Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-04-10

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Acting Postmaster General Wynne
has authorized a general advance in
salaries in the clerical force of the
Chicago postofiice. The salaries of
1871 clerks are increased to the eX-
tent of 500 each and those of five
clerks to the extent of 5000 each.
The secretary of war has directed
the first class of cadets at the West
Point Military academy, numbering
94 members, to proceed to the battle
field of Gettysburg, about April 90,
for three days instruction in STRAIT
egy and tactics.
The bureau of education has ar
ranged a unique exhibition at the st.
Louis exposition, to consist of pho
tographs of every school in each of
large number of counties to be Sc
lected from various sections of the
country. The exhibit is designed TO
! represent the actual conditions of
the schools of the United States.
Advices from western Maryland
state that vegetation was frozen dur
! ing the recent cold snap and that
| there will be no peach or strawberry
crops. Similar reports are received
| from the eastern shore counties of
Maryland.
One hundred and fifty thousand
acres of valuable timber and coal
lands in Pocahontas and Greenbrier
counties, West Virginia, have been
sold to syndicate of West Virginia
capitalists. The consideration has
not been made public. Three million
dollars will be spent in developing
the property.
Charles Moulton. of Clinton, Mass,
attempted to kill Miss Lillian Wheel
er, of Aver, Mass, at the railroad
station in Aver by shooting her twice
in the head. He then turned the re-
volver on himself, sending bullet
through his brain, dying instantly.
The woman was formerly the wife
of Moulton, but She secured di-
vorce from him.
About 600 carpenters of Salem,
Beverly, Peabody and Marblehead,
Mass, who are affiliated with the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of North America have
gone on strike. The issue is de-
mand for n uniform scale of wages,
the minimum being $2.75 and the
maximum So day.
Benjamin Johnson, farmer living
near Smithville, Pa. was dangerous
ly hurt and his wife and 11-year-old
son probably fatally injured by dy-
Mantle explosion. Johnson had been
blowing out stumps, and took the
dynamite into his frame summer
house to warm it. An explosion fol
lowed and the summer house was
blown to atoms.
Henry Schroeder, the pioneer nat
uralist of the northwest, is dead at
ST. Paul, MINI. He was rs years OF
age and for over 40 years was a res.
ident of St. Paul. The Schroeder
museum contains specimen ot
nearly every North American bird
and beast, besides hundreds of In
dian relics and curiosities from dis
tant lands.
Two persons were killed and sever
al persons We're hurt at a fire in {
siX-story tenement house in Henry
street, New York City. The "a fam
lilies in the building were greatly eX
cited and one woman, Mrs. Green
field, 60 years old, jumped from the
second story. A fireman caught the
woman in his arms, but she knocked
him down. Her legs were broken.
Official advices from Monastir say
the Bulgarian inhabitants of 80 vii
lagos in the Olhrida district total
ling 5000 men and supported by the
bishop and a number of revolution
airy bands, have risen against the
, Turks.
Fifty young men of Hazleton, Pa
have organized an Anti-Corset club
They have been prompted by tn,
views of President Roosevelt and ad
vocate healthy mankind and woman
kind. The president and John Mitch
/, ell have been asked to become hon
orary members.
The first saloon in Vermont under
the license law was opened at Middle
bury, town of less than 1000 inhab
itants. Seventeen persons We're an
rested the first day it was open, fol-
intoXication, and warrants were tax
en- out for 21 more.
The net earnings of the United
, States Steel Corporation for the frs
I quarter of the calendar year were
$24,656, 1856, a decrease of $1,623, ,463 a.
, compared with last year.
At Stamford, Conn, 80 trackme1
employed by the New York, New Ha
I ven & Hartford railroad struck wher
a demand for 10 per cent. increase
in pay was refused.
4 The shoe manufacturing firm Of
t George NJ. Coburn & Co., with fac
tories in Boston and Medway, Mass.
, has made an assignment. The liabil
e tiles are estimated at 100000.
e President Roosevelt in the course
$ of his recent stay in Minneapolis of
[ fered the vacancy in the civil service
e commission to w. w. Heffelfnger, the
famous Yale football player, ant
'. now leading citizen of Minneapolis
= Mr.. Heffelfinger has not yet given his
( lanSwer.
= The Labor Fuel Co., recently or
/. Iganized at Fort Smith, Ark, with &
i large capital, is to be gigantic Goa
n mining company owned and con
s trolled by union labor. The directors
$ are all labor men. The company ha!
purchased $4,000 acres of coal land
l. IODeratiOnS will soon 1,aoin