Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-10-17
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Earl Bush and Frank Anspaugh were
blown to pieces by an explosion of
nitroglycerine near Lima, o.
The coal conference began in De-
troit with delegates from 60 cities,
16 states and the District of Column
bia.
The G. A. r. parade in Washington
of $4,000 veterans was reviewed by
President Roosevelt, who drove
along the line of march.
The vote of the miners in the an,
thracite region on a proposition to
return to work was almost unani-
mously in favor of continuing the
strike until concessions are granted,
Garfield Burley and Curtis Brown,
negroes, were lynched at Newbern,
Tenn, by mob for the murder of
farmer.
President Mitchell hurried from
Wilkesbarre to New York in response
to an urgent summons, the nature of
which was not made public, his trip
giving rise to report of neace ne
gotiaticns.
damage north of Marinette, Wis.
a state monument to the memory
of the confederate soldiers was un-
veiled at Perrysville, Ky.
A Nebraska supreme court deci-
sion prohibits reading of the Bible
or singing of sacred songs in the
public schools.
Officials at Washington are much
disturbed over the delay and appar-
ent Indifference on the part of Cuba
in concluding the commercial treaty
Four men were killed and two
wounded in shooting affray in the
streets at El Dorado, Ark.
The Detroit conference on the coal
situation adopted strong resolutions
scoring the coal operators, favoring
receiverships for the mines and
roads, and recommending an extra
session of congress to deal with the
subject and to enlarge the powers of
the interstate commerce commission.
Violence continues in the anthra-
cite region. One striker was killed
by a guard, and two trains were
wrecked by dynamite.
er, was shot and killed by Pole Wat
son near Henderson, KY, because
he persisted in visiting Watson's
daughter.
New Orleans is ruled by striking
street car men and the police are
powerless.
Telegrams have passed between
the officials of the Western Fedora
tion of Miners and President Mitch
ell looking to n complete tie-up of
all bituminous coal mines in the
United States and Canada.
There is strong belief in New York
that the coal strike will soon be set
tied. Railway presidents are likely to
make proposition to President
Mitchell which he can and will accept,
subject to ratification by the miners.
1t is said to contemplate an increase
of ten per cent. in wages.
The bodies of Pleasant Pruitt aged
62, and his wife, aged AZ, were found
in the basement of their home in In
dianapolis. The police say Pruitt
killed his wife and himself.
The largest increase in postal re-
celplS IN Ine history OF the service
is shown in reports of so leading post
Offices for September. The increase
was $5,05s,G04
At the grand army encampment in
Washington Gen. Thomas j. Stewart
of Pennsylvania, was elected com
mander in chief. The report of the
adjutant general shows 263,745 mem.
bers and 6,511 posts. The death loss
the last year was s,299.
The New York police fear coal riots
by the poor when freezing weather
comes.
Mrs. Henry Haubens and her two
sons, aged ten and 12, were fount
dead in their home in Omaha, Ncb
They had been asphyxiated by gas
Circumstances lead to the belief that
1t was case of suicide on the par
of the mother and destruction
through her act of the lives of tn,
boys.
The safe in Henry Welsh's store al
Downngton, Mich, was blown ant
$1,000 belonging to Welsh and 81 ,4o(
in money and papers belonging to
James Lane were taken.