Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-10-09
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burned with all its mail. \ freight
train was being run to another track
and the cabooSc had not cleared the
first track when the mail came along
The latter scraped along the caboose
until the last car was reached, when
the caboose and freight car were
derailed and held fast the last mail
car. The wreck caught fire and all
three cars were burned.
Fearing an epidemic of yellow
fever, number of persons living
along the Rio Grande have appealed
TO the war department for the estab-
lishment of shotgun" quarantine
and that soldiers be ordered to this
duty.
The civil service commission has re-
ceived call from the Philippine gov
ernment for $50 male teachers, and
will hold examinations at various
cities on October 10 and 30. The sal
aries range from 500 to 200 per an
nun.
Thirty persons suffering from
sabre cuts applied at the Red Cross
stations in Berlin to have their
wounds dressed after :iot between
omnibus strikers and non-unionists.
Ihe police on foot charged the riot
ers with drawn swords and finally
mounted police cleared the streets.
The United States gunboat Mono
cacy, stationed at Taku, China, hiss
been sold to n Japanese merchant for
S11,325 in gold. The Monocacy was
built in Baltimore in 1868. She is n
schooner rugged, sidewheel steamer,
and has been on the Chinese station
a long time.
Serious riots have occurred at Euda
Pest. Striking van drivers came in
conflict with the police and 60 persons
were injured, ten of them seriously.
The police fired on the rioters and
several of the latter were wounded.
Troops were summoned to restore or
der.
At Chicago two local unions of the
United Garment Workers of America
have been granted an injunction by
Judge Tuthill, to prevent interfer-
ence on the part of employers and
rival unions. Unjust discrimination is
charged, the trouble being an out
growth of the fight between the gar
ment workers and the special order
clothing makers.
At Marshalltown, Ia, an important
decision, favoring the municipalities
of the state was given by Judge Cas-
WELL of the district court. The court
holds that under the statutes the
street railway companies are liable
for share in the expenses of paving,
although the companies may have
been exempted by former councils
under previous statutes.
After a lockout of over seven
months the 600 employees of the plant
of the American Corn Products Co.,
known as the Chicago glucose fac
tory, will go back to work under
union conditions, with union men and
hours. The trouble arose in Febru-
airy, when the Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners organized the
millwrights employed by the company
and demanded so cents an hour. The
company then locked out its men and
closed its plants, being the first firm
in Chicago to take that course.
A general strike of the union plumb
ers in the Pittsburg district went in
10 effect on the 1st and 700 journey
men and about 400 apprentices are
idle. The new wage scale calls for an
advance of so cents and an eight-hour
day. Several small firms not mem
bers of the association have signed
the scale, but only about 100 men are
working.
The grand jury at Bunker Hill, H.,
on charge of murder i'll the first de-
gree has held Mrs. Ida Cutler, who is
accused of poisoning Ewart Checks
field, 6-year-old boy. The Gullers
have charge of milk dairy and Ewart
was son of one of their customers.
The Penooyd iron works at Phila-
delphia has posted notice in the
steel mill that wages will be reduced
from 10 to 20 per cent. The wages
of men receiving under $4 day will
be cut 10 per cent, and those recev
ing from 81 to SO day will suffer
reduction of 20 per cent. This, order
will affect chiefly the rollers, who
earn the highest wages.
Eleven hundred miners in Spring
field, ILL.,, sub-district have struck be-
cause the operators failed to comply
with the law passed at the last ses-
sion of the general assembly, provid-
ing that the operators shall erect
wash houses near mines for the use
of the miners.
A disastrous head-end collision oc-
Cured on the Salt Lake division of
the Southern Pacific at Beowuwe,
New. The first section of the Atlantic
express from San Francisco collided
with a freight train. One passenger
was killed and twenty injured.
Nineteen members of the Chicago
sheet metal contractors combine, So
called, have been indicted for CON
spiracy, on the testimony of Eli c.
Rysdon and others. The men are
charged with having formed an illegal
combination for the purpose of in
juring Rysdon's business.
Suit for $4,000 damages has been
filed at Louisville, KY, in the federal
court against the Bricklayers' union
by the Hydraulic Brick Co., which is
said to have been boycotted last Au-
gust by the first named organization.
Each member of the union, 1l3 in all,
is made party to the suit.
David Nation, divorced husband of
Mrs. Carrie Nation, is dead at Ned
icine Lodge, Kan
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