Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-04
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of the World.
1nformntIon OF Recent Date Collected
in various Ways aud Condensed
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Our Busy Readers.

Eleven Spaniards who were en-
gagged in salvage work on the wreck
of the Spanish steamer IrurauBat,
near Tarifn, Spain, were drowned
during n sudden squall.
The third section of the Barnum d
Bailey circus train, composed almost
entirely of sleeping cars for the per-
formers, was wrecked at Wildwood,
Pa, on the Pittsburg & Western rail
road.
Samuel Parks, walking delegate of
the Housesmiths' and Bridgemen's
union, convicted of eXtortion, has
been taken to Sing Sing.
The eruption of Mount Nesuvius is
slowly decreasing. The stream of
lava has diminished in velocity, hav-
ing widened to about 100 feet. Sew
eral assures near the crater are en-
larging, some towards Naples being
35 feet wide.
Bodystown dam. seven miles north
of Butler, Pa, burst recently let
ting out 100000 gallons of water and
inundating portions of Butler and the
lowlying districts for miles. Great
damage was done to property, but
no lives were lost the residents of
the flooded district abandoning their
homes and fleeing to the hills.
Comptroller Tracewell in a decision
to Public Printer Palmer has ruled
that w. \. Miller, the assistant fore
man in the book bindery department
of the government printing Office,
whose case has attracted so much
attention, is not entitled to pay dur
ing the time of his absence from the
printing office.
Edith White, former wife of John
A. White, general agent for the Deer
ing division of the international Har-
vester Co., died of starvation in the
Klondike country and her body prob
ably has been devoured by wild
beasts. Such is the information con
tained in dispatch from Seattle,
which gives details of the finding of
the woman's diary, containing a his
tory of her life from the time she
left her home in Mankato, Mimi,
until she died of exposure and lack
of food in the heart of the trackless
Copper river country.
The announcement is made by
Bishop Metz of the Catholic church
of Colorado, that Father Cushing,
who has earned much notoriety by
his fight upon the bishop during the
past IL years, has been ordered by
Archbishop Falconio, the apostolic
delegate, to go to the Trappist monas-
terry at Gethsemane, Ky, where he
will be practically prisoner Tor the
balance of his life.
The Pittsburg Coal Co. has pur
chased all the coal land holdings of
Henry w. Oliver except those in the
Blaine Coal Co., Shallenberger Coal
Co. and the Second Pool Coal Co. for
n sum approximating $1,OOO,OOO. The
tract comprises about $500 acres and
the purchase gives the combine prac-
tically all of the Pittsburg coal in the
first pool outside of that held by the
Pittsburg Terminal Railroad G. Coal
Co.
thorough inspection of the bat
tleship Massachusetts at the New
York navy yard, showed that there
are five breaks in the ships bottom,
but all comparatively slight, the
largest being about 2h feet by 3
Inches.
There seems to be no doubt of the
nomination of James X. Nardaman in
the primary election held recently
in Mississippi, as the democratic can
didate for governor of the state.
At Hazard, KY, lightning struck
the court house and killed John &.
Baker, standing in the doorway, and
stunned six other men in the build
ing. The court house was fired and
practically consumed.
\ sergeant and six privates en-
ployed in a German army magazine
near Metz have been arrested on the
charge of selling to agents of a for
eign power the secret of a new bomb
fuse.
At Norfolk, Va, John II. Dey, a
13-year-old white boy, has confessed
that he put strychnine in Il glass of
water which his stepmother drank,
she supposing it to be medicine.
Mrs. Dey died an hour after drinking
the poison. The boy declares he in
tended the poison for his aunt.
His face buried in half water
melon, an unknown negro was killed
on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
tracks at Richmond, Va, by n switch
ing engine. 1t is believed he was so
intent upon the melon that he did not
hear the engine approach.
Sir Thomas Upton is deluged with
anonymous letters and kilograms in
forming him that members of the
crew are traitors to the interests of
Shamrock III.
The powder mill of the Enterprise
Powder Co., located on the mountain
near Wilkesbarre, Pa, blew up re-
Gently. Oliver Dickson, the only en-
ploye about the place at the time of
the explosion, was fatally injured,
and number of houses were wreck
ed by the shock Portions of the mill
were scattered for a mile.
Bass Cook shot and killed Noah
Sloan near Oceana, w. Va. Both are
well known and the alteration which
led up to the killing of Sloan was the
result of dispute over 30 cents
which Sloan claimed Cook owed him.
Sloan went to Cooks home armed
with a revolver, having declared his
intention of shooting il out of Cook.