Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-13
SHORT NEWS NOTES
They Come From Many Parts
of the World.
Information of Recent Date Collected
in Various Ways and Condensed
for the Convenience OF
Our busy Renders.

mas arrived hU San rTdllClSCo Wllh
only 1870 barrels of oil. The captain
reports the loss of seven big whales
and two boats smashed during the
cruise.
Clinton Rogers Woodruff, of Phil
ndelphia, the secretary of the Ma
tional Municipal league, has been APP
pointed by Secretary Hitchcock. of
the interior department, special in
spector for the Indian service to
serve as colleague of Charles j.
Bonaparte, in investigating the
charges incident to the administra-
ton of Indian affairs in Indian Terri
tory.
Thomas Walsh, lad of IA, employ
ed in u rope factory at New York
City, met with n peculiarly horrible
accident which undoubtedly will cost
his life. His body was perforated by
q thousand steel needles in the ma
Chinery.
1t Is officially announced by the
United States Steel Corporation that
the price of steel billets has been re-
duced $500 ton and that the price
of steel rails will not be changed.
The Mormon church has purchased
for s., 900 the old Jail at Carthage, ILL.,,
in which Joseph Smith, the Mormon
prophet, and his brother Hiram were
killed by mob in the early history
of the state.
The striking laborers on the power
plants at Niagara Falls, Ont, have re-
turned to work, accepting $3.50 day
and the strike is over. The militia on
guard have gone home.
AS a result of the annual confer
ence of immigration commissioners
just concluded, Commissioner General
Sargent predicts n much more rigid
enforcement of the Chinese exclusion
law than has obtained heretofore.
Emperor Williams schooner yacht
Meteor will go to the United States
In the spring to take part in the
ocean race for the emperor's cup.
A new bowling record was made at
Chicago in the tournament of the
Monroe league when the Sunsets
made n score of Liz.
After murderously assaulting n
man who had taken his old job in a
brewery at Clifton, Staten Island,
Richard Reich went home and shot
himself to death. Five minutes later
the police were beating at the doors.
Statistics prepared by the geologi-
cal survey show that the production
of precious jewels in the United
States in 1902 amounted to $31S,30o,
while $25,412,776 represents the total
value of such stones imported into
this country in the same time.
The supreme court of Colorado will
be called upon to inve stigate recent
election frauds. w. H. BrJant, presi,
dent of the League for III ,hcsr Elec-
tions, consulted with several of the
ablest attorneys in Denver and it was
the concensus of opinion that such a
proceeding should be adopted.
Sam Adams, n young negro, Grim
finally assaulted Mrs. Peter Ladusse at
Pass Christian, Miss. He escaped
but was captured and a mob took him
from the Jail and hanged him to a
tree.
An explosion of gas in pit at the
repair shops of the Pennsylvania
railroad at Pittsburg killed two mer
almost instantly. The men were nj
work in the pit repairing an hydraulic
jack, when the gas formed from
chemicals used in operating the jack
ignited from lighted torch.
Angered beyond his powers of con
troll, Walter f. Bassett, II years old
shot and instantly killed Peter Clark
an 11-year-old schoolmate, at Taun
ton, Mass.
The Grange block, four story
brick building in Olathe, Kan, ha.
been totally destroyed by fire. The
building occupied half block in the
principal street of Olathe and in j
were the Grange opera auditorium.
Peter o. Elliott, the Minneapoli:
man who some time ago attempted tc
see President Roosevelt at the Whit,
House and who violently resisted tn,
efforts of officers to eject him, ha:
been brought back to Minneapolis, ad
Judged insane and sent to the stat'
asylum at st. Peter, MINI.
Some time ago Gen. Davis, com
manding the Division of the Philip
pines, recommended u reduction o
the garrison in those islands and thu
secretary of war authorized the chic
of staff to determine what reduction
should be made. Lieut.. Gen. Young
has decided that the garrison in th'
Philippines for the present should re
main at four regiments of cavalry ant
nine of infantry.
A serious combat has taken plac
on the Brazilian frontier between
the Uruguyan police and Brazilians
Several persons were killed and 4
number wounded.
AT special meeting in New Yorl
City of the board of directors of tn
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railroad Co. the road was authorizes
to issue ultimately when needed $50
100000 of per cent. bonds.
Eleven hundred leather worker
employed by the American Hide an
Leather Co. in its four tanneries n
Chicago have struck to enforce thei
demands for an adjustment of work
ing conditions.
AT Monmouth, Ill.,, Alfred Hergei
under arrest in that city, charge
with robbing the state bank of Bel
wick, was identified as one of the me
wanted in Chicago for the car bar
hold up and murder. The identitict
tion was made by James feeling,
street car conductor, and detectiv
w. j. Egan and Lieut.. Dorman of tn
Chicago police.
While responding to an alarm of fir
five members of truck compan