Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-06-05

tic children and himself.
Four men robbed the state bank of
Cuba, Kan, and escaped with between
$4,000 and $4,000 after fight with
citizens.
The accident to the Red Star line
steamer Vaderland, over which con-
siderable anxiety had been felt on ac-
count of rumors that she had gone
ashore or had been in collision with
another vessel, was very slight, con-.
sisting of disarrangement of her ma
chinery.
James Brimmingstahl, under arrest
at Dowagiac, Mich, on charges of
murder, was released because his wife
was the only witness against him,
The supreme court of the United
States affirmed the decision of the
United States circuit court for the
eastern district of Missouri in the ex-
tradition case of II. Clay Pierce of the
Louis holding him subject to extradi-
tion to Texas, where he is under in
dictment on charge of perjury.
BY consolidation into the Fifth
| Third" National bank two of the old
est and strongest national banks in
Cincinnati ceased as independent in
stitutions.
Allentown, Pa, was terrified by a
severe earthquake.
Adolph Steinheit, wellknown
painter, and his motherin-law, were
strangled by robbers in Paris.
The currency commission appoint
ed by Vice-President Fairbanks and
Speaker Cannon under the terms of
the Aldrich-Vreeland bill, held it's first
meeting and organized by electing
Senator Aldrich chairman and Repre-.
sentative Vreeland vice-chairman.
F. L. Wood, a young aeronaut, made
parachute drop at Passaic, N. j.,
fell into the Passaic river and was
drowned because he was entangled in
flag he carried.
Three young boys held up Great
Northern train near Great Falls, Mont,
and robbed the passengers. They
were arrested and confessed.
Peter H. Jetberg of Amherst, Wis,
was found robbed and murdered in
Neenah, Wis.
Society women of England and
France were passengers in several of
the 81 balloons participating in the
international aeronautic contest which
started from Hurlingham, Eng.
DIR. Robert Koch, the German bac.
teriologist, visited the leper colony on
Molokai, Hawaii, and commended the
conditions there.
William Ei1n1p,op 1i-ifa nd
children We're drowned near Riverton,
n. j., their boat being upset.
The eight new bishops of the Meth
odist Episcopal church were conse-
Grated at Baltimore, Md.
Almost simultaneously in Washing
ton and New York. indictments were
returned against Theodore H. Price,
the cotton operator; Frederick A.
Peckham and Moses Haas, both of
New York, and Edwin S. Holmes, Jr.,
formerly assistant statistician of the
department of agriculture, for alleged |
participation in government crop re-
port leaks.
Judge James S. Young of the United |
States circuit court at Pittsburg ap- |
pointed receivers for the Wabash |
Pittsburg Terminal Railroad company, |
the Gould line over which the Wabash |
system gained entrance into Pittsburg
several years ago, and an important
link in the proposed Gould trans-con-
tinental system.
Denver was selected as the city in
which next years general assembly of
the Presbyterian church in the United
States of America is to be held.
Serious damage was caused by ter
rifle wind and rain storm in north.
western Indiana and southern Michi.
gan.
Joseph Soderlind vice-president of
the First National bank of Ivanhoe,
Mimi, committed suicide by cutting
his throat
Extreme heat caused the closing of
many schools in Cincinnati.
The battleship Kentucky was quar-
antined because case of smallpox de-
veloped aboard
Night riders" destroyed the tobac-
co beds of four farmers near Hatha.
way, Boone county, KY.
Thieves on board the Pittsburg and
Cincinnati packet steamer Queen City
held up and went through the passen-
gers in wild west style several miles
below Gallipolis, o.
Twenty passengers were seriously
injured when the observation parlor
car on the Royal Blue Flyer train on
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad left the
rails two miles from Garrett, Pa, and
plunged down an embankment
Forest Park, new summer amuse-
ment place at Chicago. was badly
wrecked by storm. Tornadoes, cleo
trical storms and heavy rains did
great damage in Central Illinois, Okla
horna, Kansas and Missouri.
After drifting helplesssly in the lit.
tie launch Zeus of Avalon, Santa Cata-
lima island, for two days, E. e. Easton,