Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-12-19
Fea1e Wright. a yonna Farmer. was


his sweetheart, Nellie Snyder, who
lost a leg in the accident.
At Cripple Creek, Col, the sheriff
of Teller county burned more than
$1,000 worth of confscated gambling
tools ON one of the street corners.
Thousands of citizens saw and ap-
plauded the act. The gamblers had
offered TO pay $1,000 into court to be
devoted to charity, if permitted to
remove the property from the coun-
ty, but the judge declined to consider
the offer.
Queen Alexandra intends to mark
her sympathy for the sufferers in the
recent South African war by giving
Christmas dinner to all the widows
and children, now in London, of
those who fell in the war.
The boiler of n locomotive pulling
a passenger train on the Santa Fe
road exploded at point 60 miles east
of Kingman, Ariz. Engineer Thomas
Martin and Fireman George Vanatta
we're instantly killed.
The boiler of a passenger engine
on the Chicago, Peoria G. st. Louis
road exploded between Chesterfield
engineer were fatally scalded. None
of the passengers were injured.
Orders have been placed for 65 new
engines for the Pennsylvania south
west lines, to be delivered between
January and August next year. or
the new engines, 40 will be added to
the equipment and the remainder will
replace worn out engines.
Government cattle agents have
found that foot and mouth disease
prevails among the cattle in the vi
cinity of Chester, VT, to an extent
not previously suspected. Hundreds
of cattle are infected and orders to
kill the diseased animals are being
carried out.
William Chapman, who was sent
from England in 1912, by Sir John
Francis to prospect for slate and dis
covered the now famous slate belt in
Pennsylvania, is dead at Bethlehem,
Pa, aged 81 years.
A general increase of wages OF
trainmen on the Southern railway,
averaging about per cent. in
amount has been granted. The wages
of the engine crews were raised from
. to per cent. and the conductors
and brakemen in a few cases as high
as 10 per cent.
Three girls, aged ., and years,
children of Louis Smith (negro) were
burned to death in n tenement house
at New York City. The parents went
out leaving the children in bed asleep.
Some hours later a fire was discov-
cred, and before the children could
be reached they had been burned to
death.
Prof. Edmund O'Neill, OF the Uni:
versity of California, has discovered
process for making cyanide of potas-
stun from the nitrogen of the atmos-
phere, a discovery that will greatly
reduce the cost of the precious COM
pound.
Salvador has applied for a reduc-
tion of the award aggregating $780,
900 made by the arbitration board
| which met in Washington last spring,
for injuries inflicted upon the Saliva
dor Commercial Co., an American
concern, through the appropriation
of their franchise. The allegation is
made that the award is excessive.
At Saginaw, Mich, Frances Wirth,
3 years old, one of five children re-
Gently bitten by mad dog, died of
hydrophobia in terrible agony. Busi-
ness men raised a subscription OF
81, 900 TO send three other children to
Chicago to take the Pasteur treat
ment.
The house on the 18th passed an
urgent deficiency bill carrying $780,
900 for eradicating the foot and
mouth disease in New England. The
senate's proceedings were unimport-
| ant.
Sol Hirsch, ex-United States min
lister to Turkey, is dead at Portland,
| Ore.
The statement of this country's
| foreign trade for November shows a
| our favor of over $24,OO0,0OO COM
pared with November, 1901.
"A man who perished in quicksand
near Halpina, Miss, has been iden-
titled as George Kilrain. When Kill
rain struck the quicksand he sank up
to his armpits and remained in that
position for two days before death
relieved him.
The department of agriculture has
issued an order requiring that all
freight cars unlo>ded in the region
infected with the foot and mouth dis
ease in New England shall be disin-
fected before being allowed to pro-
ceed.
AIT st. Louis Judge Ryan overruled
the motion for new trial filed by
attorneys for Robt. NJ. Snyder, the
banker and promoter, of New York
and Kansas City, convicted of brib-
cry and sentenced him to five years
in the penitentiary. Notice of appeal
was given. Snyder is now at liberty
on bond.
Suffering with what the doctors be-
lieve to be the hydrophobia, caused
by n scratch on the wrist by pet
maltese cat, Thomas Rogers. an en-
gineer, is dying in Bellevue hospital,
New York City. About three Weeks
ago he was scratched by his pet cat.
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