Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-27


mer governor of Kentucky, is re-
ported to have been pardoned after
having served three months.
At n meeting of manufacturers of
bar iron east of Pittsburg it was de-
cided to reduce the output by so per
cent. and to run the mills on part
time for an indefinite period, owing
to overproduction.
At Danville, Ky, fire laid waste n
half block of the principal business
portion of the city, The loss will
probably reach $4,000.
The steamer Gladstone, bound
from Milwaukee with u cargo of
grain collided with the Davidson
steamer Sacramento, a quarter of a
mile east of Bar Point light ship in
Lake Erie and sank in 20 feet of
water. The crew was uniniured.
A dense smoke covers the whole of
southwest Texas and southwest
forest fires. The prairie between
Houston and Beaumont is blackened
for miles and the forest is a blaze
in many places.
| Three persons were burned to
death in fire which destroyed the
power house of the sanitarium at
Markleton, near Somerset, Pa. 1t is
| not known how the fire started.
Frank Baconn, clerk in the WASH
ington city postottice who signed an
| affidavit making charges against sew
eral officials i'll connection with the
case of Louis Kempner, the recently
dismissed chief of the registry divis-
ion of the postotiice department, has
been removed by order of the post
master general.
At Norfolk, Va, one million feet of
lumber, ten loaded lumber cars and
the five hundred foot pier of the
Rowland Lumber camp, at Primers
Point, have been destroyed by fire.
august Mortina and August Mosh-
mar, miners, were killed and Erwin
Kline and Henry Lester, section men,
fatally injured by boiler explosion
at the shaft of the Carbon Coal Co.
in Albee township, Michigan.
Daniel f. Lang, foreman of the
press rooom of the r. R. Donnelly g.
Sons Co. at Chicago, was attacked by
mob of striking pressmen and in
defending himself, killed Emil
Reichow, one of his assailants, with q
bullet through the forehead.
The residence of Mrs. Mary Baker
G. Eddy, the founder of Christian
Science, at Concord, n. H., was en-
tered and a number of gold and silver
articles and other valuables were
taken.
Student disturbances occurred at
the university at Barcelona, in the
course of which bomb was thrown.
A panic was caused, but little dam
age was done. The rector of the uni
versity appealed to the civil governor
to maintain order.
Passenger train No. on the Van
dalia railroad train was stopped Just
went of Ben Davis, Ind. Two tramps
compelled the brakeman at the point
of revolver to signal the engineer
to stop so they could get off.
While attempting to arrest Henry
Marks. accused of burglary, Detective
John Quinn of the Chicago city police
force was shot by Marks and died
two hours later.
A dispatch from Dawson says that
the office of the Yukon Sun was
wrecked by an explosion of gasoline
in the basement. Fire consumed the
building and destroyed the plant.
Loss $4,000. The men at work did
not have time to get their coats and
hats, but rushed outside with the
temperature at 35 degrees below
zero.
The details of the big consolidation
of window glass interests of the
country are rapidly being worked
out, and it is expected selling
agency, to be known as the Manufac-
turers' Window Glass Co., will be do
ing business December 12.
The Lorain Steel Co. has secured
contract to put in complete cleo
trio trolley system in the city of
Wolverhampton, England This is
said to be the first contract ever
ing such n system.
bound from Arendal, Norway, for
Sable Bay, Cape Colony, has been
wrecked off Borjerg, Jutland. The
crew of Is men were drowned.
In freight wreck on the Southern
railway near Batsam, n. c., Engineer
Guy Moore, of Asheville, and Brake
man Charles Porter, of Andrews,
were killed.
An appeal has gone from Berks
county, Pa, to the supreme court of
the United States to determine
whether Margaret Cunnius, formerly
of Reading, Pa, now living in Sacra-
mento, CAL, is legally dead or alive.
For years she was supposed to be
dead, but she was not. The superior
court of Pennsylvania decided she
was legally alive. The supreme court
of the state, however, decided she
was dead. She now asks the highest
court in the land to make her alive
in law.
George II. Smith, of Niagara Falls,
N. y, has had two false teeth re-
moved from his stomach. Smith
swallowed plate with the teeth on
it during a fiji of coughing. He went
to Buffalo where friends advised an
operation, which was performed.
The secretary of the interior has
from Office +. ID. Campbell,
clerk of the town site commission of
the Creek Nation in Indian Territory,
pending the outcome of an indict-
ment against him in connection with
alleged land frauds in the territory. |
Mrs. Phebe Clifford, the oldest min
ister in the Society of Friends in the
world, is dead at Providence, r. l.,