Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-02-05

wanda island was swept by the
flames and between 12,0OO,000 and 49,
000. 900 feet of lumber valued at $780,
600 was destroyed
During January 723 cases of typhoid
fever were reported in Columbus, o.,
and there were % deaths. Health
officers are making efforts to stay
the epidemic.
The January grand jury adjourned
at Chicago and did not vote indict-
ments against labor leaders for guilty
knowledge of assaults perpetrated
during recent strikes in that city.
Thirteen indictments against men,
bers of unions were returned, but
none of the men is of any promi-
nence. Eleven of the indictments
were for riot, one for assault with
intent to kill, and one for intimida-
ton.
Gov. William j. Bailey, of Kansas,
has issued Il statement Withdrawing
from the gubernatorial race. He
stepped out, he says, because ut is APP
parent that the bitter factional fight
now going on in the republican
party in Kansas is menace to repub-
lican success"
Three men were arrested and coun-
terfeiting machinery and dies were
seized at a house in the Greenpoint
section of Brooklyn, n. V, by United
States secret service detectives. 1t is
alleged that they were turning out
United States half dollars from MeXi-
can CONS of the same denomina ton.
The naval engineers have invited n
competition between two great Amer
lean manufacturing concerns for the
supply of turbine engines to drive the
4,OOO-ton scout ships for which esti-
mates have been submitted to con-
gress. While both these companies
manufacture turbines, one is an En-
glsh pattern and much interest at
taches to the competition. The naval
engineers contemplate the largest in
stallation of turbine power ever
placed on any ship.
At Paterson, n. j., fire started by
the explosion of chemicals in the
large silk mill of Ashley & Bailey, em-
ploying 1,5OO hands, destroyed the en-
tire plant. The loss is estimated at
$15O,OOO; partly covered by insurance.
The war department has announced
that by the latter part of next sum-
Springfield rifles on hand to equip
the entire army and that this will be
done as quickly as possible.
Two persons were cremated and
one seriously burned in a fire in an
alleged speakeasy at Bradford, Pa.
The dead are: Calvin Rippenberg, so
years old. Charles McCabe, As years
old. Carrie earns, proprietress of the
house, was seriously but not fatally
burned.
Marion and Charles. aged 1 and ?
years. respectively, sons of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Deardoff, We're burned to
death in fire which destroyed the
combined store and dwelling of Dear
doff &Sons. at Brotherton, Mich, a
Dunkard settlement.
Dressed in suit of her brothers
clothing and with her long brown
hair cut short and crammed into
mans wig, May Bonden, % years old,
of Terre Haute, Ind, applied to the
recruiting sergeant at Fort Sheri-
dan, ILL.,, to be mustered into Com
pany /, which is ordered to join the
Twentieth regiment in the Philip
pines as soon as it is at full strength.
Her sweetheart, Carl Pflaum, is
private in the company.
At Portland, Ore, the Park street
public school, one of the most i'm
portant in the city, has been destroy
ed by fire. Loss 100000. Several fire.
men were hurt during the fire.
John d. Rockefeller has rendered
his resignation as director of the
United States Steel Corporation.
News is received of the burning of
the prison at Dawson Springs, Ky. A
prisoner who was confined on n minor
charge was burned to death.
The monthly statement of the di.
rector of the mint shows that the
total coinage during January was ST..
51S,7S0, as follows: Gold $2,765, 900,
silver $4,672, 900, minor coins $780, ,7SO.
Penn Cooper, engineer of n passen-
ger train on the Delaware division of
the Pennsylvania railroad, was roast
ed to death in n wreck which occurred
near Farnhurst, Del. His train col.
lided with a freight ts,ain. Il. c. Nc.
Coy, the fireman, and six passengers
were slightly injured.
Fire in the warehouse of the Amer
lean Manufacturing Co. in Brooklyn,
\. V, cost the lives of three firemen,
overcome by the fumes of burning
jute and hemp with which the ware
house was filled, one dying almost
Immediately and two others passing
away during the night. Twenty-Five
tiremen in all We're overcome.
The bodies of between 20 and 30
men who perished from thirst while
attempting to cross the desert be-
tween Moapa and Los Vegas, Nevada,
have been found within a few weeks,
according to adviccs received from
the latter place. The men, it is be-
lieved, were mostly tramps who at
tempted to make the journey on foot
without sufficient supply of food and
water to carry them across.
Theodore Peteroff, the dog-faced
man, known by the sobriquet of "Jo-
Jo,' exhibited in most countries of
the world, is dead at Salonica, Turkey.
Peterotf attracted much attention in
the United States, where he was eX-
hibited 20 wears ago bV n circuS nro.