Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-10-03
Army maneuvers al Fort Riley, Kan.

Army maneuvers at Fort Riley, Kan,
began with 5000 troops in camp.
Laura Biggar, actress, is accused of
conspiracy to divert the S2,oOo,ooo es-
tate of Henry NJ. Bennett, Of Pittsburg,
Pa, to herself.
j. Owen Moore, of New York, de-
clared that his daughter obtained a
divorce from Count Won Roden Kohsel
because the latter considered that the
husband of a rich wife needn't work.
Dun e. Co.'S review reported indus
trial activity uninfuenced by money
market trouble.
Gen. Chaffee will sail from Manila
for San Francisco on the transport
Sumner, which will leave Manila in a
few days.
The comptroller of the treasury has
allowed Kentucky $120,s6O for expenses
incurred in raising troops for the war
with Spain.
Wall street is facing financial
crisis, as banks owe huge sums abroad
and will call loans at the expense of
spectators in order to protect them
selves.
Gov. Bliss, of Michigan, has rendered
the United States senatorship made
vacant by the death of James McNlil-
Ian to Gen. Russell A. Alger. AS a
result of a conference of party lead
ers the Withdrawal of Dexter NJ. Ferry
from the race is announced.
At least four, and perhaps several
other persons, were killed in freight
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Rawlins, Wyo.
A life size statue to the Hungarian
patriot, Louis Kossuth, was unveiled
in Cleveland, o., in the presence Of
$4,000 people.
Petition that receiver be appointed
for the leading coal carrying roads
and coal companies in the anthracite
district in Pennsylvania has been filed
| in the Massachusetts, supreme court.
The twentieth week of the strike
ended Saturday and the estimate of
the losses in that period are s123 $780,
600.
Petitions are being circulated
throughout the country by the mem
bers of the various organiza tions com
prising the American Federation of
Catholic societies asking President
Roosevelt to use his good Offices to
end the coal strike.
Tom Clark, alias viii Gibson (col-
ored), self-confessed, murderer of Mrs.
Carey Whitfield, a white woman, was
burned at the stake by a mob at Cor
inth, Miss.
Two of the largest schools in Paw
tucket, r. l., have been closed on ac-
count of the scarcity of coal.
There will be no strike of the em-
ployes of the -four mills of Mime
apolis, Mimi, for, beginning October
13, the mills of Minneapolis will be
operated on an eight-hour schedule,
instead of under the present system
of two 12-hour shifts.
The annual report of the commits
sioner of pensions, Eugene F. Ware,
shows that the number of names on
the pension rolls is 999,446; total
amount paid for pensions during the
fiscal year, $137, ,504,26s; total cost of
maintaining pension system from its
institution to date, S2,992, ,509,019; av-
erage value of each pension, a little
more than $132.
John Mitchell, president of the
United Mine Workers, denies Presi-
dent Baer's statements on the coal
strike. Wages of soft coal miners
are declared 20 to 40 per cent. higher
than of anthracite miners.
President Roosevelt was again
operated on. following a discovery
that the bone was affected by the re-
cent abscess. The scraping process
was resorted TO. Although his tenn
perature is higher physicians say his
| condition is not serious.