Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-05-08
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Light, Heat and Power Co. has as
signed. The assets are said to be
$4,000 and the liabilities close to
100000. The assignment caused much
excitement at Kittanning, as many
of the prominent business men are
directors in the company. 1t is said
that the stockholders, composed en-
tirely of Kittanning people, will lose
every cent invested in the plant.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, Henry
Hasse, aged IA, confessed that he
shot and killed 7-year-old Charles
Pohlman on the evening of April 10
and with the assistance of his young
er brother, Otto, carried the dead
boy in bag to the Lake Shore rail
road and placed it upon the track.
The Hasse boys claim the shooting
was accidental.
Two hundred and ffty carpenters
and builders went on strike at Kala-
mazoo, Mich, for 35 cents an hour
and an eight-hour day. They have
been getting 30 cents an hour for
nine-hour day. The builders eX-
change declares that the demands
will never be acceded to. Building
in the city is at complete stand
still.
The shipbuilders OF the Clyde have
posted a notice of reduction in
wages amounting to one shilling on
time and 5 per cent. on piece work
per week, commencing May /. At
a meeting held April 2s the Clyde
workmen voted in favor of strike
in the event of this reduction.
Fire in the lumber district along
the water front in North Portland,
Ore. destroyed property valued at
$4,000.
Gov Pennypacker has approved the
ballot bill which was drafted by a
committee appointed by Senator
Quay as chairman of the Pennsyl-
vania republican state committee.
The bill requires the grouping of the
candidates for each office under one
head in the same column, and in
place of the circle at the head of the
column it provides for a square op-
posite the name of each party.
At Toronto, Ont, about 5000 men
nre involved in a strike. Carpenters,
builders, laborers and cement PAYERS
demand an increase of five cents an
hour.
At Bloomington, ILL.,, every member
of the Carpenters'union Horseshoers'
union and several other minor or
CARNATIONS laid down their tools
when the bosses refused to sign the
new scale of increased wages.
All the union plumbers in Scran-
ton, Pa, are on strike and there is
an entire cessation of building OPP
erations where plumbing is essen
tial'to further progress. The plumb
ers demand a minimum wage of 1925
for an eight-hour day; also that no
non-union men be employed in any
capacity on jobs where they are
asked to work, and the limiting of
the number of apprentices in the
shops. y,
William Long, prominent planter
living at Adams Landing on the Mis-
sissippi river, five miles west of Red
wood, Miss, being attracted to a
burning house on his plantation, was
set upon by negroes and killed.
BY the caving in of an old coal
bank at Glendale, Pa, three children
of John Gluscogics, Slav coal miner,
who were picking coal, were buried
under several tons of earth. The
oldest, Victor, aged 10 years, was
killed instantly. The Two others,
Mary and Hubert, are in precarious
condition and it is feared will not
recover.
The numerous forest fires which
have been burning in all sections of
New England have caused losses es-
timated at fully $150,0O0.
The safe of the Merchants State
bank of Freeman, S. D., was raided
by robbers. They secured about
$4,000 and escaped.
Two negro stable boys and 80 val
uable horses were burned to death
in fire which destroyed the stables
of Gould Brokaw's estate at Great
Neck, Long Island. The financial
loss is between $4,000 and $4,000.
Two hundred structural iron work
ers employed on the new cement
plant at northampton, Pa, went on
strike for a nine-hour day and an
increase in wages from $4.05 to $3.50
per day.
Because of the strike of II of its
engineers for higher wages and rec
ognitiOn of their union, the Boston
Towboat Co., which handles the
greater part of the towing business
in Boston, has laid off all it's boats
and declared its purpose of keeping
them idle until the men are ready to
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The Pennsylvania supreme court
has affirmed the decision of the
late Judge Arnold in which the lat
ter refused to charter a Christian
Science association.
Louis Reep, of West Bay City,
Mich, is dead, aged 1O5 years. He
was, it is said in the battle of Water
loo under Blucher.
Over two blocks of buildings in
West Point, Va, the York river ter
minus of the Southern railway, are
IN ashes as the result of ire of
unknown origin. Among the build
jngs burned are the express Office,
the postofiice. the Pemberton house
and number of stores. Loss $685.
OOO
dispatch from Salonica, Turkey,
says the police in their search for
persons suspected of being concerned
in the outrages there discovered that