Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-04-03

MUCH udInHS9 was uOne Dy SGNeT0
windstorms in Michigan, Iowa and
Illinois.
Gov. John A. Johnson is willing to
accept the Democratic nomination for
president, but is not seeking the
honor This is the gist of his reply
to letter sent him March 23 by Swan
]. Turnbald, publisher of the Swedish
American Post of Minneapolis, asking
just how he stands in the matter.
Secretary Taft announced that he
had ordered federal troops to the
Treadwell mines in Alaska, where
800 strikers are threatening to destroy
property with ten cases of dynamite
they have stolen.
In desperate ARRAY on a Pennsyl-
vania avenue car in Washington, a
negro and a white man were shot by
Congressman Thomas j. Hefiin of
Alabama who tried to stop the negro's
drinking on the car.
Daniel Leroy Dresser, former presi-
dent of the Trust company of the Re-
public, who recently was arrested on
charge of larceny, was discharged
because the statute of limitations in
tervened.
Two robbers blew up the post office
at South San Francisco and escaped
with $4,000.
w. H. Kennan of Mexico, Mo-, for
mer adjutant general OF Missouri, COM
mltted suicide by hanging.
Illinois Republicans indorsed Speak
er Cannon for president and asked re-
vision of the tariff; Democrats of In
diana indorsed Bryan and. nominated
a ticket headed by Thomas R. Mar
shall for governor; Iowa Democrats
declared for Bryan.
The Leland hotel at Springfield, ILL.,,
one of the most widely known hotels
in the country, and which has been
the center of political gatherings for
the last 80 years, was severely dam
aged by fire. Delegates to the Repub-
lican convention risked their lives to
save their baggage.
Robbers made a vain attempt TO
crack the safe of the Farmers bank
at Springtown, Ark, and one of them
was killed by premature explosion
of dynamite, his head being blown
off.
Mexico City was shaken by two Sc
we're earthquake shocks, four persons
being injured
The general assembly of Virginia
adopted a resolution removing Judge
j. w. G. Blackstone of the Eleventh
circuit from office for immortality and
gross neglect of official duty.
Postmaster General Meyer issued
an order annulling the second-class
mailing privilege granted in 1905 to
La Questione Sociale," an Italian pub
lication issued by an alleged anarchist
group at Paterson, N j.
In a quarrel over $3.50, the price of
a load of wood, Peter Karanen of Cal
umet, Mich, shot and almost instantly
killed John Ahlgren, farmer.
With the completion of a 75-pair
cable between Omaha and Council
Bluffs, the Omaha Independent Tele-
phone company was given connection
with half million telephones in Iowa,
South Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois and
Missouri.
Max Jagerhuber, Jr., who escaped
from the Presidio, San Francisco, is
reported to be the son of Max Jager-
huber of New York, who has a fortune
of $20,000,000. The young man is
charged with desertion.
Milwaukee's Democratic primary
election resulted in the nomination OF
David S. Rose for mayor.
In the West London police court
Magistrate Garrett sentenced DR.. Stan
ton Colt, a noted writer and lecturer,
to one months Imprisonment for as
sault upon the conductor of an omni-
bus.
Half of the business section of
Middleville, Mich, was destroyed by
fire, the loss being $4,000.
The German government has de-
clined to receive DR.. David Jayne Hill
in the capacity of American ambassa-
dor to succeed Charlemagne Tower,
because the kaiser personally objects
to him.
Republicans of Tennessee had a
vicious fight in their state convention
at Nashville.
Gov. Hughes refused to save Chester
Gillette from being executed for the
murder of Grace Brown.
The subcommittee of congress that
investigated charges against Judge
Wilffey of the American court at
Shanghai reported, censuring the
judge, bnt not recommending impeach.
nlent.
Citizens of Lexington and central
Kentucky signed petition asking the
president for federal aid in suppress.
sing the night riders. Officers OF the
Society of Equity denied report that
the society had reached an agreement
with the American Tobacco company.
The American car in the New
York-to-Paris race reached San Fran
cisco, far ahead of its competitors.
Pasquale Patti, rich Italian banker
OF New York, who killed member of
the Blank Hand, was forced TO sus-