Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-06-03
SHORT NEWS NOTES
Happenings in the Busy
World Chronicled.
items Gathered From tho Different
Sections of tho United
States and For
elan Lands.

CURED as result of the explosion in
the Independent Fireworks Co. s
plant. Hannah Parker, another en-
ploye, cannot recover.
Jockey Mnder, who was thrown
and injured in a race at Churchill
Downs, Louisville, Ky, May 10, has
recovered so far as his bodily in
juries are concerned, but his memory
is completely gone. His mental facul-
ties are now those of child; he is
kept quiet by the use of playthings
and has to be bribed with five cent
pieces in order to be given medicine.
While digging a well at Springdale,
Pa, four laborers were overcome by
gas. All were unconscious when
taken out and three died later.
The Brotherton and Sunday Lake
mines at Wakefield, Mich, have shut
down and 400 men are out.
The steamer Chattanooga sank in
the Tennessee river near Paducah,
Ky. The 20 passengers were saved.
The boat and cargo, valued at $685.
600, will probably prove total loss.
An excursion train on the Mobile &
Ohio railway was wrecked near Yel-
Askew, of Birmingham, was killed.
OF the complement of the Japanese
cruiser Yoshino, sunk recently in col
lision with the cruiser Kasuga, CO
non commissioned officers and 220
blue jackets were drowned and 48
commissioned officers and men
were rescued.
Rear Admiral Cooper, commander
in-chief Of the Asiatic squadron, has
requested that he be relieved of that
command and placed on the retired
list in the early fall. 1t is probable
that Rear Admiral Sterling will sue
coed him.
A voluntary advance in the wages
of fiatteners has been ordered by the
American Window Glass Co., to take
effect June /. The 2S per cent re-
duction, which went into effect March
IL, has been restored and the straight
Philadelphia scale will be paid in the
fiattening branch of the trade at all
factories now operated by the Ameri-
can Co.
At Portland, Ind, John Schoonover,
on trial with R. ]. Knox, known as
Jim, the Penman," and whom the po-
lice of the country designate as the
king of forgers, confessed on the wit
ness stand that he had received from
Knox at Muncie, Ind, the check ON
the Bank of Greenbrier, Leadsburg,
w. Va, which had been raised from
$15 to $1,000 and which caused the
arrest. He was to get half the money
for getting it cashed.
At Morgantown, KY, Verona Flee
nor, under sentence of death for wife
murder. committed suicide in his cell.
j. P. Morgan & Co. announce that
the transfers of gold incident to the
payment of the $40,000,000 purchase
money to the Panama Canal Co. in
Paris have been completed.
The strike at the Fore River Ship
and Engine Co. plant at Quincy,
Mass, practically came to an end
with the return to work of the boiler
makers and drillers. The men resum-
ed under conditions arranged by the
company for the summer months.
Electricity in the New York subway
: has claimed it's first victim. While
light circuits were being tested Fore
man John Southmayd received a cur
rent of 10000 volts. He was thrown
from ladder upon which he had ven
tured to examine the duct carrying
the cables and died instantly.
Horace Amedo, deserter from the
Italian cruiser Liguria. which was at
San Francisco last month, has been
ordered deported from this country.
Because of the evidence gathered by
the officials it is believed that the
sailor is an anarchist and a menace
to the nation.
Speyer G. Co., bankers, of Boston
and New York, state that the amount
of subscriptions received by them for
the new Cuban per cent. bonds is
several times iE excess of the $685.
100000 issue. Small investors will be
most generally favored
After a wild flight for half a mile
through narrow lane, a big automo.
bile, containing four men, went over
an embankment 20 feet high in Riv.
erdale in the Bronx district of New
York and two of the men were
pinned under the car, which turned
upside down, and were seriously in
jured. Although hurled so feet, the
other occupants of the auto escaped
with slight cuts and bruises.
After two days discussion of the
matter the Episcopal diocesan con.
vention of Missouri by a good major.
ity voted against the use of the re-
vised version of the Bible in the pre-.
scribed service of the church. Lay.
men were stronger than the clergy in
making the vote decisive.
Sixteen hundred house painters anG
decorators of Boston struck for ar
increase in wages. In many instances
the strike lasted but a short time, &C.
cording to the officials of the Paint.
ers' union, who said that so or more
OF the master painters visited the
union headquarters and signed tho
new schedule the first day.
The worst rain and hail storm fol-
years visited northwest Nebraska and
South Dakota the other night. The
Northwestern and Union Pacific
tracks were inundated in several
places, number of bridges were
washed out and several Thousand