Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-10-02
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Kennedy, Wnlcn mas uTIlNCu du D'l'
ware Brcaltwater, reports That the
fishing schooner Edith Peterson sank
on September 1G, during the severe
storm, one and half miles off Five
Fathom Bank lighthouse. Nothing !
is known of the fate of the crew.
II has been decided by the New
York rapid transit commission to rec
ommend the immediate adoption of |
plan to build moving platforms to be
operated from the Brooklyn end OF
the New Williamsburg bridge to the
Battery, in Manhattan, by way of the |
rapid transit tunnel, now being dug |
in Broadway. The outlay will be
about $S,OOO,OOO,
Two weeks ago Edward Nelson, of
Rogers City, Mich, and a brother
went sailing on Lake Huron. That
was the last heard of them until the
other day when the body of Edward
was washed ashore near Alpena,
Mich. The body of the brother has
not been found.
New York, Jersey City and Boston
police are making an industrious
search for John d. i. Dunbar who is
well known in horse racing circles,
and for whose arrest two warrants
have benn issued. In one he is
charged with bigamy and in the other
with grand larceny.
Walter II. Tuttle & Co., shoe manu-
facturers on large scale at Lynn,
Mass. have assigned. The strike of
the knights of Labor and the Boot
and Shoe Workers union in Lynn was
precipitated in the Tuttle factory on
January l6 and has never been de-
clared off there.
Shamrock /, the old Americas cup
challenger, Just sold by Sir Thomas
Lipton. has been turned over by the
purchaser to Brooklyn firm dealing
in old metal and the boat will be turn
ed into schooner and will carry
scrap metal between New York and
South American ports.
+. Il. Chase's sawmill, store and six
million feet of lumber at Morse,
Wis. were burned recently. The loss
is 100000; partly insured.
The Russian government has issued
an official note reiterating that the
attitude of the powers in regard to
the Austro-RuSsian reform scheme
for Macedonia is unchanged and that,
consequently, neither Turkey nor
Bulgaria can expect support from
any quarter in the event of open or
secret resistance to that scheme.
Officers near Koss, Mich, ON the
Wisconsin & Michigan railway con-
fscated one of the largest and most
complete counterfeit money making
outfits ever taken in the country
They also captured the leader and
took him to Marquette, Mich, for
trial in the Uuited States court.
\ "gcntleman burglar whose taste
runs to articles of feminine wear
has been arrested in New York City
after n hunt of more than two
months. The prisoner gave the
name of Hughes, and explains his
weakness for feminine wear by The
statement that he is an impersona
tor. When his rooms were searched
the police found hundreds OF keys, al
sorts of ladies' toilet articles, and {
wagonload of tailormade women:
clothing.
Two lives were lost and severa
persons were injured in a fire that de
stroyed the Hotel Brunswick a
Rochester, y. II.
Samuel Fassett and Joseph Monl
were killed by the collapse OF brlci
chimney at the Levin canning factor.
at Leipsic, Del. The men were burie'
beneath the falling bricks and thei
bodies were badly mangled.
The Northern Pacific tracks from
Missoula to Billings, Mont, are bein!
patrollcd by armed men and all per
sons found along the right of wa.
are held until they can give AN az
count of themselves. In spite o
these precautions two dynamite eS
Plosions occurred during the pas
4. :. 4. ny -
other.
James II. Beatty, for Is years as
Gistant to the disbursing clerk in tn
office of the auditor for the war dc
purtment, has been found short $50
in his accounts. The shortage wa
made good by relatives and Beatt
WAS not prosecuted.
Fimtrolman Dennis Fitzgerald, q
Chicago, was knocked down an
beaten with his own club and the
shot twice and fatally injured by tw
negroes who used their victims ~
yolver.
At rhebes, H., safe ia the oilio
of c. Mcdonald & Co., contractor
was ralqen from the building by ul
known persons the other night, rol
bed of its contents and subsequent
it is reported that the safe contain
ed large sum of money.
Fire which originated in the ele
trio cable tunnel in the basement {
the Brooklyn rapid transit powa
house in South Brooklyn, y. Y., di
100000 daUage and tied up for Sc
eral hours The entire surface and Il
systems in SOGth Brooklyn. y
At Brownsville, Pa, when j.
IIiginbotham apened car of lumb1
on the Monongahela railroad whic
had heen shipped TO him from Mich
gan he was horriGied to find the deu
bodies of two men. One WAS lying q
the lumber, the other in a sitting po
iure and 20 all appea r0nces had bee
dead several days. II ig thought the
crawled in TO steal ride, got locke
in and starved to death.