Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-17
RECORD OF THE MOST IMPoR-
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
lzED FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar-
ters of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal of the
Busy Man.

JlO0 against Une government anu
Chancellor Won Buelow because their
demand for direct universal suffrage
was rejected. There was great disor-
der in the streets and the manifesto
tions were helped along by about 30
900 sympathizers with the socialists.
Marvin R. Reynolds, 20 years old,
night clerk at the Olivia apartments
hotel in Joplin, Mo-, was killed, and
Mr.. and Mrs. John e. Stephens were
seriously injured by an explosion of
natural gas.
John Ullery of Indianapolis, Penn
sylvania freight conductor, was in
stantly killed at Richmond, Ind, by
another freight train. of which his
brother, William Ullery, was en-
gineer.
The tenth annual meeting of the
Rational Guard association of the
United States opened in Boston.
Admiral Evans and his fleet of IL
American battleships steamed into
the port of Rio Janeiro and were
greeted with enthusiasm by thousands
of Brazilians. The passage from Port
of Spain, Trinidad, over 5000 miles,
was interesting but not marked by
any important event.
Col William l.. Visscher, widely
known as a journalist and humorist,
shot and seriously injured Patrol Con-
ductor Peter Dillon at Omaha while
Visscher was being taken to the po-
lice station in patrol wagon, charged
with disturbing the peace.
President Roosevelt announced
that he would withdraw the federal
troops from Goldfield, New, in accord
ance with the recommendation of the
investigating committee that he sent
there
Edwin j. Collier of Cleveland, who
killed his blind son and then shot
himself at the grave of his wife at
Ravenna, o., is dead
The saloonkeepers will make an at
tempt to enforce the closing of the
churches in Waukesha on Sunday be-
cause, through the work of the minis
ters, the saloon proprietors have been
compelled to close their places of
business on the Sabbath.
Frank Purdy of Chicago a fresh
man in the college of agriculture of
the Wisconsin university, was run
down by an ice yacht while skating
and SO badly injured that he died.
Heavy snow and high winds para
lyzed traffic and wire communication
at Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee and
other places in the lower lake region.
John Alexander Bay Althof, an Oak
land tCal) clubman, aged As, con of
a New York banker, after firing two
shots at his wife, turned his revolver
upon himself and blew out his brains.
General Freight Agent w. E. Estes
of the Central of Georgia railway was
perhaps fatally shot by his wife at
Savannah, Ga. The shooting was ac-
cidentaI.
Rabbi Bernhard Felsenthal. the
Oldest Jewish theologian in the Uni
ted States, recognized as the worlds
greatest Hebrew scholar, died in Chi
'cago after ten days of illness. He
was most widely known as the
'fountier of the reform" movement
among Chicago Jews.
The United States dredge boat
Henry Fladd, worth $4,000, was
burned to the waters edge at her
moorings in Memphis.
David S. Rose, four times mayor of
Milwaukee, announced at mass
meeting that he would make the race
again :and intimated that he was in
favor OF ;an open town.
Mulai Hafid was proclaimed sultan
of Morocco at Fee and holy war was
announced.
In theater panic at Barnsley,
England, 16 persons were trampled
no death and many injured
Peter Rasmussen of st. Charles.
Ill, committed suicide because of do.
mestic and financial TROUBLES.
Charles Krall of Cleveland, O.. who
graduated from high school last June.
committed suicide because he feared
he was going insane.
Four firemen were killed and many
injured in a fire that destroyed the
Parker building on Fourth avenue,
New York. The loss, chiefly to pub
Fishing houses. was about $4,000, 900.
Edward Burch, at Hampton, Va,
and Miss Eva Downing, at Winchester,
KY were married by long-distance
telephone.
William Shamburger perished in a
fire that partly destroyed the round
house and shops of the Lake Shore
road at Ell1hart, Ind.
Five men were injured. one prob.
ably fatally. and the lives of so pas
sengers endangered by terrific head
on collision on the Chicago. Milwau-
kes & st. Paul railway in Chicago.
Phe courthouse ut Calhoun, Ky, was
Destroyed by fire. All court records
snr Mclean county were burned.