Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-06-26

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>the ground of SANDER.
Forest fires in northern Michigan
destroyed three small villages and
swept over thousands of acres of tim
ber land.
The marriage banns OF Nine. Anna
Gould, formerly the countess de Cas-
tellane, and Prince Helie de Sagan
we're posted in Paris.
The British Suffragettes held
mass-meeting in Hyde Park that was
the biggest thing of its kind ever seen
in London.
Ora Havill, an editor of Mount Car
mel. ILL.,, was dangerously wounded by
Norman Debell, who objected to an
editorial Havill published.
James Cantillion of Marionette,
Wis, professional ball player, who
was totally blind, regained his sight
at Bellevue hospital, New York, dur
ing fit of Mysteries which followed
his surgeons announcement to him
that his case was considered hopeless.
R. M. Sallier and Edward Jones, cat
tlemen, were both killed in duel near
St Vrail, N. M.
Mrs. James Comstock, of Sunbury,
threw herself in front of a fast pas
senger train and was decapitated.
plot to blow up the plant of the
Badger Brass Manufacturing company
in Kenosha, Wis, at an hour when
hundreds of people would be at work
in the place was uncovered by de-
tectives.
Earl McConoughey of Chicago,
civil engineer who was employed by
the American Bridge company, fell
from bridge which workmen were
constructing at Two Harbors, Mimi,
and was killed.
Congressman George q. Foss OF
Chicago announced his candidacy for
United States senator to succeed Sen
ator Hopkins.
President Roosevelt accepted the
resignation of Secretary of War Taft,
to take effect June 80, and announced
that he had selected Luke E. Wright
of Tennessee as Taft's successor. Mr.
Wright followed Mr.. Taft as governor
of the Philippines and was the first
American ambassador to Japan.
An explosion in coal mine near
Monongahela, Pa, resulted in the
death of three men, the probably fatal
injury of two others and the entomb-
ing of Is, many of whom were thought
to be suffocated.
A jury found Carl Fischer-Hansen,
the New York lawyer, not guilty of
the charge of extorting $4,000 from
Joseph E. O'Brien of Philadelphia.
The Capital City Savings bank of
Little Rock, Ark, conducted by me-
groes, is in the hands of a receiver
According to the Iron & Steel
Trades Journal of London, American,
German and Russian syndicates are
about to form an international steel
trust with S150,000,000 capital
Three national guardsmen of New
York were killed by flare back" in
one of the guns of Fort Wadsworth
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Twenty-three wrapping paper COM
panies pleaded guilty, in New York, to
indictments charging them with vio-
lating the Sherman antitrust act.
Sweeping reductions in lumber
rates west of the Missouri river, and
approximately five per cent. reduction
in the advanced rates in the east, as
well as other changes in the tariff,
were ordered under decisions an
nounced by the interstate commerce
commission.
Five unidentified Italians employed
by contractors on the Lackawanna
railroad cutoff at Lehigh on the
Pocono mountains, were killed by a
premature blast.
Twenty passengers were injured,
one fatally, in an interurban trolley
road collision near Bakertown, Pa
Mrs. Mary Farmer was found guilty
at Watertown, N. Y, of the murder of
Mrs. Sarah Brennan, and was SEN
fenced to be electrocuted
DR.. Frank Stirn of Cudahy, suburb
of Milwaukee, was shot and probably
mortally wounded by man named
Antony Kriz whom he had treated
unsuccessfully.
The famous Summit house ON the
top of Mount Washington was de-
stroyed by fire.
Gen. Khoroshkin, commander of a
detachment of Cossacks stationed at
Vorkniskan, town near Uralsk, was
assassinated.
Three members OF the New York
National Guard were seriously injured
by the explosion of powder charge
at Fort Wadsworth.
Fire destroyed the plant of the
Shelby Steel Tube company at Shelby,
o., owned by the United States Steel
corporation Loss was $2,O00,000.
Several persons were injured, one
perhaps fatally, two houses and a half
dozen barns were destroyed by
tornado which struck the eastern out
skirts of Sioux City.
Domingo Schiappa Pietra filed
suit against the heirs of the late Leo