Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-10-31

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eight cents per ton, for run of the
mine. The firm employs 600 miners.
Other firms in the eastern part Of
Mercer county have also given their
miners n similar advance.
Diamonds valued at $4,000 have been
stolen from the vaults of Wesher &
Weinman. of Chicago. There is no
clew to the robbers. The store is
located in the Masonic Temple,
where watchman is on duty all
night, but he claims to have seen no
trace of the robbers.
1t is stated that the customs con-
gress, which was one of the three
international gatherings proposed by
the Pan-American congress at its last
meeting in Mexico, will meet in New
York, January Is, 1908. Thirteen re-
publics nave already announced their
purpose of sending delegates. The
sanitary congress will meet Decem-
ber /.
The body of Nels Anderson, said to
have been one of the best known
steamship men in the country, was
found in n clump of bushes on the
Washington park (Chicago) golf
links by a passing policeman. Con-
siderable mystery surrounds the case
as a bullet hole was discovered in the
mans head, but no trace of any
weapons could be found.
Admiral O'Neill, chief of the naval
bureau of ordnance, in his annual re-
port says that the ordnance bureau
wants $13, 3,lo2,SO6 next year, of which
amount 100000 is to be devoted to
arms and armament for new ships.
The gun shop at the Washington
navy yard during the past year
turned out 234 new guns.
Frank +. Elwell, of Brooklyn, n. Y,
an international authority on motor
cycling and a frequent contributor
to the magazines devoted to this
sport, has been killed near Hicksville,
l.. /. His machine broke as he was
speeding along at a fast clip, and he
was hurled to the ground with such
force that his neck was broken.
The volcano of Santa Maria in the
northwestern part of Guatemala is in
eruption. The eruption is attended
with a terrifying roar and shocks
are felt all over Nicaragua, Salvador
and Costa Rica.
The repair shops of the Philadel-
phia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., at
Pottsville, Pa, which have been OPP
Grating on half time since the begin
ming of the coal strike, have resumed
on full time. Nearly 1000 hands
were suspended owing to the strike
and more than 500 of these returned
to work.
A dispatch from Juneau, Alaska,
says: United States Judge Brown has
word from Commissioner Gerton, of
Porcupine, that Johnnie Stick, an In
dian, has guided j. w. Smith and
Frank Alterinose to the boundary
monuments, (Russian) six in number,
in Rainy Hollow, southeast of there,
found by Lieut.. Emmens. The district
is a vast mineral belt in American
territory. The monuments are ten
feet high and built of stone.
Attorney General Knox has decided
that if the United States should ac-
cept the offer of the new Panama Ca
nal Co.. submitted last spring for the
sale of the canal for $4O,0OO,000, it
would receive a valid and unincum-
bered title to the property. The de-
cision was arrived at after a thorough
and exhaustive investigation of the
situation in Paris.
The volcano of Izalco, in Salvador,
is now in state of violent eruption.
The eruption began on September z,
when five large craters formed on the
north side of the volcano, from which
quantities of lava and burning stones
were elected.
DIR. Simon Flexner, the noted toxi-
cologist of the University of Penn
sylvania, having secured human
subject, has demonstrated his ability
to cure rattlesnake bites by means
of antitoNin. The patient was in
noculated Immediately after being
bitten and suffered comparatively no
i'll effects.
Burglars entered the residence of
Mr.. Eakle, a well known business
man of Davenport, Ia, and secured
diamonds and jewelry valued at
81, 900.
One hundred and thirty-one men
employed by the Springfield (Mass.)
Provision Co., branch OF Swift & Co.,
have struck for a shorter working
day and a 90 per cent. increase in
wages.
Surgeon General O'Reilly has re-
ceived a report from Lieut.. Lyster,
of the medical department, who is at
tached to the United States legation
guard at Pekin, China, from which it
appears that the American soldiers
are the only foreigners who have es-
capped the epidemic of cholera up to
date.
District Attorney jerome has made
a personal appeal to Gov. Murphy, of
New Jersey, for aid in preventing the
consummation of what is alleged to
be an effort ITO prevent the state of
New York from getting any witnesses
from New Jersey to testify in the
MolineuX trial.
After binding, gagging and badly
maltreating the night watchman,
John Hamburg, at the Westmoreland
Coal Co.'s Office in West Irwin, Pa,
at an early hour in the morning, four
masked men entered the building and
blew open the safe and secured all