Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-11

The house and senate held brief
sessions on the 4th, but no business
of public Importance was transacted.
In the senate on the 5th no busi-
ness of Importance was transacted.
Speaker Cannon announced the com
mittees in the house.
The miners at the coal workings in
Spring Hill, n. S., are on strike over
a disagreement with the manage
ment regarding the system of meas
uring the product. About 1,5O0 men,
nearly all of WON are members of
the union, are involved.
While Chicago and Philadelphia are
known to have powerful societies, it
is believed by the secret service,
whose detectives are most familiar
with the workings of the Malta, that
there exists at present in New York
City the most powerful and desper-
ate Malta band that has ever been or
gani2ed in America. It's operations
include many mysterious murders,
kidnapings and thousands of success
full attempts to blackmail and eXtort
I-oney from wealthy Italians.
Papers filed for new companies in
the eastern states with Il capital of
$l,00O,000 or over in November repre-
sented total of only $50 100, 900.
This is the smallest aggregate for
any month in a series of years, the
nearest approach being $57, 100000 in
August, 1901.
After serving less than two years
of five years sentence in Auburn
prison for stealing $4,000 worth of
bonds and $4,000 in jewelry, Charles
ID. Morris, formerly Il car inspector
at Ithaca, N. Y, has been freed
through the efforts of his 9-year-old
SON.
Two lives were lost and number
of persons badly burned in fire on
First street, Brooklyn, n. V, where
wake was being held over the
bodies of Mrs. Mary Gilligan and Ar
thur Doughcrty, boy who died of
hydrophoba.
At Hays City, Kan, Yost's mill and
elevators, the postoflice and block
of business buildings were destroyed
by fire. The loss is estimated at
100000, with light insurance. The
fire is believed to have been of incen-
diary origin.
a dispatch from New Orleans says:
Frank b. Williams, noted sugar
planter and chairman of the republi-
can state central committee of
Louisiana, has announced that the
Louisiana republicans offer 100000
for the next national republican con-
vention and want it held in New Or
leans. He offers $4,000 himself,
promising to raise the balance from
II Louisianans, each giving a similar
amount.
Fifteen hundred steerage passen-
gers sailed on the White Star liner
Cedric which left New York recently
for Liverpool. This is the largest
number of steerage passengers ever
carried from United States port on
any steamer.
Opposition by ministers towards
solemnizing the marriage of divorced
persons is becoming so marked that
the Protestant Episcopal church's
committee on the subject is receiving
assurances of cooperation from
other denominations.
The faculty of Rutgers College at
New Brunswick, n. j., has suspended
% members of the sophomore class
for hazing freshman. The latter is
said to have been so roughly treated
that the services of a physician were
necessary.
Prof. Frederick Starr, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, has had silver
medal struck which he offers to any
person in the United States who each
year most distinguished himself in
research work among the American
Indians. The medal is to be called
the 'Cornplanter" medal, in honor of
Chief Cornplanter, head of the great
council of the Five Nations.
a referee appointed by the SUI
preme court to hear the evidence in
n long pending case of the city of
New York against the Manhattan
Railway Co., has decided in favor of
the former. If the referee is sus-
tanned by the court, the city ex-
chequer will be enriched more than
100000. The suit, which began three
years ago, was for the use of the
streets by the elevated railway on
the West Side.
Three lives were lost and one man
was badly hurt by collision between
the tugs Idlewild and Hercules, off
Ellis Island, in New York harbor.
Hans Peterson, William Lasker and
man whose name has not been learn
ed were drowned.
Deputy Sheriff Louis l.. Cook, of
Woodmere, Long Island, has been
found guilty by jury there of hav-
ing kissed Miss Mary Sullivan,
pretty school teacher, against her
will. He was sentenced to three
months Imprisonment, but took an
appeal.
That man who was never intoxi-
Gated, and whose only indulgence was
a moderate drink of whisky in the
morning and another before retiring
at night may die from alcoholism has
been demonstrated by an autopsy
made at Bellevue hospital, New York
City, in the case of George Turner.
The Bank of Fairview, S. d., was
entered by robbers. They secured
$500 in cash and escaped.
Fire at Saginaw, Mich, destroyed
the brick building occupied by the
Pare Marquette car shops. One hun
dred and fifty men are thrown out of
work, but the property loss will not
exceed $4,000.