Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-04-17
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of Frajana. After the customary |
prayers the tribesmen advanced with |
a wild rush, to the accompaniment |
of religious eNhortations. Twice they |
attempted to carry the fortress by |
assault, but were repulsed by well |
directed fusillades, which killed num-
5ers of the insurgents. During the |
attack the powder supply of the
tribesmen exploded, killing many.
Mrs. Amanda Williams, who came
to Kansas City, Mo-, recently from
Texas, shot and fatally wounded
Carroll Nix, of Fayetteville, Ark,
while the latter was asleep in his
room. Mrs. Williams and Nix were
former Sweethearts.
P. A. b. Widener, the capitalist and
traction magnate of Philadelphia,
has offered to that city his entire art
collection providing an art museum
Is erected at the Green street en-
trance to Fairmount park.
Three hundred guests of the Vic
toria hotel at New York City were
routed from bed by smoke from a
fire nearby, and all the other occu-
pants of the buildings in the block
bounded by Twenty-siXth and Twen-
ty-seventh streets, Broadway and
Fifth avenue were frightened. The
fire was in a building in Fifth ave-
nue. used as storage warehouse for
paintings and antiques, and the dam
age is estimated at 100000.
The Milwaukee & Southern Rail-
way Co. has filed articles of incorpo-
ration with the Wisconsin secretary
of state, its purpose being to con-
struct and operate railway from
Milwaukee to East st. Louis, III.
At Elizabeth, n. j., owing to the
spreading of rails a drill engine on
the Central railroad of New Jersey
left the track and plunged down
20-foot embankment into pond. The
engineer and fireman and a brake
man wave buried under the engine.
The brakeman was taken out alive
but died soon after he had been
taken to a hospital.
Israel Isdaner, owner of a Phila-
delphia tenement house in which
three lives were lost by fire, has
been committed by the coroner to
await the action of the grand jury
on the charge of criminal neglect. 1t
was shown that Isdaner had failed
to provide fire escapes on the prop
erty as required by law, and the cor
pner's jury held him responsible for
the death of the tenants.
A receiver has been appointed to
take charge of the affairs of the
Mississippi Valley Stove Co., whose
factory is at Fulton, Ill. The COM
pany is said to have consented to the
entry of Judgment for $4,000.
Will Alexander, 32 years of age,
seriously wounded Miss Irba y oung
at Little Rock, Ark. Alexander after
firing two shots at Miss Young sent
a bullet through his brain. 1t is
thought Miss Young will recover.
A sharp earthquake shock was felt
in Mexico City recently. Some excite
ment prevailed 1or time, many peo-
pie rushing into the streets fearing
that the earthquake might prove SER
ious. No damage resulted, however.
Brigham Young, president of the
council of 12 apostles of the Mormon
church, is dead at Salt Lake, Utah
He was born at Kirkland, Ohio, in
1886, and was the eldest son of Pres.
ident Brigham Young.
A man identified as Kirty Smith
of No. 153 West 117th street, New
York, was found dead recently in the
sleeping apartment of Fifth avenue
Turkish bath house at Pittsburg, Pa
The false work of the Pan Handle
railroad bridge at Pittsburg, Pa.
which is being rebuilt, caught fire re
Gently and all the false work be
tween the south side and the SECOND
pier was completely destroyed.
An immense tract of coal has JUS
been discovered in Hanover town
ship, south of Wilkesbarre, Pa, OF
land owned by the Delaware, Lacka
wanna & Western and the Lehigh &
Wilkesbarre Coal Co. Eight new
veins have been discovered which
were never before found in the up
per coal fields.
Advices from Toxic say the cover
nor of French Indo-China has agaiI
threatened to intervene in the Boxer
troubles in the Chinese province o
Kwang-Si and that French troops
are ready to march across the from
tier.
The state department at Washing
ton has announced the appointment
of Herman r. Dietrich of Utica
Mo-, as consul-general at Guayaquil
Ecuador, to succeed Thomas II. Mast
the cartoonist, who died of yellow fe
yer while serving at that post.
Nnlle temporarily ueranBeu fTaHl
Hush, of Erie, ILL.,, shot and kille'
mis- wife while on the way to churcl
and then returned home and killet
himself. Their little daughter star
tiled the congregation by runnin!
into church and telling of the trag
edy.
Charles A. Singer, president of TIL
New York & Stamford trolley road
mas decided to introauce the automo
bile as ar adjunct to modern rail
roading. He will use a machine ca
pable of a speed of As miles an hou
in patrolling the trolley track
from Larchmont to South Beach,
distance of 20 miles.
At Battle Creek, Mich, a trolle
car was struck by Grand Trun
train at the Jefferson avenue cross
iing and mashed into kindling wood
Two passengers received painful bu
not fatal injuries. The escape of tn
iother occupants of the car was al