with $4,000 is missing.
Heavy winds and a great rainfall
have done much damage to the Porto
Rican roads and to the new railroad
to Caguas. The tobacco crop was
badly damaged.
Francois Marie Benjamin Richard,
cardinal and archbishop of Paris, died
of congestion of the lungs after a
short illness. He was born in 1919.
George Barlow, 32 years old, was
lilled and two others probably fatally
hurt when an Iowa C Illinois train
struck their buggy at Princeton, Ia.
Four cars of a fast New Orleans &
Northeastern passenger train toppled
off low trstle near Hattiesburg,
Miss, and rolled down an embank-
ment without killing or fatally injur-
ing person.
Robert S. Hewey was appointed re-
ceiver for the Montana Grand Lodge
of Ancient Order of United Worlimen.
The Crocker heirs gave block on
Mob Hill, San Francisco, as site for
an Episcopal cathedral.
The Michigan constitutional conven-
tion rejected the public utilities COM
mission plan.
United States Lighthouse Inspector
Olin N. Wexel of Chicago was killed
by switch engine while he was walk
ing on the railroad tracks at Muske-
gon, Mich.
An address to congress, remonstrat-
ing against further increase in the
navy, was adopted by the board of
directors of the American Peace So
ciety at meeting held in Boston.
Because a portion of his congrega-
tion objected to his breeding dogs,
Rev. l.. Moore Smith, pastor of the
Scotch Plains IN. j. Baptist church,
resigned his charge.
An old Roman coin has been dug up
at Springfield, Mass, which is discov-
cred to be worth $1,5O0.
President Ira Remsen, of the Johns
Hopkins university, has been asked by
President Roosevelt to head the board
of scientists who are to form con-
sulting committee on the enforcement
of the pure food and drug law.
John A. Lovely, former associate
justice of the Minnesota supreme
court. died at the age of Ga in AL
bert Lea.
Dr.. Gustav E. Karsten, head of the
department of modern languages and
professor of German at the University
of Illinois, died at his home in Urbana.
John c. Hubinger, formerly one of
the richest men in Iowa and inventor
of elastic starch and founder of the
largest Independent starch works, died
of pneumonia in Keokuk, la.
The wedding of Miss Gladys Moore
Vanderbilt, daughter of Mrs. Cornelius
member of the Hungarian nobility,
lieutenant of Hussars and hereditary
member of the Austro-Hungarian par
lament, took place at the Fifth avenue
home of the brides mother in New
York.
Gen. Charles H. Howard, brother of
Maj. Gan. o. o. Howard, U. S. A., died
in his home at Glencoe, a suburb of
Chicago.
The board of managers of the Illi-
nois state reformatory at Pontiac met,
at the request of Superintendent NAL
larry, to investigate the death of Will
liam Hamlin, an inmate of the institu.
tion.
A. L. Sloss, cashier of the First Ma
tional bank of Appleton, Wis, COM
mitted suicide by blowing out his
brains with shotgun.