Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-09-23
NJ WS NOTES.
pofNes IN THE BUSY WORLD
cHRoNlcLED.
Items Gathered from the Different
Sections of the United
States and For
ean Lands.

The first $4,000 in gold souvenir
dollars for the Lewis and Clark expo
sition has been received by the First
National Bank of Portland, Ore, from
the government. The coins are trifle
smaller than dime. Each is inscrib-
ed on one side with the legend Lewis
and Clark exposition" On the other
side appears the words Omitted
States-one dollar" The instalment
is the first issue of the $250,000 gold
coin appropriation allowed by the gov
ernment in accordance with the Lewis
and Clark appropriation bill. Each
coin will be sold for 50.
A shipment of mems clothing valued
at nearly $4,000 has been stolen from
a large firm at New York City in
broad daylight. The clothing had been
packed and was being carried on a
truck to the railway station when the
driver stopped at one of the firms Of
fees on an errand. When he returned
to the street the truck had disap-
peared.
The Soho, Pa, furnace, of the Jones
& Laughlin Steel Co. has been ordered
in blast at once The furnace has a
capacity of 800 tons and the resump-
tion will give employment to 600 men
who have been idle four months.
To put to flight crowd of boys and
girls who had been annoying him, AL
bert Marek, an aged Bohemian, of
Chicago, leveled a small rifle at them
and pulled the trigger. At the report
of the rifle David Durham, 10 years
old, fell dead with a bullet wound in
his right temple.
Charles Cranston, inventor of the
first paper cutting machine used in
America. is dead at his home in
Brooklyn, N. Y, aged 75. Cranston
was chief engineer of President Lin
coins yacht during the civil war. He
narrowly escaped lynching in riot
following the John Brown raid.
A telegram from Pine Bluff, Ark,
says: Fire destroyed the Sawyer &
Austin plant, one of the largest lum-
ber mills in Arkansas. The loss is es-
timated at between $4O0, 900 and $780,
900, fully covered by insurance.
Stephen Fellows, miner, shot his
wife and 16-year-o son Charles in
the Pennsylvania railroad station at
Barnesboro, Pa. Mrs. Fellows will
probably die, The boy has danger
Gus wound through the mouth. Eel
lows was arrested.
A mysterious black weevil which
bores into the blooms and young bolls
of cotton has appeared near Leeds,
Ala, and cotton farmers believe the
pest is the Mexican boil weevil. The
insect has already done much damage
TO cotton.
Two vessels were lost on Lake
Huron the other day. The barge
Gardner caught fire and sank seven
miles above Sanilac, and about two
and half miles off shore. The Cana
dian schooner Singapore was dashed
to pieces on the beach near Kincar-
dine, Ont. She had become water
logged No lives were lost on either
the Gardner or the Singapore.
Napoleon Shipley, former post
master at Washington, ID. c., and for
years one of the most successful and
largest oil spectators of the country
died recently at the city poor farm,
near Pittsburg, aged S5 years. AL
though the possessor of a large for
ments, over 100000 being sunk in a
single oil venture.
John Allingham, who was arrested
on suspicion Of having killed Mrs.
Mary Crowley near Attleboro, Mass,
has admitted that he assaulted her.
The house is situated in Rhode Island
almost on the line between that state
and Massachusetts. Allingham appar-
emily wishes to show that any crime
he committed took place in Rhode ISL
and. In Massachusetts murder is q
capital offense; in Rhode Island it is
not.
Miss Laura Stewart, aged IS, fac
tory employe, was fatally injured at
Rochester, n. Y, Her hair became en-
tangled in shaft which operated a
machine. She was lifted bodily from
the floor and whirled around in the
sir. AS her body struck the floor af-
ter the first revolution her hair and
scalp We're torn from her head. She
was taken to a hospital.
The plate glass factory of Zahn &
Bordey at Carlton, N. j., burned re-
Gently. Loss about 100000.
A number of counterfeit 500 gold
certificates appeared in Mobile, Ala
recently. One man was arrested, but
eA-o bhiit NCuid hOl DC SpldDll5ICu. HG
picture of President Garfield stands
out boldly and the bills are stamped
UNITED States National Bank of Nor
ristown, N. j."
The state of Minnesota has at last
secured title to $50 acres of swamp
land on the Mesaba range, after a con-
test lasting two years. This decision
IT estimated, means approximately
$500,000 to the state in royalties from
ore deposits aggregating more than
100000 tons.
A pneumatic tube 1S inches in di-
ameter between Chicago and Milwau.
kee that will transport packages and
mail between the two cities in 40 min
utes-at the rate of more than two
miles minute-and give a lightning
express service to all the towns along
the route is proposed by a concern
which has installed pneumatic tube
systems in some of the largest Chi
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