Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-10-07


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For saving train from going
through burning bridge, near Wells
boro, Ind, Mrs. Margaret Rump has
received with the compliments of high
officials of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road Co. railroad pass for herself
and family to the worlds fair at st.
Louis and check for $25. The train
was brought to stop few rods from
the bridge.
The safe in the postoftice at Rose
mont, suburb of Philadelphia, was
blown open by dynamite and money
and stamps aggregating about 5000
stolen.
The monthly statement Of the gov
ernment receipts and expenditures
shows that for the month of Septem-
ber 1904, the receipts amounted to
SAC 6,344, ,6S3 and the expenditures S40,-
450,35S, leaving a surplus for the
month of $5,S94,325.
A father may thrash his son until
stripes are raised without being liable
to arrest for assault, provided the boy
is not old enough to have his dignity
injured, according to a decision of
Judge Kirwan in the circuit court at
Sheboygan, Mich.
The plant of the Watsontown, Pa,
Door and Sash Co., including the mill,
lumber sheds, yard, warerooms and Of
fees and number of tenements oc.
cupied by the firm, were entirely con-
sumed by fire recently. Loss $4,000,
largely covered by insurance.
Joseph Jefferson, after more than 20
h@ eto It'll,
he has become one of the most hon
ored members of the dramatic profess
sion, has decided absolutely never to
resume his theatrical career.
Four of the open hearth furnaces of
the Carnegie Steel Co. at South
Sharon, Pa, have resumed operations
after a two months shutdown. About
500 men are affected. 1t is reported
that five more furnaces will be started
within a few days.
A jury in Judge Tuthill's court at
Chicago has rendered verdict that
John Alexander Dowie is not entitled
to $4,000 left to Dowie by the will Of
Fred Sutton, wealthy New Zealand
sheep herder, who died in Dowie's
"Hospice" several years ago. The
jury found that Sutton was not in his
right mind when he made the will.
George Kerr, famous a few years
ago as cartoonist and illustrator, is
dead at the soldiers home in Dayton,
o. He served in the northern army
throughout the war and at it's conclu-
sion became an illustrator for an east
ern magazine, going later to New
York comic paper.
Maj. Henry E. Alvord, chief of the
dairy division of the United States de-
partment of agriculture, dropped dead
at the worlds fair from an attack of
apopleXy.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt shows that at the close Of
business September 80, 1904, the debt,
less cash in the treasury, amounted to
1882 2,3S2,9S7, which is a decrease for
the month of $5,O10,4O9.
Arthur D. Wyman, an instructor in
the chemical laboratory of Harvard
college and son of Charles +. Wyman,
the Russian consul at Boston, is dead
from injuries sustained by being run
down by an automobile. The automo-
bile was owned and operated by Leon
Strauss, student at Harvard. Strauss
was arrested on a charge of man
slaughter and released on bail of
$1,000.
Four French automobiles brought
from Paris to compete in the Wander
biE cup race on Long Island, October
8, are held at the New York customs
house pending the payment of duties
amounting to $4,000.
The Norwegian bark Sir John Law
renee, from London, struck on sunken
rocks outside the harbor of Frederick
stad, Norway, and has broken up. The
crew were drowned.
Fire at Camden, N. j., destroyed the
extensive rug factory of the Fries
Breslin Co., entailing loss estimated
at 100000. The factory was large
story building.
With an estimated record of nearly
$1,000 marriages, the 65th anniversary
of the Church of the TRANSPORTATION,
known far and wide as the Little
Church Around the Corner" has been
celebrated at New York City.
The monthly report of the chief of
the bureau of statistics of the depart
ment of agriculture shows the aver
age condition of cotton on September
"a to have been 1858, as compared with
S4.1 last month, G5.1 on September 25,
1903, and ten-year average of 66.S.
Richard Cottingame, of Jackson,
Ky, was shot and killed from ambush
on Big Creek, four miles from Hazard,
Ky. He fell on the exact spot
where Joe Eversole, one of the
French Eversole feudists, was killed.
The st. George, Utah, Advocate, a
church paper, prints a sermon deliv-
cred by President Joseph F, Smith, of
the Mormon church, in which he coun-
selled the people of the church against
selling lands to Gentiles, or aiding
them in any way
A largely attended theatrical benefit
was given the baseball players repre-
senting New York City in the National
league. The theatre, one of the larg-
est on Broadway, was crowded At
the conclusion of the entertainment