Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-17

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were captured by posse and shot to
death.
Mack st. Clair and Solomon Law
renee, shot firers, were instantly killed
In an explosion in a mine at Prince
ton, Ind.
Friends of Jack London, the author,
are beginning to feel anxiety over his
failure to arrive at the Marquesas is
lands, which he was expected to reach
early in December.
Frank j. McBrien. a wealthy retired
business man was killed in New York
in saving the life of Mrs. Mary
Scheele Of Brooklyn, who had fallen in
the path of train.
Martin Maloney of Philadelphia be-
gan court proceedings to have an
nulled the marriage of his daughter
Helen to Arthur Herbert Osborn of
! New York in 1905.
The candidacy of Gov. Charles E.
Hughes for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination was launched at a
Hughes dollar dinner" in New York
city.
| w. ]. Bryan, speaking at Danville,
ILL.,, said he believed the Republicans
would nominate Speaker Cannon for
the presidency.
Austin o. Sexton, once active in
Chicago in state and local politics,
died at the home of his daughter at
Hammond, Ind.
l.. c. Storrs of Lansing, Mich, aged
20, secretary of the Michigan state
board of charities and correction, died
| suddenly of heart failure on Queen
| & Crescent train near Somerset, Ky.
| Urban Angney, captain of last years
football team at Kansas university,
committed suicide at Lawrence, Kan,
by jumping from the dome of Frazer
hall
Christopher H. Connor, former city
comptroller of La Crosse, Wis, and
one of the best-known Democratic
| politicians in western Wisconsin, died
| at Spokane.
Chinese students educated in Amer
| lea have taken precedence over those
| educated in Europe and in Japan, ac-
cording to advices received at the
state department from American Con-
sui General Bergholz at Canton, China.
Being unable to meet payments due
on his stock in the institution Angus
tus Heinze lost control of the Mercan-
| tile National bank of New York. The
stock was taken back by Edwin
Gould.
Father Charles F. Kearful of st.
! Joseph, Mo-, has been notified by the
] -.
he is heir to a fortune of S500,O00, left
by his uncle, a prominent wool mer-
chant who died recently in Sydney,
| Australia.
Judge Munger of the federal court
at Omaha ordered the jury to acquit
! Henry Sutton, who had been on trial
on charge of conspiracy to defraud the
government out of large tracts of
! land.
Judge Walter II. Sanborn, of the
| United States circuit court at st. Paul,
| Mimi, appointed A. B. Stickney and
| Charles H. F. Smith, both residents
| of st. Paul, receivers for the Chicago
Great Western railroad.
Albert Jackson and Minnie Burton
discovered just before the day set for
their marriage at Englewood, S. D.,
that they were brother and sister, and
they have gone to northern Missouri
to make search for their mother.
A radical bank bill was presented
in the Illinois house at Springfield by
Representative Templeman. 1t pro-
vides that losses by depositors owing
to failures shall be shared Dro rata
among banks.
York boy, who was bank messenger
and disappeared, was arrested on his
return from Europe, charged with TAX
ing $500 collected for the Bank of
North America.
Rev. ID. /. McDermott, rector of
Catholic church in Philadelphia, re-
fused to permit lodge of Hibernians
to attend funeral in the church, and
made serious charges connecting the
order with the Molly Maguires.
While the selection of Baron Taxa
hira, Japanese ambassador to Italy, to
succeed Viscount Aolii at Washing
ton, has not been officially announced,
it is admitted at the foreign office in
Tokyo that the appointment has been
decided upon.
United States District Attorney
Sims in Chicago asked the federal
court of appeals to increase the super
sedeas bond of the Standard Oil COM
pany of Indiana to $29,240,000. the
amount of the fine.
Foster E. Percy of Mendoza, ILL.,,
committed suicide in Chicago.
Attorney General Bonaparte direct
ed the various United States attor-
neys to institute suits against large
number of railroad companies to re-
cover penalties incurred by them for
alleged violations of the safety ap-
pliance law.
Prince Stanislas Poniatowsk, the
head of the historic Polish house of