Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-07-01

ernmentS action In SuSpendlng the
habeas corpus and allowing President
Meyer, of the Western Federation Of
Miners to remain in Jail without
charge having been placed against
him
During the parade of circus at
Findlay, o., four spectators were seri-
ously prostrated by heat. Twelve
horses in the procession fell and
seven of the animals died.
After being on strike for sevesAi
weeks to enforce the closed shop
rule, the striking lathers of Boston
and vicinity have come to an under
standing with the employers so that in
the future only men carrying the
union card will be able to secuSe en-
ployment.
Two men were killed and two seri-
ously wounded in a street fight at
Leavenworth, Kan, with revolvers,
the result of quarrel between two
harvest hands.
At Wilmerding, Pa, Mrs. Minnie
Bendinger, who, on April 16, shot and
killed Mrs. Laura E. Rubright, whom
she found in her husbands company,
has been acquitted on the ground of
temporary insanity"
Surviving ten days after having
bullet wound in his heart sewed, Ed
ward Pelt, 15 years old, is dead at st.
Joseph's hospital. in Chicago. The
youth shot himself in the heart with
revolver.
Driven to the limit in the last few
strides, the favorite, Irish Lad, won
the $4,000 Advance stakes at Sleeps
head Bay recently, making a new
worlds record of 2:17 3-5 for the dis
tance, one and three -eighths miles.
Two brothers, Benjamin and Edwin
Goshkey, aged respectively "a and 81
years, were electrocuted at their home
near Wabank, Pa, while picking cher
ries. A wire carrying a current for
arc lights runs through the limbs of
the tree.
Hon. James A. Mckenzie, an ex-
congressman, died at his home in Oak
Grove, Ky. He was GA years of age
and known everywhere as "Quinine
JIM" Prominence came to Mckenzie
through his strenuous and successful
championing of the bill, of which he
was the author, to take the tax off
quinine.
"Reddy" Breedanavila is in Jail at
McKeesport Pa, charged with circu-
lating bogus silver dollars. light in
weight, but excellent limitations,
among the business men of that city
and surrounding towns. The secret
service men believe they have cap
tured a dangerous counterfeiter.
Court Commissioner Chaplin has is
in ir;n
Milwaukee tailors to refrain from en-
ploying any but union workmen.
They are also enjoined from violating
the terms of a contract which they
entered into with the Milwaukee
Custom Tailors' union. The injunction
is said to be the first that has ever
been issued restraining firm from
employing non-union workmen.
All the steamship lines have an
nounced that they will meet the Gu
nard lines cut in eastbound steerage
rates from New York City. A reduc-
tion of $40 also has been made by the
Cunard line for certain steamers sail
ing to Mediterranean ports. This
brings the steerage rate to Naples to
$40.
The Norwegian steamer Urania,
from Montreal for Hull, which has ar
rived at Grimsby, England, landed the
captain and nine men of the crew of
the Norwegian bark Prince Eugene,
which was abandoned at sea. A boat
of the Prince Eugene containing seven
men was apparently lost.
Charles E. Magoon has been ap-
pointed general consul for the 18TH
mian canal commission. Judge Ma
goon has been the law officer of the
bureau of insular affairs since the Of
flee was created in 1899.
Mrs. William Graham, the wife of
well .to-do farmer living near Minot,
N. T., has been found dead with bul.
let hole through her head. Her hus.
band is missing. The woman is sup
posed to have been murdered.
Coming as if from the dead after he
had been reported murdered and after
his wife had been held by the police
several days on suspicion of knowing
something of her husbands disappear
ance, Stefan Biszak Unexpectedly re-
turned to his old home in Chicago.
A small blaze which started in a
jewelry store resulted in a general
contiagration which destroyed the
main portion of Sisson, Cal. 1t is said
to be the most destructive fire in the
history of northern California, the
loss reaching 100000, with very little
insurance.
Leaders in the strike of the New
York City garment workers declare
the tieup to be complete and estimate
the number of persons out at $4,000
to 10000. In day or two 10000 fin
ishers, mostly Italian women, will be
added to the ranks of the idle.
One man was killed, Is injured and
number of others were badly shaken
UP in collision between a train car
rying workmen to the South Buffalo
IN. " steel works and a Nickel
Plate freight train at the junction of
the Lackawanna and Nickel Plate
roads. One of the injured is expected
to die. 1t is said that misunder-
standing Of signals was the cause of