Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-06-03

! to the padrone system. They have
found some boys employed at boot
black stands who claim that they
were sent to this country under such
an arrangement, They appear TO be
not more than 12 years old.
Wall street is having such n period
! Of business depression as it has not
experienced in several years and one
result of 1t is that hundreds of clerks
have been discharged. One of the
| largest operators on the stock eX-
change says he believes that $500
clerks and other employees have heen
dismissed by brokerage and banking
houses in the last two weeks.
The largest catch of halibut for
single days fishing ever made by any
vessel in the world fell to the lot of
the steamer New England, near Van
couver, B. C. The New England in
one day caught 100000 pounds of fine
halibut.
AT New Bedford, Mass, bold rob-
berry was perpetrated late at night by
five masked burglars who broke into
the Oneko wooden mills, overpowered
and bound the two night watchmen,
dynamited the safe and escaped
WIN ltS contents.
Prominent republicans who have
written to Gen. Horace Porter. am
bassador to France, favoring the
movement to make him a candidate
for governor of New York, have re-
ceived replies saying that he is in no
sense an aspirant for that position
and urging that his name be not pre-
sented to the republican nominating
convention.
A remarkable departure in cutting
wages has been made by the head of
an electrical equipment concern in
New Jersey which notified its 1,200
employees that all wages in the COM
pany had been cut 10 per cent. The
cut takes effect on June l and begins
with the president and extends, with
out exception, ID the lowest priced
employe.
The total sum realized from the
first days sale of the jewels belong
ing to the late Princess Mathilde at
Paris was S99,4S9, almost all of which
was paid for splendid pearl collar of
seven strands, comprising SS4 pearls,
given by Napoleon |. to the Queen of
Westphalia.
A cruiser now approaching compile
tion at private yard in England has
been sold to a French agent, repre-
senting Russia. Russia also recently
purchased in England a number of
fast cargo vessels, which will be al
tered so as to enable them to be used
as transports.
Blind, almost deaf and with his
mind impaired, Lewis Mosher, after
years of wandering and other years
spent in hospitals, has been restored
to his relatives at Glens Falls, n. Y.
where a fortune of $4,000 awaits
him. Mosher went west 20 years ago,
and three years later all trace of him
was lost.
w. Z. Brown, president of the de-
funct First national bank of Storm
Lake, Ia, has been indicted by the
federal grand jury on a charge of en-
bezzling $4,000 of the banks funds.
He is also charged with making false
reports to the comptroller of the cur
rency concerning the condition of the
| bank.
Miss Eloise Reuse, of st. Paul,
Mimi, who became insane while
undergoing the ordeal of the so-called
"sun worship fast" is dead in the
state hospital for the insane at Elgin,
Ill. Dr. Whitman, superintendent of
the hospital, says death was due to
acute mania induced by starvation.
A trolley car descending a hill near
West Liberty, Pa, jumped the track
and completely turned over. One pas
senger, Miss Mary Doyle, aged 81,
was instantly killed. Seven others
were more or less seriously injured
Seven men were injured by a naph-
tina explosion on the fishing yacht
Pinkett, in Gravesend Bay New York.
Five were injured SO seriously that
they were taken to hospital and one
will probably not recover.
At Wallingford, Conn, the silver
ware factory of the r. Wallace &
Sons Manufacturing Co. has shut
down for an indefinite period, throw
ing 800 employees out of work. The
lockout was due to labor troubles.
The palace of Damascus, an edifice
so old that it's builder, it's occupants
and its history are lost in the obscur-
ity of the past, is the latest attraction
that has been secured for the worlds
fair. The structure is not to be a re-
plica, but the actual building brought
! piece by piece from Syria and rebuilt
In st. Louis.
Cyrus E. McGrady, president of the
Seymour Qnd.) national bank, has
been sentenced by Judge Anderson,
of the federal court, to six years in
the United States prison at Leaven-
worth, Kan. Alfred G. Parker, presi-
dent of the First national bank of
Bedford, was sentenced to five years
in the same prison.
Three men were killed, one seri-
ously injured and several bruised in
an explosion in a stone quarry II
miles south of Maysville, Mo. The
explosion was caused by one of the
quarrymen dropping a lighted match,
which ignited some powder and eX-
ploded more thaA 100 pounds of dyna-
mite.
Detonations from the test of
heavy artillery at the government