Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-08-12
SHORT NEWS NOTES
Happenings in the Busy
World ChronicIed.
Items Gathered From the Different
Sections of the United
States and For
elon Lands.

One hundred cases of typhoid fever
in the town of Mount Savage, Md,
with 1900 inhabitants, have caused
great alarm. Nurses are being i'm
ported from several points. The cpl
demic is traceable to spring where
workmen and children drank. The
doctors say other springs are contami-
mated, and signs ordering water boil
dng are posted everywhere.
Driven insane by news of the butch
ers' strike, Alfred Day, meat inspector
for the packing house at Cedar Rapids,
Ia, committed suicide by hanging.
Days hallucination was that the strike
had extended to Cedar Rapids and
that his life was endangered because
he did not go out with the strikers.
DR.. Orlando Brown, formerly brig
adler general in the United States
army, and for many years one of the
foremost physicians of Litchfield
county, Connecticut, is dead, aged "a
years.
Fourteen distinct forest fires are
raging near Kalispell, Mont, and
property valued at thousands of dol
lars is being eaten up by the flames,
which spread to several small towns
along the Great Northern railroad.
White Fish and Columbia Falls, two
villages, are cut off from telephone
communication and the wagon road to
White Fish has been made impossible
by the flames, which are raging on
both sides of il.
Chicago-St. Louis lines have Just
discovered that conductors on vari-
dc nf Chi
cago and ST. Louis have been engaged
in a conspiracy to defraud the rail
roads through the manipulation of eX-
position tickets. 1t is declared that in
stead Of taking up return coupons and
turning them into the company, con-
ductors have ben selling them to
scalpers.
The porte has warned the embas-
sizes and legations to instruct their
consuls in Macedonia not to leave the
towns without escorts, as the Mace
donian revolutionary committees in
Bulgaria are planning to kidnap or
murder a consul with the view of en-
listing foreign Intervention.
Hanging to the foot of a great cross
that surmounts the steeple of the
Salem German Reformed church at
Philadelphia, 300 feet above the
ground, Frank Eckenroth, a young rig
ger, was held by rope choking" in
the block of a tackle, his life in con-
stant jeopardy, for nearly an hour.
Eckenroth had been gliding the cross,
which is IL feet high and eight feet
broad.
The loss by floods probably reduces
the winter wheat yield in this country
to 2S0,000,000 bushels. There has been
extensive damage in the past week to
spring wheat by rust. If no further
loss occurs in the northwest there
will probably be between 575,000,000
and 600,000,000 bushels harvested.
There appears to be no warrant for
the estimate of total yield under
550,000,000 bushels. With a produc-
tion of 600,000,000 bushels there will
be small eXportable surplus.
The first effects of the war in the
far east are beginning to be felt on
Russian credit at home, which is al
ready considerably shaken. Many i'm
portant orders for military stores are
not being paid for with ready money,
but by bills of two years date. AL
though the amount of paper money is
sued is stated officially to be not more
than $G0,0Oo,000, it is believed that the
sum is three or four times as large.
Lineman Trueman Judson, of
Waterbury, Conn, fell while at work
on pole 40 feet high and was caught
20 feet from the ground by an iron
hook through the jaw. After hanging
thus short time the flesh tore and he
fell to the ground. Although he has
conclusion of the brain, broken jaw,
a lacerated scalp and fractured ribs,
the physicians say he will recover.
One of the most remarkable trips in
connection with the worlds fair was
completed when Rev. S. p. Werner, a
Presbyterian missionary who brought
eight pigmies out of the African jun
giles, arrived in st. Louis. His Journey
included 10000 miles, 800 miles of
which was traversed on foot through
the wilds of Central Africa. The trip
lasted eight months.
Almost recovered from a bullet hole
through the brain Frederick Beck, who
tried to kill himself on July II, will be
discharged from the hospital at New
ark, N. j., in few days. The bullet
entered the right temple and, passing
through the brain, was found just un-
der the skin an inch and a half below
ahe left temple. When the bullet was
iaken out part of the brain followed.
An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
passenger train crashed into a well
iiiled trolley car at Kansas City, Mo.
j. L. Morris, of Pleasant Hill, Mo-,
was killed and ten others injured.
II Is claimed by resident of Orange.
N. j., that he has invented a perfect
process to convert asbestos rock into
beautiful silky fibre, capable of be-
ing spun into a cloth similar to silk.
lie alleges the process is adapted es
pecially to the manufacture of fine
dress goods. Besides being moth
proof, II is said, the new material is
entirely flreproof.
Twenty-three experienced butchers
were sent from Rochester, N. y, to
take the places of men on strike at the
stock yards in Chicago. They viii re-
ceiye Sc day in addition TO hoard and