Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-05-15

public land in the Blackfoot district
in Idaho for irrigation purposes.
An explosion followed by fire oc1
Cured i'm boat of the Standard Oil
Co. at Long Island City. The vessel
was towed into the middle of East
river, where the flames were eXtin-
guished. John Quinn, the mate of the
boat, was killed. A secopd explosion
occurred while the craft was being
held in mid-stream by tugs. No one
was hurt.
Overcrowding at naval training sta
tions along the Atlantic coast is
causing concern in the navy depart
nent. There has been considerable
sickness among the men recently, it
is feared, due to this cause. The
department has decided to relieve
the congestion by quartering the
overflow in tents.
The laying of duplicate German
Atlantic cable was commenced re-
Gently at Borkum, an island in the
North sea, 26 miles from Emden.
President Roosevelt has rendered
to Frederick w. Hollis, of New York
City, the position of umpire to act in
the settlement of the claims of Ger
many and Italy against Venezuela.
1t is reported that the Panama
Canal Co. has offered the Colombian
government $12,0OO,O0O of the S4O,-
100000 the company receives from the
United States for the canal property.
Five hundred feet of the permanent
trestle work of the Lucien cut off adj
jacent to the east shore of Salt
Lake, Utah, sank while a train was
passing over it and 20 cars were
thrown into the filled-in grade.
The ten furniture factories of
Evansville, Ind, that had been closed
down since April / because of the
strike of the workmen have resumed
and a majority of the strikers return
ed to work. Over 700 men were af-
fected. The strike ended in a com
promise.
The body of Mrs. Augusta Harper
Lynde, who disappeared from her
home in New York City about two
weeks ago, was found floating in the
North river. Mrs. Lynde was the
daughter of James Harper, founder
of the Harper publishing house, and
the widow of Charles r. Lynde. who
died several years ago, leaving large
fortune.
During fire in the Pittsburg Bed
stead and Spring Co.'s building.
number of girls at work on the
fourth floor became panic-stricken
and three jumped from the window
into a net held by the firemen. All
were seriousl.S injured.
As result of the refusal of the
builders exchange of Jackson, Mich,
to accede to the demands of the
building laborers for 50 per day, the
building business of the city is at
complete standstill and about 1000
| men are idle.
The secretary of agriculture has
raised the quarantine upon cattle,
| sheep and other ruminants and swine
in Rhode Island which was imposed
| by the order of November 27. 1902
All animals affected with foot and
mouth disease in the state have been
destroyed and the premises occupied
by them thoroughly disinfected.
The American schooner James
Slater, of Port Jegerson, Long
Island. "a days out from Savana-La-
Mar with logwood for New York put
| into San Juan, p. r.. having been
driven back from off Cape Hatteras
April >. The crew had been subsist-
ing on pea soup alone for II days
and were very weak.
| The grain situation at Montreal is
becoming alarming as the result of
the longshoremen's strike. There
are millions of bushels of grain now
in barges alongside the various ocean
vessels waiting to be transferred,
and millions more are on the way
from the west for ocean shipment.
Statistics compiled by the board of
health show that the population of
the city of New York is increasing
at a remarkable rate. The births re-
ported in Manhattan borough alone
during the first four months of the
present year were 1000 in excess of
those reported in the same period
last year.
The western Missouri court of ap-
peals has decided that a member of
a church congregation is not liable
in law for the payment of the pas
tors salary, and that a minister of
the gospel must depend upon the
consciences of the members of his
flock for it, and has no legal hold
upon them for it.
The Wisconsin assembly has killed
the bill giving women the right of
suffrage under specified conditions.
There was little race riot in Saiut
Tammany parish, about so miles
from New Orleans, the other night.
An insolent negro was beaten with
an ak handle by white man. The
negroes armed and pitched battle
with white citizens followed, in which
four negroes, one of whom was the
aggressor, were killed.
A new feature in the walters
strike in Kansas City is the refusal
of the bakers drivers to deliver to
non-union restaurants. The order
will affect every member of the Res
taurant Mems Protective associa-
tion, of which there are 4s.
1t is likely that n number of Amer
lean cities will maintain a municipal
pavilion as part of the Model City,"
or install a municipal exhibit as part
Of the general exhibition OF the
Louisiana Purchase exposition. The
IcOmmittee on LEGISLATION has be1un