Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10


Grand Rapids, was killed and other
passengers were badly shaken up.
! George Weilte has been appointed
receiver for the Mount Vernon Cigar
| Manufacturing Co., of York, Pa. Liza
bilities estimated at $4,000; assets
| 1000.
A lockout of foundries and machine
shops throughout Sweden, affecting
$4,000 men, has been declared as the
result of a wage dispute.
During a heavy rainstorm at Pitts
burg lightning struck trolley wire
and it fell into wagon containing
| ten persons, killing three men and a
woman and badly shocking the other
occupants.
The unusual experiment of graft
ing frog skin on the hand of human
patient has been successfully per-
formed at the homeopathic depart
ment of Michigan university.
AT Oakland, Cal, three fremen lost
their lives by falling timbers during
n fire which destroyed lodging
house and apartment building. Loss
| $4,000.
Near Latrobe, Pa, cloudburst
washed away several bridges. The
second story of the houses and many
of the people were rescued from the
| upper windows.
DIR. Austin j. Peters, chief of the
cattle bureau of the Massachusetts,
board of agriculture, has received
from the secretary of agriculture at
| Washington an order partially rails
| ing the quarantine against shipments
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from states not in quarantine, across
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire
for slaughter and other purposes.
At Philadelphia over 1900 of the
! 1,50O employees of the John & James
Dobson carpet mill have voted to re-
turn to work. No concessions have
been made. by the firm.
Francisco Clcmend, a miner, was
| killed and Birch Kridski fatally in
| iured by the explosion of a keg of
| powder, ignitcd from blast in mine
No. 4, of the Pittsburg Coal Co., at
Sandy Creek, Pa.
An attempt was made to blow up
the plant of the Colorado Springs
Electric Co. by dynamite. One hun
dred and fifty sticks of dynamite,
weighing rs pounds, were piled
against the north end of the building
and fuse lighted. The explosion of
one stick distributed the other sticks
around radius of 200 feet, saving the
building and lives of II employees. All
the windows weer broken and fires
started, but were quickly put out.
The body of man who committed
suicide recently in Whitneyville,
Conn, has been identified as that of
Sculptor John Donoghue, of New
York. Donoghue's suicide is said TO
have been the result of dependency
| due to the rejection of his design for
a $4,000 memorial to the late Presi
dent Mckinley, which it Is proposed
to erect in Philadelphia. Donoghue
had executed some notable pieces of
sculpture that were highly praised
both at home and in Europe.
\ bill to secure a decree declaring
void the will of Jonathan Clark, n
millionaire contractor, whose fortune
at the time of his death was estimat-
ed in the neighborhood of $2,000,0O0,
has been filed in the circuit court at
Chicago.
Capt. Castle, the auditor of the
treasury for the postoffice depart
| CSlihlutCS lIliU lllC JOSlbl uC-
ficiency for the fiscal year Just closed
will be $4,617,2O3. The deficit for the
previous fiscal year was $2,961,1 ,17O.
This big increase is attributed to the
enormous increase in expenditures
for the rural free delivery service
during the past year.
Michael Keyner, of Pittsburg, 3S
years of age, was found dead by rail-
road section men five miles south of
kalamazoo, Mich. He had been stab
bed to death on train by tramps.
The body had been thrown into a
pool of water beside the railroad
tracks.
At the annual field day of ST. Johns
college, Brooklyn, N. Y, NJ. j. Sheri-
dan, of the Pastime Athletic club,
hurled the discus 1873 feet, breaking
the worlds record (his own) by five
feet two inches.
Fireman a. Richardson, of Delray,
Mich, was killed and seven passen-
gers injured, none fatally, by the
ditching of a Wabash passenger
train near Ashley, Ind.
In an explosion at a grading camp
on the Union Pacific railway near
Morgan. Utah, two men are reported
killed, four fatally injured and ten
others more or less seriously hurt.
George A. Wyman, motor cy-
clist, has reached New York on his
machine from San Francisco and has
the distinction of being the first man
to cross the American continent ON
a power propelled road vehicle. He
had ridden, pedaled and pushed his
machine from San Francisco to New
York in 50 days.
At Mitchell, Ore, Martin Puett
while on spree started to raise a
disturbance. The town marshal was
unable to effect Puett's arrest and
Nilt De Haven, who was armed with
n rifle, volunteered to capture Puett.
Without warning Puett pulled re-
volver and shot De Haven, who, after
falling, shot Puett. In the miXup a