Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-10-09

the Confederate army by reason OF
gallantry.
Dashing over an cmban<mcnt in
their automobile Herman Bowman, n
publisher of Richmond Hill, l.. l., his
wife, and their 5-year-old son were
seriously hurt while descending hill
in East New York. The machine was
| wrecked.
Fifteen persons were injured at
South Farms, Connecticut. by the de-
railmcnt Of Il trolley car on a curve
at the foot of hill.
The French lugger President Car
not has been wrecked Off the coast of
Holland. Thirteeo persons were
drowned.
An explosion of gas occurred in M.
/ - mine of tho plymouth Coal Co. nt
| plymouth, Pa, In which seven mrn
were badly burned. All the victims
are foreigners.
Exports from the Philippine Islands
! have increased fully 20 per cent dur
! ing the last year, with the total
amounting in value to $33,6O6,5s7.
Near Union City, Ind, one man was
killed, one fatally injured and five
| others received broken bones and
serious injuries by the breaking of an
axle on a lumber car on freight
train. All the injured were tramps.
! Thirteen of them were stealing a ride
on the car.
Ten men of the crew of the Nor
wegian schooner Arendal, rescued
from their disabled vessel. were
brought to Boston by the steamer
| Bostonian. The Arendal was bound
from Newport News for Pernambuco
with coal and had become dismasted
and lost all her boats when the Bos-
tonian fell in with her. As there was
no hope of saving the vessel she was
set ON fire when the crew left.
vt Augusta, Me, after being idle
more than two months, the cotton
mills of the Edwards Manufacturing
Co. have resumed operations on full
time. The mills. which employ 1900
operatives, shut down on account of
the high price of raw cotton on July
81.
While lodging complaint against
woman whom he charged with rob-
bing him of $4,000. Wells Reed, for
merly cashier of the Los Angeles
brs nch of the California Fruit Cam
ners' association, has himself been
| arrested at st. Louis, charged with
embezzling $1,000 from his former en-
ployers.
The boiler in the hosiery mill of
Turner Birkhead at Beverly, y. j.. en-
ploded recently, instantly killing John
Stuckey, the watchman and damaging
the plant to the extent of about SlO,-
600. The boiler and dye house were
demolished and one end of the main
mill was wrecked.
George Hoether, Russian em-
ployed on farm near Caseville,
Mich, took his wife and four children
rowing on Pigeon river. While pass
ing under small foot bridge one of
the. children stood up in the boat and,
losing his balance, capsized it. Three
of the children, John, aged 12; Mary,
| aged 4, and Lena, aged ., were
| drowned.
At Kansas City, Mo-, while suffer-
ing from temporary insanity, Miss
Adelaide Pribbenow, music teacher,
whose parents live in Omaha, threw
herself out of a third-story window
of fashionable hotel, ran ten blocks
to the railroad yards in the north end
of the city, threw herself in front of
n passing train and was ground to
pieces.
At Franklin, KY, Judge Cantrill
gave judgment for the commonwealth
against eX-State Auditor Sweeney and
his bondsmen for sums aggregat-
ing $4,000 which We're paid to main
tain soldiers under Gov. Taylor in
1900.
Returns from all the towns in Con-
necticut where elections were held
recently with the exception of Kill
lingworth, show that 1913 went repub-
lican, 81 returned democratic major
tiles and in one, Canterbury, there
was tie vote.
Gen. Ola, leader of the insurgent
armies in the province of Albay, Luz
zon, continues to turn over the guns
of his command to the American au-
thorities. During the campaign 100
insurgents were killed and 700 men
and 100 guns were captured.
Two men were struck by an Allan
tic City express train on the Penn
sylvania railroad at Merchantville, n.
j. One was instantly killed and the
other died at a hospital.
NJ. q. Jones, clerk of the board of
education in Kansas City, has con-
fessed at meeting of the board to
having received part of the prem
iums pad fire insurance companies for
insuring the school buildings of that
city.
After hearing an explanation from
Mayor Harrison concerning the mu-
nicipal graft" charges, the Chicago
city council has voted to establish
system of espionage over the city en-
ployes. 1t also appointed a commit
tee of nine aldermen to conduct an in
vestigation of the city's depart
ments.
The New York court of appeals has
affirmed the Judgment of the. lower
court against Frederick Wadhams,
notary public, who used Pullman
Company pass, declaring him public
officer within the meaning of the law
preventing such officers using or ac-
cepting free transportation.
Henry A. Castle, auditor of the
postotiice department, has completed