Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-04-16

were hurt and damage estimated at
100000, caused by fire in LenoX,
Mass.
Plans were completed for the visit of
200 members of Chicago's women's
clubs to Springfield to lobby for a suf-
frage bill.
According to rumor heard in
Wilkesbarre, Pa, the anthracite coal
mine operators are contemplating a ten
per cent. reduction in wages.
Complaint has been made by Pitts
burg officials against Minister WI Ting
Fang of China, for his action in bring
ing about the release of two Chinese
who were arrested in that city.
President Taft in Washington
pressed a button which started the
Southern Electrical and Industrial ex-
position in Louisville.
The Descendants of the Signers met
in Washington and marched to the
state department where the original
copy of the declaration of independ-
ence, signed by their ancestors, was
shown to them.
Anna, Mabel and Ruby Foldorf, who
lived near Dubuque, Ia, were killed by
an Illinois Central train, the approach
of which they did not hear because of
the high wind
The voice of Niagara Falls, for the
second time in the memory of man,
was hushed by an ice gorge which al
ready has caused great damage.
Announcement has been made by
Mrs. Esther Cornell, widow of former
governor, Alonzo b. Cornell, of the en-
gagement of her daughter, Miss Esther
Cornell, to Arnoud Jacob Joris Wonder
does Bye, a son of Dutch count, at
The Hague, Holland. The marriage
will take place in June.
Arguments in the case of the gov
ernment against the Standard Oil
Company were completed in the fed
eral court at st. Louis.
The conference of operators and
miners adjourned without reaching an
agreement concerning work in the an
thracite coal fields.
Mrs. Frank Rice of Evansville, Ind,
in divorce bill, charged her husband,
his sister and Texas doctor with
murder.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Geor-
gia Allyn Sampson, charged with
Staying her husband, Harry Sampson,
nephew of the admiral, returned a
verdict of not guilty.
Parts of the wrecked tug George
Floss have been picked up on the
shores of Lake Erie, and it is be-
lieved nine persons perished.
Secretary of War Dickinson was
among the speakers at the banquet
of the Hamilton club in Chicago to
celebrate Appomatox Day.
A trust company and a savings
bank, conducted by Knapp Brothers
of Bingampton, N. Y, closed their
doors.
Before July 1 the services of about
GO temporary employees of the forestry
bureau will be dispensed with, the
dism;ssals being made necessary by
the fact that much of the work of the
| bureau, formerly done in Washington,
has been transferred to the six re-
Gently established field districts.
The Masonic order will convey the
| famous travelling trowel from Los
Angeles to the City of Mexico and
back by special train May 8. The
trowel will be started on it's trip to all
of the Masonic lodges of the world by
the Justine Masonic lodge of New
| York City.
The body of oliver Bray, an Ameri-
can student of medicine, who disap-
peared last month and for whom dill
| gent search had been made, was taken
from the Danube river in Vienna. He
was the son of manufacturer living
at Industry, Pa.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson de-
cided that the claim of the New York
Central railroad for $4,000 for ex-
penses in fumigating its cars under
the foot and mouth quarantine order
is unjust and has declined to pay it.
Reports from Africa said an uprising
of savages may cause new danger to
former President Roosevelt, who soon
will arrive there to hunt big game.
Gov. Hadley caused suit for tenn
porary injunction to prevent the rail.
roads of Missouri putting into effect
the three-cent fare, to be filed in st.
Louis.
Former Vice-President and Mrs.
Fairbanks sailed for Hawaii on their
trip around the world.
France notified former President
Castro of Venezuela that he will have
to leave Fort de France, Martinique.
John Anderson, an insane man.
killed woman, shot her husband
wounded another woman and then com
mitted suicide in Aurora, Ill.
Charles Bellew keeper, was killed
by an elephant belonging to a circus
at Des Moines, la.
Deciding that Esmeralda county
Nevada. showed the largest Democratic
gain at the last election, William j
Bryan will send his prize mule there
A $4,000 bill was found in the con
tribution box of church near Wash
ington and, believing 1t was placed
there by mistake, the officers have