Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-12-23
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for the use of the United States army
The meeting OF the international
commission to inquire into the North
| Sea incident has been fixed for De-
cember 20 at the foreign office in
! Paris.
Capt. Spriggs and FIVE others of the
crew of boat from Prestonburg, KY,
are dead at the mouth of Beaver creek
from the effects of drinking wood al
cohol.
Land has been purchased In Har-
lem, N. Y, on which Mormon place
of worship is to be erected.
Judge e. II. Hammond, of the fed
eral district court at Memphis, Tenn,
is deaf at New York City after an ILL
ness of four days with pneumonia
Three persons were killed and sew
eral injured, two fatally, in fire in
three-story brick residence in the Will
liamsburg section of Brooklyn. N. Y.
Marie Lachman, years old, whose
parents live at Wauseon, o., is dead at
Chicago, of hydrophobia. She was
bitten a month ago and went to Chi
cago for treatment.
At Belleville, Ont, st. Michael's
church (Roman Catholic) was de-
stroyed by fire recently. Some of the
interior decorations destroyed were
almost priceless. Loss $S0,00O.
At a special meeting of the Chicago
city council a resolution of censure
against Alderman Hubert Butler was
adopted as the elimination of bribery
charges made by him in the council.
The largest silver loving cup ever
made, having capacity of IS pints,
has been presented to David H. Moffat,
president of the Denver, Northwestern
&c Pacific railroad, by his friends in
Denver.
A confession made by two boys ar
rested on suspicion of arson has clear
ed the mystery surrounding a series of
40 fires of undoubted incendiary origin
in Brooklyn, N. Y. The fires all oc-
CURED within the last two months.
Indictments have been returned at
Cincinnati against Albert Patton and
Thomas Bracken for the murder of
Samuel Weakley, the non-union iron
molder who was killed there in Octo-
Der. The two men indicted are union
molders.
The new gun with which the Ger
man artillery is being rearmed has
rate of fire unaimed of 25 shots per
minute and well aimed of 16 shots
minute, so that the new batteries of
four guns deliver an accurate fire of
Ga shots per minute.
An explosion of boiler in Brewer
e Love Brothers cotton mills at In
dianapolis seriously scalded three
workmen, blew down the walls of the
boiler house and the storage house
and crushed in the front of the brick
home of Herman Young, block away.
Charles LaDow, an inventor and
manufacturer of agricultural imple-
ments, dropped dead on the street at
Albany, N. Y. He was famous for
the large number of patents issued in
his name by the United States patent
office, being supposed to hold the rec
ord in that respect.
Orders for the steel rail requirement
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. for
their lines east and west of Pittsburg
for the year 1905, amounting to 102.700
tons, have been placed.
Detectives are searching Canada for
man who swindled two big New
York and Boston bond-dealing busi-
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into thousands of dollars.
Commissioner of Pensions Eugene
F. Ware has relinquished his official
duties and gone to his home in Kan
sas. Deputy Commissioner ]. l.. Day.
export Immediately assumed charge Of
the pension bureau as acting commits
sioner.
The conviction of State Senator
William P. Sullivan for soliciting a
bribe has been affirmed by the Kansas
City court of appeals.
According to John B. Cunningham
national bank examiner for western
Pennsylvania, the national banks OF
Pittsburg had no Chadwick paper.
Militiamen of the United States are
to be provided with the most modern
type of artillery and drilled in it's use
until they approach in proficiency the
West Point graduates.
The factory of the Passumpsic Fibre
Leather Co. and the flour mill of Ide
& Co.. in the village of Passumpsic
VT, have been destroyed by fire, in.
volving financial loss of $4,000.
Engineer NJ. Calhoun and Fireman
H. Kinney were killed and four other
trainmen were injured by the explo
sion near Davenport, Ia. of the boiler
of big locomotive drawing Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific freight tran.
Secret service agents are reported
to have succeeded in locating in New
York City the materials and printing
presses used in counterfeiting "Indiar
head" S. bills which have been ex
tensively floated all over the eastern
states.
Nearly all religious sects as theil
figures of growth for last year are an
nounced, show larger percentage o
increase than in previous years. II
several denominations the ratio o
growth exceeds the usual ratio of In
crease in the population.
The three -masted schooner RicharC
C. Leaning lies sunk on Long Shoal
Nantucket, with her mizzenmas
broken off half way. There are NJ
| signs of the crew The Gaming wan