Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26

The charges that American officers
looted public buildings in Manila
after the surrender of the city ir
1S0S have been revived and may pos
sibly lead to formal investigation.
according to n dispatch from Va
letta, Malta, n minor coup d'ctat hai
been Affected there by the abroga
tion of the constitution of 1857 ant
the rc-estnblishment OF the constitu
tion of 1S40 by this step the legis
lative council hereafter will he com
posed of eight elected members anC
nine government members, instead oil
IA and six respectively, as hereto
fore.
The storm off Carnarvon, Wales,
recently was accompanied by two
strong earth shocks. The inhabitants
were alarmed by the rocking of their
houses, but no damage was reported.
The federal grand jury in Brook
lyn, y. V, has commenced an inquiry
into the sale of cash registers to the
United States government for use i'll
postoilices.
st. Stanslaus college, at Bay st.
Louis, Miss, has been totally destroy
ed by fire. The flames spread so
rapidly that the students generally
lost their trunks and clothing. Loss
$65,00O; insurance $36,S00.
Justice Scott in the supreme court
of New York has dismissed the suit
brought by Isaac Wormscr to annul
the lease of the Metropolitan Street
Railway Co. to the mterurban Street
Railway Co.
Three trainmcn and one tramp
were killed in freight wreck four
miles east of Rawlins, Wyo. Eight
freight cars broke loose in the Raw
Inns yards and after running down
grade for four miles crashed into the
freight train on which the victims
We're.
Troops had to be called upon re-
Gently to quell mutiny of prison
ers in the Jail at Nladi-Kavkas, capi-
tai of Terek district, Ciscaucasia,
Russia, with the result that four OF
the mutinecrs were killed and eight
were wounded.
Mrs. Henry Siegel, wife of Henry
Siegel, the principal stoclholder in
the Crawford Co.. was seri-
ously hurt by being thrown from n
carriage in n runaway accident at
Mamaroneck, New York.
An inirSlction has been issued in
the superior court at Chicago, re-
straining Homer II. Peters and Her
man +. Raycroft from taking action
for the appointment of Il receiver for
the brokerage firm of Bartlett, Fra
zier e Co.
The municipal council of Paris has
voted the sum of $4,000 for the rep
resentation of the city at the st.
Louis exposition.
The former sultan of Sokoto is
causing the British considerable
trouble in Nigeria. A force of 13O
West Africa troops, in the middle of
May, unsuccessfully attacked the for
mer sultan, who was in command of
n large force in the walled town of
Durmi, about 200 miles from Kano.
The British were obliged to retire
after losing four men killed and go
wounded. The encmy's losses were
estimated at 300 men killed or
wounded.
Zachary Lyons, n colorcd postoflice
laborcr, has been arrested in the
postotfice department building at
Washington on the charge of steal
ing letters He claimed he was the
victim of Vaccinations of other en-
ployes.
The gold output of Alaska, $40 0OOO,-
600 per year, will be greatly increased
by the early building of IL new rail
road from the southern coast at
Resurrection bay northward to the
Tanana river.
The factory of the Kenyon Paper
Co., at Baldwinsville, n. Y, has been
destroyed by fire. The loss is $14O,-
OGO
The Zigler polar expedition has
sailed on the steam whaler America
for Franz Josef Land, where the
America will pass the winter, and
whence expeditions will be sent out
with dog sledges. Material for the
construction of winter quarters was
taken on board the steamer.
w. L. Ashton, describing himself
as an American journalist and
author. has been remanded at the
London, Eng, GuildhaIl police court
on the charge of forging checks for
$1,000 on the London and County
bank in the name or Laird, SchobeT
& Co., of Philadelphia. The London
police believe Ashton is member of
skillful gang of forgers now oper-
ating in Europe.
The class which was graduated
from Smith college, at Northampton,
Mass, numbered 241. Bliss Perry,
editor of the Atlantic Monthly, was
the orator.
The strike situation at Barcelona,
Spain, is growing more serious. Sev-
eral thousand more laborers have
left their work, many factories are
closed and vessels are unable to
leave the port on account of lack of
fuel. The city is heavily patroled by
gendarmes.
The scaffolding of a bridge in
course of construction at Palestrina,
Italy, gave way with the result that
five men were killed and 20 were in
iured.
The wholesale boot and shoe firm
of In n,l,in Enctnr Doetnn 10,