Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-04-24

company ana returned To WORK, IHey
will receive the union scale. but the
union is not recognized.
As n result of n series of encounr
ters in Letcher county, Kentucky, the
first being u fight between revenue
officers and moonshfners, one man
was killed and two men were wound
ed, one of whom probably will die.
The dead man is United States Dep
uty Marshal James G. Asher, who
was killed by Jailor Ison while resist
ing arrest on q peace warrant for
pointing a pistol ait a man on the
streets of Whitesburg. The wound
ed men are James Moore and William
Moore, brothers and alleged moon
sinners.
Fire i'm the National casllet factory
at Rochester, N. Y, did $4,000 dam
age. While responding to the alarm
a fire tuuc1 was overturned and two
firemen were seriously injured
Six thousand boilermakers, 5000
building material drivers, 1000 truck
drivers, 5000 eXcavators, 1000 coal
wagon drivers and 1000 Ship and ma
chinery riggers in New York City
will strike, if their demands for
higher wages are refused, May 1. Five
thousand members of the various di-
visions of the Laborers' Union Pro-
tective society are also expected to
strike, June 1, if their demands for
increase in pay are not granted. Ef-
forts are being made to avert a
strike of $4,000 garment makers on
May l.
All the inmates of the Indian in
stitute at Brantford, Ont, which was
| burned the other night escaped with
out injury. A panic prevailed among
the occupants during the fire. Loss
| $4,000, covered by insurance.
At Sharon, Pa, the bricl<layers at
the United coke and gas works of the
| United States Steel Corporation, who
| struck April 1, have returned to
work. The company granted their
demand for an eight-hour day at so
cents an hour.
President Roosevelt will be the
| guest of Butte's union labor union
| during a portion of the time he eX-
poets to spend there, May 81. He
has accepted the invitation of the
Silver Bow trades and labor assem-
bly,.
In it's official report of the dis
tress in northern Sweden the central
relief committee says the funds at
the disposal of the committee are
sufficient, provided the growth of the
pasturage is not retarded
At Topeka, Kan, an important de-
cision has been rendered by the dis
trict court denying an injunction
against Sc fire insurance companies
doing business in Kansas on the
ground that they were violating the
antitrust act.
1t is stated that unless the st.
Louis Transit Co. grants the de-
mands of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street Railway Employees,
which are already formulated for
submission Immediately after the
worlds fair dedicatory exercises, a
strike will be ordered. The transit
company controls all the street car
lines in st. Louis, except those of the
Urban system.
A movement has been inaugurated
to re-establish military divisions in
this country, with several depart
ments included in each. 1t has re-
ceived the endorsement of high army
officers. There are to be three di-
visions, the Atlantic, the Mississippi
or the Missouri and the Pacific. Each
will be in command of a ma, ,jor gen.
eral of the army.
A dispatch from Hong Kong says
the arsenal at Canton, which was de-
stroyed by an explosion last week,
was blown up by officials, whom the
viceroy had charged with selling
powder to rebels in order to hide the
defalcations.
Manor Tucker, ST. Bernard dog,
whose weight is 2O4 pounds, and who
is said to be the largest dog in New
Jersey, saved 6-year-old boy from
drowning in the deep pool of the
Second river, between Bloomfield and
Watessing, N. j.
F. r. S. Donovan, who is preparing
for the priesthood at Woodstock,
Md, has made gift to the Jesuit
order of his fortune of $150,000. He
had previously given large sums for
charity, especially to mission work
among the Maryland negroes.
Oscar Hammerstein, of New York
City, the theatrical man who invent
ed the first cigar-making machine,
has perfected new one that, he
claims, will reduce by nearly one
third the cost of making cigars. OH
cials of the tobacco trust have eX,
amined the Hammerstein machine
and Hammerstein says they have Of
fered him over $2,000,000 for it.
Three-year-old Nina Corraglio is
dead in Brooklyn, n. Y, hospital as
the result of being struck by gaso-
, line stove which had been thrown
, from a second-story window If a ten
ement house. Mrs. Saliva, from
whose apartments the stove was
) thrown, in lighting it started a fame
which enveloped it. man who was
t in the house threw the stove from
the window and it struck the child
the flames igniting her clpthng
burning her fatally,
: "A dispatch from Ceuta, Morocco
represents the port of Tetuan, Mo
+ rocco, as being in a very critical posi-
+ ton. The pretender is being urged
to attack Tetuan, the capture oi
which is considered easy. The Euro
pean and Jewish residents of the