Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-19
SHORT NEWS NOTES
They Come From Many Parts
of the World.
Information OF Recent Date Collected
I'm Various Ways aud Condensed
for the Convenience of
Our busy Readers

The Chicago Milwaukee Brewers
association has granted its beer bot
tiers a 35 per cent. increase in wages
under an agreement for two years.
Probably the highest prices ever
paid in this country for coach horses
Mt auction have been realized at the
Fale in New York City of "a animals
which have been used two months in
working the coach Pionee" between
New York and Ardsley. The total
proceeds of the sale were $4,000.
Twenty Bulgarians were killed at
the village of Yeniie, Roumania, re-
GENTLY in n combined attack made on
it by detachment of troops and
neighboring Mussulman villagers.
Fifty prisoners were taken to Adrian
Dple.
William G.. Hook, of Leavenworth,
Kan, has been selected to succeed
Judge Caldwell, who recently resign
ed the circuit iudgeship of the eighth
district Judge Hook is at present n
district judge.
James Hill, for many years noted
negro leader in the republican party
of Mississippi and secretary of state
during reconstruction days, is dead
at Jackson, Miss. lie was known
throughout the country.
The negotiations for the absorp-
lion of the four California powder
manufacturing companies by the $780,
100000 corporation recently organ
lied under the laws of New Jersey by
the Duponts, of Wilmington, Del,
have been practically completed.
A committee of 12 of the general
staff has nearly completed draft of
regulations for the general. staff.
The regulations to carry the general
staff act into effect will make radical
:hanges in the army. The chief of
staff will be an all-powerful person,
uniting in himself all the theoretical
authority exercised by the command
ing general under the present law
and the power heretofore unof1icially
vested in the adiutant general.
Two hundred lives we're lost at
AZof, Russia, as result of a collapse
of gangway there while a pleasure
party was landing from the steamer
Moskva.
All the machinists employed in the
Crescent shipyards at Elizabethport.
n. J.,have struck for minimum wage
scale of So day. The ship joiners
carpenters, drillers and tappers al
the yards are on strike and the yards
are practically shut down.
Two men are dead, one is missing
and several injured as the result OF
an explosion of large quantity OF
powder in the drying house of the
l.. " ~, Do.
The shock was SO great that many
lights of glass in houses We're broken
and buildings trembled as though
shaken by an earthquake.
A heavy storm of wind, rain and
lightning passed over Wellsville, Y.
Y, doing much damage. Many
buildings were wrecked, trees up
rooted and oil derricks blown down
Two men were severely injured.
Alvoird Cooley, of West Chester, n
T., has been appointed civil service
commissioner by President Roosevelt
to succeed James Il. Garfield, ap
pointed commissioner of corpora.
tions.
Official advices to the marine hos
pital service at Washington represent
the Philippine Islands since the be,
ginning of the rainy season. Many
of the cases have occurred i'll Manila
but rapid spread down the coast OF
Luzon also is reported. About hall
of the Manila cases have occurred
among the crews of the launches and
other small craft that never leave the
harbor.
Four of the striking miners have
been found guilty of resisting arrest
at Atkinsonville on February 81, when
Deputy Marshal Cunningham at
tempted TO serve rules and attach
ments upon them for violating Judge
Keiler's blanket injunction. The re
naming nine entered pleas of guilty
and threw themselves upon the
mercy of the court at Charleston, w
Va.
Plans have been perfected for the
formation in Pittsburg, Pa, of one
of the greatest combinations OF
banking interests ever undertaken in
the country. BY the deal the Farm
ers' Deposit National bank, Colonia
Trust Co., Colonial National bank
American Trust Co., Pennsylvania
IIuSb 10, NOlullDlh NaliOnal Dunk
Tradesmen's National bank, Ger
mania Savings bank and Freehold
bank will be merged.
Eight thousand dollars worth oi
diamonds are alleged to have beer
stolen from j. ii. Taylor and wife a
small hotel at New York and under
arrest are Alice Howard, who is EN-
ployed in the hotel, and Norman II
Powell. No trace of diamonds oil
pawn tickets were found at theil
home, but some of the hotel silver
ware was found and they were unable
TO explain it's presence.
Negotiations looking towards the
merger of the National Bank oi
Commerce with the Western Nationa
Bank of the United States, both oi
New York City, have been resumed
The National Bank of Commerce has
received from the comptroller of cur
rency permission to increase its capi
tai TO $25, 100000.
Robert Neill, n wealthy resident o.
Los Angeles, Cal, who was passen