Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-08-23
EAST,


Nearly 10000 girls will be involved
in strike movement to begin in the
flannel waist and women's and chill
dren's wear industries in and near
New York City next week. Increase
in wages and u uniform working day
are the objects aimed at.
Early on the morning of the 18th
Mrs. Felix Kahn, 40 years old, of Gin
cinnati, left her room at Atlantic
City. n. j., and, going to the porch of
the hotel where she and her husband
were stopping, jumped to the ground
and fractured her skull. When found
by the night clerk and her husband
she was dead.
At meeting held in Philadelphia
on the 18th of the board of directors
of the Cambria Steel Co., the capital
of the corporation was increased
from $4,320,000 to S5G,000,000.
The president of the Bethlehem
(Pa.) Steel Co. states that c. NJ.
Schwab, of the United States Steel
Corporation, will in a few days take
charge of the Bethlehem Steel Co.
The hop crop in Oneida, Madison
and Otsego covnties, New York, the
center of the hop growing industry,
will not be over two-thirds the aver
age this year. and possibly not more
than half. The vines are prolific,
but the hops have not buried out
well.
On the 18th the German steamer
Allen ran down and sank the pilot
boat James Gordon Bennett near
New York City and drowned three
pilots and the cook of the Bennett.
1t is stated that there will be an
early break in the ranks of the stril-
ers at McKeesport, Pa. Many of the
unorganized men have become dissat-
isfied and make no secret of their
threat to go back to the National
Tube Co. and ask for their places
just as soon as they gain sufficient
following to Withstand pressure
from the strikers, or are given
guarantee of personal protection.
On the night of the 18th n trolley
car on the Fifteenth street line of the
Brooklyn On. " Rapid Transit Co.
collided with a Long Island railroad
locomotive in the lower part of
Brooklyn. The motorman was killed
outright and from 30 to 25 passen-
gers who We're on their way to Coney
Island were injured. Three of these
will die.
Fire destroyed the Hammond hotel,
four stores and six residences at
Dry Run, Pa, on the 10th. Loss $4O,-
600, partially insured.
Dispatches from Somerset. Pa,
where the second brigade of the ma
tional guard of Pennsylvania is in
camp, report that a number of an
oRymous letters have been received
by the regimental commanders con-
tanning threats in connection with
possible strike duty by the soldiers.
The matter has been placed in the
hands of the United States postal nu-
thorities.
At Oliphant. Pa. on the 10Th Thom-
as j. Matthews, former jury commits
sioner of Lackawanna county, last
years candidate for recorder of
deeds, and we'll known in republican
politics of the county, killed himself
by slashing his throSt with a razor
Financial embarrassment is believed
to have caused the suicide.
At meeting held in New York
City on the 10th by the executive
council of the international Union of
Textile Workers of America it was
decided to call special convention
of the international union for No
vember IS at Washington, when the
union will formally disband and sur
render its charter to The American
Federation of Labor. preparatory to
the amalgamation of the union with
the American Federation of Textile
Workers.
The first bale of this years crop of
Georgia cotton was put up for sale
mt the New York cotton exchange on
the 10th. 1t fetched ten cents a
pound, fancy price.
Workmen at McKecsport, Pa, have
organized senate of labor. 1t con-
sists of three delegates from each
union and is to have charge of the
strike.
The American Sugar Refining Co.
and all the independent companies
have reduced all grades of refined
sugar ten points, to the basis of 5.25
for standard granulated.
Early on the morning of the 10Th
Matthew Mcbride, private watch
man employed by the residents of
the fashionable Squirrel Hill district
in Pittsburg, was shot and killed by
an unknown man. Mcbride was pa
trolling his beat when he came across
suspicious looking man and asked
him his business. Without replying
dhe man drew a revolver and fired
direct into the officers face and then
fled.
On the 10Th the Buffalo nut and
bolt works at North Tonawanda, n.
Y, closed it's shop, throwing 800 en-
ployes out of work, on account of the
scarcity of steel, owing to the strike.
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