Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-05-08

stable, abandoning 1T four miles
south of town.
For the first time in the history of
the United Mine Workers wage
scale has been agreed on between
the miners and operators of Butler,
Mercer, Clarion and Armstrong coun-
ties, Pennsylvania. This action was
the outcome of n joint conference
held at Grove City, Pa. The meeting
was attended by IL operators and
representatives of the miners. There
are 33 mines in operation in the
fields and nearly $500 miners are
employed. SaTa
Seventy-five machinists and ap.
prentices in the Fort Wayne (Ind)
electric works, a branch of the Gen.
eral Electric Co., are out on strike,
demanding a nine-hour day with no
reduction in pay.
Lack of harmony among the asso-
Citations of engineers in this country
may nullify an offer of Andrew Car
negie to give million or more with
which to establish a national center
for engineering interests in New
York City. Rivalry exists among the
various bodies of the engineering
profession and high official in one
of the bodies says it is doubtful il
all can live in peace under one roof.
AS the result of quarrel over a
dice game, William Cundiff shot and
instantly killed his stepbrother,
Thomas Bishop, and Thomas Cundiff,
father of William, stabbed his
| nephew, Luther Hart, inflicting a
serious wound All the men are
farmers living near Louisville, Ky.
The war which the negro preach
ers of Chicago are waging on "pol-
| icy" eliminated in an attempt to dy-
Mantle the Institutional church at
1925 Dearborn street. The few per-
sons in the building were not in
| iured. The explosion broke all the
windows of the church and blew n
large hole in the south wall.
The Wabash Railroad Co. has aban-
| doned work on its Little Kanawha
extension, one of the most important
| links in the proposed trunk line. Con-
tractors who have been at work for
| several weeks with several thousand
men have been ordered to other
| points and everything is at stand
| still.
The census preliminary report on
street and electric railways for the
year ended June 80, 1902, shows to-
tai of 9S7 companies, with the net
income of the operating companis S
aggregating $3O,955,233.
A double track belt line will carry
| passengers from the center of st.
Louis to the worlds fair grounds,
and st. Louis will excel all other cit
| les in the world in street car trans
portation facilities. 1t is estimated
that the cost of the double belt track
and improvements will be in the
neighborhood of $6,5OO,OOO.
Miss Evelyn Hodge, Miss Ingersoll
Minge and Sam Williams, three young
people of Shreveport, La, were
drowned in Twelve Mile bayou, four
and one-half miles from Shreveport.
They rowed up near a dam and were
sucked beneath the falls by the cur
rent.
The heavy rains checked the forest
fires which have been raging in
Venango, Forest and Warren coun-
ties, Pennsylvania, but not before
vast tracts of valuable timber had
been destroyed, crops ruined and a
number of dwelling houses con-
sumed. Near Tionesta, Forest coun-
II, 1s oil rigs, several tanks of oil
and four residences were burned.
Officials of the Western Maryland
railroad have announced an increase
| of 10 per cent. in salaries of conduc-
tors, brakemen, telegraphers and
other employees in the operating de-
partment. The increase is effective
from April l.
Dong Gong, the Chinese leper, who
has been in close confinement at
Quarantine, about two miles below
Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, for the past
year and a half, has escaped.
A Beaver Valley traction car bound
for Beaver Falls, Pa, ran away and
was wrecked. Conductor Charles
Miller was probably fatally hurt.
Motorman Roscoe Shepherd badly
cut and bruised and six passengers
were more or less seriously injured.
Thirty-five hundred laundry work
ers are idle at Chicago and when the
drivers, engineers and firemen are
added the total number of persons
thrown out of employment will num-
Der 5000. President Wilson, of the
Laundry Workers union, says the
lockout has strengthened their cause
and that hundreds of applications
from non-union workers are being
received.
The coroner's jury which has been
Investigating the cause of the explo-
sion of dynamite at the plant of the
Crescent Powder Co. near Williams
burg, Pa, whereby ten persons were
killed, has been unable to fix the re-
sponsibility for the explosion.
Continued dry weather and strong
winds have started the forest fires
again on the northern slope of the
Adirondacks. Near Everton, n. Y,
15-year-old boy named Eseltine and
a horse were burned to death in a
pasture.
Fireman William McNally, burned
in brave rescue at a fire in New
York City, is dead. McNally tried to
save the life of Henry McWiliams,
but was overcome by the smoke and
heat. Another fireman, James Nc
Avoy, rushed to the rescue of Me-
Nally, dashing through window
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