Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-10-23
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 Readers,


peace of New Hampton, Ia, who dis
appeared in Chicago during centen-
nial week.
While digging for coal in an aban-
doned mine near Dravosburg, Pa,
Daniel Sorg and two brothers discov-
cred about $4,000 worth of clothing,
dry goods, hardware, etc, secreted in
n deserted portion of the mine. The
police officials are of the opinion that
the goods were placed in the mine by
n band of thieves that has been oper-
ating in the Monongahela valley for
n year.
The strike of the 300 freight hand
1ers which has been on at Kansas
City, Mo-, since June, has been Off
cially declared off. Men We're i'm
ported to fill most of the places of
the strikers.
Eleven states and the island of Por-
TO Rico are to be asked to increase
their appropriations for buildings
and displays at the Worlds Fair.
BY the blowing out of the metal
gate of a natural gas well, near
Worthington, Pa, six men were
caught in an immense volume of gas
and hurled through the air like chaff.
al were seriously injured and Frank
r. Patterson, n contractor, will prob
ably die. The others will recover.
An unknown girl, a freshman
student in the University of Nebras-
ka, took a large dose of poison while
standing in front of st. Theresas pro
cathedral. She then staggered into
the church and trying to kneel in
pew, died while in the act of mutter-
ing a prayer.
At Asheville. N. c., DIR. j. V. Jay,
prominent physician residing near
that place, killed his three children,
using clawhammer as the weapon.
He then set fire to his home. The
flames were eXtinguished by neigh
bors.
Frank Thompson, negro, was
stabbed and instantly killed by fell
low workman named Hosler, near
Nassau, Rensselaer, county, n. Y.
They were members of a wood-cut-
ting gang, and all had been quarrel
ing.
The trial which commenced at Mos
cow, Russia, October Z, of several Rus
slams who were accused of racing an
American horse, William S. X. A, as
a Russian horse, whereby they won
$10,500, has resulted in the acquittal
of the accused persons.
Careful estimates of the amount
of oil in storage in the Beaumont,
Tex, Sour Lake and Saratoga fields
show 13,50O,OOO barrels in these and in
intervening sections.
r Great Britain is sending two addi-
tional warships to China. The first
class cruiser Europa has been ordered
into commission at Portsmouth, for
dispatch 10 the Chinese station, and a
lbattleshiR- will be sent there from the
Mediterranean squadron.
The relief fund for the sufferers
from the recent flood in Paterson, n.
j., amounts to about $4,000. 1t will
be used in supplying clothing and
household effects for the persons who
are most in need.
William Docllery, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, will live after falling six stories
to the pavement below. He was work
ing on a high building and lost his
balance. He landed upon coil of
rope, which broke his fall. Dockery
suffered fractures of the left wrist
and right ankle, but is otherwise un-
injured.
The strike of $50 employees of the
Paint and Organ Supply Co., of Chi
cago, for the "closed shop" has fail
ed.
The situation of the sultan of Mo-
rocco is gradually becoming desper-
ate. The minister of wars forces
have been defeated and dispersed,
causing a general decentralization of
the imperial forces.
Representative of 16 independent
coke companies met at Uniontown,
Pa, and formed an organization to
maintain coke prices. a committee
was appointed to call upon the
larger operators in the Connellsville
region and endeavor to have them
cooperate with them.
Advices received at London say that
wreckage from the British bark Loeb
Long, which sailed from Noumea,
New Caledonia, April 30 for Greenock,
has been washed ashore at the Chat
ham Islands and it is feared the
vessel and the "a persons on board
of her have been lost.
The Ohio and Colorado Co.'s smelter
at Salida, Col, is closed, the employees
having quit work because the man
agement notified them that they
would be required to work 10 hours
a day. The men offered to accept a
20 per cent cut in wages for an eight
hour day, but the company refused.
A Pekin dispatch to the London
Times describes mysterious attempt
to blow up the magazine of the Brit
ish legation during military ball
Wires were laid, but were not con-
nected with the battery. AT the same
time the breech blocks and sights OF
Al inch gun were stolen, but have
since been discovered in the native
city.
At Reading, Pa, Thomas j. Dugan
conductor on the Reading & South
western branch of the United Trac.
tion Co., was killed by his car crash.
ing into telegraph pole. The car
left the tracks because of the slippery
condition of the rails. Joseph Ober.
holtzer, the motorman, lad a leg
broken and half dozen women pas
sengers were more or less bruised.
Prof. Charles L. Greene, dean Of
the department of engineering at the