Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-11-07
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


assumed command of the Asiatic
squadron.
Gov. Brodie, of Arizona, in his an
nual report to the secretary of the in
terror, renews the plea for statehood.
Members of the National Associa-
ton of Builders in session in Washing
ton were urged to organize for self
protection against labor unions.
Railroad officials have abandoned
the movement TO abolish passes, be-
gun one year ago.
Engineer Conn and two unknown
men were instantly killed and many
passengers injured in a railway wreck
near Oxford. o.
Burglars stole $4,000 from the pri-
vate bank of Charles X. Knapp at
Sodus, n. Y.
At Appleton, Wis, Martin Cornelius
wealthy saloonkeeper, was held up
and robbed of $4,000.
The annual report of j. L. B.istow,
fourth assistant postmaster general,
says there were 1,746 robberies of post
Offices last year, II robberies of mail
trains, 16 of mail messengers, and 465
of letter boxes.
A glue trust, with Sc. 900, 900 capital,
has been incorporated at Jersey City,
N. j.
Mitchell day" was celebrate ed
throughout the anthracite mining
regions of Pennsylvania with parades
and speeches.
President Roosevelt, in an article
written in 1900 on the duties and re-
sponsibilities of the president, says
the successful executive has per-
formed one of the great world tasks.
The Exchange bank at Gardner, ILL.,,
was looted by six masked men, who
carried away $4,000 in currency.
c. w. Hooper shot and killed his
wife and then killed himself at In
dependence, Kan. Family trouble
was the cause.
Mary, Sophia and May Gibson, aged
IL, IL and ten years, daughters of
Thomas Gibson, farmer, were muir
dered at their home near Wynne,
Ark.
Pittsburg workmen threw bricks
from n roof at the Fourteenth nation
al guard regiment, returning from
the coal strike duty.
Snow fell in western and northern
New York and Maryland.
ii. E. Christensen, president of the
Farmers and Merchants bank at
Sharpsburg. Ia, is missing, and is
charged with taking $4,000 belonging
10 the bank.
The arbitration commission visited
the coal mines near Scranton and in
spected the workings and conditions
underground and on the surface.
A combine of the malleable iron
plants of the country has been formed
Striking students of the Michigan
agricultural college in Lansing agreed
to return to their classes and submit
their differences to arbitration.
Two big consultations are planned
by beef interests. Packers will COM
bine first and then effect merger
of all stock yards in the country.
At Kenosha, Wis, Daniel Avery was
sentenced to life Imprisonment for the
murder of Rachel Davis, colored ac.
tress.
Alaska's gold output this year is
estimated at $16,0OO,OoO.
William and Albert Wilkinson and
Julia, their sister, were found dead in
their home near Palmyra, Wis. Muir
der and robbery is suspected.
Frederick Roberts killed Mrs
Charles Cooper in Pueblo, Col, because
she refused to marry him and then
killed himself.
1t is said that South Manitou island
is gradually sinking into Lake Michi-
gan.
President Roosevelt and a small
party left Washington on an outing of
day or two in Virginia.
Five New Orleans banks are said
10 have been defrauded out of $500.
900 by son of one of the oldest com
mission merchants of the city.
The coal strike commissioners de-
cided that any change in wages that
may be decided ON shall be effective
from November /.
The supreme court of appeals SAYS
that failure to use copyright notice
in publishing copyright story does
not give the right to other persons
TO publish the story for their own
use.
Fire destroyed nearly the whole of
the business portion of Primghar, la.
A jury at Grand Rapids, Mich,
awarded Mrs. Charles j. Lewis $4,000
damages for the death of her hus-
band, who died from injuries re-
ceised while being initiated into a
secret society.
The National Builders association
is considering the plan of stopping all
work whenever labor unions order a
strike thus shutting off the source of
supply.