Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-05-01

concerns in various parJS OF une cOun-
try.
The secretary of the interior is be-
ginning to receive reports on the sus-
pension of timber and stone land en-
tries in California, Oregon and Wash
ington and so far as they go they
confirm the wisdom of the order of
suspension which was made last fall.
The civil service commission has
issued an announcement that the
president has included all The school
teachers in the Philippine service
within the classified civil service.
At Mount Vernon, n. V, all the
mill men, to the number of about 200,
were called out on a sympathetic
strike owing to the failure of the
strikers in the building trades to
reach an agreement with the bosses.
Advices from Blagovechensk, capi-
tai of the Amoor government, say
the Chinese merchants there are clos
ing their businesses, selling out at a
loss and are migrating to Manchuria.
This and other indications, it is add
ed, have aroused apprehensions that
trouble is brewing.
George Scott, of Waltz, Mich. was
held up by two men and robbed OF
$1,000 while returning from church
with his sister. The robbers escaped
from town on freight train.
The Interstate commerce commits
sion has issued a bulletin on railroad
accidents for the three months end
ed December 81, 1902. 1t shows that
during that period in train accidents
266 persons were killed and 2,7SS in
iurcd. Accidents of other kinds, in
cluding those sustained by employees
while at work, and by passengers in
getting on and off cars, etc, bring
the total number of casualties up to
03S killed and 1873 injured.
Philip Doblin, who gavessensational
testimony at the congressional inves-
tigation last winter of bribery
charges made by Representative Less
Ter, of New York City, has been COM
mitted to Bellevue hospital for ex-
animation as to his sanity.
Charles H. Robb, assistant attor-
ney for the department of justice,
has been appointed assistant attor-
ney general for the postoffice depart
ment to fill the place temporarily
vacated by James n. Turner.
Rev. DR.. w. II. Roberts, stated clerk
of the Presbyterian general assem-
bly,, announces that two-thirds of
| the Presbyteries have voted in favor
of revising the confession of faith.
The subject will be finally disposed
of by the general assembly which
meets in Los Angeles, Cal, next
month.
The largest coal deal ever closed up
in Washington county, Pa. and the
most extensive in western Pennsyl-
vania for several years has just been
consummated. Seven thousand acres
of the Pittsburg vein of coal, lying in
West Bethel and Amwell townships,
known as the Lone Pine block, passed
from the hands of farmers to Pitts
burg, New York, Cleveland and Phil
adelphia capitalists. The average
price paid for the territory was 500
an acre. the total transfer of money
being slightly more than 100000.
Judge Michael Arnold, of common
pleas court No. 4, is dead at his
home in Philadelphia of cancer. He
had been a sufferer from the malady
| for number of years and was the
| subject of several operations. Among
the cases heard by Judge Arnold was
| the famous II. II. Holmes murder
case, which attracted attention
| throughout the entire country.
At New Brunswick, n. j., the New
Jersey experiment station building
in the chemicals. Many rare speci-
| Smith, state entomologist, were lost.
The loss was 100000. ..... .....--
: At Haverhill, Mass, conditions
Il among the shoe workers are growing
| worse, and there seems to be no inn
mediate prospect of n solution of the
trouble which has created warfare
| between the Shoe Workers Protect.
live union and the Boot and Shoe
Workers union. If matters are not
Strengthened out soon, the whole af.
fair may result seriously for the city
Already three big manufacturers
have decided to establish factories in
the country, and more may follow
their example.
The treasury department has re
ceived a conscience contribution OF
$3.50 enclosed in an envelope post
marked Rome, Italy.
Bernard Doyle, aged 65 years, was
suffocated in fire in the River View
hotel at Wyandotte, Mich.
The fishing smacks st. Thomas anG
st. Gustave are reported to have
foundered in the English channel
Fourteen men are believed to have
been drowned.
Fire at Melbourne, Ia, nearly
wiped out the business portion of the
town. Only three buildings on Mair
street escaped.
\ Josiah Willard Gibbs, professor o.
mathematical physics at Yale univer
sity, and a scholar of international
fame, died suddenly at his residence
in New Haven, Conn, the other day
The big prohibition auditorium al
Port Richmond, Staten Island, was
destroyed by fire, together with two
small residences near by, entailing {
loss of $4,000. The auditorium was
owned by the National Prohibition
Co. and fully insured. Many prohibi
tion conventions had been held in it
Its destruction is believed to be the
work of an incendiary.