Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-04-10


This despite the fact that the offfcia
relations between the two countrie.
are as cordial as they ever were.
One of the most determined oi
fights against the saloon will reach g
crisis when more than 1900 Illinois
cities, villages and townships outside
of Chicago. will vote on the question:
Shall this town become anti-saloon
territory?"
Supporters of Judge George Gray of
Delaware for the Democratic presiden-
ual nomination opened headquarters
In Washington.
Riots broke out in Lisbon after the
election and the troops fired on the
mobs, killing number of persons.
Representative Thomas Heflin Of
Alabama was sued for $4,000 dam
ages by a negro he shot in Washing
ton.
For the third year in succession
Cambridge won the varsity boat race,
defeating Oxford by the handsome
margin of about 21h lengths.
The Barrett block in Joliet, ILL.,. was
destroyed by fire, the loss being over
$150,000.
Two women were fatally hurt 20
others so badly injured that some Of
them may die, and hundred other
persons hurt in a panic following the
explosion of a gasoline lamp in the
hall of the Modern Woodmen at Ellis.
worth Ill.
A gigantic lockout affecting 10000
masons, bricklayers and allied work
men in the building trades went into
effect in Paris.
Fire in the elevator of the Corning
Distilling company's plant in Peoria,
ILL.,, did $230,000 damage to the build
ing and contents, and threatened all
the other buildings and 5000 cattle.
Three large tobacco factories and
an overall factory in Lynchburg, Va,
were destroyed by fire supposed to
be of incendiary origin. Loss, $685.
600.
Announcement was made that An
drew Carnegie would add $1,000, 900 to
the fund of the Carnegie Foundation,
or whatever sum might be necessary
TO include as pension beneficiaries
eligible professors of state universi-
ties.
After two hours of wrestling with
out result, George Hackenschmidt
gave up to Frank Gotch in the match
for the worlds championship at Chi
cago
one man was killed and two re-
celVed serious injuries as the result |
Of an explosion aboard the British |
steamer Belle of Scotland at Callao, |
Peru.
New York university students went |
on strike" as result of the tempor-
Try suspension by the faculty of AL
'ert Young, president of the junior
lass. following investigation of the
Iucking in the college horse trough"
II Harry Bloch, freshman.
round guilty of the charge of arson,
henry F. Mcdonald, 8 in the circuit
ourtroom at Terre Haute, Ind. shot
nd killed Detective William e. Dwyer.
FOUNDED other officers and was him
elf seriously wounded. The shooting
ollowed the announcement of the ver-
let of the jury before which McDon-
Id had been tried on a charge of
ynamiting stores and a church in
anford last year.
The Indiana Republican state con-
ention adopted a platform, indorsed
lce-President Fairbanks and in
Lructed the 80 state delegates to the
ational convention at Chicago to vote
nd work for his nomination for the
residency, and nominated a state
cket headed by J. E. Watson of
ushville for governor.
A report that Colombian troops had
elzed the town of Jurado, in the re-
lblic of Panama, aroused fears that
ar would break out between the two
,publics
Ellen French Vanderbilt has begun
lit against her husband, Alfred
wynne Vanderbilt, for divorce or
gal separation. Papers in the case
ere filed in the supreme court in
ew York Just after Mr.. Vanderbilt
I'd sailed for Europe and counsel for
e plaintiff refused to reveal the pre-.
Sc nature of the action.
I. l.. Lewis began his duties as pres
ent of the United Mine Workers of
merica by inviting the operators of
inois, Ohio. Indiana and western
to confer with repre-.
ntatives of the miners in Indian
,olis.
Two hundred and fifty thousand :
cks dropped from the hands of as '
any bituminous coal miners of the G
nited States, not to be used again
It'll a wage settlement has been e
ached and scale adopted between j
e members of the United Mine I
orkers of America and the coal /
'erators of the various fields. =,
The receivership for the Westing- =
'use Machine company last October, 8
the beginning of the financial de- n
ession, was vacated by Judge James 8
Young of the United States circuit
urt at Pittsburg, on petition of the
mpany and the receivers.
Mary Green, aged %, of New York p