Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-08-14

not recognize The Furnace Workers
union, but will deal with the various
strikers through tme unions with
which they are affiliated. The strike
originally was declared as n result OF
trouble with n blacksmith employed
by the company. Five hundred men
quit work.
Thomas j. Stewart. commnnder-in
chief of the Grand Army of the Re,
public, accompanied by the Phiadel
phia delegates, has left Philadelphia
for San Francisco to attend the ma
tional cncampment of the Grand
Army. Thirty-fve battle flags that
were carried in the civil war were
taken along by the delegates to be
carried in the encampment parade.
Parsons, Kan, was visited recently
| by the most severe windstorm that
ever struck the city and heavy dam.
age resulted. The new blacksmith
and boiler shops of the Missouri, Kan
sas d Texas railroad were demolish-
cd, while in the residence sections
many small buildings were wrecked.
Several stores were badly wrecked.
4 tornado passed through the
thickly populated mining district
north and east of Pittsburg, Kan,
destroying hundreds of houses, mine
| tipples and buildings of every de-
| scription and converting into ruin n
strip of thicllly populated territory
eight miles long and two miles wide.
At least two persons were killed and
fully GO were injured.
In deciding several pending auto
mobile cases the court of spe-
cial sessions at New York City in a
case against James r. McWiliams
held that the provisions of the Bailey
law requiring owners of automobiles
to register with ard obtain certifi-
Gates from the secretary of state is
| unconstitutional.
The porte has sent instructions to
| the wallis of the Armenian provinces
of Asia Minor, holding them person
ally responsible for any Kurdish eX-
cesses and ordering vigorous meas
ures to be taken to prevent fighting.
| Little Ted Kendall, who disappeared
from the home of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Kendall, in Indian
apolis, and for whom diligent
search had been made by the neigh
bors and the entire police force, was
found dead in cistern few doors
from the Kendall home. 1t is sup
/ posed he walked into the cistern and
was drowned.
At Columbia, S. c., Lizzie Aiken, n
negro woman, As years old, has been
committed to Jail for beheading her
two daughters, and 3 years old. The
| heads were severed with an axe and
she threw them into fire. The
woman admitted the crime, saying
she had received message from God
ordering the crime.
Almost all work is at n standstill
in the manufacturing iewelry trade at
| New York City as n result of the
lockout by the New York Manufac-
turing jewelers. association. Some
men are at work, but their numbers
are confined to non-union operatives
and those who have individual agree
ments with the bosses.
Gen. Miles has accepted the office of
president of the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial association and the associa-
ton announces that his election is for
the remainder of it's existence.
The German governments efforts
to check the tropical worm disease
among the mine operatives in the Es-
sen district have proved unsuccessful.
The disease is spreading.
In consequence of the assassina-
ton of King Alexander and Queen
Draga and the subsequent attitude of
the Servian military officers, both
Russia and Austria have decided to
send home all the Servian officers
studying in their military schools.
The "Katy flyer" of the Missouri
Kansas & Texas railroad was deraileC
near Sedalia, Mo-, and 81 persons were
injured, none seriously. No one was
killed.
Bert Leroy Woodward, a trapshoot
er of international reputation and {
member of the American team which
contested in the international tour
nament in England two years ago, i:
dead at Brockton, Mass.
George Kusic, aged II, of Soutl
Sharon, Pa. is insane because of the
sudden shrieling of locomotive
whistle on the Erie railroad. He ha:
been in this country but short time
and never saw locomotive at close
range.
Warden Bridges, of the state peni
tentiary at Charlestown, Mass, is re
sponsibe for an innovation in the
line of exercise for prisoners, He
has organized two baseball nine;
from prisoners in the institution, who
play every Saturday, and those O,
their fellow convicts that have earned
the privilege by good behavior arc
permitted to witness the game po
sitions on the teams also come as re
wards of merit and ii consequent i'm
provement in discipline has resulted
The San Francisco Examiner says
that DR.. August Greth, an aeronaut
of 20 years experience, has made az
ascension from that city in dirigiblt
balloon or airship which he con
structed. He did not cut loose from
cable connections with the ground
but claimed that the balloon was
fully under control and that he steer
ed it up and down, back and forth
and around at will.
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