Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-07-21
THE executive committee Of the

out to return to their places.
GEORGE M. PULLMAN made public
statement in New York in which he
explained his refusal to arbitrate diff
culties with his employees. He said he
was running his shops at loss and
merely for the benefit of his men, and
because they were refused more money
they struck.
E. V. DEBs, president of the Ameri-
can Railway union, addressed to the
General Managers association in Chi
cago proposition that he would de-
clare the strike off If the roads would
take back into their employ the men
on strike, except those who engaged
in violations of the law. The railway
managers decided that as they had
never recognized Debs they could not
take any notice of his communication.
They also announced that they would
manage their properties hereafter in
dependent of labor unions.
THIRTEEN men, including an alder
man and superintendent of the water
works, were arrested at Ladd, ILL.,, for
conspiracy and burglary.
New BERLIN, a thrifty Illinois viii
lage, was almost destroyed by fire,
which was attributed to burglars
AGITAToR PHELAN, who interfered
with trains at Cincinnati, was sem
fenced to six months imprisonment by
a federal judge.
JUDGE BARRETT, of New York,
granted AN order admitting Erastus
Wiman to $4,000 bail.
THE percentages of the baseball clubs
in the national league for the week
ended on the 14th were: Baltimore,
.6T2; Boston, .667; New York, .597: Pitts
burgh, .565; Brooklyn, $3.50; Philadel-
phia, .54S; Cleveland, .53S; Cincinnati,
40; st. Louis, .429; Chicago, 1913;
Louisville, .32s: Washington, .275.
Two CHILDREN of Charles Carlston,
one and the other years old, were
killed by a passenger train at Borden
town, N. j.
PRAIRIE fires in South Dakota on the
ceded lands burned over a tract so by
90 miles and the Russian settlement on
Yellow Medicine creek was wiped out.
The wife and four children of Will
liam Trusty We're drowned at Lead
Hill. Ark.
SATISFIED that the strike was over
thC pSilCldl 4lduuScIS du-
journed sine die in Chicago after
auditing u number of bills. 1t was es-
timated that the strike cost the rail
road companies in Chicago alone from
$4,000, 600 to SIS, OOO,O The president
of the American Railway union de-
clared that the strike was still on and
that soon the railways would be tied
up again.
IN her trial trip at Boston the cruiser
Minneapolis made 23. O5 knots an hour,
breaking all records and earning a
premium of $500, 900 for her builders
FOREST fires did great damage in the
vicinity of Bradford, Pa, several mil
lion feet of hemlock being burned.
A MARsHAL's posse overlook Long
view bank robbers at Eagle Town, 1.
T., and three of the band were killed.
THE safe, containing S12, 900, stolen
from the Great Northern Express com
pany was found in the bed of a noun
tain creek near Wickes, Mont.
THE exports of merchandise for the
year ended June 80 were $S92, Ill ,2sO
and the imports were 1854, 1885, S73.
AT Waltham, Mass, Julian P. Bliss
lowered the mile bicycle record to
1854 4-5 with flying start, and 200 with
standing start.
The homes of James Butler and John
Carter at Steelton, Pa, We're wrecked
by dynamite. They had taken the
places of men on strike.
MAIL from the east which mad been
delayed for seven days reached San
Francisco by way of Seattle.
ANIMATED by jealousy Robert Logan
shot and killed Dan Lordock and Fred
Sullivan in stage coach in Nevada,
and was in turn killed by his wife,
whose life he had threatened.
CoMMoNwEALERs encamped in the
vicinity of Washington were in dire
straits for food and desertions were
daily taking place.
AN area of more than 5000 acres in
the vicinity of Egg Harbor, N. j., was
swept by forest fires
lT was believed that congress would
adjourn not later than August II. All
important legislation, with the excep-
ton of the tariff, was. out of the way.
S. M. WALKER and his two sons were
drowned near Burlington, Ia, while
bathing.
TWENTY dwellings were destroyed by
fire in San Francisco and two little
sons of E. Leidecker were burned to
death.
The president of the American Rail-
way union said on the 10th that he
would not concede that the strike was
lost at Chicago, and that it would be
carried on with renewed vigor at
points west of the Mississippi river.
The railway managers announced that
all trains were running on schedule
time.
BY an explosion in Chicago of an
ammunition chest belonging to bat
terry f of the Second artillery from
Fort Riley, Kan, four soldiers were
instantly killed, eighteen other peo-
pie. soldiers and spectators, were
wounded aud nine artillery horses
were killed.
EDWIN TRAUGHBER (colored) was