Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-11
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tN-uGDulN county treasurer VI NUN
Island county, Illinois, has been ar
rested at Victoria. Il. c., on tele-
gram from Rock Island, Ill. Lyford
is alleged to have absconded July ;,
1902, with $4,000 of county funds.
lie will waive eXtradition, having it
is said, made complete confession.
The coal and iron police in Pennsyl-
vania declare that the spirit of the
Molly Mcguire brotherhood is as
strong in certain localities as during
the early '70s, when crime was ram
pant throughout the coal fields. The
authorities of Schuykill county have
endeavored to hunt down the MUIR
derers, but all efforts proved futile.
Five men killed recently are asserted
TO have received missives bearing the
suggestive skull and cross-bones, but
paid no attention to them.
At Maspeth, Long Island, one wom-
IN was killed, two persons probably
fatally injured and two others seri-
ously hurt by an explosion in build
ing used in the manufacture of fire.
works. The buildin" was badly shat
tered and the ruins caught fire. The
body of the dead woman was burned
to crisp.
dead from cnrbolic acid poisoning at
a Brooklyn, n, Y, hospital. Several
years ago her husband died. leaving
her fortune and handsome home
in Williamsburg. Soon she began to
help all sorts of unfortunate families
and as the appeals for aid multiplied
her fortune disappeared. Her home
was lost through the foreclosure of
81 mort on ra nd HnoII 81 a NK,oc 5riNa,,
to seek assistance from folks she had
helped. Most of those persons are
said to have turned her away.
Judge Dennis, of the circuit court
of Baltimore, has removed William
u. Tucker as executor of the estate
of his father, the late Wesley Il.
Tucker, leading shoe merchant.
Tucker, in conjunction with his
mother, the co-eNecutor of the eS
tate, had access to the money be-
longing to the estate and deposited
in safe. OF this he is accused by
his mother of abstracting and con
rerting to his own use $jGOOO0. Tuck
er has disappeared.
The method pursued by the SUI
preme lodge of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen, in increasing the
y,
has been indorsed by the national fra
ternal congress, which is an organiza-
ton composed of representatives of
6s fraternal beneficiary societies.
At Baldwin, l.. L., Deputy Sheriff
Louis j. Cook shot and killed one
burglar, probably fatally wounded
o second and captured two others
He discovered them trying to break
into d.,
Park, and a desperate fight followed,
but Cook escaped injury. The men
are supposed to have belonged to
gang which has been active for sew
eral weeks in that section
The Standard mill at Colorado City,
Col, owned by the United States Re-
duction and Refining Co., against
which institution the present strike
of the miners in the Cripple Creek
district had its inception, has closed
down for an indefinite period. The
employees of The mil, about 200, will
receive one-thiTd wages for an in
definite time because of their loyalty
to the company.
Mrs. Amelia Mueller, aged As years,
who attempted to commit suicide at
Philadelphia on her daughters grave,
was afterward successful in her de-
termination to end her life. She
drowned herself in a bath tub and
few hours later her 10-year-old son
sought death in the same manner,
but was prevented from drowning
himself after desperate struggle
with two policemen.
Following closely on the start of
the big window glass plant at Kane,
PA the haf ha nat
man Glass Co., at Cleveland, n. Y,
and the Vincennes Window Glass Co.,
at Nincennes, Ind, each of 24-pot
capacity, will be put in operation,
without wage scales or the recogni-
tion of either of the workers. organi-
cations.
Two-fold interest attaches to yes
sci built in Chicago and just sent on
its first trip across Lake Michigan.
The boat is the Grace j., the small
est freighter on the lakes and the
first gasoline freight ship ever given
attention by the United States in
spectors at Chicago. 1t is believed to
be the only freigh,er of its kind en-
tered on the lists of the United
States inspection service.
Injunction proceedings instituted
- D'' iohlS ny AllOTntN btneTal
Crow before Judge Taylor, of the
circuit court, reveal an apparent at
tempt on the part Of the Lacede Gas
Light Co. to regulate and control the
prices of gas ranges manufactured
and sold in st. Louis. The Laclede
Gas Co. was recently sold to the
North American Co., of Philadelphia,
which is capitalized at $GO,OOO,OOO
Preferring death to facing a serious
charge, Andrew w. Gorsline, a Long
Island City manufacturer, has com
mitted suicide in his cell in the
Queens county Jail by inhaling illu-
minating gas. In win found in his
cell Goraline bequeathed all his prop
perty to his nephew. who made the
complaint on which Andrew was ar
rested.
The Twentieth regiment of infan-
try, the largest part of which is now