Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-02-05

rlolIud, anu Dy Ine OmCeTS anu CIeMS
of the colliding steamships, the
steamer Baltic, the revenue cutter
Gresham and the derelict destroyer
Seneca.
Owners of the steamers Republic
and Florida both began suits for dam
ages in the court of admiralty at New
York, the White Star line asking
S2,000.000
The French government decided to
give a special medal to Jack Binns,
wireless operator on the lost steamer
Republic.
Fire nearly destroyed the town of
Milton, Fla, causing loss of 100000.
Two banks and the city hall were
among the buildings destroyed.
Friends of G. w. Morse, the con-
victed banker and former Ice King"
of New York are preparing to petit
tion the United States court to admit
him TO bail. He is prisoner in the
tombs under a 15-year sentence to
prison.
In fierce storm on Lake Michigan,
car ferry No. 10 of the Pere Mar
Milwaukee, the voyage usually taking
10 hours. The crew was nearly
frozen.
President Roosevelt will lay the
cornerstone of the memorial hall to be
erected at Hodgeville, KY, the birth
place of Abraham Lincoln on Febru-
airy 12. Several prominent men are to
deliver addresses.
United States District Attorney
Stimson told District Attorney Jerome
of New York to proceed with the pros
ecution of the libel cases growing out
of newspaper charges in connection
with the Panama canal scandal. Doug
las Robinson, the presidents brother
in-law probably will be the complain
ing witness.
DIR. Fred Peacock, a physician of
Cathlamet, Wash, was shot by Mrs.
Madelaine Longtaine, mother of a
young girl who died in a hospital un-
der tragic circumstances.
The Mccormick estate Is to build a
100000 skyscraper on the site of the
Victoria hotel, on Michigan boulevard,
Chicago
The relations between President Co
mez and Vice.President Zayas of Cuba
became seriously strained over the
appointment of a man to fill the post
of chief of the secret police.
According to meager reports re-
ceived in London, an earthquake shook
the entire Mediterranean coast of
were lost. Barcelona was said to have
been overwhelmed by tidal wave and
towns were reported buried by land
slides.
A furious storm of snow. sleet and
rain, accompanied by wind which in
places reached velocity of IS miles
an hour, held the United States in its
grasp from the eastern slope of the
Rockies to Detroit and from the Cana
dian boundary to southern Texas. The
storm brought with it loss of life, in
juries to many persons, suffering to
live stock, delay to railroad trains, tie
up of street car service, partial paraly-
sis of telegraph service, destruction OF
telephone lines and general damage
and Inconvenience.
Fleetwood Lester, travelling sales
man for the Southern Supply Com
pany, and his wife are in Jail at Mo-
bile, Ala, charged with holding up
Hardaway Young, president of the
company, at the point of a revolver at
the formers home and robbing him of
$5,60025.
Fire in st. Paul destroyed half a
dozen buildings and threatened the
business district. The loss was $780,
000
Conrade Danielson, Porto Rican
manager for the United States EX-
press Company, shot and killed him
self in New York after a quarrel with
his wife.
John Bedford, accused of the MUIR
der of Oscar Hoganson, young farm
er at Marengo, H., the latter part Of
last October, pleaded guilty in the
county court at Woodstock, Ill. He
was given an indeterminate sentence
| by Judge Donnelly.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
announced that orders for 1900 new
steel freight cars for use on the lines
west of Pittsburg had been placed.
Old and worn-out cars are to be re-
placed by the new ones.
The suit of the Salvation Army in
the United States against he Ameri-
can Salvation Army to enjoin the lat
ter organization from the use of its
name and from publishing the paper
called The American Salvation Army
War Cry" was dismissed by Justice
| O'Gorman in the supreme court of
| New York.
Hawaii has set up a quarantine
against queen bees that are unhealthy.
The mails will bar such consignments.
The navy department opened bids
for locating wireless tower at Wash
ington for communicating with ships
at sea, to the distance of 5000 miles.
Frank d. Campbell n travelling
salesman for Franklin MacVeagh &
| 20 nf rhirapO whose wife diad IN.