Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-04-17


strikers.
Count Andreas Potocki, governor of
the Austrian Polish province of Galicia.
was assassinated by Ruthenian stu
dent.
Two treaties, settling the Canadian
boundary and lake fishery questions,
were signed by Secretary of State
Root and Ambassador Bryce.
The Standard Oil company was
ousted from Tennessee by a decision
of the state supreme court, finding it
guilty of restraining trade.
Mrs. Mary Baker G.. Eddy announced
that she believed navies were neces-
sary to preserve peace.
The United States National museum
has received as a gift from DR.. w.
Hutson Ford, now residing in Wash
ington, 40-pound cannon ball fired
from Fort Sumter at the beginning of
the engagement on April 10, 1861,
which marked the opening of the
civil war.
Creosote which Miss Lulu Bright
bill of Mansfield, O., used for a tooth
ache cure caused her death.
The importation of strike breakers
from st. Louis to work on the Pensa-
cola railways caused fierce rioting
in which 15 of the non-union men were
injured.
The crying need of uniform divorce
laws was brought out strongly when
the appellate division of the New York
supreme court affirmed the judgment
of Justice Bowling In giving decree
of divorce to Porte v. Ransom from
Mrs. George l.. Browning OF Madison,
Va.
Rev. Father Joseph A. Graham, rec
tor of the Roman Catholic Church OF
the Blessed Sacrament in Albany, N.
Y, shot himself twice in the heart and
died almost instantly.
Carleton Morgan of South Bend,
Ind, was shot and killed in Cassopolis,
Mich, by Mrs. George A. Metsker, who
said the killing was accidental.
Massachusetts Republicans elected
an uninstructed delegation to the ma
tional convention, but a plank in the
platform admitted Taft was the choice
of a majority in the state convention.
One man killed, railroad traffic i'm
peded, cave-ins on the electric and st.
Louis & San Francisco lines near Jop-
ling and mines in the Badger-Peacock
district inundated were some of the
features of the flood that swept south
west Missouri.
Charles A. Murphey, a prominent
lawyer and real estate dealer of New
York, committed suicide in room in
the Astor house by shooting through
the head. His suicide is attributed to
financial troubles.
At Huntington, w. Va, Mrs. William
Adkins and her two young children
were drowned when their residence
slipped into Guyandotte river
An anonymous letter threatened
that Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma and
Chief of Police Ledbetter of Muskogee
would be killed and the city of Guth-
rie burned by negroes.
Ten miners lost their lives in the
Norton Hill colliery in Somersetshire,
England, as a result of an explosion
of gas.
The Monarch Book Printing plant at
Wheeler, Ind, was totally destroyed
by fire. The loss is $4,000, covered
by insurance.
Judge Phelan in Detroit scored
jury for acquitting Percy Bowin of
murder to which he had confessed.
At meeting of the board of trus-
tees of Princeton university announce
I,4 rYipt of
from Mrs. Russell Sage for dormi-
tory building to be used by members
of the freshman class.
Gov. Hughes of New York, whose
anti-gambling bills were defeated, told
the legislature he would not give up
the fight and intimated he would call
special session to adopt the legisla-
ton.
In order to present military service
in its most attractive light and in that
way encourage enlistment in the army,
Gen. Bell, chief of staff, has directed
that all officers and enlisted men en-
ployed in the recruiting service wear
their incest military apparel.
Col. w. l.. De Lacey of Poughkeep.
sic, N. ", prominent lawyer, COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas.
Because his mother, Susan Carlin,
had sent him to various reformatory
institutions in which he was a prison
er for many years, Bernard Carlin
shot and instantly killed her at her
home in Brooklyn.
Because of the error OF western
court in divorcing him from the
wrong woman, Calvin S. Wright,
baker of jeanette, Pa, will have to
stand trial on charges of bigamy and
perjury.
Public and private funeral services
were held in Washington over the
body of the late Durham White
Stevens, adviser to the Korean gov
ernment, who was killed by a Korean