Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-04-30

Hon. Ronald Ramsay, Drotner OF
Earl Dalhousie of England, committed
suicide by jumping into the sea from
the liner Cleveland.
Former President Roosevelt, was
threatened with smallpox when two OF
his many porters were taken i'll with
the disease.
j. c. Maybray, prisoner at Des
Moines, who was identified by a
woman as ]. ]. McCann, for whose
murder Lord" Darlington was con.
victed, denied that he is the man.
An attempt was made to destroy the
famous St Louis cathedral in New
Orleans with bomb.
Many American women attended the
international conference of suffragists
in London.
The huge icebergs which have
gorged the lower Niagara river have
broken and the danger is over.
The Japanese cruisers Soya and Aso
arrived at San Pedro, Cal, being the
first of the Mikado's ships to anchor
in a Pacific port in ten years.
Eight persons lost their lives when
sisippi river 40 miles above New Or
leans.
S. N. d. North, director of the cen
sus, who has had trouble with Secre-
tary Nagle, denied that he will resign,
but it is said he will be ousted by the
president, who intends to give the
place to E. Dana Durand.
1c oil c
sionaries including several Americans,
in the district of Asiatic Turkey,
where more than $4,000 are reported
to have been massacred.
Hal Chase, first baseman of the New
York American league team, was dis
charged from the smallpox hospital at
Augusta, Ga.
The Hungarian cabinet has resigned
and the emperor-king, Francis Joseph,
has asked Count Andrassy to form a
new ministry.
Surgeons at the Flower hospital in
York have effected a remarkable cure
of patient suffering from a malig-
nant tumor by the injection of gelatin
impregnated with radium.
Fifteen thousand cripples, widows
and orphans of New York, who hold
judgments aggregating $2,0O0,000
against the bankrupt New York City
Railway Company, plan to hold a
mass meeting in Cooper Union in an
effort to collect their claims.
Gov. Wilson of Kentucky granted
pardons to former Gov. Taylor, for
mer Secretary of State Finley, John
Powers, Holland Whitaker, John
Davis and Zach. Steele, alleged con-
spirators in the assassination of Gov.
Goebel in January, 1900.
With lions prowling around his tent
Theodore Roosevelt slept peacefully
on his first night under canvas in At
rica.
The commission, which is to study
conditions in Liberia, sailed from New
York
Nineteen persons lost their lives
when the Norwegian steamer Edith
was rammed and sunk by the British
steamer Oxford near Christiana.
Two tons of dynamite were used
in single blast to dislodge the ice
jam in the lower Niagara river.
Jack Johnson, champion of the
world, and Jack O'Brien of Philadel-
phia, signed articles of agreement to
fight six rounds in Philadelphia
May 10.
The sultan of Turkey appeared in
the streets of Constantinople for the
first time since the revolt has been
threatening his dethronement.
Indictments were returned at Mer-
Ger, Pa, against James Boyle and his
wife charging them with kidnapping
Willie Whitla.
The reciprocity conference called to
plan Improvement of trade conditions
with Canada adjourned at Detroit fol-
lowing adoption of resolutions de-
manding tariff changes.
large Bible, dedicated in the Ger
man emperor's own handwriting and
ornamented with silver, has been sent
to st. Louis as the imperial gift to the
Holy Ghost German Evangelical
church which is to celebrate its
seventy-fifth anniversary May 2.
The nomination of Elliott Northcott
of West Virginia to be minister to
Colombia was confirmed by the sen,
ate.
The resignation of George Lincoln
Goodale, professor of natural history
at Harvard university and director OF
the botanical garden, was announced
Maj Gen. William P. Duvall ar.
rived at Manila on the transport Kill
patrick and formally assumed com
mand of the military forces in the
Philippines. He relieved Gen. w. H
Carter.
After September 1 next kidnapping
in New York will be punishable by
Imprisonment for not less than five
years nor more than so years, instead
of not more than 20 years, as provided
in the present statute.
Former Judge M. ]. Gordon, whc
was counsel for the Great Northern
Railroad Company was arrested in
Spokane, Wash, on charge of EN-
bezzling the railways funds.
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