Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-11

plain recently when high official of
the state department declared that
the treaty was practically dead, al
though the Colombian congress has
until the 22d of this month to act up
on it.
Corbett and Sullivan, the Sioux
City, Ia, fire team, broke all worlds
records at the Interstate fair at
Sioux City by covering a half mile,
running start, laying $50 feet of hose,
breaking and attaching nozzle ready
to throw water in 1:10H.
Three girls from st. Joseph's in
dustrial school, an institution for or
phans, were drowned in a pond in st.
Agnes cemetery at Albany, n. Y.
Four girls from the school were hav-
ing an outing. They found some
planks and made a raft. The frail
thing sank with them in deep water.
One girl was rescued.
Bud Hunter and Robert Holtclaw,
12-year-old boys, were drowned at
Providence, Ky, in an old coal mine
shaft, which was filled with water.
Young Hunter was overcome by foul
air from the hole of stagnant water
and fell in. His companion in an ef-
fort to rescue him was also drowned.
In the presence of his wife, II. II.
Burton, n carpenter, stabbed his 49,
year-old son, Jesse Burton, to death
at their home in Columbus, Ga. He
and the boy were in a dispute and the
latter cursed his father. Burton was
on his knees in prayer Is minutes be-
fore he killed his son.
At Marinette, Wis, 200 employees of
! 4.
strike because the company refused
to employ a union force of employees
in place of non-union men who were
working.
\ cloudburst in the Pennington
river valley near Burlington, Conn,
led to the wrecking of passenger
train on the New York, New Haven
G5 Hartford railroad. The train of
three coaches was toppled over on
its side and about a dozen passengers
were injured.
The German freight steamer
Schoenfels collided with and sunk the
tive-masted schooner Jennie r. Du-
bois, of West Mystic, Conn, bound
from Philadelphia for Boston with a
cargo of coal.
j. ID. Dean, United States district
attorney for Kansas, has received or
derS from the department of Justice
at Washington to begin prosecutions
against the members of the alleged
coal trust in Kansas.
\ number of officers of the Nish
and other garrisons in Seriva have
been arrested in connection with the
issuance of the proclamation demand
ing the trial by court-martial of the
conspiratorS who were concerned in
the assassination of King Alexander,
Queen Draga and their ministry, and
threatening to resign their commits
sions if the demand was refused.
y fire almost destroyed the town of
Travnik, Bosnia. Several persons
were killed and about 600 houses,
seven mosques and synagogue were
burned.
United States courts may be asked
to take hand in the trouble exist
ing between the big packing COM
panies and the unions of their en-
ployes, owing to alleged dscrimina-
tion against Independent retail butch
ers in different sections of the coun-
try. The promised legal contest will
center in Chicago.
Henry Carr, negro, who has been
running a store in Alexandria, La,
for several years, was met at the
Jail door by mob and given fifty
lashes on his bare back with raw
hide and ordered to leave the state.
because he had forced a white man to
apologize to his (Carr's) wife.
Samuel ". Hammers, a country
storekeeper living near Gettysburg,
Pa, advertised for wife few yeaps
ago. He has received up to date p
700 letters, each containing an offer
of marriage, but he remained single.
Some time ago he sold the names
of his correspondents to matr-
monial agency for enough money to
buy himself a good bicycle.
Three men and two women have
been arrested at Halle. Prussia,
charged with insulting Emperor
William. The precise nature of their
otfense has not been disclosed.
Twenty-Five thousand square feet
on hill just east of Art hall on the
worlds fair grounds. have been as
signed by the exposition manage
ment as site for demonstration
station for the Marconi wireless tele-
graph.
Prospects for an average crop of
apples are reported from portions
of New England, the middle Atlantic
states, Kansas and Oklahoma. A
light crop is promised in Missouri,
and less than the average in New
York, although the fruit is of good
quality in the last named state.
At Minneapolis the building strike
has come to an end, work being re-
sumed on all the large buildings.
The differences between the building
laborers and the contractors are to
be arbitrated
The New York republican commit
tee has named Judge Denis OBrien
for reelection to the court of APP
peals. Judge O'Bren was recently
named by the democrats to be his
own successor.
Patrick f. Conklin, wife murder
was mt tp tI In, tl,n