Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-05-15
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of the World.
Information OF Recent Date Collected
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for the Convenience OF
Our Busy Headers.

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union of America has filed a petition
in the United States district court at
st. Louis, asking Judge Adams to is
sue an injunction to restrain the
Western Union Telegraph Co. from
discharging men belonging to the
union.
Five thousand union worklnen are
on strike at Bedford, Ind, and the
stone industry there is completely
tied up. The strikers include plan
ers, saw operators and engineers in
the cutting departments and the
quarrymen. They seek to have their
wages equalized at all the quarries.
The plant of the Consolidated
Paper and Bag Co., at Ellthart, Ind,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is
about $4,000, with $4,000 insurance.
Ray Harrington, aged 20, unmar-
ried, was killed in the power house
of the Michigan Traction Co. at Au-
gusta, Mich. He stumbled against
high tension wire and received $4,000
volts in his body.
Edgar f. Luckenbach, of New
York City, one of the owners of the
oil tank steamer S. V. Luckenbach,
which is missing, states that he
has given up hope of the steamer
ever being heard from. The S. V.
Luckenbach left Sabine Pass, Tex,
March % for Philadelphia, with a
cargo of 100000 gallons of oil. Her
captain was George Z. Thompson, of
Brooklyn, and there was crew of
70 men. She was due at Philadelphia
about April Is.
Mrs. Myra Rose Searles was given
n judgment for $4,000 by jury at
Elizabeth, n. j. She was handsome
woman until she was injured in a
collision between cars on trolley
line. Her attorney called attention
to the loss of beauty as a result of
the injuries and this is supposed to
have had great weight with the ju-
rors. She is now helpless invalid.
Her husband was given a verdict for
$4,000 because of the loss of his
wife's companionship.
The Gatling gun which has been
placed on the mountain commanding
the approaches to the mine of the
Raleigh Coal Co., near Stanford City,
w. Va, was tried recently for the
first time and proved a success. The
gun was fired constantly for two
minutes, during which time 2,200
steel bullets were hurled into the
mountain opposite, and when the fir
ing ceased the dense woodlands look
ed as though a cyclone had struck it.
The plaster casts have been re-
moved from the limbs of 11-year-old
Charles Willett, of Washington, who
was operated upon last fall by DR..
Adolph LorenZ, the Austrian special
list, for an extraordinary case of
club feet. The result is pronounced
by the boys attending surgeon to be
a perfect cure. The boy walks cas-
lily and naturally.
All of the boilermakers of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Co. west
of FL Paso and Ogden and south of
Portland quit work out of sympathy
with the members Of the Interna-
tional union who have been having
trouble for the past six months with
the Union Pacific. The number of
men involved is about 400. The
union machinists of the Union Pa
cific are also along with the boiler
makers.
Dozens of houses have been de-
stroyed, also thousands of tons of
hay and some live stock by a prairie
fire on the range west of Veiva, Y.
ID. The fire is not yet under control
and the village of Sawyer is threat
ened.
One of the boilers in the Indian
apolis, Ind, hominy mills exploded
recently, killing one man and injur-
ing several others. OF the injured,
who were hurried to the hospitals,
one will die.
Thirteen Christians were killed and
nineteen were wounded md thre"
Musselmans were killed during the
recent outbreak at Monastir.
The board of agriculture of Great
Britain has prohibited the importa-
tion into that country of animals
from Argentina and Uruguay on and
after May 10, in consequence of the
existence of foot and mouth disease
in those republics.
Chancellor Day, of Syracuse uni
versity, has suspended the entire
freshman class for acts committed
by some of its members, when the
class numerals were painted over
college buildings. Dynamite was eX-
ploded throughout the night, side
walks ripped up and other depreda-
tions to property in the neighbor-
hood of the university were com
mitted.
The Chicago & Northwestern Rail,
way Co. has served notice on the city
of Milwaukee, Wis, that it claims
possession of all the land along the
lake shore east of its tracks for a
distance of mile.
A Scaboard Air Line train ran into
washout at Cushen curve. two and
one-half miles from Fernandina
Fla. Five or six passengers were
slightly and three trainmen seriously
hurt.
Frank NJ. Barnett. clerk in the
United States bureau of ethnology
has been arrested on a charge OF
forgery. Barnett's offense consisted
In opening private mail addressed tC
officials in the Office and abstracting
therefrom two checks for $175, which
he cashed at a local banking house
He admitted his guilt.
A man who describes himself as
George Reynolds, an Englishman, has