Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-10-02

other buildings, the loss being $780,
600
James w. Paul, banker and financier
of the firm of Drexel & Co., Philadel-
phia; j. p. Morgan & Co., New York,
and Morgan Harjes Company of
| Paris, died at Hot Springs, Va.
A savings bank at Cotton, s. D., was
robbed of about $1,000 by thieves, who
escaped in an automobile.
Count NJ. Thue Won Bentzen, Dan
ish nobleman, was married to Miss
Alice Nj. Baer of st. Louis.
The shah issued manifesto order
ing new elections and calling for the
convening of the assembly and senate
November ID. In a fierce battle at
Tabriz the Nationalists were worsted
Horace D.. Ray, aged Is years, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself at
Philadelphia in the presence of 15-
| year.old Florence Marshall, his school
girl sweetheart, because he had been
forbidden to pay attention to her to
the neglect of his studies.
At West Union, Ia, Walter Whit
beck was convicted of murder in the
first degree for the killing of his ia
ther, Arlow Whitbeck.
jeremiah Lynch SO years old, night
foreman for the Wisconsin Bridge
G. Iron Company, was mysteriously
murdered near new bridge which
the company is erecting in Chicago.
The police lay the crime to labor trou-
bles.
Five members of the failed broker
age firm of A. o. Brown G Co. were
arrested in New York on larceny
charge.
The International Fishery congress
decided to meet in Rome, Italy, in
1911.
A large portion of the town of Pasig,
near Manila. was destroyed by fire.
Fire in Cairo, ILL.,, destroyed lum-
Der yard, several houses and other
property, the loss being $125,000.
An order of Judge r. w. Archibald
of Scranton, Pa, adjudging Harry X.
Thaw in contempt of court, was filed
in the United States district court at
Pittsburg.
The control of the Washington Life
Insurance Company passed from tho
hands of Levi P. Morton, Thomas F.
Ryan and Harry Payne Whitney, to
Pittsburg syndicate headed by Will
liam G. Baldwin, president of the
Pittsburg Life and Trust Company.
Raymond w. Pullman of the forest
service, who is In Minnesota investi-
eating forest fire conditions for the
government, estimates the loss in that
state at $5,000,000 to $1O000,000.
The supreme court of Washington
upheld the state law prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes and cigarette pa
pers.
Declaring her disgust with modern
fashions, Mrs. Lulu Kreitzer, aged 40,
widow, returned to nature and ap-
peared in the street at Dayton, o.,
nude. When the police were summoned
the woman entered her home and IA
tally shot herself.
Forest fires were reported to have
destroyed some small settlements in
northern Wisconsin and Michigan and
to be spreading rapidly in the Adiron-
dacks.
Justice Gerard in the supreme court
of New York signed the final decree
of absolute divorce in favor of Elsie
French Vanderbilt from Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt
A typhoon of terrific velocity swept
through the central portion of the Phil
ippine group, sweeping part of the
island of Samar northern Leyte,
southeastern Imzon, northern Panay,
Masbate and part of Romblem. Hun.
dreds were reported dead.
A st. Louis & San Francisco pas
senger train was derailed near Car
thage, Mo-, and rolled into the ditch,
the engineer and fireman being killed
and 40 passengers injured.
The Asiatic cholera in st. Peters
burg is spreading among the upper
classes of society. Deaths are so
numerous the bodies lie unburied
A big brick kiln at Kenmare, N. D.,
burst and two men were buried in the
red-hot bricks and roasted to death.
Delegates to the International Fish
cry congress were given souvenir
paintings of the Roosevelt golden
trout, named after the president be-
cause he prevented its determination.
Publication was begun in the
Worlds Work" of series of reminis-
cences by John d. Rockefeller, in
which he defends the tactics and
trade methods Of the Standard Oil
Company.
The government of Paraguay un-
earthed a plot against 1t organized by
members of the negro party. All the
conspirators were taken into custody
and state of siege was proclaimed.