Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-10-16


were found bottle containing white
vitriol and revolver, said to be of
the magazine pattern similar to that
supposed to have been used in the re-
cent car barn murder at Chicago.
The miners strike in Elk Garden, or
West Virginia Central field, has prac-
tically been broken. About 500 men
had been out more than Il month for
alleged discharges for joining the
union. Many of the men have re-
nounced the union and returned to
work.
The death rate of Chicago infants
less than one year old has decreased
COL per cent. since 1891. The death
rate of persons of all ages has de-
creased 39.2 per cent. in the same II
years. These statements are made in
the weekly bulletin of the health de-
purtment.
1t is announced that the call for the
extraordinary session of congress to
meet November 8, will be issued,
probably, on the goth inst.
The statement of the postotfice de-
partment giving the receipts at so of
the largest postoffices in the country
for the month of September shows
the total to be $500, ,422, u gain of
nearly per cent over the receipts for
the same month last year.
Private John Dowd, the United
States sentry, who shot and KILLED
William II. Crowley, near the United
States arsenal ut Allegheny, Pa, sew
eral weeks ago. and was later tried
by court-martial and eXonerated, has
been turned over to the civil authori-
ties for trial.
William Dye, the surviving member
of the firm of Dye Bros, bankers. of
Allegany, n. ", has made an assign
ment. The deposits in the bank
amount 10 S220,000 and it is not eN-
pected that the loss to creditors will
exceed ten cents on the dollar. Thir-
ty per cent of the deposits will be
paid the creditors right away and as
much more, it is expected, will be paid
in so days.
The trial has commenced at Moscow
of several Russians who are accused
of racing an American horse, William
5. X. A., ns a Russian horse, whereby
they won S10,5O0.
Famished with hunger, his limbs
torn and bleeding from contact with
the underbrush through which he
plunged in his mad fight for free
dom, Nick Haworth. one OF the two
convicts who escaped from the Utah
state prison, was recaptured in cab
in ten miles from the penitentiary.
Adam Cupler, jr., president of the
firm of r. Cupler S5 Co.. manufactur-
ers of nitro-glycerine and oil well
supplies, was instantly killed at East
Titusville, Pa. by the explosion of
ten quarts of the explosive. The nc
cident is supposed to have been
caused by friction due to leaky cans.
At San Francisco, William Beals, an
aeronaut, was almost instantly killed
while making a descent, falling from
n parachute when within 40 feet of
the ground. The accident occurred in
Golden Gate park. Maud Henney,
aged II, riding on street car, leaned
out too far in an endeavor to witness
the descent and her head struck an
iron post. She was killed.
Mrs. A j. Sinetena, wife OF the
night iailor in police headquarters at
Cedar Rapids, Ia. hanged her 1-year.
old daughter and then hanged her.
self. Insanity caused by ill health
was the cause,
A monument to President William
Mckinley, erected by the town OF
Adams, Mass, was unveiled there re.
Gently.
One thousand employees of the Hi.
nois Steel Co. at Joliet, ILL.,, have been
thrown out of employment. The con.
verted billet and three rod mills have
shut down, while the blast furnace
and merchant mills will continue tC
run.
President Hartman, it is said, has
refused overtures from eastern peo.
pie who own great tracts of timber in
the Sierra Nevada mountain district
in California for the formation of a
$1O,0O0,00O pine lumber trust. They
wanted to put all the Central Pacific
timber lands into it. He has also re
fused to sell any more of the railroad
timber land.
Chicago cracker bakers, after {
five months contest against the Ma
, tional Biscuit Co. acknowledge the
/. failure of their strike. Practically
, all the union bakers who participated
appeared recently at the offices o.
the company and made application:
, for their former positions.
An assignment for the benefit o
, creditors has been made by the Stat
a ford Manufacturing Co., of Centra
: Falls, r. 1. The assets are placed a
: $234, 900 and the liabilities, excluding
a the capital stock of S15O,OOO, are sait
: to be $4,000. The concern manufac
lures cotton yarns.
!, The Dyers and Mercerizers' uniol
has given the dyers permission to re
E turn to work, thus finally ending tn
= textile strike which began in Phil
adelphia on June 1. The dyers ar
r the last of the 100000 strikers to re
turn to work.
( Or. Marcus NJ. Jastrow, rabbi emeI
h titus of the Rodef Shalom congrega
tion in Philadelphia, Hebrew schola
|. and educator, and one of the bes
= known Jews in the country, is dea
i at his home in Germantown, Pa. IL
Il was born in Prussian Poland in 1872
n and came to this country In 1866.
% Edwin A. Potter, president of tn
D. American Trust and Savings banl