Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-07-01
SHORT NEWS NOTES
Happenings in the Busy
World Chronicled.
items Gathered From the Different
Sections Of the United
States and For
eian Lands.


dead as the result of an atrocious
crime. He was held up near West
Liberty, Ia, by two tramps, who fore
ed a catsup bottle into his abdominal
cavity He was unconscious for two
days and died following an operation
undertaken in the hope of saving his
life.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has
reduced 5000 employees in its shops at
Altoona, Pa, to two-day a week
working basis. The forces there had
been working eight hours a day and
four days a week.
Frank Shannon, a bartender, be-
cause his persistent proposals of mar
riage to Mrs. Bridget Lees a widow
and proprietress of a saloon in Brook
lyn, N. Y, were refused, shot and
killed her. He then blew out his brains
with the same revolver.
While angered over trifiing matter
Albert Freitag killed his sister, Mrs.
Millard Peters, in Bellevue, Ky. Be
fore escaping Freitag also shot at
Miss Lizzie Lickert, a friend of his
sister Freitag had for a day or two
been threatening the family.
A bandit with a shotgun held up
the outgoing stage to Murphy, Idaho.
Nine passengers were forced to alight
and give up their valuables. The rob
ber then demanded the mail sack,
which he ransacked.
Stories of the war in the far east
caused an outbreak among the in
mates of the Morris Plains insane asy-
lum near Morristown, N. j. Half a
dozen lunatics who had engaged in a
long controversy made a break for
liberty. They crossed Speedwill river
and threw up small fort of timbers
on top of hill. Attendants attempted
to carry the works, but were met by
volleys of stones and retreated. For
three hours the fort held out. Then
the lunatics surrendered.
William j. Vickery, now in charge
of the Cincinnati division of postoffice
inspectors, has been appointed chief
postotfice inspector to succeed Will
liam e. Cochran, recently appointed
10 the newly created Office of general
purchasing agent of the postal serv-
ice.
The porte has yielded completely to
the demands-o of the powers for redress
as result of the Armenian persecu-
tions. Evicted Armenians will be re-
turned to their old homes, indemni-
fled for losses and protected for the
future
Two Indian children at Eagle Val
ley, New, murdered their 3-year-old
brother. The oldest of the fratricides
is years.. a girl, and the other is but
4, boy.
A message from Millington, Miss, a
small village near Memphis, says that
j. G. Ligon, a merchant of that place,
was held up by two masked men and
robbed of more than $4,000. Lyon
carried the money in belt upon his
person.
Col. Wright P. Edgerton, professor
of mathematics at the military acad-
emy at West Point, N. Y, is dead He
was appointed to the academy from
Ohio in 1870.
Most of the collieries in the anthra-
cite region will close for the first five
days of July. The operators say that
the large number of picnics to be held
before and after the Fourth will take
many of the men from the mines and
they have decided to close the col
lieries.
The house of Hoo Hoo, erected on
the worlds fair grounds by the Lum-
bermen's association at a cost of $40,-
600, has been destroyed by fire.
Prof. w. j. Hussey, of the Uni
versity of California astronomical de-
partment at Lick observatory, has just
announced his discovery of 100 new
double stars.
Reports to the International Mer-
camille Agency from commercial CEN
ters throughout the United States in
dictate greater activity in general bust
ness. especially in the southwest.
Overcome by the news that his
wife, who is an invalid, must undergo
a dangerous operation to save her life,
Carl Schmidt, wealthy mining pro-
moter and vice president of the Gold
Ore Mining Co, of Ontario, Canada,
killed himself in his home at New
York City.
A strike of the Carriage and Wagon
Workers union which began at New
York City in May for new wage
scale and recognition of the union has
been declared Off Most of the strik-
ers will return to their former en-
ployers at the old wages.
Eleven persons were injured and
many more were slightly hurt in a
collision of two street cars at Chicago.
A northbound Wallace street car
crashed into an eastbound Thirty
first street car. Both cars were crowd
ed and many of the persons injured
were injured in attempting to jump
from the cars.
Owing to call made by the police
department upon tie board of super
intendents of the New York City
schools 10 help maintain discipli..e
among boys who stone automobiles,
the board of education has passed a
resolution requiring that every boy
must qualify in discipline just as In a
regular study before he can take ex-
animation for promotion or gradu-
alton.
o. G. Longyear, paymaster of the
Hudson River Bluestone Co.. was way