Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-01-10

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sentenced to death after n trial last
ing 30 minutes.
DR.. Mary Merritt, prepossessing
young woman, has begun work in
Brooklyn as an ambulance surgeon.
Comptroller Metz, in review OF
the growth of New York in the ten
years since consolidation, said that
the assessed valuations of real estate
owned by the people had advanced
from S2,532, ,416,S19 in 1898 to S6,240,-
4S0,602 in 1907.
Lieut.. f, p. Lahm, U. S. A., returned
from Europe, where he won the inter-
national balloon contest in France, de-
clared that dirigible airships would
henceforth be an important part of
the equipment of modern armies.
The trial of the 169 members of the
first Russian duma who signed the
Viborg manifesto, was concluded in st.
Petersburg. One hundred and sixty
seven of them were convicted and
sentenced to three months imprison-
ment, while two were acquitted on
the ground that they had signed under
misapprehension. The sentence car
ries with 1t the loss of all political
rights.
The systematic campaign for lower
rents by thousands of tenants on the
lower East side in New York began
to show material results when many
landlords announced that they were
ready to make reductions.
The Temple of Neptune, in Rome,
built by Hadrian, and standing in the
center of the Forum of Agrippa, now
occupied by the stock exchange, was
the scene OF a tremendous explosion,
sons were injured. The city was
thrown into wild excitement.
Capt. Won Goeben, distinguished
officer in the artillery branch of the
German army, caused sensation in
military circles by confessing that he
was the author of the mysterious muir
der of Maj. Won Schoenbeck, brother
officer, who was shot dead on Christ
mas by man he caught leaving his
wife's room.
Judge Charles I. Thomson died in
Denver of asthma. He was a member
of the Colorado court of appeals for
12 years.
Gov. Sheldon of Nebraska wanted
to give the lieutenant governor $100
of his salary for serving as governor
several days, but found the law for
bade it.
Mrs. A. Mosher of Lincoln, Neb.,
while smoking pipe in bed set her
coverlet afire and was burned to
death.
NJ. De Troos, premier and minister
of the interior of Belgium, died at
Brussels.
Mrs. Anson Jones, widow of Dr. c.
Anson Jones, the last president of the
republic of Texas. died in Houston.
A bill was filed in the United States
circuit court at Atlanta asking that
the Georgia prohibition law be de-
clared unconstitutional.
Nine miners were killed and several
injured by an explosion in mine at
Carthage, N M.
Edward Ritchie and William Hay
were appointed receivers for the Wi
borg-Hanna Lumber company, one of
the largest lumber firms in Cincin-
natl.
Capt. N. B. Thistlewood of Cairo,
ILL.,, was nominated on the Republican
ticket for the seat from the Twenty
fifth congressional district made va
cant by the death of Representative
George w. Smith.
Mine Inspector James Martin of
Plains, Pa, died suddenly of hem
orrhage of the lungs, aged Sc years.
In September, 1897, while sheriff of
Luzerne county, he led the deputies
who fired upon several hundred strik.
ing miners at Lattimer, and IL were
killed.
Jean Francois Edmond Guyot-Des-
saigne, the French minister of JUS
tice, dropped dead of apoplexy during
a session of the senate.
Judge John w. Barr, distinguished
Kentucky jurist, died in Louisville of
pneumonia at the age of so.
In spite of the recent financial de-
preston, the port of New York col.
lected $212,697,926 In duties during
1907, an increase of $3,131,018 over
1906.
After a long illness, Mrs. Charles
Gibson, rs years old, widow of Sir
Charles Gibson, died at her home in
st. Louis. Her husband died eight
years ago.
Wireless messages from Sitka,
Alaska, were received at Mare Island
and Point Iona, Cal.
Mrs. A. B. Upton committed sui,
eide in Elgin, ILL.,, by drinking car,
bolic acid. Her husband, formerly a
merchant of Elgin, deserted her three
weeks ago.
The Herbert Baxter Adams prize
for the best essay on European his
tory was awarded to William Spence
Roberts of Cleveland and Edward B.
Krehbiel of Chicago, by the American
Historical association at Madison,
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