Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

DR.. Nicholas Sem, Chicagos fight
ing doctor and one of the foremost
surgeons of the central west, died at
the age of 63 years.
Lamar Jackson, full-blooded Choc-
taw Indian, has been appointed to
q cadetship in the United States mill
tary academy at West Point by Con-
gressman Charles d. Carter of Okla
homa.
The State Bank of Rockyford, Col,
closed it's doors following a run, The
liabilities exceed 100000, and the
assets are placed at over $525,000.
Friends of Secretary Taft outvoted
the Foraker faction in the Ohio state
committee and primaries were ordered
for February IL at which Ohio Repub
licans will express by direct vote
their choice for presidential nominee,
Two women were killed by an ex-
plosion in a fireworks factory in
Rochester, N. Y.
Gov. Folk of Missouri announced the
appointment of Virgil Rule to succeed
Circuit Judge Jesse Mcdonald, who
resigned. Judge Rule was once st.
Louis newsboy.
Louis M. Givernaud, a member of
the firm of Givernaud Bros, said to be
the first to establish silk manufacture
ing in the United States, died at Los
Angeles, Cal, of heart trouble, aged
73 years.
United States Circuit Judge Pritch-
ard at Richmond, Va, named two re-
ceivers for the Seabord Air Line rail-
way.
Suffering from melancholia, Charles
Becker of Belleville, ILL.,, former state
treasurer, shot and killed himself.
Nightriders raided the town of Rus
sellville, KY, dynamited the tobacco
warehouses and burned other build
1ngs.
Allison ]. Mailer, secretary general
of the Supreme Council of the An
cient Order of Scottish Rite Masons,
southern jurisdiction, died of the grip
in Washington.
John d. Rockefeller gave $2,191 900
more to the University of Chicago.
Count Boni de Castellane and his
cousin. Prince Helie de Sagan, had
sensational fight in Paris.
Ulrich Augustus Hoegger, a Swiss
artist, was probably fatally burned in
a fire which burned his studio in
Philadelphia and destroyed paintings
said to be worth 100000.
Although officially declared dead
several years ago and for many years
believed by his wife and friends to
have died, George M. Gable appeared
in court at Lancaster, Pa, to claim
$4,000 from the estate of his uncle.
His wife had remarked.
During the calendar year 1907 the
bureau of navigation reports 1,056 ves-
sells of 502,508 gross tons built and
specifically numbered in the United
States, compared with 1,045 vessels
of 393,291 tons in 1906.
Phillip F. Kramer of Portland, Ore,
a locomotive engineer employed on
the Isthmian canal, was murdered by
robbers.
The vaudeville war was finally con-
cluded when George Middleton, presi-
dent OF the Western Vaudeville asso-
citation, and his associates signed an
agreement to take over Celia & OPP
penheim's theaters in Kansas City,
Milwaukee and Louisville and the
new theater being built at st. Louis.
The torpedo boat flotilla arrived at
Para, Brazil.
The New Jersey pardon board re-
fused to pardon Walter A. McAllister
and William Death. who were SEN
fenced to 80 years Imprisonment in
1901 for completely in the murder of
Jennie Bosschcieter of Paterson.
Prof. Thomas Day Seymour, senior
professor of Greek in Yale university,
died In New Haven, Conn. after a
short illness of pneumonia.
An alleged attempt was made to as
sassipate Father Volitas. pastor OF st.
AIMS Catholic church at Spring Val.
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