Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18


watchman blew open the safe in
the safe in the Pennsylvania railroad
station, escaping after n running
duel with two policemen. The sta
tion was wrecked by the force of the
dynamite explosion. The robbers Sc.
cured about $40 from the safe.
The grand jury now in session at
Kansas City, Kan, investigating
charges of alleged boodling, is said
to have evidence that at least four
city councilmen received, checks from
certain brick companies TO influence
the giving of paving contracts. These
checks are alleged to be in the hands
of the jury.
A merger of the electric lighting
and power plants in the coke regions,
and the Pittsburg, McKeesport &
Connellsville railway system has been
effected and an application for
charter for the combined interests
will be made at Harrisburg December
81. 1t is said the capitalization will
be considerably over $5,000,00O.
+. A. johnson, of Lynchburg, Va,
foreman on the Norfolk & Western
railroad at Kenova, w. Va, was
thawing out dynamite when n stick
exploded, wrecking the camp. John
son had both legs blown off. John
Black (colored) had his body blown
to pieces, some parts of it landing
in Il tree 50 yards away. Others were
injured, but not fatally.
Contrary to expectation, Mrs. j,
Edgar Thomson, widow of a former
president of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Co., who died last month in
Philadelphia, did not add her estate,
estimated at about $2,5OO,000, to that
of her husband, whose will provided
for the establishment of an or
phanage for daughters of railroad
employers. Mrs. Thomson's will de-
vises her estate to her sister.
The supreme court of Kansas has
upheld the 3O-day Jail sentence inn
posed by the Shawnee county dis
trict court upon Blanche Boise, a dis
ciple of Carrie Nation, for smashing
the plate glass fronts of seven To-
peka joints year ago, and Miss
Boise must go to Jail.
George Christianson, Chicago sa-
loon-keeper, was shot and killed by
his brother Nicholas, the latter inn
mediately afterward turning the pis-
tol on himself with fatal effect.
Investigation by the government
officers show that a reign of terror
exists on forks of the Coeur D'Alene
river in Idaho. The settlers have been
driven from their homes and settle
ment discouraged, while millions of
feet of fine pine have been stolen
from the government and sold to the
mills.
The joint army and navy board
which recently visited the United
States naval stations at Guantanamo
and Bahia Honda, Cuba, has reported
that it will be at least a year before
either of these stations will be ready
for coast artillery force. In view
of this report the war department
has determined to withdraw the ar
tillery companies now at Havana and
Santiago and keep them in the
United States until such time as they
are needed at the naval stations.
The two-story brick block at Wash
ington, Pa, owned by j. c. Knox and
occupied by c. d. Carpenter, plumb
and G. Whiting, cigar dealer, was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
$4,000. During the fire Benjamin
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with the electric arc wires and was
electrocuted.
Fire in the chair factory of John
\. Dunn at Boston caused loss esti-
mated at $125, 900. There were num-
Der of narrow escapes among the en-
ployes, but all persons in the build
ing are thought to have reached the
street safely.
William Mayne, superintendent of
the insane asylum at Lancaster, Wis,
has been killed by Thomas Fox, pa
tient. The superintendent brains
were beaten out with n poker in the
hands of Fox.
The republican senator's in caucus
have decided upon Rev. Edward Ever
EFT Hale, of Boston, for chaplain of
the United States senate, beginning
January /. He is n Congregationalist
and is now So years old.
AT Trenton, n. j., James NJ. Edge
the defaulting Paterson bank teller,
pleaded guilty in the United States
district court and will be sentenced
next Monday. Edge was recently ar
rested after an absence from Pater-
son of nearly year. His peculations
amounted to nearly 100000.
Fire which started in the basement
of the Shields Clothing Co.'S store at
Fort Wayne, Ind, caused loss OF
$4,000 before the flames were check
ed. The Shields store was totally de-
stroyed.
Miss Helen Gould has notified her
friends among the board of lady man
ayers of the worlds fair that under
no circumstances could she consider
the acceptance of the position of
president to succeed Mrs. James L.
Blair.
The Carnegie Steel Co. is taking adj
vantage of the iron market to- take
it's big blast furnaces out of blast in
Braddock, Rankin and Duquesne, Pa,
for the purpose of rebuilding and re-
pairing. Some of the stacks have
been in continuous operation from
three and half to six years.
William II. Ennis, former Brook