Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22

Scarlet fever appeared among the
students at the Cornell College of Ag-
riculture at Ithaca, n. Y.
The schooner Swallow OF st. Johns,
N. F., was wrecked off the coast of
Long Island and her crew of about IL
men lost.
Lee Quinn tried to rescue his
brother from an officer on train near
Fort Smith, Ark, and in the resulting
pistol battle Irwin Brassheld, pass
enger, was fatally wounded,
A triple tragedy was discovered in
Seattle, Wash, when w. l.. Seeley, an
attorney and former national bank ex.
aminer for Illinois under Comptroller
| of Currency Eckels, his wife. Mrs.
Kate NJ. Seeley, a member of the ma.
| tional society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and his daugh.
| ter, Miss Rena Seeley, student at the
University of Washington, were found
dead in a bathroom of their home. 1t
was believed Seeley killed the two
women and committed suicide.
While getting money to hand to
robber, l.. Trimball, restaurant
keeper of Union, Ia, was hot twice
through the head and instantly killed.
The navy department began the
work of loading vessels with building
material and sending them to the
| earthquake survivors of Italy for the
erection of small houses.
A number of young women students
narrowly escaped being burned to
death when the dormitory of Benzonia
college at Benzonia, Mich, burned to
the ground.
William c. and John S. Mckee,
bankers of Elmenton and Clintonville,
Pa, were sentenced to five years in
prison for misapplication of funds.
A court order was issued for the
trial of Harry X. Thaw to determine
his mental condition.
Frederick Herreshotf, Yale man, golf
champion, and youngest son of j. B.
Francis Herreshoff, a wealthy manu-
facturer of New York, astonished his
parents by announcing he had Sc
cretly married Miss May Faulkner, q
show girl, last august.
Ten or more persons were killed and
twenty-five or thirty injured in a col
lision at Dotsero, Col, between a pas
senger train and freight on the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad.
After reviewing the evidence for %
hours and taking Is ballots before all
were agreed, the jury in the trial of
Thornton jenkins Hains at Flushing,
N. Y, found the prisoner not guilty as
principal with his brother, Capt.
Peter G. Hainss, Jr., in the killing of
William E. Annis. 1t was believed
Capt. Hams would not be put on trial
A general strike of hat makers, that
may involve some $4,000 workers, was
inaugurated in the hat manufacturing
cCnters of the country as the result Of
a decision of the Associated Hat Manu-
facturers to discontinue the use of the
union label in the factories represent
] ed in the association.
; Mrs Nathan Sherrard and four chill
; dren were burned to death at lum
Der camp 20 miles from Ashland
Wis.
pioneer resident of Cherryvale, Kan.
was burned to death and his wife
+ fatally injured in a fire that destroyed
: their home.
= Brig. Gen. Robert NJ. O'Reilly, whit
: has been surgeon general of the arm!
for the past seven years, was placed
e on the retired list after As years serv
ice with the advanced rank of majo
h general.
t Miss Frances Livingston of BOYD
e Wis, who advertised in papers in al
parts of the country for husband ant
d received 1000 proposals of marriage
II has chosen Louis Struvanz of Dol
chesetr, Wis.
The National League for Industria
t Education, designed to foster nationa
4 state and local cooperation in the pre-
motion of industrial training i
e schools, has been organized in NeN
s. York with James ]. Hill of ST. Paul a
s. honorary president.
r The corporation of Harvard colleg
r sent to the overseers of the colleg
If the name of Abbott Lawrence Lowell
o professor of the science of govern
d ment, as their choice as president {
the college to succeed Presider
II Charles w. Eliot.
y In fire that completely burned tn
d residence of Samuel Higgins, gener;
'f manager of the New York, Ne
Haven & Hartford railroad at Ne
n Haven, Conn, yesterday his mothe
" Mrs. Higgins lost her life.
The Turkish government accepte
the Austro- Hungarian offer of go 60(
900 Turkish ($1OSOO,OOO) indemnit
b, for the annexation of Bosnia an
Herzegovina. thus removing every po
al sibility of war
k More than 100 lives were snuffed OF
a by an explosion in the mines of II
IS Lick Branch colliery, near Bluefiel
w. Va. Just two weeks before,
o. miners were killed in the same min'
s. by a similar explosion.