Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-04-17

were ruined and several hundred |
head of cattle are reported as lost.
Col. V. A. Wilder, of New York.
leading representative of the King
syndicate, now suing in the federal
court to recover valuable lands in the
two Nirginias, has been indicted at
Huntington w. Va, for conspiracy.
1t was alleged that he paid GER
tain sum to witnesses to testify re-
garding certain boundary lines,
which were contrary to previous tes-
timony of witnesses.
William Valance, the famous light |
ming calculator, who could do any |
sum in mathematical calculation men,
tally and with but instant's hesita- |
tion, is dead at Trenton, n. j., from |
a severe strain, believed to be the re-
suit of his Juggling with figures. Val
lance could duplicate the feats of any
lightning caculators and then beat |
them all by stating any desired date
in history.
Arrangements are being made for
the combination of nine wholesale
bakers in Newark, Jersey City and
Hoboken, n. j., with a capital of
$1,5OO,00O.
-Four non-union firemen who were
forcibly taken from the steamer
William S. Mack, which arrived at
Buffalo from Chicago recently, were
returned to the boat by the police.
Frank Blair, a fireman who was re-
ported missing, was found, having
hid in the coal bunkers of the vessel.
No arrests have been made.
AT Gloucester, Mass, $50 carpen-
ters have struck for an increase of
so cents day.
l.,
been advanced cents per 100 pounds.
| The international agricultural con-
gress is in session at Rome with
about 1900 delegates present.
William "A. Smith. noted Confed-
crate general, is dead at Hunting
ton, w. Va, aged 73.
A Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
grain elevator containing 100000
bushels of grain owned by Churchill
& Co., grain merchants, was de-
stroyed by fire at Chicago. Loss
100000; insured.
Six hundred dredgemen employed
by the Chicago and Great Lakes
Dredging Co, have struck. Chicago
and many lake ports are affected. Re-
fusal to pay the Chicago wage scale
to men sent to Waukegan, ILL.,, is said
to have precipitated the strike.
Rev. Clarence Z. Eberman, field sec
retary of the United Society of
Christian Endeavor, is dead. His de-
mise occurred at Banff, Northwest
Territory. Mr.. Ebe-1naii was on a
convention tour, accompanied by his
wife.
Detectives raided four alleged "get-
rich-quick" concerns in Chicago and
arrested three men on the charge of
conducting gambling resorts. The
concerns were: The Chicago Crescent
the Star Distribution union and the
Co., the Chicago Mail Order Union,
Montana Mining, Loan and Invest
ment Co.
Geu. Davis has disapproved the
findings of the court-martial at Hi
gan, island of Mindanao, in the case
of Lieut.. Joel r. LIE, of the Tenth
United States infantry, holding that
the accused, who was charged with
manslaughter in connection with the
killing of two native prisoners of
war, was not entitled to an honora-
BILE acquittal.
The navy department has awarded
the contract for the Philippine float
ing dry dock to the Maryland Steel
Co., whose bid was $1,12O,OOO. The
dock is to be completed in 81 months
and delivered to the government on
the Atlantic coast
A leading interest in the Rock ISL
, and Co. announced recently that the
proposed purchase of the st. Louis &
San Francisco road had been aban-
doned for the present.
, During a severe northeast gale the
scow Hughes capsized in the Della
!, ware river off Marcus Hook, Pa, and
four men of the crew were drowned
William NJ. Collier, of New York
who recently was appointed assistant
v attorney to the attorney general
q has been detailed as solicitor of the
q department of commerce and labor
!. Two men were Killed and two in
e jured in a lbelated explosion of dyna
mite at the new Mount Washington
: Pa, tunnel of the West Liberty Trac
= tion Co. A blast mad been prepared
d but failed to explode and the mer
returned to ascertain the cause, wher
+ suddenly it went off with a terrific
: report, hurting rocks in every direc
n ton.
: George NJ. Reed, of Indianapolis, {
\ national organizer of the United
v Mine Workers of America, was way
h laid at North Fork, w. Va, and il
j. the encounter which followed hi
skull was crushed with stone, caus
= ing probably fatal injury.
n At Media, Pa, Albert West, ne
r gro, was hanged for the murder o
f Mart w. Allen, a policeman of Ches
S ter, Pa. The crime for which Wes
l. paid the death penalty was commit
ted in Chester, February /, 1902. TIL
= negro was quarreling with a colore,
It woman whom he threatened to shoot
1, Policeman Allen interfered and wa
|, shot and killed by West.
t, Andrew p. Ducq, a night collecto
e for the Detroit postoffice, has bee
held to the grand jury under $1,OO
X bail, having confessed the theft of
d number of letters containing enclos
h ures of money. Forty-five unopene
d lettors were found in his possession
r Asbury Park, N. j., completed tn