Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-21


United States senate to succeed Ches-
ter L Long, whose term expires March
3, 1909.
Charges of misconduct in office, VIOLA
tion and neglect of duty and contempt
for and the non-enforcement OF the
laws of the state were filed against
Mayor Elias p. Mann of Troy, N. Y,
with Gov. Hughes.
Tornadoes devastated the towns of
Tyler, Tex, and Mossville, Soso and
Service, Miss, blowing down many
houses and causing number of
deaths.
The American fleet of 16 battle
ships, under the command of Rear Ad-
miral Evans, passed Valparaiso, Chile,
where it was reviewed by President
Montt and thousands of Chileans, and
continued on it's voyage northward for
Callao, Peru, the next stopping place.
The Wisconsin delegation to the ma
tional Democratic convention at Den
yer, Col, was instructed to vote as
unit for William ]. Bryan as the
Democratic nominee for president,
first, last and all the time.
Damage amounting to probably $751;
900 was done, oil paintings Of judges
who have presided in Brooklyn In the
last half century were water-soaked
and valuable records narrowly escaped
destruction when fire swept through
the upper part of the Kings county
courthouse in Brooklyn.
An IF In, n c o.
ment of the public school at Adrian,
Mo-, tore away the floor of the pri-
mary department and precipitated a
teacher and 60 pupils into the base
ment, burning and scalding many OF
them in a frightful manner.
Prof. w. f. G. Hasson of the Aca-
demic force at the naval academy at
Annapolis is dead.
Seventy-two men, representatives
of all the classes of labor employed
on the New Orleans river front, and
who compose union known as the
Dock and Cotton council, were in
dicted by the United States grand jury
on the charge of conspiring to restrain
trade in violation of the Sherman
antitrust law.
Deputy Chief Charles w. Kruger of
New York lost his life while leading
his men in desperate fight against
flames in Canal street. He fell
through a trap into water-flled
basement and drowned.
The American ship Emily Reed was
wrecked on the Oregon coast, ten of
her crew perishing.
Adolph Stemwetz, paying teller of
the National Bank of Commerce of
Minneapolis. was arrested for an al
legged shortage of S3,450.
There was an unconfirmed rumor in
Vienna that the shah of Persia had
been assassinated.
The will of Mrs. Rylands, widow of
John Rylands, of the famous Manches-
ter (Eng) cotton firm, bequeaths
$2,365, 600 to various charities, includ-
ing $1,000,000 to the John Rylands IL
brary at Manchester.
An explosion in a coal mine at
Glencoe, Natal, cost 81 lives.
Macon county, Georgia, went dry
by a majority of 900. Seventy of the
ia counties of Missouri have now
voted for local option.
Following the indicated preference
at primary vote, the Republican
county convention at Lincoln, Neb.,
adopted a resolution declaring for
Theodore Roosevelt for president and
instructing its delegates to the state
to work to that end.
DIR. Leo Danziger, prominent Ger
man physician, was shot and instantly
killed in Cincinnati by Robert Gott,
the uncle of Anna Bell Stangley, a IT,
year-old girl, at whose bedside the
physician was giving medical atten-
ton.
Wes Summerlin and his son Charley
were hanged at Carrollton, Ca, for
the murder of Jethro Jones, a wealthy
farmer
Women suffragists of London went
to Jail for six weeks rather than give
sureties for their good behavior.
Because of interference with plans
for marrying his sister, Henry Bean,
a prosperous young farmer of Prich-
ard, w. Va, was shot through the
head and instantly killed by Virgil
Hatten.
A. C. Tisdelle of Chicago, who is
charged with accepting deposits after
his private bank had become insolvent,
surrendered himself to the police.
New York detectives hunted in vain
for Henry S. Snow, former treasurer
of the New York and New Jersey Tele-
phone company, who was indicted by
the grand jury on charge of grand
Herbert Jordan, aged SO years, who
was private secretary to ex-Gov. Willis
]. Bailey when the latter was in con-
gress, was mysteriously assassinated
IN Seneca, Kan.
Fred Slocum, an inmate of the in.
sane asylum at Elgin, ILL.,, committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a
piece of glass.