Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-11

for tho Republican ticket.
Charles o. Jones, a noted aeronautt
fell 500 feet with his blazing dlrigible
balloon at the Central Maine fair at
Waterville, and was killed. The acct
dent was witnessed by $4,000 persons.
The parade of the Grand Army OF
the Republic at the encampment in
Toledo was reviewed by Mr.. Taft,
Senator Foraker and others. About
10000 veterans were in line.
Forest fire threatened the destruc-
tion of the famous Calaveras group OF
giant sequoias.
James S. Stackpole, member OF the
firm of Stackpole Brothers, publishers
of the Lewistown (Pa.) Gazette, while
mentally unbalanced committed sui
eide near Mifflintown by shooting.
Fifteen thousand Americans and
Australians took part in grand re-
view and parade at Pennington, a SUI
burb of Melbourne. The Victorian
journalists gave a reception in honor
of Rear Admiral Sperry. 1t was his
birthday and the city of Melbourne
commemorated the occasion by pre-
senting him with silver bowl bear
ing a suitable inscription.
A Paris newspaper prints an inter
view with Sidi ell Mokhri, Moroccan
minister of foreign affairs, in which
he declares that Abd-el-Aziz has def
nitely resolved to give up the strug.
gle.
DIR. Frederick T. Rustin of Omaha,
Neb., one of the most famous sur.
geons in the west, was shot and killed
by an unknown person.
Unknown persons dynamited the
bank of the Illinois and Michigan
canal at Channahon, 12 miles south.
west of Joliet, and the entire district
was flooded.
Frederick Cornelius of Muskogee,
Okla, and his sweetheart, Miss Bah.
bic Metcalf of Tulsa, were drowned
while boating.
Foreclosure proceedings against the
Pittsburg-Wabash Terminal Railway
company were. begun in Pittsburg by
the Mercantile Trust company of New
York.
Wisconsin primaries resulted in the
nomination for United States senator
of Isaac Stephenson, Republican, and
Neal Brown, Democrat; for governor,
James o. Davidson, Republican, and
]. A. Aylward, Democrat.
Republicans carried the Vermont
election by a plurality of about 2S,-
900, a decrease of eight per cent. from
the vote of 1904. The Democratic
vote also showed a decrease.
The crew on board the racing bal
loon Vile de Dieppe tried to descend
at Niagara Falls. The rip cord failed
to work properly, resulting in poor
landing. The three men in the basket
got bad shaking up and narrowly
escaped death in the whirlpool rapids.
Secretary George Mclaughlin of the
state commission of prisons in report
on a recent inspection protested
strongly against the keeping of Harry
X. Thaw in the Duchess county Jail
at Poughkeepsie.
Delegates and visitors to the Grand
Army encampment gave their atten-
ton to the dedication of the Fort
Meigs monument at Perrysburg and
to an elaborate civic parade in To-
ledo.
Judge A. H. Huston declared uncon-
stitutional the Oklahoma school law
providing separate school boards and
separate schools for negroes in the
new state.
Fire in Atlanta, Ca, destroyed the
plants of the Atlanta Trunk factory
and the Empire Printing & Box COM
pany. The loss is estimated at $780,
900.
Standing at the stern of a motor
boat which he had stolen and with
bullets whizzing over his head, Ed
ward Burnett, full-blooded Pottawat-
tonne Indian, led two detectives an
exciting chase through the downtown
section of the Chicago river clear to
the drainage canal before he was cap
tured.
Mrs. Arch Pickett shot and killed
her husband, well-known resident of
he was mean to her and abused
her"
Mrs. Earl Hallam of Springfield,
H., declared that George Richardson
was not the negro who attacked her.
1t was his removal from the city
which caused the bloody race riots.
The national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic opened
in Toledo with Venetian night" on
the river and a big reception. About
100000 visitors were in the city,
which was beautifully decorated.
The members of the American team
which captured chief honors at the
Olympic games in London were re-
ceived by President Roosevelt at Sag
amore Hill.
AT Manzanillo, Manuel Elias. editor
of the Conservative El Vigllante, was
shot and killed by Manuel Estrada,
editor of the Liberal paper El Re-
porter and also Liberal candidate for
congressman.