Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-05-22

complice who aided in Turing victims
to her farm.
A. X. Helgelein, last OF the victims
of Mrs. Guinness, was buried at La
porte. The fragments of jawbone
found in the ruins Of the farmhouse
were identified by dentist as from
Mrs. Guinness skull.
Ten thousand persons were carried
by Sunday excursions to the Guinness
farm near Laporte, Ind. Efforts to
identify one of the bodies as that of
John Moe failed.
Deputy Sheriff w. H. Farmer OF
Dawson, N. NJ, was arrested in con-
nection with the robbery of the strong
box of the Wells-Fargo Express COM
pany of $4,000 at French, N. M.
Three persons met death and an
other was fatally injured near Flora,
Ind, when a Pennsylvania railroad
passenger train struck carriage.
The Atlantic fleet sailed from San
Francisco for Puget Sound and the
Pacific fleet started south.
Inmates of the overall factory Of
the state reformatory in Pontiac, ILL.,,
mutinied against their foreman and
tried to kill him, with the result that
Henry Williams, a negro, aged 25, is
in the hospital with three bullets in
his body.
After plunging into the lake at Chi
cago, with the intention Of committing
suicide, Walter Il. Ferguson of New
York changed his mind and shouted
for help. He was rescued.
l.. E. Cartwright of the Santa Fe
secret service has captured one of the
robbers who looted the Wells-Fargo
company of $4,000 at French, N. H.
Flames destroyed the plant of the
Sendelbach Wheel company in East
st. Louis and the Hohenstein-Hart
metz furniture factory in Evansville,
Ind.
James Clear of Peru, Ind, fatally
slashed his wife with razor and
then attempted suicide.
Command of the great Atlantic
fleet of battleships passed to Rear Ad-
miral Charles Stillman Sperry, who
succeeded Rear Admiral Thomas.
The conference of governors at
Washington on conservation of the
nations natural resources ended after
the adoption of declaration of CO.
operation and suggestion that the
president call the conferees together
again in the future.
Five suits in action of debt aggre-
eating S1,750,000, and for damages of
$3.50, 900, were begun by Attorney Gen.
eral Stead and Gov. Deneen of Illinois
against the sureties of former state
treasurers and one former state aud
itor, for fees retained during their ad-
ministrations.
Two trainmen were killed and 15
passengers injured in a collision on
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road
near Muskogee, Okla.
The right of President Roosevelt
summarily to dismiss a negro soldier
of the Twenty-fifth infantry for al
legged participation in the riot at
Brownsville, Tex, was sustained by
Judge Hough in the United States dis
trict court at New York.
A bonded warehouse at Oskaloosa
containing 1900 barrels of whisky was
burned.
After it had been mislaid for 25
years, workmen found in the sub
basement of the war department
building at Washington wooden box
containing the personal relics of Lieut..
Delong, who commanded the ill-fated
Jeanette Arctic expedition and who
perished in 1881.
Gen. Snarski, commander of the
Russian punitive expedition into
Persian territory, has been ordered to
resume his advance into Persia and
to punish the bandits with fire and
sword. He will destroy villages, but
spare the women and children.
The Democrats of Minnesota in
dorsed Gov. Johnson as a presidential
candidate and at the same time, by
vote of 772 to 166, refused to declare
in favor of Bryan as second choice.
Wyoming Democrats indorsed Bryan.
Bandits bound and gagged the sta
tion agent and guard in the depot
at French, N. NJ, and escaped with
$35 900.
The armored cruiser Maryland was
the trophy winner in the recent target
practice at Magdalena bay.
The Wright brothers aeroplane was
wrecked at Kill Devil hill, North Caro-
lima, after flight of eight miles.
Two men were shot and almost ip-
stantly killed and woman wounded
at Coney Island, victims of the jeal-
ousy of a young Italian.
An incendiary fire in tenement at
Passaic, N. j., caused the death Of
three children.
The Reserve Trust company and the
American Savings bank of Cleveland,
o., closed their doors.
A tornado wrecked the hamlet of
Gillian. La, and damaged neighboring
towns. several persons being killed
and many injured. Much damage and
some deaths were caused by tornadoes
in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas.
Three former aldermen of Rockford,