Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-04

is dying of grief at Joliet, III. He
has been taken from the Jail to ths
hospital and the doctors say he will
not live to face the grand jury i'm
dictment for murder pending against
him.
Gen. Don Carlos Hasselteno, a dis
tnguishcd scholar and linguist, died
at his home in Denver recently. He
was born in New Orleans in 1925 of
Spanish parentage. Gen. Hesselteno
was graduate of Miami Yale and
Heidelberg universities and served
in the Confederate army. He was
captured as a spy and sentenced to
be shot, but escaped.
The Leroy, n. Y, plow works with
entire contents was totally destroyed
by fire. Loss 100000; half covered
by insurance. The plant had been
shut down for two weeks. The watch
man making his rounds, while in the
vanishing rooms, dropped his Ian
tern.
The estate of Mrs. James G.. Blaine,
who died recently, will reach $2,0o0,-
600. Apart from valuable real estate
at Washington, Bar Harbor and Au-
gusta, Me, there are stocks and
bonds which amount to a million or
more.
John Carlisle, one of the most
prominent and formerly one of the
wealthiest men in Cincinnati, is dead,
aged 81 years. He constructed part
of the Ohio & Mississippi railway,
was formerly vice president of the
Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton rail-
way. and trustee of the Southern rail
way. He was largely interested in
Kentucky coal lands and buildings
and business in Cincinnati.
Rev. j. S. j. Mcconnell, recording
secretary of the board of church eN-
tension of the Methodist Episcopal
church. is dead at Philadelphia after
protracted illness. DR.. Mcconnell
was until recently secretary for the
Philadelphia conference of the twen-
tieth century fund, in which capacity
he was instrumental in raising ST.
100000. He was GA years old.
At Philadelphia all of the striking
employees of the textile mills oper-
ated by John & James Dobson,
with the exception of 100 settlers and
80 printers in the carpet department
and about 600 hanus who have Sc
cured positions elsewhere, returned
resumed numbered 2,2OO. The set
ters and printers constitute skilled
labor of the highest class.
From n barricaded clubhouse Ever
lit Fleming, II years of age, shot and
killed Constable Alfred Hall and
seriously wounded George Mullins,
who We're attempting to arrest Flem-
ing in Dickinson county, Va, just
across the state line from Sergeant,
Ky.
The Philadelphia & Reading Coal
and Iron Co. announces a continua-
ton of the special reduction of 25
cents a ton at the mines on pea and
bucllwheat coal, on contracts for Sep
tember, making the price of pea coal
Sl.75 at the mines, the same as
August. Owing to over-production of
anthracite several large collerics
have been closed indefinitely.
Brig. Gen. William II. Penrose, U.
S. A.. retired, is dead at his home in
Salt Lake, Utah. Gen. Penrose was
commissioned from Michigan as a sec
ond lieutenant in the regular army in
1861 and became colonel of New
Jersey volunteer regiment in 1868,
and at the close of the civil war was
a brigadier general of volunteers. lie
re-entered the regular service in 1866
and was retired as colonel in 1856.
\ passenger train on the Wisconsin
Central came into collision with Il
freight engine at Silver Lake, Wis.
Four trainmen were badly injured
and n hundred cattle killed. The pas
sengers escaped injury.
Three men were drowned in a
sewer near the Chicago & Northwest
ern tracks o+ Milwaukee. Contractor
Hickey and two men were at work
in the sewer under the newly de-
pressed track and were caught by a
sudden flood of water and drowned
before they could get out. Several
others had narrow escapes.
The health department of Cuba has
appealed to the authorities of Co
lumbia university and Jefferson Medi-
cal college, of Philadelphia, for aid
in determining the nature of mys-
terious malady that has made it's APP
pearance on the island. The disease
resembles bubonic plague, but it is
said to be more swift in its progress
and more deadly in its effect. 1t first
appeared among the iron workers of
Daiquiri, Santiago province. and
spread rapidly.
The monthly statement of the coin
age executed at the mints of the
United States shows the total coin
age for August to have been $l,l14,-
$50, as follows: Gold S45O,O0O, silver
$452,O00, minor coins $2l2,1S0.
The monthly circulation statement
issued by the comptroller of the cur
rency shows that at the close of bust
ness August 81, 1908, the total circu-
lation of national bank notes was
Si1S,5S7,O7 an increase for the year
of S57,305,2S4, and an increase for the
month of Sl,24l ,4SS.
In accordance with orders issued
recently four colleries of the Union
Coal Co., at Shamokin, Pa, employ
ing 5000 men and boys have closed
down for an indefinite period on ac-