Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-10

Hegewisch, ILL.,, who thus became
/ lightweight champion.
Regarding the condition of the Uni
ted States treasury Secretary Cortel
you issued a statement which was op
timistic.
The bodies of PA persons recov'
cred from the Rikovsky mine at Yoso.
vo, European Russia, which was the
scene of of an explosion of gas, were
buried. The horror of the situa.
tion was added to by fire.
The United Box Board and Paper
company is in bankruptcy. Receivers
were appointed. This is a $2S,967, 400
corporation, managed and owned main.
ly by Chicago interests.
Shocks of earthquake were felt at
San Diego, Cal, and in Mexico.
Two men were burned to death and
! ten others were injured in a fire which
followed an explosion on a barge at
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Ida May Wolff, at st. Louis,
turned on the gas jets and almost
asphyXiated herself, her husband and
three other members of the family.
Judge William Howard Taft, the Re.
publican candidate for the presidency,
| accompanied by Mrs. Taft and their
son Charlie, went to Hot Springs, Va.
Seven persons were killed, at least
two others were fatally injured and
fully 30 more were severely hurt as
the result of fire in Cleveland, o.
The fire followed an explosion of fire.
works on display in the store.
Five persons were killed, 40 injured
and many rendered homeless by tor
nado at Fort Summers, Guadeloupe
county, n. N.
Premier Marquis Saionji of Japan
rendered his resignation. He consult
ed with the members of his cabinet,
who decided to lay down all their port
folios, also, and all the designations
were rendered TO the emperor.
AS climax to a series of mysteri-
Gus hold-ups on railroad tracks west
of Coldwater, Mich, Libro Lombardi
was found dead with nine cuts in his
throat and Cascanzo Di Clio has two
bullets in his arm.
An Internal machine, the explosion
of which would have wrecked the
courthouse, killed Sheriff Beck and
family, as well as prisoners in the
Jail, was received at the courthouse in
Houghton, Mich
At least 200 miners are believed to
have lost their lives in fearful disas
ter in the Rikovsky mine at Yusovo,
Russia, caused by an explosion Of gas.
A Milwaukee man who hanged him
self left request that his body be
cremated and the ashes given to a
young woman for tooth powder.
Three small children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Adams Claus were burned to
death in fire which destroyed the
family home at Windsor, Col.
The federal authorities have for
hidden the issuance of passports" to
travellers by the Office of the governor
of Ohio.
Mexico will ask the United States to
punish severely the local authorities
of Del Rio, Tex, and possibly others of
the state under whose authority they
acted, on the grounds that the officers
knowingly failed in their duty by al
lowing persons who partook in the
Las Vacas raid to return to the Texas
side of the river and to bring with
them their wounded.
Justice Bischoff of the New York
supreme court decided that making
oral, individual bets on races was not
against the law.
More than 900 persons were lost by
the upsetting of boats in a storm at
Batavia.
Denver, Col, was commended by the
board of directors of the National Ed.
ucation' association as the place for
the next annual convention of the as.
sociation.
Francis G. Bailey, the president of
the Export Shipping company of New
Jersey, who, together with his brother,
Albert w. Bailey, Charles II. H. My
ers and Capt. Albert Oxley was placed
aboard the Norwegian steamer Ut.
stein at Puerto Cortez, Honduras, in
custody of Lieut.. P. w. Beery of the
New York police department, made
his escape in small boat.
The Minnesota Republican conven-
tlon nominated Jacob F. Jacobson of
Madison for governor and adopted
platform indorsing the work of the
Chicago convention and pledging the
party in Minnesota to continue the
work of railway regulation.
Count Zeppelin outdistanced all
world records for steerage balloons.
He remained in the air for IL hours
and traversed the greater part of
northern Switzerland, attaining an
average speed throughout of "a miles
an hour.
Mrs. Frances Thompson. wife of a
Fargo, n. D., school teacher, was
found straagled to death, gagged and
bound hand and foot with a clothes
line, in her apartments in a rooming
house in Chicago.