Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-04-10
SHORT NEWS NOTES
They Come From Many Parts
of the World.
Information OF Recent Date Collected
i'm Various Ways and Condensed
for the Convenience OF
Our Busy Readers.

the effect of prohibiting the sale of
beer and Tight wines at that point
Is evident from the increase of 900
per cent. in the number of court
martials during the last six months.
Two negroes were killed, two SER
iously hurt and nine slightly injured
by falling walls in a bgtcl tenement
house at Louisville, Ky. The victims
were asleep when the crash came.
Henry Stevens, of LaCunia, y. Y.
has paid $4,000 for n nine-weeks-old
bull calf. The mother If the calf is
Sadie Vale Concordia, holder of the
worlds seven and 30-dd.y records for
milk and butter production. The sire
is Beryl Wayne, a prize winning bull.
The calf was born on j Inulry 20 and
the price paid for him is believed to
be the largest amount ever paid for
a nine-weclls-old animal.
Daniel McCauley. crazed by whisky,
attacked crowd of men in Il saloon
at Seattle, Wash, with "a revoiYcr.
James Clark and William McLaugh-
lin were fatally wounded by shots
from McCauley's weapon and an un-
known man received a serious wound
from the same source. Mcauley was
shot twice by Patrolman Griffith, in
attempting to escape from the saloon
and may not recover.
The bubonic plague has reappea red
in some parts of Egypt. Cholera
cases are reported at Alexandria.
A bloodless operation by the Lor-
enz method for broken neck has
been performed with success on
George Crammer, who suffered the
fracture in fall two months ago.
He was taken to the Presbyterian
hospital. Philadelphia, where the sew
cred vertebrae were reioined and his
life saved. Although the ends were
united, the vertebrae did not grow
straight, and two local surgeons used
the Lorenz method and succeeded in
strengthening the vertebrae.
Eight men are known to have been
killed and IA entombed as the result
of an explosion of gas in the Koen-
igin Lllise mine at Ostfeld, Prussia.
James Farrell was shot and killed
at Chicago in hand-to-hand struggle
with a policeman who surprised him
in the act of forcing entrance to a
residence. Farrell, who is believed to
be an eX-convict, was on a ladder
trying to open a secondstory win
dow. Several shots were exchanged
and the two men clinched, the en-
counter ending by the would-be
burglar receiving bullet i'll his
head.
A dispatch to the navy department
from Admiral Higginson announces d
record of Is hits out of 81 shots by
the 13-inch gun of the Indiana at q
1500-yard target.
AT Ulysses, Pa. burglars dynamit,
ed a safe in the Rowley private bank
and secured $1,000 in coin. Citizens
aroused by the explosion gave battle
A dozen shots were exchanged, but
the robbers escaped in wagon, car.
rying the money in sacks.
Section traclimen on the Delaware
& Hudson railroad from Saratoga tC
Albany, n. Y, are on a strike. They
demand an increase of wages from
$1.10 to $l.50 n day and decrease OF
hours of work from eleven to ten.
Harry Pulver and another private
named O'Brien, attempted to escape
from prison at Fort Thomas, KY, the
other night. Pulver was shot and
later died. Lion Parsons, of Com,
pany b, Third infantry, was struck
by Pulver and O'Brien with crowbars
and sustained scalp wounds and &
broken nose, but he will recover
O'Brien was placed in irons in a dun
geon.
Margaret Neve, King Edwards
Oldest subject, died recently at hei
home in Guernsey. For 10 years she
, preserved her health, strength ant
even her eyesight and was know
throughout the kingdom. She was ;
wealthy woman, lived on charm
ing estate and gladly welcomed Wis
itors who came to see this old frient
of the late Queen Victoria.
A struggle between union and non
union workmen is delaying work OF
the new battleship Connecticut a
the navy yard in Brooklyn, n. Y.
A disagreement between the mine
operators and miners regarding tht
strike commissions ruling on tn,
number of hours to constitute a day;
work has resulted in the closing o
numerous collieries throughout tn
anthracite coal region.
The jury in the case of Thomas
g. SeiXaS, president of the Twenty
eighth sectional school board o
Philadelphia, Secretary Joseph Tray
is and Frank Brown and David G
johnson, members of the board, rem
dered a verdict of guilty. The me-
were charged with accepting bride
from women candidates for position
as school teachers.
At Buffalo, n. Y, about 300 mem
bers of the Journeymen Painters
union refused to go to work becaus
of the refusal of the master painter
10 grant their demands for an in
crease of so cents day.
An anonymous gift of $4,000 ha
been announced at Harvard far neS
hall of philosophy to be called En-
erson hall, and to cost in all abou
$150,OO0. OF this amount $G5,0)0 ha
already been raised, and furthe
sum OF $4,000 has been promised ol
the condition that the money b
raised by May "a,
William E. Bainbridge, OF Iowa
formerly second secretary of lega
1ion at Pekin, has been selected a
the representative of the Unite
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