Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-05-14


in New York that he knew Of no rea-
son why the life of man of the future
should not be $50 years.
Charles w. Morse, the former Ice
king, now prisoner testified that his
fortune estimated at s3O.000,o00 is all
gone.
The steamer Adelia Shores, with 81
persons aboard is believed to have
sunk in Lake Superior. all being lost.
Herman Kraft of Superior, Wis,
shot three policemen in an attempt TO
escape at Windsor, Ont.
An investigator who returned to-
Beirut, Asiatic Turkey, said Moslem
raiders had destroyed all the property
of Americans at Kessab.
Sixty persons were hurt when bal
cony fell in an armory at Seattle,
Wash.
President Taft got something in his
eye" and called in an occulist who
forced him to wear shield.
State conventions of the knights of,
Columbus were held in Appleton, Wis.
and Chicago, Ill.
Knights of Pythias of Minnesota and
the allied organizations convened in
st. Paul.
The Grand lodge of Iowa, Ancient
Order of United Workmen, held its
thirty.fourth session at Burlington.
The national communicates of the
naval and military order of the Span.
ishAmerican war began a three-day
meeting in Cleveland. More than 100
officers who served in the conflict
were in attendance.
Francis L. Wellman, noted cross.
examiner and authority of court pro-
cedure, declared in a speech to the
Catholic club in New York that per-
jury by witnesses was increasing at
an alarming rate.
In default of payment of a hotel bill
in Paris, France, the trunks and cloth.
ing of Princess Louise of Belgium,
which have been seized, will be sold
in accordance with court order.
John Bradley was found guilty of
murder in the first degree in Kenosha,
Wis, for killing Clifford l.. Smith,
Libertyville Qll) contractor. on June
81, 1906.
A fierce electrical storm swept over
northern Indiana and lower Michigan
and the high wind dashed rain and
hail, cutting crops and stripping fruit
trees. Great property damage was
done.
Harry Josephs, who alleged he was
falsely imprisoned in Belleville, ILL.,,
at the instance of Harry Rosenberg,
a rival merchant, sued for $4,000 and
obtained a verdict of one cent, or one
mill for each pound of flesh he had
lost while in jail
Mothers day" was celebrated gen.
orally throughout the country and con-
tributions were taken up in the
churches for destitute mothers.
| The American Federation of Musi-
clans met in annual convention at
Minneapolis, with about three hun
dred delegates present.
The arrival of British battleship
at Suadia, Asiatic Turkey, brought re-
lief to the survivors of the recent
massacre.
James Boyle was convicted at
Mercer, Pa, of kidnapping Willie
Whitla, and the trial of his wife began
| Immediately.
Advocates of international peace
through arbitration met in Washing
ton at dinner in honor of Secretary
Knox's fifty-sixth birthday anniver-
sary.
Mrs. Harry Thaw paid the judgment
obtained against her by milliner and
avoided going to jail for contempt of
court.
Canon Arthur w. Behrens, chaplain
of st. Alban's School for Boys at
Galesburg. ILL.,, fearing insanity, com
mitted suicide.
Several farm houses, much stock
and other property were destroyed by
a prairie fire which swept ten town.
ships near North Platte, Neb.
The fiftieth anniversary Of the dis.
covery of gold was celebrated with
fetes in Denver and other Colorado
cities and towns.
An ice skating rink is to be installed
in the Plaza hotel, New York, for use
of patrons in hot weather.
A crystal spring which was favored
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its medicinal virtues but lost to sight
for many years has started to flow
again on one of the main streets.
Three thousand silk worms sailed
on the steamer Mauretania in charge
of John A. Emery of New York, who
will take them to the south of France
for breeding in an effort to produce a
hybrid which will spin silk superior tc
that of China.
DR.. t. E. Graham resigned as assist
ant physician of the state hospital fol
the insane No. at st. Joseph, Mo.
and asserted that inmates we're sub
jected to gross outrages on the par
of the attendants.
The Missouri senate passed reso
luton to submit statewide prohibi
tion amendment to the constitution t
the people.
The trial CT James Boyle. charge,
with kidnapping Willie Whitla, was be