Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-07

southwest OF Cdpe LOOhOul uButSulp
off the coast of North Carolina.
Pearl Harper was acquitted at
Cadillac, Mich, on the charge of muir
dering her stepfather.
Arthur w. Ferguson, secretary of
the Philippine commission, died sud
denly of heart disease in Manila.
The Diamond Window Glass factory
at Gas City, Ind, was destroyed by
fire, resulting in loss estimated at
100000
The American torpedo boat fotilla
sailed from Buenos Ayres for Punta
Arenas.
DR.. j. c. Brigham perished In a fire
that destroyed eight stores and resi-
dences in Girard, Ga,
e. G. Anderson, alderman, coal deal
er and prominent citizen of Aberdeen.
S. D., was arrested charged with be-
ing a receiver of stolen coal.
1t is estimated that the steel plant
to be built at Hankow, China, by Chi
nese capitalists will cost S6,000,00
Two financial institutions of New
York city, one national and the
other state bank, closed their doors.
The New Amsterdam National bank,
capital $1,000,000, was taken in charge
by the representative of the comptrol-
Ter of the currency and the Mechanics
and Traders bank, state institution,
capital $2,000,000, announced the de-
cision of the directors not to open.
Both banks announced their ability to
pay all depositors.
The 100000 estate of Capt Hooker
of Rochester, N. Y, who left will
bequeathing his property to Gales
burg, ILL.,, will be distributed, the sur
rogate having denied probate to the
will on the ground that Capt. Hooker
was mentally incompetent.
Peter f. Clark of Girard, ILL.,, plead
ed guilty to the charge of numbering
Mrs. Ollie Gibson on trolley car near
Virden March 25, 1907, and was SEN
fenced to serve 40 years in the peni-
tentiary.
Gov. Hughes was strongly indorsed
for the Republican nomination for the
presidency and the administration of
President Roosevelt was commended
in a resolution unanimously adopted
by the Republican committee of New
York county
Marshal Halstead, former United
States consul at Birmingham, Eng
land, and son of Murat Halstead, died
in Cincinnati following an operation
for appendicitis.
Gen. Benjamin Rush Cowen, for
over 90 years clerk of the United
States circuit and district courts for
the southern district of Ohio, assistant
secretary of the interior under Presi-
dent Grant and formerly editor of the
Ohio State Journal, died in Cincinnati.
The Illinois house passed the direct
plurality primary bill already adopted
by the senate.
In Lublin, Russian Poland, the po-
lice unearthed band of robbers COM
posed entirely of women and the lead
ers have been taken into custody.
The coroner's jury in the case of
the theater holocaust at Boyertown,
Pa, asked for the prosecution of Mrs.
Monroe, owner of the stereopticon ma
chine, and Harry McC. Bechtel, the
deputy factory inspector, on the
charge of criminal negligence.
Practically complete election re-
turns gave j. Y. Sanders a lead of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 votes over T.
S. Wilkerson in the Democratic guber-
Material primary in Louisiana.
Charles H. Kipp of the wholesale
grocery firm of Kerr, Kipp & Co., of
Hastings, Neb., committed suicide, as
the result of overwork and worry, by
shooting himself in the head with a
shotgun.
That this nation has reached the
point where it must decide whether
it is to lose the use of the rivers in
the east and south through the non
of forests which safe
guard the watersheds was the decla-
ration of Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, president of the American
Forestry association, which convened
in Washington.
Night riders burned two large to-
bacco barns near Adairsville, KY.
Two negroes who robbed and killed
their father near Commerce, Miss,
were lynched by a mob of colored
men.
Judge F. M. Powers at Denison, Ia,
sentenced Joseph and Solomon Hars.
san to term of rs years each in the
for the murder of their
cousin, Fred Nawfal, last January.
Bert Swan, wealthy farmer near
Missouri Valley, Ia, committed sui
eide by cutting his throat with a razor
Two masked men robbed the office
of the Adams Express company at
o., of $4,000, but missed
bag containing $4,000 in gold.
The jury in the Schooley-Crawford
will contest at Scranton, Pa, declared
the paper presented by George B.
Schooley as the last will of James l..
Crawford, the millionaire coal opera
tor, to be forgery.
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