Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-02-26

COHCeTHlHB Jue result. mT. laIJ Is sui
trying to get a suitable Chicagoan for
the post.
By vote of sc to "a the house of
representatives of Nebraska voted
down the Raper bill for the abolition
of capital punishment. The chief argu-
ment against the bill was that the
present Nebraska law allowing q jury
to decree either capital punishment
or life imprisonment for murder
in the first degree Is as good as can
be enforced as long as the governor
is given pardoning power.
The steamship Mauretania the
largest afloat, again broke the record
for the westward ocean voyage. She
averaged 26 knots an hour on her
trip to New York.
There was an outbreak of rioting at
Granada, Spain, over the question of
the collection of duties on foodstuffs
into the city in which two persons
were killed and FIVE wounded.
The duke of the Abruzzi is at pres
ent in Paris incognito as Signor Ne
gretto He is buying a medical out
fit to be used on his approaching ex-
pedition to the Himalaya mountains.
Joseph Pulitzer, owner, and Caleb
M. Van Hamm and Robert H. Lyman,
editors of the New York World, and
Delavan Smith and Charles R. Will
iams, owner and editor of the Indian
apolis News, were indicted for GRIM
inal libel in connection with stories
their papers published concerning the
purchase of the Panama canal proper
ty. The persons alleged to have been
libeled are President Roosevelt, ].
Pierpont Morgan, Elihu Root, Charles
P. Taft, William Nelson Cromwell and
Douglas Robinson.
Resolutions demanding the appoint
ment of permanent tariff commits
sion and a revision of the present
schedules Immediately were adopted
in the tariff convention in Indanap-
oils
Reports have just been received that
1000 persons lost their lives in an
earthquake in western Persia on Janu-
ary 23. Porto Rico. and Alaska have
recently had severe shocks.
In addition to being called before
the army retiring board, Col. William
F. Tucker has been sued for separate
maintenance by his wife. Mrs. Tucker
is daughter of Gen. John A. Logan.
Maj. Gen. Bell, chief of staff of the
United States army, says America is
more in danger of war than 1t ever has
been in the past and urges that the
country be prepared for conflict.
&c. NJ. Garnet" who attempted to
blackmail Lawrence NJ. Jones, Kan
sas City (Mo) merchant, out of $1,000
by threatening to blow him to atoms
with a bomb, confessed that he is
Robert Benjamin Bledsoe and that he
lived on farm five miles north of Dal-
las, Tex. He has a wife and two chill
dren.
Woman's suffrage Legislation is out
of the question in Oklahoma for two
years. The senate by vote of 81 to
Is sustained the unfavorable report of
the committee on the bill granting
suffrage to both sexes.
The house of representatives of
Montana by vote OF 80 to "a re-
jected the senate miscegenation bill
which forbids intermarriage between
Caucasians and Africans, Mongolians
and persons Of African or Mongolian
descent.
Turkey, Bulgaria and Austria were
visited by an earthquake which caused
100 deaths in Sivas. Turkey, and de-
stroyed the city. other towns were
damaged and the people terror
stricken
The Racine police arrested Jimmy"
Morgan, one of the most notorious
bank sneaks in the country for the
theft of $4,000 from the First Ma
tional bank in Milwaukee. He con-
fessed saying he had four accomplices
Capt. Mogg and five men who set
out IA months ago to explore the arc
tic regions and were given up as lost.
have been heard from. They are at
Point Barrow, according to message
received at Port Townsend.
Geronimo, the Apache Indian chief,
after being in prison 20 years, died ut
Fort SILL Okla. The old Indian was
one of the most savage of his tribe
and fought for years before he finally
was run down and captured by Gen.
Miles men.
After sensational filibuster, lasting
several days, 1t appears that Prohibit
tion has been killed In South Caro-
lima The senate has a majority of
four for local option and the house is
equally as close.
The lives of many guests who were
asleep in the Hotel Clarendon at Sea
Breeze, Fla, were saved by the night
clerk who warned them of the danger
of fire which destroyed the hostelry
and burned ten cottages nearby.
The United States fleet of 16 bat.
tleships, which started to cruise
around the world IA months ago, will
steam into Hampton roads on Wash
ington's Birthday. 1t will be reviewed
by President Roosevelt and greeted
by large crowd.
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