Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-31
SHORT NEWS NOTES
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of the World.
Information OF Recent Date 5OIIectod
in Various Ways ana Condensed
for tho Convenience OF
Our busy Ronders.

the streets of Albay, the capital of
the island of Albay, killing Is and
wounding 10. The combatants enter
ed the town from opposite sides and
street fighting continued for three
hours. Four non-combatants were
killed. The scouts lost one killed and
two wounded.
The master masons of Lynn, Mass,
some 35 in all, have locked out all
members of the building Laborers
union because six mortar mixers
struck for overtime pay. In all about
125 hodcarriers were paid off and all
brick work is suspended. About 500
other mechanics are idle because of
the lockout.
The whaler Vega, in which Norden-
skiold accomplished the northeast
passage, is reported to have been
crushed in the ice and to have foun-
dered in Melville bay May 81. After
a difficult journey of 300 miles in open
boats and across the ice the crew
reached the nearest settlement.
Because his son Charles, aged 16,
refused to get up when called, Will
lam Lizard shot and killed the boy IS
he lay in bed, at Knoxville, Ia,
chased a younger son to the home
of neighbor in an attempt to kill
him also, then turned the weapon
upon himself with fatal effect.
Gen. j. II. Hobart Ward, n special
term clerk of the New York supreme
court, was killed by being run over
by an Erie railroad train in Monroe
county. Gen. Ward was a veteran of
the Mexican and civil wars and was
so years old. He was appointed clerk
of the superior court in 1871. When
the courts were consolidated in 1896
he was appointed clerk in the SUI
preme court.
Still alive, though in a complete
state of exhaustion, John Nacavage,
one of the men believed to have per-
ished in a rush of water at ELAN
gowan colliery, near Mahanoy City,
Pa, was found by rescuers the next
day after the accident. When the
water broke through into breast No.
IS Nacavage was swept into n head
ing above the water level His fell
low miner has not been found.
1t is said that Russia has arranged
with French capitalists for n loan of
2OO,OO0,O 600.
\ government launch which was
being run from the Charlestown navy
yard to Portland, Me-, by Lieut..
George Stevens and seven men of the
Portland naval reserve, struck on the
southerly point of Beach island, near
Biddeford, Me-, and is a wreck on the
rocks. a boat from the Biddeford
Pool life saving station brought
ashore the crew of the launch.
rhn &c
sion has given out its findings re-
garding the recent fatal accident on
the line of the International Railway
Co. near Burt. 1t finds that the ac-
cident was caused by disobedience of
orders by Conductor Clancy and Mo-
torman Bullock, and Operator Wads-
worth, at Alcott Beach, is censured
for the careless handling of train dis
patches. Clancy and Bullock are un-
der arrest.
After lying with fractured skull
at Chicago hospital for two weeks,
Thomas Barker died. The injury was
the result of Il breakfast quarrel over
n cup of cold coffee, during which his
wife threw stove lid, striking him
on the head and telling him to the
floor.
A seat in the New York stock eX-
change was sold recently for 100000.
The last previous sale was $67,500.
\ terrific cloudburst, during which
four and half inches of rain fell,
visited Athol, Mass, and immediate
vicinity, causing $4,000 to 100000 in
jury to crops and property damage TO
the extent of $1,000. In Athol four
dwelling houses were struck by light
ming
Internal Revenue Collector Nc
Coach and squad of internal rev
enue agents visited house in the
center of Philadelphia and found a
complete outfit for distilling whisky.
Moses Silberstein was arrested and
held in $1,000 by che United States
commissioner as the alleged propric-
tor of the Illicit still. All the para
phernalia was confiscated.
The miners of District No. 90, OF
Alabama, have returned to worl,
pending settlement of their wage
scale by arbitration. The miners
quit work on July 10. Twelve thou,
sand men are interested.
Jason Ramsey, aged 65, his . year
old granddaughter and two othei
children were drowned by the cap
sizing of skiff in a river ncaI
Sparta, Tenn. The old man was s,,b
ject to fainting spells and it is sup
posed that during one of them he
overturned the boat.
= Ford Benjamin and Samuel Brown
of Romeo, Mich, were drowned il
Cusie lake, near Romeo. The boys
were aged about 13 years.
julius Finn and George Friel, OF
" Butler, Pa, and Amile Yost, of New
York City were perhaps fatally
burned in an explosion at the Butler
brewery. Friel inhaled flames ant
his recovery is said to be scarcely
possible. Yost's recovery is very
doubtful.
Work has begun on the ship cana
which is to be built from the Buffalo
harbor near Stony Point to the new
Buffalo and Susquehanna iron plant
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