Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-14
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eiqn Items.

Rinia penitentiary was killed Dy ldll-
ing from fifth story window of
sanitarium at Battle Creek. Mich.
Charles w. Morse, being interviewed
on the arrival of the Campania at
Queenstown, denied that he was flee
ing from creditors and said he would
start back to New York in about ten
days.
Albert West and Edward Williams,
negroes, were hanged in the parish
Jail at Lake Charles, La. West was
hanged first. The rope broke when
the trap was sprung, but he was quick
ly strung up again and soon strangled
to death.
Miss Harriet Baird Huey former
president of the Philadelphia Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, committed suicide at her home in
Philadelphia by inhaling illuminating
gas.
Wagner's elevator at Storm Lake,
Ia, was destroyed by fire. The total
loss is about $4,000.
S. A. Moody of st. Louis was found
dead in his room at the Hotel Rich
mond, San Diego Cal. He was 60
years old and was pioneer resident
of Webster Grove, a suburb of st.
Louis.
Bay county, Missouri, voted in favor
of local option by a majority of 1875
out of a total of 1850. SiXty-seven of
the ia counties in Missouri are now
dry"
Frank H. Hitchcock announced that
he would resign as first assistant post
master general to assume charge of
Secretary Tafts canvass for the presi-
dental nomination.
Boy tramps who were drawn to st.
Louis by the national convention of
the unemployed and who were not per-
mitted in the councils, which were linn
tied to "hoboes," held a meeting at
which addresses were made by men of
reputation among the wanderers.
Ten men were killed by an explo-
sion in a coal mine at Port Hood, N. s.
Franklin l.. Greenleaf, one of the
most prominent figures in grain and
-four circles and one of the pioneers of
Minneapolis, is dead.
John Williams, So years old, was
shot and almost instantly killed in
Chicago by his son, Wilhelm Williams,
% years old, who then fired a bullet
into his own brain. Both were out of
work and the son was intoxicated
Two persons were burned to death
in fire that destroyed a rooming
house in South Sioux City, Neb.
The American battleship fleet set
sail from Punta Arenas after an Off
cial reception by the governor of the
territory of Magellan.
The isthmian canal commission
awarded contract to the General
Electric company for furnishing a
power plant to handle the material to
be used in the construction of the
Gatun locks, at price between 1884.
900 and $4,000.
C. N. Bell, & pioneer attorney of
Minnesota who drafted the first city
charter of st. Paul, is dead.
Ten persons were injured in a wreck
on the Pennsylvania railroad near
Franklinville, N. Y.
c. w. Milbrath, former city treas
urer and state assemblyman, and for
years one of the most respected citi-
zens of Milwaukee, was sentenced to
Imprisonment in the penitentiary for
three years for the embezzlement of
$500 from client.
An Erie passenger train struck and
instantly killed Daniel Thomas and
Mrs. Phoebe Taylor at a crossing at
Hills Tower, near Tallmadge, o.
Night riders near Adams, Tenn,
burned several barns full of tobacco,
shot II. G. Lawrence and his son and
whipped negro.
More than $250,000 in the treasury
OF New York city, owing to former
employees, has not been called for.
DIR. Albert Harrison Mixer, professor
emeritus of modern languages at the
University of Rochester, died in Roch-
ber of the original faculty of the uni
Eersity in 1850.
Through close personal friends of
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, mother of
Countess Szechenyi, it was learned
that Mrs. Vanderbilt will in the near
future become countess Hadik.
The plaza in front Of the new
Union station in Washington was se
lected as the site for the proposed me-
mortal to Christopher Columbus for
which congress has appropriated
100000.
Two volunteer firemen in Xenia, O.,
were killed by q, falling wall.
The Smithsonian institution has of.
fered prize Of $1,000 for the best
treatise on THE Relation of Atmos.
pheric Air to tuberculosis"
The duke of the Abruzzi OF Italy is
reported to be engaged to Miss Kath-
crime Elkins, daughter Of Senator El.
kins OF West Virginia