Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-07-15

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weeks, has left for Galveston, Tex.
| The object of the trip, the first since
the vessel has been placed in commits
sion, is to to receive $4,000 silver
service the gift of the citizens of Den
| yer.
Charles A. Mielenz of Chicago,
mistaking his wife for burglar shot
her, inhicting fatal wound. Mrs.
Mielenz had arisen from her bed and
gone to an adjoining room for a glass
of water. While she was returning
her husband awoke and fired at her
in the dark.
Building in the principal cities of
the country during June showed an
extraordinary increase as compared
with the corresponding month year
| ago. Permits were taken out in the
principal cities for the construction
of S021 buildings, involving total
cost of s37,G3004G, against 6,412 build
ings aggregating S26,5S5,226 in cost
during June year ago.
Another cut of five cents in the
price of all grades of crude oil has
been made by the Standard Oil Co.
Eleven Welsh miners who arrived
at Philadelphia on the steamer Haver-
ford and who proved to be contract
laborers were deported on the same
vessel.
The steamers La Savoie, La Lor-
raine and others of the French line
have been supplied with a complete
new equipment of rapid fire cannons
for speedy conversion into naval aux
iliary cruisers.
A negro, name unknown, has been
lynched at Gordo, Ala, for making in
sulting proposals to two white wo-
men. The negro was taken from Jail
by a mob and hanged.
Judge Thayer, in the United States
district court at st. Louis, has SEN
fenced to 10 days in Jail Edward j.
Gildersleeve, a ticket broker, who dis
obeyed an injunction restraining him
from selling railroad worlds fair eX-
cursion tickets. On a previous occa-
sion he had fined Gildersleeve $3.50
for a similar offense.
John Field, postmaster of Philadel-
phia during the incumbency of John
| Wanamaker as postmaster general
and president of the Young, Smyth &
Field Co., wholesale dealers in dry
goods and notions, shot himself in
Vernon park, Germantown, Pa, while
| temporarily insane.
A sidetrack to the home of Judge
Alton B. Parker, at Esopus, N. Y,
has been ordered constructed by the
West Shore Railroad Co. for the in
creased business at that point an
ticipated because of the judges nomi-
nation for the presidency by the dem
ocratic national convention.
The plant of the National Provision
Co. at Chicago was damaged $4,000
by fire. AS result of the fire a ter
rife explosion occurred in big sewer
in One Hundred and Thirty ninth
street. For a distance of a mile
along the thoroughfare manhole COW
ers were sent high in the air and the
street surface was so damaged that
car and wagon traffic was suspended
for the day.
Anton Ceskoski and Eugene Gothic,
each IL years old, were killed at Chi
cago by electricity. They were dig
ging earth worms in an alley prepara-
tory to a fishing excursion. Lying on
the ground was a telephone wire
which had crossed several other
wires charged with electricity. The
Ceskosk boy grasped the wire, in
tending to push it to one side. He
screamed and fell, and his companion
seized him by the leg in an effort to
drag him away. Gothic received the
force of the current passing through
the others body and also fell. Both
died while on the way to the hos
pital.
William McIlvain, aged II, and
George Galloway, aged %, were
drowned in White river at Riverside,
a summer resort ten miles south of
Linton, Ind, while wading. They got
beyond their depth and neither could
swim.
The National Brotherhood of Oper-
ative Potters in convention at Tren-
ton, n. j., adopted resolutions sym
pathizipg with the. striking miners of
Colorado. An appropriation of $1,000
was made for the miners.
So far as his plans have as yet been
made, Judge Parker will not tour the
country making speeches. His per-
sonal campaign will be conducted in a
way similar to that of President Nc
Kinley, to a large degree from the
porch at his home.
In jealous rage William Noerling
probably fatally wounded his wife and
then committed suicide at his home in
Brooklyn, N. Y. The couple had five
children who were huddled in an ad-
joining room when the crime was
, committed.
New York City is again threatened
> with a general strike of 1000 team
sters against the New York Truck
Owners association. An agreement
Tor one year was entered only re-
; Gently. 1t is now charged by the team
, sters that the truck owners are de-
: liberately violating the agreement and
that some of them wish to provoke q
general strike.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
, asserts that brood of chickens has
= been hatched by a cat in Buschen
i, Germany. The animal flew at the ole
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